90 of those who are on the minimum wage are older than 20 years old. Senator, let me allow Bethany Spencer from owensboro to tweet, do you think the minimum wage is a livable wage . The minimum wage is largely an entry level wage. 50 of those who earn it our young people who begin a career. They do not stay at that rate for very long. But if you engage in this kind of minimum wage increase right now and this is a liberal staffer who used to work for bill clinton, who runs a congressional budget office, who he says you will destroy between half a million and one million jobs, 50 of young people. It is not the way to grow our economy. The reason things like this are being contemplated is because of this slow recovery we have had after the recession of 2008. Everything the administration has done has made the recovery worse the borrowing, spending, taxing, overregulating. The last thing we ought to be doing in my view is destroying jobs for young people. Secretary grimes, how do you count
Congress. We will go tumor real to mur iel. Caller happy new year to you both. I just want to say this. I think the president , president obama, i will use his title president , he will be in command in spite of the majorities of the republicans, ok . Because i think the republicans are on the same train to nowhere. If they bring up the repeal of the Health Care Law and also if they dont deal with immigration. When we talk about immigration we should think about people because it involves millions of latinos, asians, from everywhere in the world. It is as though the republicans are saying we dont have to deal with that at the moment in the same manner that they are saying, we are going to repeal the health care act. If you have ever been sick, if you have ever had a chronic illness, cancer diabetes something that the doctors cannot and do not know about you need health care. I think this country needs to look to people like Angela Merkel in germany, who provides a decent minimum wage f
At the end of the day this makes no sense. My husband was a veteran. Went for the vietnam war. When he was gone, it was the worst thing in the whole entire world. Especially when they are whening him especially they miss most of this and that. Especially at the end of the day you need help with veterans. Host what you think . Should the general have to go . Caller you cant just not know about a whole cover up. He has computers, he has this, he has that. Host thank you. A republican there. Cruiser has this. ForWashington Post intuition sekis testimony from last week, concluding that if obama wants to resolve this debacle, he will need a less passive secretary. Secretary who became in january 2009, is not up or go visitor to the obama white house. He visited the white house 33 times, according to the official visitor logs, roughly one visit for every two months of his time in that position. That is less than some cabinet officials with higher profile eric holder visited five times. The n
President kennedy. H president kennedy launchedeven before he his historic president ial campaign, jfk told an audience in baltimore, let us not despair, but act. Let us not seek the republican answer or the democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future. No politician knew better the importance of bipartisanship. We are honored to have with us today the light of senator kennedys light and the Guiding Light of the Edward M Kennedy institute. She is a brilliant attorney and writer and a vision for senator kennedys incredible c. It is my great pleasure to friend. E my good thank you, heather. That you so much for gracious introduction and congratulations on being named the new ceo of the jfk library foundation. All of us are so excited about your leadership your. Those of here. Those of us for the edward m the u. S. Ociety for senate, we are thrilled to have a neighbor. And mass archives, Columbi