Ep. 256 The Truth About the Fast Food Protests
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2014
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Diana Furchtgott-Roth of the Manhattan Institute's Economics21 discusses the economics of the fast-food protests and the minimum wage, as well as who was really behind all the demonstrations.
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| 0:00.0 | In a world of Democrats, there will be time for them to make profits. |
| 0:05.2 | Now's not that time. |
| 0:06.4 | And Republicans. |
| 0:07.9 | I've abandoned free market principles to save the free market system. |
| 0:12.2 | You need a voice of liberty. |
| 0:15.0 | Look no further. |
| 0:16.8 | You've found it. |
| 0:18.4 | Tom Woods. |
| 0:21.2 | Beware, citizen. |
| 0:22.9 | You are now departing from the world of allowable opinion. |
| 0:26.9 | The Tom Woods Show. |
| 0:34.0 | Welcome, everybody. |
| 0:35.1 | It's Friday, October 3, 2014. A little bit under the weather today, but as always, I am at your service. Monday through Friday with your daily serving of Liberty Education here on the Tom Woods Show. Make sure and subscribe on iTunes or Stitcher, which you can easily do at Tom Woods Radio.com. We're talking minimum wage today, |
| 0:56.2 | minimum wage, the fast food protests, the demand for $15 an hour. These issues are not going away. |
| 1:04.0 | We're going to talk about the economics behind all this, of course, but we're also going to |
| 1:08.5 | talk about who was really behind these fast food protests. |
| 1:13.5 | Is it normal? |
| 1:14.4 | Is it common for people to walk off the job and demand a 100% raise? |
| 1:20.8 | If it's not, that should make us wonder what's really going on here. |
| 1:25.0 | And I can think of no one better to help us answer that question |
| 1:28.3 | than my guest today, Diana Furch got Roth. Now, stay tuned after my conversation with Diana for |
| 1:35.2 | a big announcement I have, or at least it's something I'm excited about, whether you think |
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