i mean, do we really do they really need to be unionized and is that part of the problem? is that why it s taking some of our veterans so long to get health care? this very been unionized fair long time eric. government has a high rate of unionization and i don t see how that s related to the on going problems here. what we got is a scandal in which somebody was keeping secret lists in terms of giving service to people. quality isn t the issue. access is the issue and it seems to me like you want to beat up on unions. i don t get it. what do union versus to do with it. to quote juan williams, i can t believe what i m hearing. i mean, i think quality is of some interest to all of those people that died as a result of the scandal. nobody died. do you have any evidence that anybody died? zero. oh my gosh, juan. we have too many vets to begin with. we treat our soilders like sacrifices.
and then. from the picket line to a jail cell. fast food protestors arrested for wreaking havoc while asking for higher wages. how they re crushing the people say they they re trying to help. cashin in firing up your memorial day weekend starts right now. hi, everyone, i m eric bolling. welcome to cashing in. wayne rogers, jonathan, michelle fields and juan williams. welcome in everybody. as we celebrate memorial day the obama administration is under fire for treating our heros like zeros. our veterans are suffering and dying because of government incompetence. i received a call from a republican congresswoman that alert med to the fact that the va was highly unionized. that set off bells and alarms in my head. so we did a little digging here and here s what we found. nearly 8 in 10 va workers are unionized. that came as a complete shock to
we have been more worried for years about what they think about us rather than keeping our kids healthy, safe and bringing them home. but i think to wayne and michelle s point, what is the va? the va is socialized medicine. the government owns, finances, runs the whole thing. that s why unions have grown. jonathan, you have to realize the va s ratings are higher than private sector hospitals and health care. let me us they get good treatment. juan, put yourself in their shoes. you d rather go to the va than the mayo clinic? is that what i m hearing? that s the champagne of all health care in the world. what are you doing? give them vouchers. this is a very good discussion. have to move on to the second part of this topic because it s amazing. as outraged as we are about our
these let s let s bring some free market sanity to the discussion, john, please. well, looked at the data. clinton kept rejecting the minimum wage hike. his unemployment was low and stayed low for years. bush to his great discredit raised the minimum wage. it hasn t stopped since. higher minimum wage not only results in less jobs, but in less income because employment overall declines. work hours decline, so there is no benefit as every economist knows, there s no such thing as a free lunch. the unions support it because it helps them. a lot of them are linked to minimum wage and by raises the price on people, they price them out of the mark. we ve got to go, but juan, you can respond. reran out of time. we re going to say thanks to michelle and juan for joining us this week. coming up, the biggest gift
hearing from my friends is the last all in fighting season, for the united states and afghanistan, is this year and all bets are off for 2013. this is so far the longest american war and look at the polling data. you see that and congress and the white house and everybody seems to be fatigued with the 10 1/2 year battle. and i want to quote juan williams and people can check out the column on foxnews.com website, but he says, quote, our afghan partners are corrupt, increasingly unreliable and some appear to be in league with the taliban and the terrorists we re supposed to be fighting against and encouraging the very pourses that are keeping afghanistan destabilized. is he right about that? he s right about much of that, greg, look, it s not a question of numbers. i think as juan says, war is essentially a test of will i ve been saying on fox for the last ten years and the