Page 9 - Sewage Problem News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

We haven't recovered. >> part-time employment, wanls, different things that play into it. just because people are employed, it doesn't mean the same way they were in years past. >> a lot of underemployment, people who could be doing something much more lucrative are not. i think it's a big, big problem, a big area. >> you alluded, mika, to the wage problem which i think is at least as big a problem. real wanls haven't gone up for five years, meaning adjusted for inflation. even the people who have jobs, people who are fully employed, their purchasing power hasn't gone up in five years. when yo...

To get paid fairly and there is a -- we have two problems in our economy. we have some structural unemployment problems and we also have the long-term wage problem all of you have spoken about and to lift wages of 25 million americans an joe, i don't have the same concern you do about the distribution because a lot of the -- what they're saying is that there are middle-class families with two wage earners and when one of them get ps more money and that lifts the income of families but middle income people have seen their wages flatten too. that's been a problem for our whole economy. we have a...

Want to use this sort of simple, easy-to-access and minimum waging to blow out to a larger discussion about income and about buying power and economic power and in the country right now. and that idea where -- i have to work harder to get the same stuff i had 50 years ago is a message that translates across middle class. not just the poor, all the way up. there is a -- this is a very serious part of this discussion is that it is -- it is like a tallisman to tell a tale of the income problem and wage problem, wage gap in the country. numbers like that are really the kind of thing they are hopin...

>> i think it's ludicrous. it's ludicrous. of course it is. it's a sad thing. i wouldn't want to have been on the boat. i feel sorry for anyone who was. it doesn't mean you are entitled to get rich from it. >> if you are stuck in human excrement for four days? >> does that mine are entitled to money? how does that work exactly. >> if you go visit a friend for the weekend and they have a sewage problem, rick, let's go to rick's house. and rick's house has a sewage problem at his house. >> that's because you wouldn't get out of bathroom. >> right. >> does that mean i'm going to sue you because y...

Lot of people doing their duties on a day-to-day basis. >> isn't it a lose-lose for democrats and republicans? >> a lot of americans look at this and say washington can't get anything done. that's why the president is being so visible, out there, wants to avoid an as being too passive and not trying to solve the problem. i don't think we will have a shutdown that goes to next week even if they can't avoid it by midnight tonight. yorpg that will i don't think that will arise. >> what's the impact on the markets for a government shutdown. >> the markets don't love the government and don't think ...