Carolla: Minimum Wage Earners Should Not Have Two Kids

President Obama’s call to raise the minimum wage to $9 an hour provoked not just disagreement from “comedian” Adam Carolla and Bill O’Reilly but the kind of venom and scorn for struggling Americans that Marie Antoinette would have loved. Carolla actually argued that anyone on minimum wage who has children and then uses “our roads” and “our schools” is some kind of good-for-nothing moocher. O’Reilly didn’t challenge that but argued that nobody “willing to work hard” earns minimum wage.

As I’ve previously posted, the working poor are suffering in America. And there are economic forces arrayed against them. But fat cats O’Reilly and Carolla are not only disinterested but full of derision for those not fortunate enough to be earning the big bucks like they do.

O’Reilly’s disdain for the poor was evident just from the fact that he would have presented Carolla as an expert on the subject. Believe me, struggling to make ends meet is no joke to anyone in the midst of it. But O’Reilly quipped that Carolla has “some expertise in this minimum wage deal” because he was once denied a job at Taco Bell. It turns out Carolla is even more of an “expert” because after that rejection he worked at McDonald’s “for $2.90 an hour.” Hinting, of course, that $9 an hour is just a ridiculous extravagance. Just pay no attention to how much purchasing power the minimum wage has lost since in the meanwhile. Neither O’Reilly nor “expert” Carolla did.

Carolla argued that it was a good thing that he hated that job so much and how little he was paid. “If I loved it and I was getting rich, I would still be there.” Which is all the proof you need, ladies and gentlemen, that everyone should suffer even more than he did.

But Carolla wasn’t through:

By the way, the point that everyone is missing in Obama’s speech is not raising the minimum wage, it’s what is the family who’s making minimum wage, what are they doing having two kids? That’s insane. You can’t have two kids when you make minimum wage. By the way, who’s not paying their fair share? I would argue that people that are making minimum wage and having two kids and sending those kids to our schools and using our roads and everything else aren’t paying their fair share.

O’Reilly had a different view:

If you’re willing to work hard, you’re not gonna make minimum wage. If you want to paint a house – there’s a lot of things you can do. Drive a cab. …So all of this is hyperbole as it always is.

Then, without a thought to how economic conditions have changed since these two baby boomers were working in school, they agreed, “You’re supposed to work your way up. (O’Reilly)” and “You’re supposed to be uncomfortable. (Carolla)”

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Patrick Murphy commented 2013-02-27 14:16:51 -0500 · Flag

@ bemused Carolla supports both contreception and abortion.

Pierre Cloutier commented 2013-02-23 10:15:22 -0500 · Flag

So after condemning so-called “Welfare Queens”, O’Reilly shows his contempt for the hard working working poor. Charming?! I’ve met those people and many of them work damn hard with grinding boring jobs that pay lousy and suck in so many ways but are necessary. They work sometimes two or three of these miserable jobs. But then O"Reilly Carolla let down their guard and show their contempt. How dare they call such people mouchers

bemused commented 2013-02-23 06:38:10 -0500 · Flag

Bill’s sanctimonious condemnation of people who have kids sounds awfully weird even for him. As I doubt that he could be recommending contraception or abortion, I guess he means they should give up sex: not quite what the dogma-masters would recommend.

Also seems he thinks that people who had their kids at a time when they had a good job should have known better and desisted because they should have known they would lose their job and hence not be entitled to have kids.

Makes my head spin, he does.

Robert Urban commented 2013-02-22 20:04:08 -0500 · Flag

Bill says “..there’s a lot of things you can do. Drive a cab. …”.
Yes Billidiot. That’s what ALL New York City (the city you work in) minimum wage earners should do. Hell, the only things they need is a license (around $100), a cab (around $30,000), a wooden dowel type seat cover (around $25), an Air freshener ($3 as most cabs I have been in reek, as the driver basically LIVES in it and can not even take time off to shower), and one other thing…..(Rick Perry impersonation starts HERE) I can’t remember the other one… license, cab, air freshener, Seatcover… WHOOPS…. Oh yea….NOW I remember the other one. ONE MILLION FUCKIN DOLLARS for a medallion. What a jackass.

Just Google:
Why taxi medallions cost $1 million?

Anne-claire Souza commented 2013-02-22 15:35:56 -0500 · Flag

@dd the more this clown opens his mouth ,the more people will run away from his phony propaganda clown show. Start the parade.

d d commented 2013-02-22 14:34:43 -0500 · Flag

O’Reilly didn’t challenge that but argued that nobody “willing to work hard” earns minimum wage.
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WTF?! Does the elitist BOR ever actually get out into the REAL world? If BOR would get a clue, he’d find out that there’s lots of hard-working folks pulling down minimum wage. Give me an effin’ break. I know a guy who got laid off from his non-union manufacturing job and hasn’t been able to find another job that fits his years of experience/skill set so he is now working his ass off doing 2 minimum wage jobs to feed/clothe his family (because corporations would rather pay cheap labor overseas to do the work of good Americans). I guarantee he puts in more hard-working hours taking care of his family than does BOR – yet BOR has the nerve to declare that if you earn minimum wage that means you aren’t willing to work hard?! Unbelievable.

Hey, BOR (and those of his ilk), keep spewing your out-of-touch rants and keep running down the poor, the minorities and those that voted for Obama (such as BOR’s and Cain’s insipid idea that Obama voters are nothing more than low information voters who have been fooled by Obama so they can get free sh!t). You’re doing nothing but alienating the majority of voters with your propaganda and misguided insults. America’s Dems/progressives say “thank you” for so being so willing to showcase your biases and straight-up stupidity.

Thx4 Fish commented 2013-02-22 13:08:29 -0500 · Flag

Another mindless pundit ‘interview’ whose only purpose is to attack the poor by suggesting they lack intellect, a work ethic, and common sense.

Imagine if, for this topic, Bill interviewed someone actually earning minimum wage today-rather than a rich person who did so 25 years ago? I don’t think Bill could handle it. He’d have to cut their mike, for sure.

sandman1 commented 2013-02-22 12:35:23 -0500 · Flag

O’Reilly knowing anyone “willing to work hard” just strikes me as ‘Faith Based’

Anne-claire Souza commented 2013-02-22 11:34:20 -0500 · Flag

Words fail me.

truman commented 2013-02-22 10:10:36 -0500 · Flag

After listening to this crap, I believe that D-list washed-up “comedians” and hatemongering cable news anchors should not have any children.

Visitor 55 commented 2013-02-22 09:04:42 -0500 · Flag

hasbeen corolla grunted, “what are they doing having two kids? That’s insane. You can’t have two kids when you make minimum wage.”

Really? You can’t? Is minimum wage like “legitimate rape” where a woman’s body shuts all that down? (eyeroll)

And I wonder what gave hasbeen the idea that he has the right to dictate to anyone how many kids they can or can’t have? Or is he saying he’s pro-choice and he supports that part of “Obamacare” where insurance companies pay 100% for birth control?

Visitor 55 commented 2013-02-22 08:49:26 -0500 · Flag

POS borally oinked, "If you’re willing to work hard, you’re not gonna make minimum wage. If you want to paint a house – there’s a lot of things you can do. Drive a cab. …So all of this is hyperbole as it always is. "

POS borally’s “Willing to work hard” is about as stupid as batshitcrazy beckkk’s “if you don’t support Bush’s tax cuts for the rich, then you’re never gonna be rich!” Nice bumpersticker material, but completely empty and stupid. No wonder ignorant neocons and teabaggers swallow their shit.

Stupid, stupid POS borally! It takes money to be a house painter, dumbass! And house painters don’t make much over minimum wage after expenses. And a cab driver needs a Class C drivers license and extra insurance, I’m sure. Those aren’t free.

Working hard does not automatically guarantee that a person will make more than minimum wage, as POS borally implies. But when you live in a Horatio Alger-esque fantasy world like POS borally does, then it’s easy to pretend that everyone can be rich if they’re just “willing to work hard” enough.

mlp ! commented 2013-02-22 07:44:37 -0500 · Flag

It’s amazing how all these ‘small-government libertarians’ such as Carolla want more government enforcement of the poor and brown people.

aussie onlooker commented 2013-02-22 04:31:58 -0500 · Flag

yer, and sitting on ya fat arse in a cushy seat in a t v studio, spewing hatred and bile is hard work bill.
ya never done a hard days work in your whole miserable bloated life.

Frank Howard commented 2013-02-22 00:30:48 -0500 · Flag

I could not resist watching part of Hannity tonight with Herman Cain’s debut…Herman is really drinking the Kool-Aid!

Just for fun, take a look at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gudJgbvBnmo
at approximately 1:30. The whole argument about passing debt to our children and grandchildren was being said over 60 years ago…I’m the child or grandchild now…the conservatives need some new material…

Average American Patriot commented 2013-02-21 23:00:51 -0500 · Flag

For Robert Urban. He was asking about how to use the basic formatting text features of this post box.

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Find “Text Formatting”

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Average American Patriot commented 2013-02-21 22:56:17 -0500 · Flag

If you’re willing to work hard, you’re not gonna make minimum wage. If you want to paint a house – there’s a lot of things you can do. Drive a cab. …So all of this is hyperbole as it always is.

Yes, you could always open a lemonade stand or loofah or falafel sitter, Billdo.

But if you think Billdo’s story is really great, last month Adam’s mom basically also earnt $7990 workin fourty hours a month an their house and their neighbor’s step-mother`s neighbour done this for 9-months and got paid over $7990 in there spare time from their computer. the information on this link…

All while comfortably watching the Fox gNOpig Propaganda Network.

doors17 commented 2013-02-21 22:52:55 -0500 · Flag

What about those who already have two kids or more and lost their jobs due to outsourcing so corporate executives can make their mega bonu$e$? I know many like that and are over the age of 50 and they can’t even find a minimum wage job because their age.

Would Bill and his idiotic guest then be in favor of abortion? They’ll soon learn that being pro-choice does not mean pro-abortion.

mj - the same one commented 2013-02-21 22:24:30 -0500 · Flag

Carolla: Minimum Wage Earners Should Not Have Two Kids

Why, Adam — that sounds a lot like China’s “one child” policy.

Why do you hate America, Adam?

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Kent Brockman commented 2013-02-21 21:27:15 -0500 · Flag

Fux Nuze sez

The answer to people leaching offa da Rest Of Us is (get ready) – Birth Control!!!

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