Come to think of it, employers will do that because of increases in the minimum wage. Unless an employee is actually WORTH what they are being paid, they are not worth keeping on the job. So employers will face another round of layoffs, picking the worst employee and firing them. Of course, the leftist press never reports on that or the true reason for it.

Looks kids, we’re increasing your minimum allowance to take out that trash and pick up your rooms. We want to be the “cool” parents…we’re your friends.

That of course quickly turns to; Kids, your mom and I think it’s time that you went out into the real world to get a real job…we just can’t afford to subsidize a life style choice of sitting at home and playing video games, while we have to constantly remind you to take out that trash.

NO MORE ALLOWANCE FOR YOU!!!

Oh, and by the way, kids, Billy, down the street, who’s parents don’t give him an allowance, has offered to take out our trash, and mow the yard…and for the exact same amount that we were paying you just to take out the trash. No worries though, a real job will teach you the value of work and a paycheck….good luck beating the Billy’s of the world out of those “real” jobs, in the “real world”!

Oh, and Billy…good luck beating the China’s of the world out of future jobs, for “real wages”!

If we throw out the minimum wage, and also throw out all the illegals who steal jobs from Americans, we force the slothful to WORK or suffer the consequences of not working. If they don’t have to compete with sub-minimum wage illegals, the wages will rise because there will be vacancies in the job markets caused by the elimination of foreign criminals.