(CNS News) – Conservative radio commentator Mark Levin predicts that many young people looking for jobs this summer won’t be hired because of the minimum wage.
“This summer, we’re going to have 16-year-olds, 17-year-olds, 18-year-olds who are looking for their first jobs. In Los Angeles, in Seattle and other cities. And they’re not going to get them. They’re not going to get them because nobody’s gong to pay a teenager who is unskilled $15 an hour. plus benefits it’s probably closer to $19 or $20 an hour, to train them.
“They’re not going to do it because they’re not worth it to the business,” Levin explained. “They don’t want to go broke. They can only charge so much for a hamburger.”
“The minimum wage destroys young people, their opportunities, their business experience, the ability to learn responsibility, to accept authority. The minimum wage is a disaster!” Levin exclaimed.
According to the U.S. Department of Labor, the federal minimum wage is $7.25. However, some jurisdictions such as Seattle and San Francisco have raised their local minimum wage to $15 an hour, and Los Angeles will do so incrementally by 2020.
Levin also commented on the plight of young people in America, and the need for older generations to focus on their contributions to the nation instead of stereotyping them.
“Who fights our wars? Young people. Who dies in our wars? Young people. Who are maimed in our wars? Young people. Not people my age,” Levin noted.
He added that “young people pay the price, and as the government becomes bigger and bigger and more centralized…and as the Constitution recedes and is usurped and power is exercised by really incompetent ideologues with iron fists, then the country’s gone.”
“People mock young people in this country, or they claim to represent them,” the conservative radio talk show host added. “You don’t give a damn about them.”
He criticized government influence in education, and said that older generations should stop complaining that young people are too liberal because “we let [the Left] take over our schools… we have no say in what goes on in our classrooms. Zero….
“And then we say ‘Wow. What’s wrong with these kids?’ No, there’s something wrong with us.”
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