been starter jobs, it s been students, it s not been to support a family of four. now millions because there s so many of them. you know, so go ahead and increase the wages. they should. do that and you will have less workers. listen, this is basic supply and demand. if the workers can go out and protest and get $15 an hour and health care cadillac plans, god bless them. i m happy for them. it s not going to happen because the cost of the burgers will go up, that s going to actually adversely impact a lot of people that might go to mcdonald s. this is basic this is basic econ 101. fine. no. i m just saying, econ 101. yeah. treat people badly, pay them terribly and be proud of your profits. econ 101. there s nothing i can say here. if a market supports it, fantastic. i hope each one of them gets a massarotti, that s fine. if it supports that i m for it. if it supports $15 an hour i
speed up growth? give everybody a massarotti? look what they ve been doing. the quantitative easing over the past four, five years. money is for free. yes. if you got money, you go in with a wheelbarrel and they fill it up. this is not news. i mean mike, what else can they do? you open up banks and like money goes through. the fed can do very little. the administration and the republican nominee for president could, perhaps, help a bit by coming up with a plan as to where we re going with the economy. i mean, the sustained growth that we have right now, is pathetic. it s pathetic. just there is i mean there a lot of economists and people on the fed who think that if the fed decided to raise its target for inflation and allow inflation to get over 2% and get up to like 3%, that the fed could actually do considerably
isn t this august, not supposed to be a lot going on. don t you wish one day we d say there s nothing going on, go home. change the channel. a lot has to do with the economy, up first president obama talking jobs in the heartland of america. the president is in iowa this morning. no straw polls. no campaigns it s a campaign stop. it s a campaign-style trip through three mid western states. he ll meet with a group of farmers and small business owners today. he s been making his pitch for job growth and sounding a familiar theme that republicans are playing politics with the economy. the problem we have is not with our country. the problem is, that our politics is broken. [ applause ] the problem is, is that we ve got the kind of partisan brinkmanship that is willing to put party ahead of country. that s more interested in seeing their political opponents lose than seeing the country win. well, the president was glad handing after a town hall meeting in iowa, he was c