it's the dirty little secret behind the president's big push to lift the minimum ge. >>t's time for the minimum wage to go up. >> president obama still pounding the issue. wait till you hear why these liberals want to raise it. this minimum image will give you maximum rage. >>and slamming e door on big labor. auto workers telling the ua to [ bleep ] off. there should be a wake-up call for unions everywhere. >>> and here's controversy. johnny carson' writer, why this is no laughing matter for america. "cashin' in," protecting you, starts right now. i'm eric bolling. welcome to "cashin' in." wayne rogers, jonathan hoenig, michelle fields and richard beckham joins us. when asked about the push to raise the minimum image, wage -- >> they just be able to work less because they're getting a decent wage. >> hard to believe his economic adviser just sd that. but this attack o hard work is becoming a common theme from the left, is it not? >> since when is it the government's role to try to get americans to work less? the only good thing about this is that finally the democratic

it's the dirty little secret behind the president's big push to lift the minimum ge. 's time for the minimum wage to go up. >> president obama still pounding the issue. wait till you hear why these liberals want to raise it. this minimum image will give you maximum rage. >>and slamming e door on big labor. auto workers telling the ua to [ bleep ] off. there should be a wake-up call for unions everywhere. >>> and here's controversy. johnny carson' writer, why this is no laughing matter for america.

brenda, and before people on the left say, my gosh, that heartless gary smith, how can you scrap the minimum ge around and searched to see if any other developed country scrapped the minimum wage. in fact, switzerland has no minimum wage. now, look, it's interesting. switzerland's unemployment rate is 3%. so you say, well, surely then, they have a high poverty rate. no, theipoverty rte is less than half ours at 7%. ours is about 16%. in fact, california, which has a higher than the 7-whatever $1 per hour min muj u mum wage than $8 has a 3% unemployment rate. switzerland has the highest wealth per capit in the world. my gosh, if switzerland can do it, doesn't it make sense we should try it? >> chuck, what do you think about that? >> that's where i keep all my money over in switzerland, i'm sure that's the reason why everybody is like that. but the facts are the facts. the problem with this ceo, it might be a half a million, it might be a million. how do y say my chicken's butt. the facts are it would lift 900,000 out of profit. i realize that isn't how corporate america works. you should be able

td us they always look at the minimum wage issue and caps said they would raise those above the minimum gense? finding more job opportunities and expanding the economy so people hire more people or give out money as wage subsidies? >> i certainly think is the economy improves more people will go back to work. with 20% unemployment with young workers and 10% with adults that are at minimum wage jobs it seems to pay 40 percent more for every hour is not the best way. gerri: that is not worth of wanted to go with the whole conversation but the idea to redistribute income in order to allow of large portion of the workforce to sit on their keister does not make sense because our history is they use work as the organizing force and with out its people have pblems with no motivation. why do you think you are here and what do you want to do >> where you heathis argument is in europe for there is much higher unemployment rates and in the united states we are high. basics to create more jobs and employ more people andr for those people. gerri: more jobs. michael? >> we need to reward work. she launc

you're not going to be able to put this genie back in the bottle and the ge nie is already halfway out. at a minimum i would ask this -- why can't we vote on it? if we're wrong, debate us on it. but why can't we vote on it? since when has the senate become a place run by one person on a matter of this importance and magnitude? since when has the senate become controlled by one person's opinion? are you telling me the people of florida that i represent do not deserve the right to be represented and heard as much as the people of nevada or any other state here? are you saying that an issue of this importance, one individual should have the power to basically say we will have no debate when 59 members of this body in a place where it's tough to get 51 votes on anything have expressed a strong opinion they favor this? why can't we have this debate? isn't that what the senate was designed to be, a place where the great issues of our time could be debated and fleshed out before the eyes of the american public and the world? but we're being told consistently we can't have this debate and we're not going to

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