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We're 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 they're not being paid adequately, find a place someplace elsewhere paid higher wages. what's your response to that? just go get a higher wage job. >> you know, i work for mcdonald's for, like, five months. before that, i worked for the parks department, climbing trees. i made $10.25 more than what i'm making now. so i've had...

Making $7.25 and work twice as hard. >> you said in one interview i read with you that you are -- that there's a squeeze on you because they're 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. what's going on there? >> what's going on is they're 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. like, i might be forced to do job one or two, or be forced to make burgers and, you know, do the g...

Now. but whoever is, like, against it, obviously ain't 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, it's not these type of opportunities for everybody. there's not a lot of people what can really go out and find these type of jobs. that's why people have to live on $7.25. >> congresswoman, it's fairly unusual to find members of congress walking the picket line. there were a number...