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Related: About this forumTYT: Bill O'Reilly Clueless On Minimum Wage Issue
"Fox's Bill O'Reilly downplayed the impact of raising the minimum wage, claiming only an"infinitesimal" number of people would be impacted, and ignoring the 27.8 million Americans that would benefit from a raise in the minimum wage.
During the January 20 State of the Union address, President Obama urged members of Congress to raise the minimum wage, saying those "who still refuse[] to raise the minimum wage, I say this: If you truly believe you could work full-time and support a family on less than $15,000 a year, go try it. If not, vote to give millions of the hardest working people in America a raise."
On the January 21 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, host Bill O'Reilly and network contributor Eric Shawn undermined President Obama's minimum wage initiative, and diminished the number of Americans that would be impacted by raising the minimum wage. O'Reilly asserted that only "a very low number" of people make "minimum wage anyways," claiming that the number of people who would be impacted by the change would be "infinitesimal" and saying Obama has been "misleading everybody" by insisting a raise would have a big effect:"
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TYT: Bill O'Reilly Clueless On Minimum Wage Issue (Original Post)
WhoIsNumberNone
Jan 2015
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Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)1. It's a real window on Bill's audience...
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)2. BS
deutsey
(20,166 posts)3. You could've just stopped at "clueless" n/t
bulloney
(4,113 posts)4. Stop! You had me at "Bill O'Reilly clueless."
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)5. They believe what they want to believe. In another era they would be justifying Indian genocide
or slavery.
daleanime
(17,796 posts)6. K&R....
I always amazed that some one who believes that helping a few thousand (the rich) benefits every one, but thinks helping millions (poor and working class) would have almost no effect.
Talk about twisted logic.