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Where its 2.6. they have the energy thing going up there but we have financial service, health care, drive es of our economy, and real very favorable business economic climate there. >> do you get any positive impact from whats going on in north dakota economically? >> we do. >> how does north impact south dakota? >> quite a spillover, the trucks going 24/ from rapid city to the wilston basin. electrical, all kinds of guys doing work up there. a ripple effect. we dont get the direct benefit from...

We care, you know, whats happening in the middle east as far as -- as far as energy policy goes, because asia is going to be buying 90%, 95% of that oil in the coming decades because were getting ours here. >> yeah. its a great answer and that whole -- the national security component of that is something that really does tip the scales in a way that lessens the need that we have today and have had for, you know, decades now to be very interested in what happened in the middle east. >> but really...

70% of the minimum wage. which the cbo estimates would happen in 2019. >> gene, you know, its not easy being an economist with the congressional budget office because we have such a dynamic economy. you cant have a crystal ball that can see how everything is going to interlock but here, it seems to be even more difficult for the cbo to wrap their arms around it. we split the baby with 500,000 job losses but they say there may be a few losses up to a million. >> what are they really saying? >> th...

Afford a better lunch if we raise the min mum wage, that takes too account that perhaps up to a million people will lose their jobs and fall deeper into poverty. thats the tradeoff im talking about. i really dont give a dam about corporations that are making money on wall street. i dont care if they lose money. i mean i dont care if they lose a little money on the margins because they have to pay their workers 10 bucks an hour instead of 7 bucks an hour. i am concerned about the working poor who...

But make no mistake about it, what you want is an economy where people are working more, where their income is going up, where theyre spending more and going back to the minimum wage, thats why that has a good impact on the economy because those are families that actually spend their paycheck, so what we would like to see more is people having the confidence to borrow and buy bigger ticket items. however, thats not the recipe for the future. the recipe for the future is more people working, high...

There are all kinds of effects of this that are very, very positive. as to the politics, i dont think its good politics for the republican party to be against it. i understand theres a philosophical debate to be had as harold points out we have this debate every time we have a minimum wage vote and you hear the same kinds of concerns. but i think this is a very, very strong issue and one in which most americans -- on what most americans agree. so the politics are not good in rejecting this. the ...

Reasons this goes to what david said where i think there is so much support here, is that its not going to have an impact on jobs and it has -- and i think its supported because so many families do see people benefiting, the families struggling to raise their children out above poverty, but they also know what its like to see a friend and a neighbor where one spouse goes back to work who would prefer maybe not to work, maybe theyre working part time just to supplement the familys income and they...