The craziness in Florida is not getting any better it's getting worst. Could it be the heat that is causing this mind-numbing disconnect? Rep. Bill Young (R-Indian Shores District 13) couldn't be more out of touch. The 81 year old who is seeking his 22nd term has forgotten what it's like to struggle. He's so arrogant and confident that he's condescending to his constituents. The Tampa Bay Times shows this exchange with a Florida man telling him that he will not support an increase in minimum wage and then telling him to get a job.
When a man, who identified himself as Pepe, asked Young whether he supported hiking the minimum wage to $10 an hour, the longtime congressman from Indian Shores had this to say: Get a job.
The man told Young that (Congressman) Jesse Jackson Jr. is passing around a bill to increase the minimum wage to $10 an hour. Would Young support that, he asked.
"Probably not," Young says on the video.
The man countered: "It's $10 bucks an hour. It would give us a living wage."
Young countered, "How about getting a job. Why do you want that benefit? Get a job."
"I have a job, but it's not enough to get by on," the man responded.
His retired constituents need to be reminded that Young has voted twice to end Medicare as we know it and turn it into a voucher system.
He will surely win the Republican primary and then will face Jessica Erhlich, Democrat.
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