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Be for teenagers. now it's affecting like 40% of minimum wage workers who are over 25 years old. this means that there are a whole lot of voters who have not voted in midterm elections. who if 2014 can be turned into do you deserve a raise election, then maybe they come out to the polls. doesn't necessarily mean the democrats get the house back. but they can hold the senate and make some advances that would make legislative accomplishment easier for this president. >> that's a really good point, michael, that jonathan makes. because i think that you can get the sense that the entire be all and...

Their increaing numbers of part-time and temp workers who are not allowed to work full time. they'd like to. and get a higher wage. and so they're relying more and more on team that they can pay well less than the -- >> so that's walmart. so what you can do about it? i mean, you can try to push for a higher minimum wage, right? >> yes. >> how can you do -- what can washington do about it. obviously, congresswoman, there's not a lot of faith in getting anything done out of washington these days. >> well i think there are things besides washington. although i very much support raising the minimu...

Republicans? >> no, i think no question, i mean you're absolutely right, the polling suggests that rank and file republicans are exactly where most democrats are. and i really is a couple of holdouts, one of which is the restaurant industry, which is very powerful on the republican side in congress, i think something like 50%, 60% of minimum wage workers work in the restaurant industry. it's understandable why they're so agitated about this. that is not a -- even close to a majority opinion in the republican party, much less the entire country. so i think you're right, it's absolutely a main s...

Make people buy insurance to be a part of texas -- we're about giving people freedom, freedom to make decisions. when you see places -- or companies like facebook, ebay, some of the -- apple, soon to be one of the largest employers in the city of austin, caterpillar, every engine manufacturer in the united states is now in the state of texas. when you see toyota decided to build every pick-up truck in america in the state of texas, they didn't come there if they were worried about whether or not there was not going to be a skilled workforce and the people were going to have health care. 95% of...

Who does make record profits, that's making a lot of profits, and for people like that, that have a lot of minimum wage workers, it makes sense. >> think so. >> don't think it makes as much sense say at mcdonald's or burger king or the fast food restaurants because the costs, you increase that labor cost across america you're going to increase the cost of the hamburgers. >> you got to the point i was making, it's not just the small business owner it's the mcdonald's and the burger kings and walmarts or whatever that you have to calibrate in here. >> so, mika, we got perfect day for richard wol...