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Bill O’Reilly: GOP Should ‘Wise Up’ and Raise Minimum Wage
Newsmax ^ | Wednesday, 29 Jan 2014 09:42 PM | Greg Richter

Posted on 01/29/2014 10:18:17 PM PST by Olog-hai

Fox News host Bill O’Reilly says the “pinheads” in the Republican Party should stop opposing the minimum wage.

“The Republican Party should really wise up and stop opposing raising the minimum wage. It should be 10 bucks an hour” to keep employers from exploiting workers, O'Reilly said Wednesday during his opening “Talking Points Memo” segment of his TV show.

O’Reilly said his proposed $10 an hour minimum wage would apply only to adults. Teenagers just beginning their careers should be paid on a lower scale, he said.

“The GOP needs to stop working against working people,” O”Reilly said. …

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Miscellaneous; Society
KEYWORDS: billoreilly; blowhard; gabbagabbahey; liberalagenda; minimumwage; olberreilly; pinhead
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To: UnChained

That’ll be worth 10¢ an hour in a week if hyperinflation starts to set in. And then a lot less than that not long afterwards.


61 posted on 01/30/2014 12:06:47 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Cowboy Bob

And those ones that have done so have paid the price for it as well. San Francisco lost Subway’s $5 foot-long sandwiches due to production costs being too high in the city thanks to the city-mandated minimum wage of $10.24/hour.

It’s always important to have federal everything to centralizing leftists.


62 posted on 01/30/2014 12:08:43 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

When I heard this, I told my mother that he probably doesn’t have any minimum wage employees so he won’t be affected. However, the businesses on the edge that he mentioned but quickly dismissed not only have to up the payroll but they also have to send in more payroll taxes. Not every job is worth $10 an hour!

What part of increasing consumer costs and not hiring minimum wage earners does he not get? What employer wants to hire an inexperienced person for that kind of money when there are so many mature, work-experienced people looking for jobs? It’s getting harder and harder for those starting out to get that first job.


63 posted on 01/30/2014 12:10:17 AM PST by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: skr

Robot hamburger factory makes 360 Gourmet Burgers every hour...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3100817/posts


64 posted on 01/30/2014 12:13:52 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (Jealousy is when you count someone else's blessings instead of your own.)
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To: Olog-hai
Exactly! If the Blue States raise their minimum wage, there will be a shift by companies to Red States.

By the way, why doesn't Obama threaten to raise the federal minimum wage by executive order? Because he knows it will hurt the economy... and he wants to share the blame with the Republicans.

65 posted on 01/30/2014 12:18:49 AM PST by Cowboy Bob (They are called "Liberals" because the word "parasite" was already taken.)
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To: Olog-hai

I saw that segment. O’Reilly just sounded stupid and out of touch.


66 posted on 01/30/2014 12:21:01 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: Olog-hai

The guy was never a true conservative so this does not come as a surprise at all. He seems to agree with Obama on a lot.


67 posted on 01/30/2014 12:46:36 AM PST by Republican1795.
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To: Olog-hai

Blowhard O’Blowhard can STFU.


68 posted on 01/30/2014 12:59:42 AM PST by VRWC For Truth (Roberts has perverted the Constitution)
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To: Olog-hai

I would.

Better than someone like Jesse Jackson spitting in my Food because he’s Racist against White People.


69 posted on 01/30/2014 1:15:10 AM PST by Kickass Conservative (Nobody owes you a living, so shut up and get back to work...)
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To: Olog-hai

I agree with raising the minimum wage, but why stop at ten? 35, 40 or even 50 bucks an hour would really boost the economy and help the government collect more taxes. /sarc


70 posted on 01/30/2014 1:18:32 AM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: Olog-hai

Great. Then many adult minimum wage workers would be vulnerable to replacement not only by illegals, but also by teenagers.

BOR and Democrats have the type of brains that don’t even think consequences through for two steps.


71 posted on 01/30/2014 1:20:42 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: Kickass Conservative

How would you know what the people who maintain the robots put on the working surfaces, though?


72 posted on 01/30/2014 1:30:23 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Robwin

I must disagree...I like a lot of boobs. ;-)


73 posted on 01/30/2014 1:38:00 AM PST by bjorn14 (Woe to those who call good evil and evil good. Isaiah 5:20)
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To: Olog-hai

Bag O’ Rocks O Reilly is such an expert on public policy. I wonder how many elected offices he has ever held, at any level (including dog catcher)? Has he ever offered the voters an opportunity to express their support/opposition to his stated positions on public policy?


74 posted on 01/30/2014 2:02:27 AM PST by leprechaun9
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To: Olog-hai

This is why I gave up on FOX years ago, as bad as CNN.


75 posted on 01/30/2014 2:19:54 AM PST by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: Olog-hai

These fools simply do not understand that the key to survival is raising the worker’s minimum value-in-use.


76 posted on 01/30/2014 2:23:12 AM PST by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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To: Olog-hai
Hey Bill. you asshole...if a teenager makes less then $10.00 then it is not a minimum wage!

Walking Brain Donor alert!

77 posted on 01/30/2014 2:28:31 AM PST by fedupjohn (America...Designed by Geniuses...Now inhabited by Idiots..Palin 2016...)
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To: Olog-hai

What is never mentioned in this debate is that those who would benefit from a raise in the minimum wage have already willingly contracted with their employer for a wage that is obviously acceptable to them. It is not as if they’re held captive, they willingly show up to work, at a contracted wage they obviously deem beneficial to them.

Whether they’re happy or not is not the question to be asked.

Most of those who begin a job at the minimum end up raising the value of their labor through industry and acquired knowledge of the job, and receive raises accordingly.

One of the problems here is that there is such a large supply of unemployed young people that in some industries there’s no reason for an employer to pay more. A minimum wage increase does not fix this problem, it only exacerbates it.


78 posted on 01/30/2014 2:41:00 AM PST by wayoverontheright
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To: Olog-hai; All

And there are still a lot of folks...a few on here...who think O’Reilly is “conservative”...scary


79 posted on 01/30/2014 2:44:02 AM PST by SeminoleCounty (Amnesty And Not Ending ObamaCare Will Kill GOP In 2014)
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To: rfp1234

You don’t know how correct a statement that is. In less than 10 years a machine will be doing those jobs of cooking and serving up food . Right now with the cost of technology coming down and with the threat of wages going up, some fast food restaurants will find it cost effective to purchase these machines.
Soon these jobs will be gone.
Also, I read a story about how efficient package shipping had become and if you pay attention to the decline of brick and mortar stores, you’ll understand that in the future the store you actually shop in will be gone.
Remember jobs leaving the US and going to China? Jobs will be going to robots.


80 posted on 01/30/2014 3:19:38 AM PST by lucky american (The Democrats will follow the big "D"even if it means going over a cliff.)
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