The Los Angeles City Council, which knows less about commerce than it does the causes and cures of Ebola, is about to blindly vote a huge pay raise for the city’s least educated workers at major hotels.

The minimum they could be paid would be $15.37 hourly. Some hotels are threatening layoffs, and that is fine. Wait until Mayor Garcetti imposes his bullet-to-the-brain minimum wage hike. Layoffs and going-out-of-business sales will drown the cheers of the uneducated workers.

Why is the Council executing this unconscionable, unearned handout? They are social saps sagging with indefensible sympathy.

Why can’t these workers – many barely verbal – improve themselves? A sharp lack of ambition and allergic absence of awareness. 

Ninety-five percent of poverty is self-imposed, self-perpetuating. All of their lives, they rely on government to take from others, from working people, and hand to them, unmerited.

Bereft of a respectable explanation, City Councilmen said labor unions were right when they contended huge raises will jerk families out of poverty.

Not only is that a typical union absurdity, the response is a reaction, not a reason.

From Council President Herb Wesson on down, no one could think of a justification. Maybe it will improve global climate warming change.

And the next rain will make me a better dancer.

If a worker’s salary is raised from $11 to $15.37 tomorrow, he is not going to purchase a new car or a new home.

Mayor Garcetti and the 16 Rhodes Scholars on the Council are spitting into both eyes of taxpayers with this economically contrary idea.

Councilman Curren Price said the $15.37 stink bomb will make Los Angeles “a progressive leader” for the nation.

This is something to boast about? We pay our uneducated workers more than any other city?

Oh that should cause a rush of the erudite to storm the walls of Los Angeles.