

And what they say the Minimum Wage, says a LOT about what they think about the value of workers.



Boehner and McConnell respond to Obama

CBS Evening News -- Jan 22, 2015



MCCONNELL: We added more debt during the Obama years than all the presidents from George Washington down to George Bush. The last thing we need to do to these young people is add more debt and giving away free tuition strikes me as something we can't afford.

PELLEY: I'll put that down as dead as well. Increasing the federal minimum wage?

BOEHNER: Bad idea.

PELLEY: Dead?

BOEHNER: It's a bad idea. I've had every kind of rotten job you can imagine growing up and getting myself through school, and I wouldn't have had a chance at half those jobs if the federal government had kept imposing higher minimum wage. Low income jobs help people get skills and they can climb the economic ladder.

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