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Where it's 2.6. they have the energy thing going up there but we have financial service, health care, drive es of our economy, and real very favorable business economic climate there. >> do you get any positive impact from what's going on in north dakota economically? >> we do. >> how does north impact south dakota? >> quite a spillover, the trucks going 24/ from rapid city to the wilston basin. electrical, all kinds of guys doing work up there. a ripple effect. we don't get the direct benefit from it. i kid my friends from north dakota, some day we'll repay them stealing the territorial capit...

We care, you know, what's happening in the middle east as far as -- as far as energy policy goes, because asia is going to be buying 90%, 95% of that oil in the coming decades because we're getting ours here. >> yeah. it's a great answer and that whole -- the national security component of that is something that really does tip the scales in a way that lessens the need that we have today and have had for, you know, decades now to be very interested in what happened in the middle east. >> but really the impact it has on south america, middle east will continue to have to be involved and reorien...

70% of the minimum wage. which the cbo estimates would happen in 2019. >> gene, you know, it's not easy being an economist with the congressional budget office because we have such a dynamic economy. you can't have a crystal ball that can see how everything is going to interlock but here, it seems to be even more difficult for the cbo to wrap their arms around it. we split the baby with 500,000 job losses but they say there may be a few losses up to a million. >> what are they really saying? >> they're saying there's going to be a negative impact in some areas, maybe not others. >> first of al...

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. that's the tradeoff i'm talking about. i really don't give a dam about corporations that are making money on wall street. i don't care if they lose money. i mean i don't 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 are struggling right now and small business owners, restauranteurs and these type of people, t...