In this monologue, Dennis Prager highlights the recent layoffs of hundreds of delivery drivers by two large Pizza Hut franchise operators in California, attributing the cuts to the state's new $20‑hour minimum wage law for fast‑food workers. He criticizes the Democratic supermajority in the California legislature, suggesting that voters are brainwashed into supporting Democrats despite the economic damage caused by their policies. Prager recounts an open forum with Prager Force members, where he shares his personal ideological journey: once a liberal who supported a minimum wage, he now opposes big government and argues that high minimum wages harm both businesses and workers by raising prices, reducing employment, and limiting opportunities for skill development. He expresses sympathy for the laid‑off drivers while questioning their voting choices, and frames his economic argument as a market‑driven perspective that the market should determine wages.
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California Pizza Hut operators laying off all delivery drivers, but people will still vote for the Democrats in the state of California. The amount of damage done by the Democratic ruling party, which can do anything it wants— it has a supermajority in the California legislature— it is irrelevant The brainwash has worked. Republicans are bad. No matter how much bad Democrats do, they're good. Two large Pizza Hut operators in California are laying off all their delivery drivers ahead of a new state law. This was right before New Year's, though the new law comes into effect— came into effect last week. 2 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, Business Insider reports. This is from station KTLA in Los Angeles. The layoffs impact hundreds of Pizza Hut locations across the state, including Los Angeles. Orange, Riverside, Ventura, and San Bernardino counties, and Sacramento, involved more than 1,200 in-house delivery drivers. Yesterday I did an open forum with Prager Force members. Prager Force is the 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. It was, it was a beautiful hour that I spent with them. So one of the questions was, have you ever changed your mind on an issue? It's a very good question, and I gave a Two examples, I could give more. One was that I came to be opposed to big government. I thought of myself as a liberal. I was always anti-left, always, because the left didn't hate evil and that was enough for me. They were not anti-communist. And the other one I said was the minimum wage. I was for a minimum wage and then I realized how much harm it did And here is a perfect example, because the profit margins for Pizza Hut are not great, and for— at $20 an hour, the only solution would be to raise the price of the pizza, and that would lower the number of people ordering pizza. The second Pizza Hut franchisee, Southern California Pizza Company, is laying off 841 drivers. My heart breaks for these people. I wonder what party these people voted for in the last election. I wonder if they even know why they're being fired. My heart does break for these people. See, what you do when you raise the minimum wage is something else. Not only do you put people out of work, but you put businesses out of business, small businesses especially, and you lower ability of people, you reduce the ability of people to start working in their lives. They don't have the opportunity to start developing work muscles because they're overpriced. Generally the market pays what you're worth, at least to the person paying you.
