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When push comes to shove and we want to save our jobs and we dont want them to go we are open to a lower wage structure for new entrants to save jobs. wait a minute. in this case to save jobs and not risk with a company that is beginning to lose business and is getten eaten alive by competitors. is this a time to force a one size fits all wage on them? >> on mcdonalds and the fast food stores and owners absolutely. i think youre talking about the uaw, not the united mine workers, the automobile ...

Unsupervised for hours at a time. listen, dont jail her but maybe, you know, consider either taking the -- i dont know. if the kid walks out of a park and gets hit by a car, then what? >> or kidnapped by a predator. >> kids get hit by cars when theyre nine on a bicycle. >> the negligence being you leave your kid unsupervised. >> i dont have kids. cant a 9 year old be unsupervised? >> sure they can. >> they have to think about taking care of their family because wage structure is so terrible beca...

Unsupervised for hours at a time. listen, dont jail her but maybe, you know, consider either taking the -- i dont know. if the kid walks out of a park and gets hit by a car, then what? >> or kidnapped by a predator. >> kids get hit by cars when theyre nine on a bicycle. >> the negligence being you leave your kid unsupervised. >> i dont have kids. cant a 9 year old be unsupervised? >> sure they can. >> they have to think about taking care of their family because wage structure is so terrible beca...

And san francisco where there are no regular neighborhood, $11.90. and it just, to see that shows you how far the gap is from the current 7 something to that $11.90. >> its so important and a country as vast as the united states with a cost of living that is so variable. this is really important to say that when we think about what it takes to buy groceries and put a roof over your head, were going to base our wage structure on that. i think its profound and it could potentially be a turning poi...

Ideas. how are you going to get it done? >> it is very frustrating when you look at what those idiots inside the beltway can manage to screw up even when they agree on something. i mean, that simpson bowls thing. it never got done. when are they ever going to do something that works? >> i agree it is very complicated. there is a lot of special interests and a lot of people on the hill who are reluctant to take the step and questions the relief why it cant be tax cuts and the regulatory side we h...

Family. but we need to be in front of the senators offices. we need to be in front of where they are. we need to be able to tell the truth about the domestic direction that this country is going in. we cant have an economy where the people at the top get all of the benefits and the rest of us get the crumbs that are left behind and have the economic stability we expect in this country. >> id like you to take a minute to define income inequality. that question is popping up. those who are paying ...

>> and a lot are not as big. these protests seem pretty mild. eye been to strikes where my dad let me play hooky and go to protests in new york. i would say these are pretty mild. i would say i think theyre playing with fire in this economy. this is a bad economy. were not producing jobs. people on the low end of the sort of -- the wage structure are lucky to have jobs. we dont produce that many jobs right now. this is a very slow growing economy. they can be protesting their way out of a job. >...

we begin with the resignation of a key executive in the rupert murdoch media empire. rebekah brooks is out. many people were outraged when brooks kept her job after the newspaper was shut down for scandalous reporting tactics. and as brooks steps down, the investigations ramp up. the fbi now investigating the murdoch empire right here in the united states. lawmakers demanding the probe amid reports that murdochs journalists hacked the cell phones of 9/11 victims and their families. sus...

Once we get our wage structure back up to what it should be, instead of fighting unions and fighting employees and cutting their wages, that goes in the wrong direction. unless people actually have jobs and money in their pockets. >> if we had a strong president who focused like a laser beam and said look its not just for justice sake but the whole economy, wouldnt we be in a lot better shape? >> i really do think the president and democrats in congress ought to stop playing footsie with republi...

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