like mr. luddyeliminate the minimum wage because [ bleep ] had to fight off rats with a spatula. joining me now to discuss this and many other issues are three of the hosts of this weekend's blackness radio. i'm so glad you all are back this week. l. joy williams, elon james white, the managing director of this week of blackness and aaron rand freeman. really a pleasure to have you back. >> thank you. >> john: let's get started on this. with john boehner's rungs on a ladder argument. you don't need to see statistics to see this is completely senseless and classist. no one is talking about removing rungs from anyone's ladder. we're simply talking about making the bottom rung get paid more. now, isn't this pro capitalism? is this pro growth? isn't this pro america? isn't john boehner about protecting corporations at the expense of working americans? >> i feel like you don't know what america is if you say that because america is built on people not having and then we feel better because we do. that's

suffering that lifts people up to start their own business and one day become a job creator like mr. luddy who lobbies to fight against raising the minimum wage because he was so (bleep) poor he had to fight off rats with a spat la. who is infected with rabies. yes, you are. [ laughter ] besides, president if i dfide -- fidel handout here said nothing about raising the maximum wage. for as long as i can remember earning more than i can ever need but folks can i imagine even more. [ laughter ] folks, that wasn't his only shock jobs program. >> tonight i propose a fix-it first program to put people to work on the most urgent repairs, like the nearly 70,000 structurally deofficial bridges -- deficient bridges across the country. >> stephen: wow, 70,000 structurally deficient death traps. on your way to your new minimum wage job you want to take the alternate route around the mississippi river through canada. [cheers and applause] but -- [cheers and applause] but the biggest -- i believe the the biggest failure of the night was how a balma kept unloading his work to us. >> we must do more to c