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Speaker 1: City Council in Chicago has brushed aside warnings from Walmart

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Speaker 1: stores to approve an ordinance that makes Chicago the biggest

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Speaker 1: city in the nation to require big box retailers to

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Speaker 1: pay a living wage. The ordinance past fourteen yesterday after

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Speaker 1: three hours of impassion debate. It requires mega retailers to

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Speaker 1: pay wages of at least ten dollars an hour plus

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Speaker 1: benefits by by mid two thousand and ten, it would

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Speaker 1: only apply to companies with more than one billion dollars

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Speaker 1: in annual sales and stores of at least ninety thousand

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Speaker 1: square feet. Alderman Tony Preckwinkle said it's trying to get

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Speaker 1: the largest companies in America to pay decent wages. No,

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Speaker 1: it's not, then I'm waging in the Lloyd by the way,

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Speaker 1: six and a half. The federal minimum is five dollars

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Speaker 1: in fifteen cents. Mayor Daily and others warned at the

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Speaker 1: living wage proposal would drive jobs and desperately needed development

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Speaker 1: from some of the city's poorest neighborhoods and lead people

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Speaker 1: like Walmart to abandon the city. It's exactly. Walmart will

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Speaker 1: ring the city, Walmart will surround the city, but they

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Speaker 1: will not go there. This is has nothing to do

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Speaker 1: with a livable wage. This has nothing to do with

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Speaker 1: making big companies pay livable wage. This is all about

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Speaker 1: uh unions. This is all about the Democrats being loyal

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Speaker 1: to unions. I think the Acorn group was behind this,

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Speaker 1: a huge liberal group. It just let me the minimum wage.

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Speaker 1: And it looks like the Republicans are going to propose

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Speaker 1: one of their own increases. So this is all moot.

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Speaker 1: But you know, I'm gonna keep I'm gonna keep talking

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Speaker 1: about it because it's ridiculous. The minimum wage is an

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Speaker 1: arbitrarily set wage, has nothing to do with market conditions.

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Speaker 1: It actually reduces jobs. It it results in the loss

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Speaker 1: of jobs. People don't believe that, but it is statistically true. Now,

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Speaker 1: let's let me ask you people in Chicago at the

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Speaker 1: at the city council ten bucks an hour in ten

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Speaker 1: why not tomorrow? This is desperately needed, isn't it. Why

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Speaker 1: are you gonna wait almost three years or four why

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Speaker 1: wait four years? What's the point here? By the time

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Speaker 1: we get to ten dollars an hour is going to

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Speaker 1: be not that much different than the six fifteen or

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Speaker 1: six fifty, That is, they required minimum wage in Chicago. Now,

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Speaker 1: why wait, and by the why stomp at ten? If

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Speaker 1: if ten dollars is a good livable wage, wouldn't fifteen

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Speaker 1: dollars an hour be even better? And if that's true,

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Speaker 1: then why stop at fifteen? Why why didn't you make

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Speaker 1: the livable wage twenty dollars? If big corporations who was

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Speaker 1: this has said this Tony preck Winkle. So they're trying

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Speaker 1: to get the largest companies in America to pay decent wage. Well,

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Speaker 1: I don't think ten bucks an hours a decent wage,

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Speaker 1: mss preck Winkle, I wouldn't work for it. Who do

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Speaker 1: you think will big companies need to pay their fair share?

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Speaker 1: Fifteen is better? But why stop there? Why didn't you

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Speaker 1: do twenty dollars? And now, and what is this three

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Speaker 1: dollars of French benefits? Three dollars won't even buy a

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Speaker 1: gas and gallon of gas in Chicago, and you call

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Speaker 1: it a fringe benefit. It's absurd, it's insulting. Make the

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Speaker 1: fringe benefits. In fact, Ms prick Winkle, I have a

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Speaker 1: better idea forget this hourly wage business in the first place.

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Speaker 1: If we're talking about really making these companies come clean

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Speaker 1: then let's just say that there is a required minimum

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Speaker 1: salary of seventy five thousand dollars a year for everybody

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Speaker 1: works at Walmart. Everybody gets healthcare, dental, no co pay,

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Speaker 1: no deductible, and twenty dollars fringe benefits every year. Well,

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Speaker 1: we can't do that. Why not? White? If you can

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Speaker 1: go from six fifty to ten, why can't you go

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Speaker 1: why can't you go to twenty? I mean, go talk

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Speaker 1: to your union buddies are doing whatever jobs they're doing,

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Speaker 1: dollars an hour on the basis it's a livable wage.

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Speaker 1: Do you think louis down there in a stonemason, the

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Speaker 1: bricklayers or whatever it's gonna tell you that he looks

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Speaker 1: livable wage. Don't you think that Walmart Automa at least

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Speaker 1: have to pay the lowest union contract equivalent in Chicago?

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Speaker 1: Where do you come up with these arbitrary numbers ten

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Speaker 1: better than that, Chicago, if you're gonna really talk about

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Speaker 1: And I don't know why you don't just go and

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Speaker 1: make it official. Make it a hundred grand, miss preck Winkle,

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Speaker 1: make it one hundred grand. Talk about a livable wage.

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Speaker 1: Somebody might really be able to buy a car and

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Speaker 1: not have to take Chicago public transit at a hundred grand.

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Speaker 1: I have to teach them English, but well, no, you

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Speaker 1: don't even have to do that. And make Walmart pay

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Speaker 1: for that if they want to learn English. Go all

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Speaker 1: the way with this Chicago City Council. You are just

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Speaker 1: tiptoeing around here. You're dancing around the real truth. You

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Speaker 1: don't care about these workers. You just want a double

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Speaker 1: I tell you what the big secret of the minimum

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Speaker 1: wages folks? Now, the so called livable wage. In addition

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Speaker 1: to whatever political ploy it is to try to teach

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Speaker 1: the downtrodden the forgotten the hungry and the thirsty that

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Speaker 1: the Democrats care about them. What it really is is

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Speaker 1: a way to goose union wages up because good old

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Speaker 1: union negotiators in Chicago, A're not gonna say WHOA people

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Speaker 1: that don't know how to count beyond ten and they've

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Speaker 1: only been in a country for a couple of years

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Speaker 1: at a checkout line or somewhere stocking things on shelves. Well,

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Speaker 1: good for them. We want to raise our union contract

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Speaker 1: next time it comes up. The higher the minimum wage goes,

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Speaker 1: the higher the baseline for union contracts are. This is

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Speaker 1: such a scam. And of course, since the city of

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Speaker 1: Chicago and it's union deals that it makes with the

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Speaker 1: people like Tony Preckwinkle don't really have to think of

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Speaker 1: the money coming out of her purse or pocketbook or

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Speaker 1: that pocket whichever she prefers. Al in in Chicago. Welcome,

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Speaker 1: So nice to have you on the program. Nice to

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Speaker 1: talk to you than at Moscow on Michigan. Uh. This

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Speaker 1: is nothing more than a political act. It's also an

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Speaker 1: act that will to impact greatly on the poorest of

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Speaker 1: the people in Chicago. If you know Chicago, there's a

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Speaker 1: ring of poverty around that very successful core downtown. Those

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Speaker 1: folks rely on public transportation, they won't be able to

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Speaker 1: benefit from the targets and the Walmarts and the discounts

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Speaker 1: that are available. You know, Ben Stein, the economist has

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Speaker 1: many times said that Walmart is the greatest poverty anti

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Speaker 1: poverty program going. But this is also a political act.

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Speaker 1: You know, they'll they'll cancel this out if they begin

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Speaker 1: to see stores growing and being built right across the

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Speaker 1: because it happened with gas stations, gas stations rim the city. Well,

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Speaker 1: it's already started. Walmart's already said, are going to build

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Speaker 1: the people live there love it. That's actually, that's an

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Speaker 1: excellent point, an excellent point. If these stores get built

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Speaker 1: be able to spend any money. Once they do get

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Speaker 1: there absolutely. Can I tell you Kmart's home depot lows

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Speaker 1: they're building right now in Evergreen Park. And these are

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Speaker 1: communities that are one block. You know, they share a

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Speaker 1: because also sales tax in Chicago, if you cross the street,

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Speaker 1: you go into Indiana, you go from eight eight and

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Speaker 1: a half percent down to six in Chicago is hurting itself.

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Speaker 1: But Chicago has always done this. It's not unique. What

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Speaker 1: I call a captive constituency, that's the captive but that's

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Speaker 1: that's not I mean that that's true in the sales tax.

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Speaker 1: I mean uh, in in New Jersey they bumped up

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Speaker 1: ended up having to resend the tax. Because liberals raising

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Speaker 1: taxes raises revenue. They do not understand the dynamic aspects

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you something here. This is uh. I

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Speaker 1: and and and Mayor Daily said, what the hell are

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Speaker 1: we doing? We got serious problems with kids in this country.

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Speaker 1: They've got a drug problem, got a crime for. What

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Speaker 1: the hell are we regulating people's menus for? And he

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Speaker 1: opposes this living wage thing? Now, what's with that? The

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Speaker 1: City Council of Chicago has nothing better to do? No,

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Speaker 1: I mean, what's no, no, no, what's with Daily opposing that?

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Speaker 1: Daily's a Democrat to Daily sounding like a Republican, almost

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Speaker 1: a conservative Republican on this. Yeah, but Daily's you know,

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Speaker 1: Daily is not running for anything at the moment. U He's, well,

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Speaker 1: he will be soon, but he's yeah, he's doing a straddle.

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Speaker 1: He you know, he's doing what Clinton always does. He

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Speaker 1: It's it's not a matter of principle, it's a matter

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Speaker 1: the living wage, minimum wage. That's a fundamental, defining issue

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Speaker 1: of the Democratic Party. And he's ripping people like Tony

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Speaker 1: PreK Winkle. By the way, how long has Tony PreK

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Speaker 1: I'll handle it. Uh anyway, Thanks, Thanks, Al, I appreciate,

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Speaker 1: appreciate the input. This, this is this is just fascinating stuff.

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Speaker 1: But it is big cities, big democrats. Cities are locked

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Speaker 1: an old era. There are major transformational changes happening in

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Speaker 1: front of all of them, the Middle East, in this country,

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Speaker 1: all of it. You know, here, here's something else. For

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Speaker 1: the Chicago City Council and for everybody else here. That

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Speaker 1: toying around. It is lunacy, and it is sheer lunacy

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Speaker 1: of raising the minimum wage. And I can demonstrate it

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Speaker 1: to anybody who thinks they want to call and argue

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Speaker 1: You're gonna the race who can live on five dollars

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Speaker 1: it can live? Well, Uh, a lot of people are

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Speaker 1: not living on it. As the point, it's an entry

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Speaker 1: There are entry level jobs in America, the newest one

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Speaker 1: being the illegal immigrant job. And then there are other

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Speaker 1: There is a myth out there that heads of households

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Speaker 1: supporting the uh family Sadan and a two point eight

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Speaker 1: kids in a white picket fence in suburbia on five

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Speaker 1: the hell it is, is a myth. Head of households

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Speaker 1: are not earning. I mean, there may be some, but

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Speaker 1: it's you're you're gonna react to this totally emotionally. They're

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Speaker 1: not nothing. You hear it. I know, well, how many

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Speaker 1: of you think what you're earning right now is enough?

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Speaker 1: I bet you're all saying, no, I need more. Even

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Speaker 1: government program to raise my wage. There's a minimum wage.

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