more, my friend. look, i think that when you look at small businesses and if you look at families across this country, the problem with our government right now is that people in washington arbitrarily set limit and they arbitrarily put out regulations without first looking at the impact of small business. ron, we didn t raise minimum wage in this country for over a decade. they ought to take an example. wait a second. you ought to take an example from ford. gentlemen who understood that by giving people livable wages, they could buy products. what do people who get minimum wage do, ron? you re missing. they spend money. joe, are we going to have a democratic philly bustwer the two of you? let me make my point. you don t have a point. yes, i do, more of a point than do you. the point is the government before we do anything as it relates to digging, or what have you, we have an environmental impact study. you re going to have an environmental impact study, i m sa
in place, people said you know what i want to hire these kids but it s too expensive for me as a business owner. i think that everything that the government do it, be it minimum wage we need to make sure that we re putting people to work. what do you think? i think it s ridiculous. the fact is that, look, big corp rations, major corporations are not hiring. the problem isn t minimum wage. if you take the minimum wage that a family of four makes, they still don t rise above, what? the national poverty level. you know, of course she should know what the minimum wage is, but she s a millionaire. when s the last time she had seen a minimum wage or live on a minimum wage or anyone in her family? the reality is, this is once again, republicans showing how they will govern, they ll go after working middle-class people. that s exactly what they ll go after. couldn t disagree with you
mcmann says the united states should review the federal minimum wage and then admitted she doesn t know how much the minimum wage actually is. republican nominee for governor of maine tells the crowd that if he s elected he ll tell president obama to, quote, go to hell. and minnesota psycho-talking congresswoman michele bachmann is so far to the right these day, she s lumping president george w. bush together with president obama and speaker pelosi. with us tonight joe madison, xm satellite radio talk show host. and ron christie, former assist ant to president bush and dick cheney and a republican strategist. gentlemen, good to have you with us tonight. thank you. good evening. ron, don t you kind of need to know what the minimum wage is before you come out against is it? what do you think? well, i think that you should. i think that everything that the government does taken in context should be looked at and make sure, are we doing the right thing to help people? when you lo
business creation. so, ron i have to ask you, the reason that we filibustered you because you guys on the right have done nothing but filibuster on the congress. ed, i come here and filibuster i tell the truth. based on the facts. ron, the fact is that we did not raise the minimum wage in this country for over ten years and it was the republicans that continued to block it. now you have a candidate linda mcmahon who says that we need to go back and reviewing it. isn t that a rolling back on people who are struggling financially. no it s not. the democrats have controlled congress in the last four years. the people in poverty in america it s gone to 1 in 7. here in the district on columbia it s higher than that. the last four years the democrats have had the levers of power here in washington. they ve set the tone. what? and i think what linda mcmahon is saying as a responsible public steward we should look at the actions that the federal government take. please.
republican review of government, when they slid a two-page bill that gave almost a trillion dollars to wall street and it had to pass, don t review it, just pass it. where were you then? here s where i was then i was opposed to it then, i m oposed to it now. and again who wasn t other than senator barack obama, senator clinton and senator biden who are urging this president to put this through and sign it as quick as possible. don t blame that on george bush. it was bush s bill thank you. that s all that we need to know. gentlemen the only other thing that i would say to that. we re going to get one more subject in here tonight. okay. the nominee for governor in maine tells the crowd that he s going to tell the president to go to hell. here it is. let s listen to it. and as your governor you re going to be seeing a lot of me on the front page saying, governor page, president obama, go to hell.