They’re back, yes them, Occupy Wall Street is back.  Their gripe this week?  Jobs largely occupied by teenagers and college students don’t make enough money for adults with six kids to live on.  What a shame.

Thursday they will take to the streets with no actual fast food employees and homeless people they PROBABLY paid to be there and complain that people who have no GED, no High School diploma and speak almost no English are entitled to the same hourly wages as a delivery driver at FedEx.

It’s a shame because a recent study cited by Washington Free Beacon today states that raising minimum wages to unrealistic levels harms more poor people than wealthy people.

What Occupy Wall Street and their allies do not realize is that places like Walmart and McDonalds are the centers for employment for everyone and anyone with no real marketable skills in the work world.  They are in essence employment agencies for people who would or could not be hired by anyone else.

As wage demands increase, companies automate more and hire less.  A grocery store here by my house in New Jersey just recently revamped its entire front of store design to include 35 self checkout lanes and only 6 non-automated ones.

I have an idea for a new reality show, let’s take every McDonald’s around the country tell them they’re all getting a raise to fifteen dollars an hour then tell them because of the raise, automation is going to cut the workforce in half by fifty percent….then tell them they’re in charge of who gets to stay and who gets to get fired.  How long do you think it will take for meritocracy to set in?