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Were talking about the fast food strike under way across the country tonight. at the table, tsedeye gebreslassie. kareem strikes. gregory. congresswoman maloney from new york. >> great to be here. >> i want to get your reaction to the bite i played. if people are feeling theyre not being paid adequately, find a place someplace elsewhere paid higher wages. whats your response to that? just go get a higher wage job. >> you know, i work for mcdonalds for, like, five months. before that, i worked fo...

Making $7.25 and work twice as hard. >> you said in one interview i read with you that you are -- that theres a squeeze on you because theyre trying to do more with less workers. that you have noticed a speedup. the amount of work that you have to do now is more than it was when you first started. whats going on there? >> whats going on is theyre just cutting back. like, they cut back on hours. they cut back on employees. and, you know, great employees like myself have to work twice as hard. lik...

Now. but whoever is, like, against it, obviously aint ever made $7.25 and never tried to budget paying for two kids and an apartment and bills and food all for $7.25. >> my sense, gregory, if there were jobs available that paid higher wages, you would be happy to take them. >> yeah, i would be happy. the point is, its not these type of opportunities for everybody. theres not a lot of people what can really go out and find these type of jobs. thats why people have to live on $7.25. >> congresswom...