For pure folly, few contemporary concepts surpass the minimum wage.
The favorite new pull-toy of fist-flashing labor union thugs, the boys with the downsized minds are all in for it.
Emotionally.
(See last month’s successful minimum wage campaign downtown when union-suiters marched in arm-locking harmony with the pushover Los Angeles City Council.)
But not rationally.
Ooops. A week later, the Los Angeles Thugs were back in Council Chambers. Striking a well-practiced emergency pose, they demanded an exemption from the $15 minimum wage for their team — or they would burn down Council Chambers.
When the cowering members of the City Council vote on the new $15 minimum wage tomorrow morning at 10 o’clock, it will be a fascinating test for Council bootlickers. Will they bend, break and hand over their peanut-sized hearts to the Los Angeles Thugs and grant the exemptions?
At last check, only one member of the City Council was named Courage. Hopes are low, and sinking, for a palatable outcome.
Speaking of heart transplants by empty-chested members of the Pity party, we are reminded of Jay Leno’s irrelevant and unrelated namesake.
No Chuckling, Please
State Sen. Mark Leno of San Francisco, a consistently off-key member of the Legislature, reviving one of his favorite acts, proposed raising the statewide minimum wage to $11 on Jan. 1 instead of the planned $10. And then to $13 the following year.
With Pity partiers holding a huge majority, the Senate roared its approval 23-15.
Happily, it is not a cinch to go farther.
A familiar form along Daffy Boulevard, Mr. Leno served up a Hall of Fame response to the question of his motivation.
Known for his cursory, not particularly accurate, research, he said that 25 percent of California’s blend of 38 million normal people and illegal aliens lives in poverty, accent on the latter.
Mr. Leno said (and here he coughed) it is the moral responsibility of California business owners to rid members of Deadbeats, Inc. of their financial cramps.
Ignoring personal responsibility, the unfunniest little link in the Leno clan, who is gay, said with a face that was straight:
“The president of the United States has defined income inequality as the defining challenge of our time.”
May I retract what I said a moment before? Mr. Leno may be the most laughable link in his overextended family.
