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Apparently, yesterday’s episode was one of the most heated shows that we’ve ever done. We got a lot of comments, our first threat and a few people sending emails, telling me politely that I went over the line yesterday. And although they understand, they feel like I went too far.So, naturally, I figured the best thing we could do was to continue the conversation today.Actually, I want to clarify my position because we had two main issues of contention yesterday. The first one being the Michael Brown shooting and the second one being the minimum wage. And so I’d like to address those in much more detail today.Just as a side note, there’s not a lot going on, the U.S. markets are showing up 60 to 70 points up already and this is a relatively slow news day in terms of whats happening.In the stack, we’ve got some stuff about same sex marriage that’s going on, Obamacare cancellations, so there’s some stuff we can get into a little later.-----If you would like to email Jason and discuss anything on the show, email him at Jason@TheLiveShow.TVYou can also use the hashtag #theliveshowFollow Jason on Twitter: www.Twitter.com/TheLiveShowTVFollow Us on Facebook: www.Facebook.com/TheLiveShowTV-----If you are really enjoying the show and would like to support what we're doing at The Live Show, please consider donating to our cause. 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And I got some emails from some folks who weren’t very happy with me.And, what I want to make very clear is I did not make this about race. Never in my entire argument have I made the Michael Brown shooting about race. I have discussed ad nauseam how others have made it about race. But what I’ve said since the very beginning was ‘let’s look at the facts of the case’.In fact, factually we know nothing. We don’t know what happened.We know that there is a Black teen who’s dead. You can even take out the Black part and say there is a teen that is dead who was shot by a cop. I said let’s wait until the facts come out and yesterday, we looked at the facts as we know them. The FBI came in, they did a full forensic investigation, and from what we understand, we can start to put the pieces together.I still don’t know whether or not Michael Brown should have been shot or not. All of the evidence suggests that a fight ensued in the police officer’s squad car, that Michael Brown was shot while wrestling with the officer in the car. That he got out, the officer pursued him, and he was shot several more times while facing the officer.But in terms of my opinion about Michael Brown, this has nothing to do about race.We know he was a thug. We have video tape of him not 15 minutes before he was shot committing robbery, robbing a local convenience store. The kid was not a saint.He’s not somebody that was top shelf character. And I’m not going to have the argument and racist debate. This has nothing to do with race. It has to do with there was a young thug who robbed a convenience store and then later was shot.The question is, what happened over the course of that shooting? And all of the evidence suggests that he was shot trying to wrestle away a gun from the officer.Now, one might say, well you can’t trust what the FBI says.They are the police. They are part of the problem so you can’t trust anything that they say.Well, my response to that is, if you can’t trust anything, then nothing will ever be good enough. No amount of evidence, no amount of support, will convince you that Michael Brown shot in self defense. You can choose to believe that but recognize that you’re doing so in the face of overwhelming evidence against that fact.What frustrates me more than anything, is the fact that I came in yesterday, presented you with the evidence, made my opinions based on that, made them known to you. And for some reason, I’m now looked at as the racist. If you are presented with overwhelming evidence, contrary to your belief about what happened, and you say it doesn’t matter. All that matters is that the kid was Black, the officer was White, and that’s all you need to know.I submit to you, how racist do you have to be to think that way?If all you see is the color of everyone’s skin, is that not racism?You know, we’ve talked about Martin Luther King earlier on this show that was somewhat unrelated to this. I was more so talking about putting people into groups. And I said, Martin Luther King fought, ultimately died in support of his belief where he said ‘I have a dream that one day I will be judged not by the color of my skin but by the content of my character’.Ladies and gentlemen, if you look into your heart, you need to ask yourself, am I judging this case on the content of his character?Or am I judging this case by the color of his skin?This has nothing to do with race. The only people making this about race are those folks who are so racist, who are so overwhelmed with the racial strife in America that they can’t see past the color of that officer’s skin.We also got a comment after the show because I talked about Republicans and conservatives constantly being berated for their racial views. And I said, ‘this is utterly ridiculous’.I got a comment on Tweet that said, I didn’t realize that it was a Republican that freed the slaves.   And I thought, how can that be? Maybe this individual is an immigrant or from another part of the world. But I thought, how poorly educated is our population? How brain washed are they to not understand the history of the Republican Party? And the history of conservatism?Now, keep in mind, I am not a Republican. I’m a registered Republican just because I’m not registered Independent. I want to affect the conservative movement in America so I’m registered as a Republican. But I am a staunch Libertarian, which puts me at odds with the Republican Party on a lot of issues. It does not put me at odds with the issues of slavery. Or the issue of affirmative action. Or the issue of anti discrimination. That puts me squarely in the camp of conservatives, which is the right side of history.And for those of you who don’t realize, for those of you who are African Americans, who have been supporters of the Democratic Party over your entire lives because you believe they are the ones looking after you, I just want to share with you some facts about the Democratic Party.When the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which would end segregation nationwide came to Congress for a vote, a number of Senators threatened to filibuster that bill.80% of the Senators that threatened to filibuster the Civil Rights Act were Democrats. In fact, only 63% of them actually voted for the Civil Rights Act in 1964, did you know this?How did the Republican members of Congress vote concerning the Civil Rights Act of 1964? A total of 82% of Republicans in Congress voted to end segregation. You had more Republicans in Congress vote to end segregation in America than you had Democrats.When they talk about desegregating the schools in the South, it was the Democrats that opposed the desegregation of schools. It was a Democrat Governor that opposed letting that girl who was standing with armed guards from entering that school.I don’t care what you’re talking about, whether you’re talking about ending slavery, ending oppression, giving equality to all people, women suffrage, Democrats have been dragged kicking and screaming to it until they realize they can profit from it.Until they realized that by telling those in the minority status that they can’t get ahead without help, that they need special privileges, that equality itself is not enough, they need special privileges, that people should be forced to accepted them. That you should be forced to get people access to college, whether they earn it on their merits or not.It has become not about the content of my character, not about the merits of who I am as a human being but rather strictly on the color of my skin. And it is exactly what Martin Luther King opposed.And just to finish up on this topic, you disagree with the way I present the argument. But you cannot disagree with the merits of the argument. The merit is sound. But sometimes the truth hurts.    I got a few not very kind comments on my YouTube Channel after yesterday’s show, that I was spreading lies and filth. I actually invited this individual on to the show to discuss the issue of socialism as it relates to the minimum wage. Check it out and join the conversation if you’d like to be heard on the issue.Socialism cannot stand on it’s own merits. It’s a failure of an idea.The idea of this wonderful utopia sounds great. It just doesn’t exist in real life. The laws of economics prevent it from working.Not only that, personal psychology prevents it from happening.But I spend yesterday’s episode tearing down the tenets of socialism and basically showing you why it’s such an idiotic concept, that you couldn’t possibly provide a guaranteed income to everyone because it requires you to guarantee something that’s in limited supply. Rationing must take place, whether prices do it or governments do it.And all that we suggest, as Libertarians, as free market conservatives, is that the pricing model distributes and allocates it’s resources better than a government ever could. And there is no denying that. You cannot deny that. It is factually and historically proven. Minimum Wage Madness by Thomas Sowellhttp://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2013/09/17/minimum-wage-madness-n1701840/page/fullPolitical crusades for raising the minimum wage are back again. Advocates of minimum wage laws often give themselves credit for being more "compassionate" towards "the poor." But they seldom bother to check what are the actual consequences of such laws.One of the simplest and most fundamental economic principles is that people tend to buy more when the price is lower and less when the price is higher. Yet advocates of minimum wage laws seem to think that the government can raise the price of labor without reducing the amount of labor that will be hired. As for being "compassionate" toward "the poor," this assumes that there is some enduring class of Americans who are poor in some meaningful sense, and that there is something compassionate about reducing their chances of getting a job.Most Americans living below the government-set poverty line have a washer and/or a dryer, as well as a computer. More than 80 percent have air conditioning. More than 80 percent also have both a landline and a cell phone. Nearly all have television and a refrigerator. Most Americans living below the official poverty line also own a motor vehicle and have more living space than the average European -- not Europeans in poverty, the average European.Why then are they called "poor"? Because government bureaucrats create the official definition of poverty, and they do so in ways that provide a political rationale for the welfare state -- and, not incidentally, for the bureaucrats' own jobs.When you increase the minimum wage, what you do is you make it very difficult for anyone with low skills or no skills to enter the workforce because if that skill set does not offer at least what the minimum wage demands, then that worker simply won’t be hired.When the minimum wage standard is raised, in order to compensate for that, what ends up happening is prices go up, we get price inflation. That price inflation, in turn, wipes out any advantage that was given to that lower wage worker.Minimum wage jobs, entry level jobs are designed to be just that, entry level, to allow you to build your skillset, to allow employers to hire very cheap labor and then skill them up.Make sure you don't miss my rant about how the minimum wage hurts us all and leads to generational poverty as well as an entitlement attitude. Christian Chapel Owners Were Reportedly Threatened With Jail Time and Fines For Refusing to Marry Gays — and Now They’re Fighting Backhttp://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/10/20/ordained-ministers-who-refuse-to-marry-gay-couples-in-their-chapel-are-fighting-back-after-reportedly-being-threatened-with-fines-and-jail-time/Two ordained ministers have filed a federal lawsuit and are seeking a restraining order to prevent local officials from forcing them to marry same-sex couples, saying they have been threatened with fines and possible jail time over their refusal.Donald and Evelyn Knapp, owners of Hitching Post Wedding Chapel in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, are being represented by the Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative legal firm, claiming that city officials told them that they are required to conduct gay marriages under a nondiscrimination ordinance.If they do not, the Knapps say, that they could “face months in jail and/or thousands of dollars in fines,” according to a press release from Alliance Defending Freedom. The firm said the couple could face up to 180 days in jail or $1,000 in fines for each day they refuse.Support the show.