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To 25 are just starting out and making minimum wage and living with their parents in a household that is not poor. >> put the economics with the politics and draw on your experience at the wall street journal. at what point does the government say we are raising the minimum wage. are there factors that say now is the time to do it. >> it comes down to politics and i don't think it makes economic sense to hurt that many jobs even when you raise the salary of people, but politically speaking when you have middle of the rod democrats and people like bill o'reilly saying raise the minimum wage, it...

And this is costing ammunition. byron york and you have more on this. >> david asbin host of after the bell. how are you, david? >> i am great, bill. >> what are you learning that we need to know about this? >> byron touched on the tradeoff and the phrase tradeoff. my favorite economist in the world famous for saying there are no solutions in economics and only tradeoffs. here is the tradeoff. 16.5 million workers getting minimum waejs would see gamings going up and that would be great for them and they are pushing for it and it would be good for the economy and they would buy more things. but...

All likelihood that person would sleep in. >> and i would call an attorney. phone off of the hook. you lose control of the senate it would be hard to get the agenda. >> the democrat party will not lose control of the senate in our vow precisely because of the policies that he and the democrats are focusing on extending opportunities. >> the white house is saying that it is confident that the democrats have nothing to worry about in november. >> we have david and kristin. the two of you doing today? >> doing well. >> i am doing just fine. david, first crack at this one. is carne right that th...

I don't know if it is if obama overreached it is the implementation of obama care went better we might have a different conversation. a lot of the criticism that he is getting and people are unhappy with him, the implementation was so flawed and so many promises that were not kept and it affected what people think of the president. he has a low approval rating and that harms the democratic candidates. >> magic number is six. thank you. christen and david, we appreciate it both of you. listen to this one coming out of the state of kansas and a new bill proposed and raising a lot of concern an...

Party's favor. >> democrats felt the minimum wage is an issue that works for their way and they think it is a political issue. if you look at polls, most americans support raising the minimum wage and they see it as a topic that is popular and fits with the substance of what they believe. >> david, come back to the midterms. >> on the midterms. >> dick durbin talked about we can't keep up with them and he was talking about raising money with republicans. do you get a sense that that is that much energy on the right? >> there is not that much energy on the right but a split down the left. they ...