Glenn Beck - Minimum Wage - Feb 12, 2007

Glenn Beck discusses the detrimental effects of the new proprosed minimum wage increase.

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[randy95023]

When I graduated High School in '75 the minimum wage was $1.65 per hour. Figuring for inflation that would be about $14.00 per hour in 2010. Now even proponents of a "Living Wage" don't ask for that much per hour. Yes, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Most of the people who whine about raising the minimum wage make triple the current minimum wage. Something to think about as the gap between "rich" and "poor" widens annually...

[Jewelsinthesnow]

Perhaps Glenn "greedy" Beck should live on minimum wage

[sabaka300]

@Syne111 you are aware that (6.75-5.15)/5.15 is .3106 or 31% right? Because you did pass middle school math and you realize that a wage increase is (current-former)/FORMER right? Or are you maybe just a moron?

[zdrux]

If minimum wage is so great, why not just raise it to $200/hr?! Wouldn't it be great!?.. Can all of you here saying minimum wage is great explain to me what's wrong with this logic?

[Syne111]

Aside from that, what would Beck know about minimum wage? Because his dad reaped profits from a successful bakery, on the backs of minimum wage workers, we're supposed to feel like this multi-millionaire mouthpiece is an authority on what it's like to live on next to nothing?

[Syne111]

Apparently Glen doesn't know the difference between a 23.7% increase and a 31% increase. 6.75-5.15/6.75*100=23.7%

What a sensationist blowhard. No wonder he got kicked off the air. He flat out makes up statistics, hoping people are too busy stupidly nodding their heads, to actually fact check.

[dragonhead2010]

I've been listening to the left for years. I must say the left is wrong. I never listen to Glenn Beck. But what he's saying is right. What america needs right now is small business owners to employ. And min wage do hurt small business owners. I think we should let the free market take care of the min wage. The worst thing that could happen is very cheap labor for low pay. But then unions would have a come back in america. And we all know companies hate unions. So let's get rid of the min wage.

[ZIRCHxWORLD]

@jaybb789 I 100% agree with your last comment. your so confused you accidentally agreed with me. nice.

[SmartPappnase]

@clairishe

The minimum wage helps a lot of people. Whether they are more than are hurt is not easy to determine. The fact is, that not productivity, but supply & demand explains lot of the wages. If you have excess supply in unskilled labor, wages will go down sharply. Therefore, it is likely that a reasonable minimum wage actually increases overall wage payments, hence distributes income from the top to the workers. The increased spending could even make up for the employment losses.

[clairishe]

You're absolutely correct on your last point. Income disparity between the elite and the poor is larger than its ever been in US history. This is happening NOT because of a lack of government oversight, but rather because government protects corporate interests.

However, you're wrong about the min wage; watch?v=7DS0XXFdyfI&feature=re­lated

[clairishe]

@padraicbg Beck may very well be a corporate mouthpiece, but on this issue he's actually correct. Minimum wage is one of the biggest causes of unemployment there is. The minimum wage helps some people at the expense of a large number of other people. Walter E. Williams says it best: watch?v=7DS0XXFdyfI&feature=re­lated