{"id":266731,"date":"2018-03-06T14:20:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T19:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=266731"},"modified":"2018-03-07T15:52:34","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T20:52:34","slug":"the-lesson-of-flippy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/03\/06\/the-lesson-of-flippy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lesson of Flippy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Flippy, the burger flipping robot. This story is in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.investors.com\/politics\/editorials\/flippy-the-robot-just-flipped-off-minimum-wage-hikes\/\">Investor\u2019s Business Daily<\/a>, but it\u2019s actually a story that takes place in Pasadena, California. There is a company out there, burger joint &#8212; well, it\u2019s bigger than a joint. It\u2019s called CaliBurger, and they have just installed Flippy the robot to cook hamburgers at some of their joints. Flippy &#8212; and there\u2019s a picture of Flippy here. He\u2019s a little white arm that can flip burger patties expertly.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TW1mQtJaypU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Flippy can do it at precisely the right time because Flippy has sensors that are able to determine the exact temperature of the hamburger patty, and when that temperature is reached, Flippy is programmed to flip it to the other side. And then, when the temperature is reached again, Flippy takes the burger off the grill and puts it on a bun.<\/p>\n<p>Flippy can do this 150 times an hour, and Flippy never complains about it. Flippy never asks for a health care plan. Flippy never asks for a raise. Flippy never refuses to stand during the national anthem when they open the store every day. Flippy never even says a word. Flippy doesn\u2019t have a disciplinary problem. Flippy never calls in sick. Flippy never gets sick. Flippy either has or doesn\u2019t have a green card, whatever is needed on that given day.<\/p>\n<p>Flippy will never walk out because Flippy can\u2019t walk. Flippy will never steal from you because Flippy doesn\u2019t consume whatever he\u2019s flipping. Flippy cannot walk out of the store with any of the stuff that he\u2019s cooking. Flippy is stationary and cannot cause any kind of human relations problem whatsoever. Flippy will never protest the store. Flippy will never give away product. Flippy costs $60,000.<\/p>\n<p>So CaliBurger determined that Flippy made much more long-term sense rather than hiring entry-level workers at minimum wage because in less than three months Pasadena\u2019s minimum wage is going to rise to $12 an hour for those places with 25 or fewer employees and $13.25 an hour for those with 26 or more employees.<\/p>\n<p>The Pasadena minimum wage is higher even than California\u2019s current minimum wage, which is climbing but will not hit $15 until 2022. So it\u2019s four years away. So, I mean, look. It\u2019s automation and there\u2019s all kinds of Flippys already out there doing other things replacing entry-level workers. So you could say that Flippy is an inevitability. But raising the minimum wage, what have we always said?<\/p>\n<p>Those of us who have said an arbitrary minimum wage &#8212; which has no relationship to market forces or anything on the ground &#8212; does not make anybody wealthier, does not give anybody more money.\u00a0 What it results in is people losing their jobs.\u00a0 How many times have you heard me and others say, &#8220;You raise the minimum wage and you\u2019re killing jobs&#8221;?\u00a0 It\u2019s happened in the Seattle restaurant industry. You know how many restaurants have closed in Seattle with the minimum wage there rising to $15 an hour?\u00a0 They simply&#8230; They can\u2019t afford it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-266751\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/APP-030618-Flippy-Burger-Robot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/APP-030618-Flippy-Burger-Robot.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/APP-030618-Flippy-Burger-Robot-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>So CaliBurger spends 60 grand for Flippy.\u00a0 There\u2019s a 20% annual fee to maintain Flippy.\u00a0 But with the minimum wage set to skyrocket here by the middle of the year, three more months, they\u2019ve run the numbers, and Flippy is gonna end up saving them so much money &#8212; and the related headaches they won\u2019t have, the related theft they won\u2019t have.\u00a0 If the minimum wage weren\u2019t going up to $13.25, if the minimum wage were more in line with what the market would dictate, Flippy probably would not be employed for a couple or three years.<\/p>\n<p>So here you have cold, hard evidence that raising the minimum wage costs entry-level people their jobs.\u00a0 It does not give them more money.\u00a0 You know who knows this?\u00a0 The Democrat Party.\u00a0 They know this!\u00a0 Their advocacy of the minimum wage has nothing to do with helping people earn more money.\u00a0 This is the great myth.\u00a0 The Democrat Party knows full-well that raising the minimum wage is gonna cost jobs.\u00a0 But there are never any stories.<\/p>\n<p>Have you ever seen a story on a person who lost a job because the minimum wage went up?\u00a0 The media simply doesn\u2019t do those stories.\u00a0 You never see them.\u00a0 That\u2019s why the Flippy story is an opportunity.\u00a0 The value of raising the minimum wage, the value of advocating for raising the minimum wage for the Democrat Party is to create the illusion that they care about people.\u00a0 It\u2019s to create the illusion that they have a heart whereas Big Business and small business do not have hearts.\u00a0 Raising the minimum wage is not about making people wealthier.<\/p>\n<p>Raising the minimum wage is not making people wealthy or getting people more money.\u00a0 It has nothing to do with that because it doesn\u2019t do that.\u00a0 Raising the minimum wage costs jobs, but you never see&#8230; Well, you are starting to see that story in Seattle.\u00a0 But up \u2019til now, that story is never written.\u00a0 You never see the Drive-Bys go profile some schlub somewhere who didn\u2019t get hired because the minimum wage is too high.\u00a0 You never see the story.\u00a0 So the Democrats are never hurt by it.<\/p>\n<p>They are aided, they are helped by the illusion and image they care about people.\u00a0 &#8220;The Democrats advocate for more money for people, and over here the Republicans and the businesses?&#8221; They say, &#8220;We\u2019re not gonna do that.\u00a0 It\u2019s gonna cost people their jobs.&#8221;\u00a0 Democrats and media say, &#8220;See?\u00a0 They don\u2019t care! They don\u2019t love people like we do.\u00a0 We are for the minimum wage being increased,&#8221; and that\u2019s where it stops.\u00a0 It\u2019s not about getting people more money.\u00a0 It\u2019s about the illusion that had care more than other people. Once again, yet another exactly opposite crock of excrement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Have you heard about Flippy, the burger flipping robot? 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