hurting over the last ten years and if so why are republicans opposed to it let's ask my next guest david seeley conservative commentator pro-business advocate david welcome back. thanks for having me tom i feel like i've been out in a nuclear winter since i have done i haven't been on either david i've felt the same way so why do you hate working people what's wrong with raising the minimum wage. well that's just the problem right there tom if we raise the minimum wage will actually put more people out of work the fact of the matter is. the minimum wage is a great opportunity for unskilled laborers and people who are entering the job force to get a job and learn whereas once people have acquired these skills they can demand supply and demand higher wages if you price the untrained people out of the market they never have a chance to matriculate you know i remember as a boy i had several minimum wage jobs and i really disliked them tremendously and that was a heavy motivation to really apply david i agree with you on the on that point i mean i flipped burgers i'd wash dishes i worked as a d.j. f