Alright, folks, buckle up, because the New York City Council is about to drop another woke turd in the punchbowl. Remember that whole “essential workers” song and dance we did a couple of years back? Yeah, well, turns out the 'heroes' are about to starve themselves again. Home care workers, bless their bleeding hearts, are threatening another hunger strike because... wait for it... they want to get PAID for all 24 HOURS they’re on the clock. I know, I know, the audacity.

So, here's the deal. These mostly immigrant women (color me shocked) are taking care of Nana and Pop-Pop, and they're expected to be available 24/7. But, plot twist, they only get paid for 13 hours. The other 11 are magically designated as “sleep and meal time,” even if Nana is having a midnight existential crisis or Pop-Pop is trying to escape to Florida in his diaper. It’s peak Clown World. The No More 24 Act, which would force agencies to split the shifts and cap the hours, is currently stuck in bureaucratic limbo because, well, nobody wants to pay the bill. We gotta fund those drag queen story hours, y'all!

Christopher Marte, the virtue-signaling city council member behind the bill, is all like, “This is the ONLY industry that does this!” Yeah, well, maybe if we stopped printing money like it was toilet paper, we could actually afford to pay people a living wage without bankrupting the city. Just a thought. According to the article, the home care industry is a $13 billion racket. But hey, let’s squeeze those immigrant ladies until they're bone dry. That's the progressive way, right? Meanwhile, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (that bastion of unbiased data) projects a huge surge in demand for home care workers. Translation: more grist for the exploitation mill.

Lai Yee Chan, the 71-year-old tragic figure in this saga, is trotted out to tug at our heartstrings. She's got a sob story about how she can’t sleep because she’s too busy keeping the bedsores away from the dementia patients. Cry me a river. I’m sure she’s a lovely lady, but this is about power, not pity. The Chinese-American Planning Council (CPC), Chan's employer, is conveniently providing health insurance through 1199SEIU, the union that probably funds half the Democratic Party’s campaigns. It's all one big, corrupt circle of virtue-signaling and kickbacks.

So, what’s the solution? Simple: let the market decide. If these jobs are so terrible, people will stop taking them. Supply and demand, baby! If the Boomers want to live out their days being spoon-fed pureed prunes, they can pony up the cash. It’s not the government’s job to micromanage every aspect of the economy. But no, we can't have that. The Left wants to control everything. More regulations, more taxes, more virtue-signaling. It’s exhausting.