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An editorial from the LA Times shows what happens when nutty City Council's get involved with something they don't have the slightest idea about.

In response to a dispute between workers and hotels that are located near Los Angeles International Airport, organized thugs labor pressured the City Council to extend its "living wage" law which was only supposed to apply to companies that were rewarded contracts with the city - to these hotel workers. In other words, they're simply making up law as they go. It gets worse.

The editorial says it this way:

"The gist of the quasi-agreement announced on Wednesday is that the City Council rescinded the ill-considered airport hotel wage law it passed last year and declared that it would instead pass a new law requiring, well, pretty much the same thing. Because the old law is rescinded, there will be no referendum to overturn it. The hotels would get an "economic overlay zone," which is city-speak for tax breaks. They would pay their workers more, and, in turn, they would put less into the city coffers to pay for police and fire protection, street maintenance and other standard services."

Not only is the City Council going beyond the law, according to this editorial, but they got rid of it altogether. Why did they do it? So there couldn't be a referendum to decide whether it should be overturned or not. This is a council in drunk with power as it goes to bed with so-called organized labor.

The result is obvious as the editorial notes: "No wonder that as the city's population grows, its job base is shrinking. New L.A. residents are getting on the freeways to go to neighboring communities where the work is."

Who is this city council accountable to? Someone better find out and start to challenge them. To allow them and the anti-business unions to create law as they go and put them in the position of almost being unregulated gods is already beginning to erode the economic base of the city. This is always what happens when the market stops being free.

Even more weird? Even though this decision is in place, it's not really an agreement. Talks are continuing on as we speak.

Los Angeles City councils response? 

"City Council is promising to never do anything like this again."

Next Los Angeles City Council response?

"But some council members are already making it clear that they won't be bound by any such promise."

Somebody needs to reign these Hitlerian clowns in. To allow this type of exploitation to continue is outrageous, if not illegal. These businesses need to fight on and go to higher authorities. This city council has evidently set themselves up as a power with no checks and balances in their decision-making; accountable to no one. This dictatorship needs to be stopped!

Hopefully you'll spread the word about the outrage of this atrocity and let others thinking of doing business in Los Angeles know that they need to rethink that decision.