THE MINIMUM WAGE IS ZERO:  In honor of National Disability Independence Day, the Chair of the Commission on Civil Rights apparently wants individuals with Down syndrome to get priced out of a job.

A few years ago, when the Commission did a report on whether to get rid of the special minimum wage for severely disabled employees, the parents and families of the affected employees (overwhelmingly Down syndrome sufferers) were strongly in favor of keeping it.   I am so #$^#% tired of do-gooders who think they know what’s good for these folks and that their parents and families don’t.  It should be obvious that removing the special minimum wage will result in job loss.  Indeed, one of the advocates for eliminating the special minimum we spoke to even ADMITTED this.

The alternative theory is that most of these “do-gooders” are not do-gooders at all, but just a wholly owned subsidiary of the SEIU.  Maybe they actually WANT these people to lose their jobs, so that SEIU workers can get two jobs–the one that used to be performed by a Down syndrome employee and one baby-sitting the now-unemployed Down syndrome employee.