wage moved? of course. it s a free market. no minimum wage at all? no new york, no. you don t have to take the job if you don t want it. isn t that what you need? passion of the people for this to happen? i was rather taken. it was no shoulder shrugging going on when i asked that question. i mean, they re into it. well, we need the passion of the people and we need the people to vote, ed. in this midterm election. these are the issues that are confronting us. is it over? this is a huge difference between the parties. sadly it never used to be. under george w. we raised minimum wage, did it in a few steps. this makes no sense. but that s where the parties are. you know, two-thirds of small businesses support an increase in the minimum wage because you know they re very smart. they see if their workers, if their workers have some extra money in their pocket they will
they re not alone. we will not defend them militarily. much like we didn t for budapest or the prague spring when the old soviet soon went in. that limits have to be demonstrated by our economic financial sanctions. all right. joe sestak, we will have you back on this. great resource. great to have you with us on the program. love youren sight. we want to turn to john saltz, veteran of the iraq war, chairman of votevets.org. good to have you on tonight. this dynamic between iraq and ukraine, it s totally different. the reasons are going to be different. do you think the american people would accept any kind of military advancement by the united states to protect nato s alliance. it s an interesting question. we say in the military we train to fight one war and we continue to train that way after the war s over and it doesn t prepare us for the next one. i think unfortunately here what
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spend it on the products that they sell, produce. henry ford understood this. i think it s important to note that the average age of a minimum wage worker is 35, ed. it s not kids. it s grown-ups. it is. many of them single mom or dad with two kids, a minimum wage job, they re under the poverty line at 15,000 a year. they can t make it. this is america, and we ve got to do better. it is an election issue. we are talking about helping the poor here. 10.10 an hour, in three years, it s not a very lofty goal but it s certainly moving forward. still talking about somebody making under $21,000 a year. yes. hopefully this will bring up ward pressure on wages to the middle class. hope it happens. no question. if you move it i was going to say if you move to 10.10 it would be a justice for inflation from 1968. senator barbara boktsxer, ths
secretary, chuck hagel, had quite an interesting visit with some of the people of the business roundtable who do business in russia. they want to know where this is all going. so, i would advise that every american should be paying attention to this because if this is going to come to a head, it s going to come to a head over resources. sound familiar? is this kind of iraq all over again? not really. we are seeing true aggression from putin. the question is, can we slow him down? what are his intentions? what is our reactioning to be? are we talking in the coming days about arming the ukrainian people who want absolutely nothing to do with russia, that they want their independence? is freedom still on the march, america? you ve got a stomach for this? get your cell phones out. i want to know what you think. will americans ever let a president lie us into war?