Steve Largent: “I want to talk about the three strikes of the issue at hand, minimum wage. Strike one, it is bad policy. There really is…”

“I want to talk about the three strikes of the issue at hand, minimum wage. Strike one, it is bad policy. There really is no serious debate that when you increase the cost of labor, you decrease the number of jobs. There really is no serious debate about that anywhere, except here in this Congress. Strike two, it is bad politics. The people who really take it in the shorts on this are small businessmen. The people that are creating 80 percent of the jobs that we have in this country, they are the ones that are going to take it in the shorts when we increase the minimum wage. There is no debate about that either. That is strike two. Strike three, it is bad PR. Do you want to know why there is such a high level of cynicism about the way Washington works across this country? It is because Washington continues to say one thing, and do another, and that is exactly what we are about to vote on the Riggs amendment. Vote ``no'' on the Riggs amendment.”