Dennis Prager Show - Losing Your Job & The Consequences Of Voting Democrat
Aired: 2024-01-11
Duration: 04:27


=== Pizza Hut Layoffs Impact Drivers (03:46) ===

[00:00:00]  California Pizza Hut operators laying off all delivery drivers.
[00:00:06]  But people will still vote for the Democrats in the state of California.
[00:00:11]  The amount of damage done by the Democratic ruling party, which can do anything it wants.
[00:00:19]  It has a super majority in the California legislature.
[00:00:23]  It is irrelevant.
[00:00:26]  The brainwash has worked.
[00:00:28]  Republicans are bad.
[00:00:30]  No matter how much bad Democrats do, they're good.
[00:00:35]  Two large Pizza Hut operators in California are laying off all their delivery drivers ahead of a new state law.
[00:00:43]  This was right before New Year's.
[00:00:45]  Though the new law came into effect last week.
[00:00:51]  Two large Pizza Hut operators in California are laying off all their delivery drivers Ahead of a new state law that raises the minimum wage for fast food workers to $20 an hour.
[00:01:04]  Business Insider reports.
[00:01:07]  This is from station KTLA in Los Angeles.
[00:01:11]  The layoffs impact hundreds of Pizza Hut locations across the state, including Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, Ventura, and San Bernardino counties, and Sacramento, involve more than 1,200 in-house delivery drivers.
[00:01:29]  Yesterday I did an open forum with PragerForce members.
[00:01:38]  PragerForce is the...
[00:01:40]  Part of PragerU that involves young people, generally high school through about the age of 25. And they were from all over the world, and I could see them on Zoom.
[00:01:56]  It was a beautiful hour that I spent with them.
[00:02:00]  So one of the questions was, have you ever changed your mind on an issue?
[00:02:05]  It's a very good question.
[00:02:08]  I gave two examples.
[00:02:11]  I could give more.
[00:02:13]  One was that I came to be opposed to big government.
[00:02:18]  I thought of myself as a liberal.
[00:02:20]  I was always anti-left.
[00:02:22]  Always.
[00:02:23]  Because the left didn't hate evil and that was enough for me.
[00:02:27]  They were not anti-communist.
[00:02:32]  And the other one I said was the minimum wage.
[00:02:35]  I was for a minimum wage, and then I realized how much harm it did.
[00:02:42]  And here is a perfect example.
[00:02:47]  Because the profit margins for Pizza Hut are not great.
[00:02:52]  And at $20 an hour, the only solution would be to raise the price of the pizza.
[00:03:01]  And that would lower the number of people ordering pizza.
[00:03:08]  The second Pizza Hut franchisee, Southern California Pizza Company, is laying off 841 drivers.
[00:03:20]  My heart breaks for these people.
[00:03:23]  I wonder what party these people voted for in the last election.

=== Reducing Work Opportunities (00:55) ===

[00:03:32]  I wonder if they even know why they're being fired.
[00:03:39]  My heart does break for these people.
[00:03:43]  See, what you do when you raise the minimum wage is something else.
[00:03:47]  Not only do you put people out of work, but you put businesses out of business, small businesses especially.
[00:03:57]  And you lower the ability of people, you reduce the ability of people to start working in their lives.
[00:04:08]  They don't have the opportunity to start developing work muscles because they're overpriced.
[00:04:23]  Generally, the market pays.
[00:04:26]  What you're worth.