Debt Ceiling Deadline - The Colbert Report - 2013-08-10 - Video Clip | Comedy Central

I take it Mr Yoho this is how you run your household: "If America defaults on its debt, President Obama will just have to pick which programs get funded." Can we say clueless,,,

Will the real comedian please stand up. No Mr Colbert, not you!!

Debt Ceiling Deadline - The Colbert Report - 2013-08-10 - Video Clip | Comedy Central

Colbert on the Consequences of Raising the Minimum Wage—It Would Eliminate a Lot of Poor People | Alternet

"It pains me that in a country of such wealth as ours, so many live in poverty," Stephen Colbert opened a segment on the minimum wage and the growing activism of low-wage workers last night. "It pains me even more when those people won't shut up whining about it — 'I want a union, I want a living wage, I want all my fingers,'" he joked.

He then exclaimed about how fast food workers are demanding a doubling of their paltry wages to $15 an hour. "What do they think? That those arches are made of gold?"

Colbert on the Consequences of Raising the Minimum Wage—It Would Eliminate a Lot of Poor People | Alternet