Feb. 3, 2021 - Dennis Prager Show
05:29
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| Listen to this. | |
| Again, the left does things, and the question, what will it lead to, doesn't matter. | |
| So I've told you, I discovered in the last few years, after a lifetime of studying the left, their endgame is chaos. | |
| I know it sounds bizarre. | |
| I admit it, it does sound bizarre. | |
| And I don't know the psychological impetus here. | |
| I don't. | |
| What is attractive about chaos? | |
| I guess the same could be asked of any drama queen in your family. | |
| What is the endgame of all of their drama and destruction? | |
| There is no endgame. | |
| The game is the end. | |
| This gives them purpose. | |
| Impeaching a president who is not in office. | |
| It gives them meaning. | |
| Fighting for Earth's survival with the pseudo-existential threat of global warming. | |
| This gives these people meaning and it gives them the excuse to restructure society. | |
| Here's a little story that proves my point. | |
| And this is from CBS Los Angeles. | |
| Ralph's, that's one of the major supermarket chains in California. | |
| Ralph's, food for less. | |
| To close several Long Beach stores over hazard pay law. | |
| All right? | |
| This, by the way, this is only a preview of what's going to happen because of the national minimum wage that President Biden has enacted, if indeed it goes through. | |
| He hasn't enacted anything. | |
| He hasn't enacted. | |
| He wants to enact. | |
| Yes. | |
| Kroger, the parent company of Ralph's and Food for Less, announced Monday, that's two days ago, that it will be closing two of its Long Beach stores following the passage of a law that hiked grocery store workers pay by $4 an hour. | |
| Kroger reported that on April 17th it will be shutting down its Ralph's store and its Food for Less store. | |
| Let me give another address. | |
| As a result of... | |
| Long Beach's decision to pass an ordinance mandating extra pay for grocery workers. | |
| This is their comment. | |
| This is the statement from the California Grocers Association. | |
| As a result of the city of Long Beach's decision to pass an ordinance mandating extra pay for grocery workers, We have made the difficult decision to permanently close long-struggling store locations in Long Beach. | |
| This misguided action by the Long Beach City Council oversteps the traditional bargaining process and applies to some, but not all, grocery workers in the city. | |
| That was actually issued by Kroger, and now the statement by the California Grocers Association. | |
| The Long Beach City Council rushed to enact the misguided extra pay mandate without any meaningful dialogue with grocers in their community. | |
| We repeatedly warned that $4 an hour increase would have major unintended consequences, including potential store closures, the reduction of work for employees, and higher grocery costs for customers. | |
| In opposition, Los Angeles Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia tweeted in support of paying grocery store workers more, saying, quote, The Kroger Corporation is closing two markets in Long Beach because our city is requiring temporary hero's pay for grocery workers during this pandemic. | |
| Grocers are making record profits. | |
| We go to court this month and we will defend the workers vigorously. | |
| The left's interest in defending workers and helping them is zero. | |
| It is the same as the desire of the teachers' unions to help students. | |
| Zero. | |
| It is the same as Black Lives Matter desire to help blacks. | |
| The left uses... | |
| Every group in whose name it speaks. | |
| Have the feminist groups come out in favor of the high school girls who are losing all their races to biological men who are transgender women? | |
| No, of course not. | |
| So, when the left in Long Beach says, oh, we care about the workers, just please chalk that up to Bolshevik talk. | |
| Los Angeles City Councilors are currently considering a similar motion that would provide their grocery store workers with an extra $5 per hour in hazard pay. | |
| Last March and April, as the pandemic was unfolding, several major grocery stores and retailers provided their employees with one-time bonuses or temporary wage increases of $2 an hour. | |
| The article is up at DennisPrager.com. |
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