Rich CEO Tells 'Daily Show' The 'Mentally Retarded' Are Maaaybe Worth $2 An Hour

[Miles Archer]

Video @ the URL below.

Rich CEO Tells 'Daily Show' The 'Mentally Retarded' Are Maaaybe Worth $2 An Hour



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/29/the-daily-show-minimum-wage_n_4688134.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular

But what we'd really like you to focus on is the following exchange (at around 4:15) between correspondent Samantha Bee and Peter Schiff, the extremely conservative CEO of Euro Pacific Capital, who FREAKING HATES the minimum wage:

Schiff: "If we eliminated the minimum wage law then individuals would be free to accept jobs at whatever pay they're able to get."

Bee: "Paint me a picture of a person whose work would be worth $2 an hour."

Schiff: "You know somebody who might be? Maybe somebody who is, uh, you know, what's the politically correct word? Uh, you know, uh, for, uh, you know, mentally retarded?"

[LuvNewcastle]

1. This must be the week for honesty from our wonderful 1%.

Maybe this guy can make a Human Worth Chart for us, starting with guys like him and numbering on down to those he considers the most worthless of us all. I can't wait to see it.

[hobbit709]

2. If he got paid what he's worth as a human being, he'd be working for free.

[surrealAmerican]

7. No, he's not "worthless to society" ...

... he's "costly to society". He should be paying us for his "work".

[Jefferson23]

12. +1 n/t

[Vattel]

3. Pure scum. Unfortunately, the scum often rises to the top.

[pnwmom]

4. If that's the case, then he should be happy to pay higher taxes to help support them,

since they obviously can't be blamed for their inability to make a living wage.

[LuvNewcastle]

5. Makes perfect sense to me.

[LittleGirl]

17. which is exactly how I feel as well

thanks!

[alcibiades_mystery]

27. That would be true only if you DIDN'T believe they should just, uh, what's the politically

correct way to put this, uh, er, uh, DIE.

Many conservatives would answer your point by noting that perhaps people who can't make a living wage in a market shouldn't, well, er, uh, well, live.

[pnwmom]

28. And it kills me that many of them consider themselves pro-life. n/t

[alcibiades_mystery]

29. They're absolute scum, needless to say

[DaveJ]

6. Great video but I doubt reich wingers would watch it to the end

It should have started with that and expounded on how they want to turn people into a cogs in a corporate machine. Billions of small cogs get paid $2/hr with a few large cogs.

I'd rather do business with someone who thinks and acts like a human than someone who looks at people these corporate thugs do.

As to the "mentally retarded" statement, this guy seems like he could benefit from psychiatric help himself, since he seems to be dedicating his life to the disservice of those around him.

[proReality]

8. He's a textbook psychopath! n/t

[Alkene]

30. +1

"The study of the psychopath reveals an individual who is incapable of feeling guilt, remorse or empathy for their actions. They are generally cunning, manipulative and know the difference between right and wrong but dismiss it as applying to them.
They are incapable of normal emotions such as love, generally react without considering the consequences of their actions and show extreme egocentric and narcissistic behavior."

-Evil Eyes
by Cherylann Thomas

[Heather MC]

9. I do believe that is the Current Rate GoodWill Pays Special Needs Employees

Peter Schiff maybe a royal dick, but that policy of underpaying special needs citzens is already in place

[DaveJ]

14. Interesting. That policy needs to change.

I didn't know about this, so I read up on it a bit. It stems from an (archaic) 1938 law.

After weighing both sides of the issue, I'd say everyone should get paid the same for an equivalent job. My reasoning is the same reasoning for living wage in general. A business is not successful if it can't afford to pay its employees well. If a business can't afford to pay its employees well, it is hurting the community, not helping.

Those who support Goodwill's policy say that it gives people the opportunity to be proud of having a place to go and work. That doesn't make sense. I would say that it would make them proud to know they are getting paid what others are getting paid doing the same job.

[mrmpa]

15. I really dislike Goodwill............

While attending college I worked in a group home for intellectually disabled adults. They all worked. Those that were higher functioning worked as hotel maids and high school custodians. They worked about 20 hours a week and made minimum wage + the woman at the hotel made tips. This extra money toward going out to movies, eating out with friends and clothing.

Those that worked at Goodwill and a few other non-profits, often brought home a 2 week, 40 hour pay check of $25-30. They had very little for themselves.

[niyad]

24. when we were trying to stop goodwill from selling to kum-n-go in our neighborhood, I learned

that some of the developmentally disabled at goodwill made as little as TWENTY TWO CENTS an hour. the ceo claimed that this was acceptable, based on the rate of work they did. from that moment on, I have not stepped into a goodwill store, nor will I ever donate to them either.

[mrmpa]

35. You've got it.............

I donate and shop at a St. Vincent DePaul. A few years ago my brother was in the hospital for 7 weeks and had about 12 surgeries. The St. Vincent DePaul Society at his Church during the time he was in the hospital and his return home, made sure there was meals on the table for his family, they gave them gift cards for the grocery store. When he was home someone visited every day, because his wife and kids were all at work.

I had a friend (now deceased) who was an attorney. He had an older couple with an intellectually disabled son, as his clients. They asked his assistance with future plans for their son. He got the son in a program at Goodwill Industries (to me this word denotes "profit". The first paycheck the son brought home was for the net amount of $1. Goodwill charged for "training fees', lunches (the son took his lunch to work every day) and assorted other charges. The couple removed their son from Goodwill.

[Octafish]

10. Someday, he'll be able to design his offspring in a Lab...

...and the NAZIs will have won.

[spanone]

11. let's bring back child labor, eh schiff? we could pay them like 50 cents an hour?

[Jefferson23]

13. Never enough money to be made for some people...parasite is what he is. n/t

[Lunacee_2013]

16. Do they not understand that no one can support themselves on that low of a wage;

and that, one way or another, people will get the money they need to survive? Either they'll use welfare programs or they will steal or beg on street corners to get what they need to live. Especially if they have children to support. I know most parents would do almost anything to feed their kids.

People are not just going to curl up and die because the 1%ers don't want to pay others a living wage. In fact, in the past when the wealth gap got to wide, things often got very ugly for the rich.

The 1% should remember that a race to the bottom usually ends with everyone down and out and on the floor.

[niyad]

25. since he isn't paying taxes to support those programs, paying substandard wages has no effect

on him at all--at least to his greedy way of thinking.

[Lunacee_2013]

38. Well, not until it gets so bad that

people start robbing houses and breaking into cars. I know the rich usually live in gated communities, but now-a-days a lot of crime also happens online. You don't even need a gun anymore to clean someone out! Not that I'm endorsing that kind of thing, but like I said up-thread, people aren't just gonna give up and starve. And considering how the 1%ers treat the rest of the world, they're going to run out of places to hide. I don't think that just because they pay others to protect them (especially if they pay them shit wages and force them to fight against their friends and family), that they'll stay safe forever. Eventually, if things don't change, they will end up pissing-off the bottom 99% of us so much that there's no telling what could happen to them. Then it's just history repeating itself.

Plus, if the rest of the world hates them, who's going to do all their work? It's not so fun being rich if you have no friends and you have to cook your own meals and clean your own home. Or homes, since they're so damn greedy....

[Mnpaul]

18. Schiff is already whining about it

Straight into victim mode.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/02/peter-schiff/i-knew-i-was-walking-into-a-trap/

He knew he was walking into a trap but still made it happen. I guess we can add his interview skills to the list of things that should pay $2 hr.

[niyad]

26. a "four-hour discussion"? really? does anybody know if the "daily show" really has four-hour taped

discussions with their guests?

[HughBeaumont]

32. "Businesses are not charities"????

Uh, Petey . . . it kind of appears that they ARE . . . just not to who NEEDS it most.

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1840&bih=921&q=CEO+compensation&oq=CEO+compensation&gs_l=img.3..0l2j0i24l8.1152.5374.0.5850.26.15.5.6.6.0.146.1086.13j2.15.0....0...1ac.1.32.img..3.23.817.aENUCEOpVAM#imgdii=_

[toby jo]

19. Imagine what it's like living under his skin

nothing hits you, nothing dawns on you, nothing expands. Never. Just a shell that counts the universe around him, like a constant bean counter.

[valerief]

20. That's what these assholes think of us and they've stopped pretending they don't. nt

[reformist2]

21. His entire life is centered on a fear of giving money to poor people, causing hyperinflation.

So while he tells his clients that gold at $1200 an ounce is "cheap," he can't bear the thought of a "retarded" worker making $10 an hour.... even at that wage, that person would be lucky to save enough to be able to buy a single ounce of gold every year.

The irony is lost on him, I'm sure.

[jwirr]

22. I know of a community that has the developmentally disabled running their entire recycling center

except for the supervisor. They do all the work. They are worth much more than $2.00 but probably not to this fool. Because he does not know what he is talking about. In that same workshop are weavers who make rugs on a loom that they sell for $30-40 each. Some of them go out into the community to do janitorial work, yard work, scoop snow for those who cannot and work in cafes. The community sees them as a valued part of the economy.

[Jefferson23]

23. +100. n/t

[KentuckyWoman]

31. OMG Peter Schiff - You are a lazy idiot.

You were too fucking lazy to pop open the Google machine and find out who Samantha Bee is before agreeing to the interview? Can't even bother to farm it out to one of the dozens of office staff at your disposal?

Dumbass.

It's unbelievable someone trust you with an entire company. I wouldn't trust you to follow behind my dog with old walmart bag.....

Dumbass...

[libodem]

33. Wonder what a

Fellon is worth or people of color? Are the worth less as humans too? Gawd. These people.

[kestrel91316]

34. They want ALL of us working for $2/hr.

[CFLDem]

37. Yup

And they'd tell us to feel good about it because now we can compete with third world nations.

[kestrel91316]

41. "If y'all would just work for $1.95/hr, we'd be happy to move all the factories back to the US."

[moondust]

39. Or less.

10 out of 10 vampires approve of eliminating all protections for their victims...in the interest of FREEDOM!!!!!

[bemildred]

36. So how come he gets so much? nt

[Skittles]

40. what an assole

[Initech]

42. What a worthless piece of shit.

[mike_c]

43. rec'd for visibility...

Schiff: "If we eliminated the minimum wage law then individuals would be free to accept jobs at whatever pay they're able to get."

That is pure evil, right there. Serfs is serfs, so fuck 'em. Freedom to starve, in the land of opportunity.

[frwrfpos]

44. this greedy asshole can go straight to hell

fuck this guy