Game show host tells minimum wage workers to "Earn your way in this world"

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“In the ’50s in Hollywood if you spoke for communism, you were blackballed,” Woolery recalled. “In the ’90s and 2000s in Hollywood if you speak for communism, you’re rewarded for it. But if you speak against communism, you’re blackballed.”

According to the former Wheel of Fortune host, liberal policies like increasing the minimum wage to $15 an hour would have dire consequences on the U.S. economy.

“Most people don’t realize that it’s not a good thing, it’s a bad thing,” he opined. “I think it’s the liberals’ job to take the simple and make it as complex as possible. I think it’s the conservatives’ job — and we don’t do a very good job of it — to take the complex and make it as simple as possible.”

“The things that sound really good — this knee-jerk reaction to 15 bucks an hour — my son is 20 years old, he would love to make $15 an hour,” Woolery continued, arguing that McDonald’s would replace workers with robots instead of paying a higher minimum wage.

“You’ve got to earn your way in this world, and if it costs them $15 a hour and you’re a small business and it ruins the business, what good does it do?”

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