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Example, kathleen, a people on the right. not punishing of governor for helping people who are working poor. the people, the food stamp people, if you will. people in poverty. in this case, people just the above. the ones you have to look out for, the ones trying to break into the middle class but they need health care. >> right. the opposition to the medicare expansion all along has been problematic for republicans for that very reason. its hard to say, no, you shouldnt help these very poor peo...

Presidents, other democratic presidents have done in the past and thats keep the minimum wage in line with inflation, which is generous considering that most workers are not keeping up, instead he is looking for a wedge issue for the fall election. this is frankly demagoguery. >> lets look at the larger number though which is the amount of money that would be infused into the economy. again, martin omalley that governors association meeting yesterday saying people who dont understand it are prob...

They made as leader. also there is a question, josh, is there a question of how best to take care of the truly disadvantaged and take care of the poor. a lot of us believe that a top-down approach from the federal government sometimes is short-sided approach and sometimes there are excesses that actually hurt the working poor and also the truly disadvantaged. that is what i believe. you may believe something different. but lets all agree as we end here that this is a great approach because its a...

Here, you know, some of the biggest champions and advocates for this compromise medicaid expansion which is known as the private option are republicans. the republican house speaker, republican senate president, and the architects of this were actually republican legislators, and its sharply divided them, especially if theyre heading into primary season where republicans in arkansas made gains primarily by running against the health care law. you know, its an issue that -- >> its an issue. lets ...

Higher than the national number which is really just been a floor, not a ceiling. i just want to quickly point out that, you know, theres a lot of interests here and that maybe you and i should not have to pay for food stamps for people who dont make enough money to have a, that living wage to buy all their food because they make so little. or might use emergency room services, you know, instead of signing up for, well now, were in a new era with obamacare, not to open up that for the moment or ...

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...

Love for everybody to get $3 more an hour. i dont think michael steele or i or any republican out there wouldnt love that to happen. we arent crying into a pillow -- >> yeah. >> please let me finish. >> but no -- i cant be set up as a beast that doesnt want somebody to get $10 an hour and then actually have a couple of seconds to explain why. i dont care about corporations that are making record-breaking profits having to pay more money. in fact, i would love to make them pay more if it didnt im...

Live in poverty because the minimum wage is too low. so raising the minimum wage will help to create jobs, will increase the buying power of families affected by the minimum wage and will make a real difference in our economy. so im a co-sponsor of a bill in the house to raise the minimum wage to $10.10. its important to do that. its important to help working families help make ends meet. weve seen a terrific recovery at the top. not so much for the working poor in the middle class. were doing a...

Conservatives on raising the minimum wage. give me the elevator pitch. im a conservative billionaire, we end up at the same conference. whats your pitch for why i should be behind a minimum wage increase. >> its a simple idea. >> right now the government spends over $250 billion every year on social welfare programs for the working poor. people who work but cant afford to survive on the paychecks, if we raise the minimum wage to a reasonable level. all those costs will be cut, and the taxpayers ...

Whats your pitch for why i should be behind a minimum wage increase. >> its a simple idea. >> right now the government spends over $250 billion every year on social welfare programs for the working poor. people who work but cant afford to survive on the paychecks, if we raise the minimum wage to a reasonable level. all those costs will be cut, and the taxpayers will save money. i think it makes much more sense for businesses to pay their own workers rather than to shift the burden to the america...