Dennis Prager Show - LA Supermarkets Close in Response to LA City Council's Hero Pay Policies Aired: 2021-03-13 Duration: 07:12 === Feeling Good About Forced Pay Increases (03:44) === [00:00:00] The callousness. [00:00:02] That's the perfect word. [00:00:03] Ah, do you know hitting the perfect word is one of the great joys of life? [00:00:07] The callousness of the Democratic Party and the left, which it serves. [00:00:14] NBC Los Angeles, Food for Less, and two Los Angeles Ralph's stores. [00:00:21] Ralph's is a major supermarket chain here. [00:00:24] To close in May. [00:00:29] The Kroger Company announced three-store closing in Los Angeles following an earlier decision to close a Ralph's and a Food for Less in Long Beach. [00:00:40] Now, why would that be? [00:00:42] The move follows the Los Angeles City Council's grocery store workers' hero pay vote on March 3rd. [00:00:55] That's an ordinance that requires large grocery and pharmacy retailers to offer employees an additional $5 per hour in hazard pay amid the COVID-19 pandemic. [00:01:08] So you see? [00:01:09] It worked. [00:01:10] We are forcing you... [00:01:13] I don't know what right they have. [00:01:15] The whole thing. [00:01:16] It is so amazing. [00:01:19] We are going to tell private companies... [00:01:23] How much they have to pay their workers. [00:01:26] They may not be able, and they will close, and the workers will be then unemployed, but we don't care. [00:01:34] That's what I mean, the callousness. [00:01:37] The left lives to feel good about itself. [00:01:41] This is the self-esteem movement as a monster. [00:01:45] Self-esteem movement was founded by a liberal Democrat, John Vasconcelos, I think in the 1980s. [00:01:54] As a member of the California State Senate. [00:01:59] So this is it. [00:02:01] I feel good about giving people working in markets, supermarkets, I feel good about forcing the supermarkets to give them more money. [00:02:13] The supermarkets cannot afford it and they will shut down. [00:02:17] We don't care. [00:02:18] Same with the minimum wage. [00:02:20] The whole idea of a national minimum wage is callous. [00:02:25] It is saying to people in Mississippi, where the standard of living is much lower, I should say the cost of living. [00:02:32] I shouldn't say the standard of living. [00:02:34] I think the standard of life is higher in Mississippi than in New York. [00:02:38] I truly believe that. [00:02:40] But the standard of income is lower. [00:02:45] So you are telling Mississippi restaurants you have to pay what New York restaurants pay. [00:02:51] New York restaurants charge far more money and are better capable of handling those payments. [00:03:00] So what? [00:03:02] So what? [00:03:03] We feel good about ourselves because we did two things. [00:03:09] We raised the minimum wage of workers so we feel we are moral. [00:03:15] And second, that's what the unions told us to do, which is all the Democratic Party does, is what unions tell them to do. [00:03:26] I was told this by the most prominent Democrat in California about 20 years ago. === Denials Leading to More Deaths (03:42) === [00:03:32] I will not mention his name because I promised him I wouldn't. [00:03:38] And that's the way it works. [00:03:40] So there'll be fewer stores. [00:03:42] The number of store closures is frightening. [00:03:47] All right, I would like you to hear some of Joe Biden's speech. [00:03:52] Let us begin with Cut 79. Denials for days, weeks, then months. [00:04:08] That led to more deaths. [00:04:10] More infections, more stress, and more loneliness. [00:04:14] Okay, a couple of things. [00:04:16] First, it's a pretty common thing that presidents blame the previous presidents. [00:04:22] So this is... [00:04:23] I don't care that he does it. [00:04:25] I care that he gives this facade of, I am above this disunity talk. [00:04:31] What were the denials of months? [00:04:33] What did President Trump deny for months? [00:04:38] They never specify. [00:04:40] It is the world of generalizations without examples. [00:04:44] I give generalizations all the time and always with examples. [00:04:48] Now, wait a minute, though. [00:04:50] That led to more deaths, more infections, more stress, and more loneliness. [00:04:55] No. [00:04:56] The lockdown led to more stress and more loneliness. [00:05:01] I don't think that the... [00:05:05] The denials led to more deaths. [00:05:09] The states that had the most deaths were in the least denial. [00:05:17] But it's been a phenomenon of the last year what's been blamed on COVID and not been blamed on the lockdown. [00:05:30] COVID does not cause loneliness. [00:05:33] Lockdowns have caused loneliness. [00:05:36] Severe, I might add. [00:05:38] Number 80. So many of you have had to make that same walk this past year. [00:05:47] You lost your job. [00:05:49] You closed your business. [00:05:51] Facing eviction. [00:05:53] Homelessness. [00:05:54] Hunger. [00:05:55] A loss of control. [00:05:58] Maybe worst of all, a loss of hope. [00:06:01] Watching a generation of children who may be set back up to a year or more because they've not been in school because of their loss of learning. [00:06:10] Right, exactly. [00:06:11] All caused by the lockdown. [00:06:17] It's just a world of make-believe. [00:06:20] The world of the left is a world of make-believe. [00:06:25] It was caused by the lockdown. [00:06:27] The greatest mistake in history? [00:06:30] And more and more people realize it. [00:06:33] I said that in March or April. [00:06:38] I was roundly vilified for it. [00:06:41] But it turned out right. [00:06:47] Then he is going to speak. [00:06:49] Well, I won't give the plot away. [00:06:54] Mr. Unity will have more. [00:06:57] Disuniting ideas for us in a moment. [00:07:00] In the meantime, go to my website, click on our cruise for June and the Israel trip for October, and you will be a happier human being coming with me.