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Bill O'Reilly: GOP Should 'Wise Up' and Raise Minimum Wage
http://www.newsmax.com ^ | January 39, 2014 | Greg Richter

Posted on 01/30/2014 9:10:32 AM PST by NKP_Vet

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.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: billoreilly; dunce
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To: ilgipper

Good idea. Put them both in the same bill and let Obozo sign it or veto it.


61 posted on 01/30/2014 9:44:07 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Haven't you lost enough freedoms? Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: NKP_Vet

.... Gee ..... I’m no expert .... but wouldn’t the raising of minimum wage also demand a wage hike to union and other skilled jobs which are tied to a percentage above the minimum wage ...... thus creating a domino effect of increases in pricing, cost of living, inflation and other issues thus negating any ground made by increasing minimum wage. Wouldn’t it just create a vicious never ending circle/cycle.


62 posted on 01/30/2014 9:44:27 AM PST by R_Kangel ( "A Nation of Sheep ..... Will Beget ..... a Nation Ruled by Wolves.")
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To: NKP_Vet
The minimun wage is a multipler in all Big Union contracts.

This is not about the poor it is being done to quiet the Big Unions


63 posted on 01/30/2014 9:45:55 AM PST by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your teaching is my delight.)
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To: TexasCajun

She was young enough to be his granddaughter. A few weeks after he paid off millions in a sexual harrassment settlement, he was trying to sell one of his children’s books on his show. He’s a real dirtbag.


64 posted on 01/30/2014 9:46:23 AM PST by NKP_Vet ("I got a good Christian raisin', and 8th grade education, aint no need ya'll treatin' me this way")
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To: SoFloFreeper
He is a populist.

That's exactly what he is. Nothing more.

65 posted on 01/30/2014 9:46:34 AM PST by tsowellfan (www.cafenetamerica.com)
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To: NKP_Vet

What would really freak the democrats out is if the GOP skipped past $10, and came out strongly in favor of a $12 minimum wage.


66 posted on 01/30/2014 9:48:19 AM PST by proudpapa (Scott Walker - 2016)
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To: SoFloFreeper
O’Reilly is not conservative. He is a populist.

I see him more as a straddle-the-fence opportunist.

67 posted on 01/30/2014 9:48:43 AM PST by RckyRaCoCo (Shall Not Be Infringed)
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To: NKP_Vet

O’Reilly believes in one thing - ratings.


68 posted on 01/30/2014 9:50:28 AM PST by hometoroost
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To: cuban leaf

Same here. I usually catch him by chance....usually channel surfing. Last night I couldn’t find Finding Bigfoot, Bizarre Foods was a rerun, and nothing that caught my eye on my favorite channel, The Military Channel. So....I tuned into the Factor last night for a few minutes and BOR was doing his crazy rant on how the GOP needs to wise up and raise the minimum wage. FNC has some high quality folks, people like Meghan Kelly, Brett Baier, Britt Hume, George Will, Chris Wallace, even some reasonable Democrats like Evan Bayh. BOR is Ted Baxter on steroids.


69 posted on 01/30/2014 9:51:21 AM PST by Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
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To: proudpapa

I think the GOP should go whole hog and put forth a bill stating that the minimum wage should be exactly what the president’s salary is. See how many dems support it.


70 posted on 01/30/2014 9:52:17 AM PST by Two Kids' Dad (((( 0bama's words are the distraction to the destruction ))))
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To: NKP_Vet
I don't watch this a-hole but if I were to go along with his premise a mandatory reduction or cap on HIS salary can AND should be mandated. His salary is what drives up the cost of Porsches, Audis, homes etc.

Now THAT would make items cheaper for the proletariat

71 posted on 01/30/2014 9:53:15 AM PST by Cyman (We have to pass it to see what's in it= definition of stool sample)
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To: NKP_Vet

My argument would be “it is overwhelmingly, abundantly clear that eventually you guys are going to cave on this anyway. So let’s just get it over with now instead of letting the MSM bludgeon us about the heads and ankles for the next six months while we pretend to feign outrage”.

A very unsatisfying piece of Realpolitik, to be sure.


72 posted on 01/30/2014 9:56:01 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: umgud

73 posted on 01/30/2014 9:56:20 AM PST by Dalberg-Acton
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To: cuban leaf

A couple of months ago Sara Palin came on his show. She tries to stay off because of his talking down to people. But for months he was saying she was scared to come on his show because he would ask her “the hard questions”. Well she had enough of being called scared so she decided to go on his show. Instead of him being the loudmouth he normally is and talking over her he “oohed and ahhed and blushed his way through the interview. He looked like an idiot. I guess he actually thought Sarah Palin would flirt with him. What an ass. I got nauseated watching the him. He had a big grin on his face the entire time he was talking to her. Really disgusting.


74 posted on 01/30/2014 9:56:27 AM PST by NKP_Vet ("I got a good Christian raisin', and 8th grade education, aint no need ya'll treatin' me this way")
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To: NKP_Vet

Illegal aliens thank you, 0’Duncely!


75 posted on 01/30/2014 9:58:15 AM PST by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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To: NKP_Vet

They don’t call him The Lecherous Leprechaun for nothing.


76 posted on 01/30/2014 10:00:53 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: cotton1706

Ditto that


77 posted on 01/30/2014 10:02:40 AM PST by Osage Orange (I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it.)
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To: NKP_Vet

Bilious steps in it again.


78 posted on 01/30/2014 10:04:16 AM PST by jimt (Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.)
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To: NKP_Vet

I agree. Raise it.

Then sit back and watch the economy collapse even faster.

Let the Dems own it


79 posted on 01/30/2014 10:04:57 AM PST by Lorianne (fedgov, taxporkmoney)
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To: NKP_Vet

i just don’t watch him any more


80 posted on 01/30/2014 10:07:27 AM PST by ncpatriot
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