On his radio program today, Glenn Beck speculated that efforts to increase the minimum wage are really just part of an effort by progressives like President Obama and Hillary Clinton to foment social unrest and revolution.
After co-host Stu Burguiere told Beck that the real goal of the progressives who first purposed the creation of the minimum wage was to price the unskilled underclass completely out of the labor market in order to control and eliminate them from society, Beck realized that efforts today to raise the minimum wage share a similarly dastardly agenda.
“All revolutions need the youth,” Beck said, arguing that progressives are encouraging all students to go to college in order to saddle them with debt which they will then be unable to pay off because they can’t find jobs. At the same time, immigrants and others in the “unskilled labor force” will also be unable to find jobs because the minimum wage increase has eliminated entry-level positions.
“Then you have a whole population that is ripe for unrest. You have a whole population ready for revolution,” he said. “I would find that hard to believe that you would have somebody like Hillary Clinton want to do that, but she is a lover of Saul Alinsky and that’s Saul Alinsky one hundred percent. But you look at somebody like Barack Obama who sat there and listened to the ramblings of literally a madman — Jeremiah Wright — there is a possibility that he knows exactly what he’s doing.”
“They’re only trying to raise this minimum wage not because they believe it is going to help people,” Beck declared, “but because it will lead to unrest”:
