i had to wait ten years in line for me to come in. let me get back to this minimum wage, senator. we re running an experiment right now. we have states that have done this. how important do you think it is, the results of a state like california, that have raised the minimum wage, considerably. and vermont has also raised the minimum wage and a number of states have. picking up on john s point, there has been over the last number of decades a massive shift of income and wealth to the top 1%. and if this country is going to survive economically, we ve got to shift some of that money back to the middle class and working families. number two, if you make 7.25 or 8 bucks an hour, you re not going to go out and buy anything. you re not going to buy furniture, you re not going to take your family out to eat. and when you don t have that disposable income, you re not helping to create other people s jobs. and the third point i make, i very often hear that argument
sandwich and i pay freaking 8 bucks for a sandwich at the paw bodega anyway. we get walton size. i don t know if you can handle that. you said you live in new york and you never had a cheese sandwich. they are in brooklyn and queens. you think brooklyn is real new york? it is the real new york. that s so sad. you are lucky you are not in this room. i can t even go to brooklyn because i don t have a passport. we don t president what you this anyway we don t want you there anyway. you brought up a cat in the bodega and you thought it was a negative thing. they had a big piece on chopped cheese and they quoted someone saying a good chopped cheese has to come from a bodega with a bulletproof glass and a guy behind the
immigration. i m an immigrant myself. so but i came in legally. i had to wait ten years in line for me to come in. let me get back to this minimum wage, senator. we have states that have done this. we re going to see how important you think it is, the results of a state like california, that has actually raised the minimum wage considerably? and vermont has raised the minimum wage and a number of states have. picking up on john s point, there has been, over the last number of decades, a massive shift of income and wealth to the top 1% and if this country is going to survive economically, we re going to shift it back to the working class. if you make $7.25, 8 bucks an hour, you re not going to buy anything. you re not going to buy furniture, you re not going to take your family out to eat. when you don t have that disposable income, you re not helping to create other people s jobs. and the third point that i make,
we have states that have done this. we re going to see how important you think it is, the results of a state like california, that has actually raised the minimum wage considerably? and vermont has raised the minimum wage and a number of states have. picking up on john s point, there has been, over the last number of decades, a massive shift of income and wealth to the top 1% and if this country is going to survive economically, we re going to shift it back to the working class. if you make $7.25, 8 bucks an hour, you re not going to buy anything. you re not going to buy furniture, you re not going to take your family out to eat. when you don t have that disposable income, you re not helping to create other people s jobs. and the third point that i make, i very often hear that argument about the possibility of prices going up but i don t hear that when you have ceos making 300
the stock of boroughs, the company that makes it, more than doubled value. azt, 8 bucks a pill. i found out that i had hiv but i was still trying to keep my job on wall street. one day i walked to work and somebody hands me a flyer on aids. everybody going into the office was given the same flyer. the discussion that happened on the trading floor in front of me became homophobic quickly. my mentor said these people, they all deserve to die. i just burned with fury all day. when i got home that night, there was the demonstration on almost all nightly news shows. i thought wow, that s power. i have got to find who these people are that did this demonstration. you saw 17 people get arrested. that s just the beginning. next week it is going to be 50 getting arrested. after that 100 arrested.