afford to see a doctor. she didn t make enough to qualify fi for a subsidy to get obama care. my best friend died because she didn t have the medical insurance she needed because florida, my state, and i m a fifth generation floridian decided not to take the money that would have helped her. i mean, how do republicans run against that? i don t know that they can. there is a not just health care here. there s the fact that you have this woman working so many jobs. she paid $9,000 a year, with two children. and you expect americans to live on that? so republicans aren t just standing in the way of health care, they re standinging in the way of minimum wage hike, standing in the way of people having access to the very basic things that people need to survive. and i argue, this isn t just about health care. this is a stand-in. this opposition to obam that is a stand-in for a smaller group of americans who are getting older, they re less diverse, they re less happy with barack obama b
raised, the net job creation goes down. you don t see a lot of layoffs. what people always caricature this as. right now that s the last thing we want to do. this issue has emerged because the recovery has been so poor. there s genuine stress on the ground. even for those who have had jobs. they re not getting raises. so there s a real problem. this just isn t the right solution. it s a tough issue, i will say i ve talked about this issue publicly and i ve had people get up and say i run a small business, this would be devastating to me, i would have to cut workers. so it s about not just introducing the solution of minimum wage hike, but also working with businesses to see if that happens, how can they work with it. i want to turn to you, mark and get your response to that in a second. washington post has written on this. kathleen parker called, for instance, the bill that your group is championing a desperate move for democrats, saying it has no chance of passing the house. do yo
increase. i suspect they will think if someone is working hard trying to stand out they should be fairly compensated. when you look at the studies on the minimum wage hike, you are losing jobs because of that in many instances. there are costs to pay. ironically the president is saying we want to make work pay. but the poll $is are diseven sentivizing. good to see you both. bill? bill: concerns about the chinese economy sent stock south at the close. down well over 230 points. today so far we are relatively flat. keep an eye on the markets throughout the day here and see if we end up on a good note on a friday. martha: what happened to malaysia airline 370.
news & world report. david, there s a real split here because some say this will kill jobs. others say it is going to create jobs. can you plain that? yeah, it is real interesting, you have liberal economists say this will actually enhance job creation because they won t want to pay overtime to the existing employees. so to do, to dot extra work they will be forced to hire new employees. obviously the critics on the right don t buy this. there is not really statistics either way that bear this out but look, this was also done in the reverse back in the george w. bush administration. they sort of changed the rules so you would have to pay less overtime to fewer workers. so now we re seeing a volley in a different direction, because look, president obama knows that his minimum wage hike, his proposed minimum wage hike is dead. so this is the route he is going to go through. executive orders working through
stonewalling a minimum wage hike. for some of the right, attacking the poor has become a reflex. it s hardly surprised when the party unveils its budget later this month, it will likely touch all the far right s erogenous zones when it comes to the poor. today the chair polled by paul ryan unveiled a 200-page report blasting federal programs aimed to help the poor. part of their conclusion is the federal government effectively discourages them, that s poor people of this country, from make mortgage money. and then they throw this into the mix. perhaps the single most determinant of poverty is family structure. well, social conservatives out there should have loved that baby. but in an interview with the washington post, congressman ryan says that he and the republican party are actually the true champions of the poor, not the president. and not the democrats. here is his logic. quote, there are nearly 100 programs at the federal level that are meant to help, but they have actually cr