[Amagi]

Nobody is forcing Walmart employees to take those jobs.
Government meddling is destroying private sector jobs in this country.
I'm hard pressed to cite an example where government regulations/legislation can create private sector jobs.
The only jobs that government can create are more government jobs, which do not increase national wealth --- on the contrary they put more burden on the private sector to pay the salaries of the bureaucrats whose regulatory activity further burdens the economy.
Raising of the minimum wage will put more minimum wage workers in unemployment.
The quantity of government in this nation is well past the threshold of killing the economy of the United States of America.

[MrB]

That’s something that any liberal I’ve talked to on this issue just will not acknowledge.

Somehow there are no other places to work.
And if there are, none of them want to pay what someone needs (wrong premise, of course).

[Theoria]

'I'm hard pressed to cite an example where government regulations/legislation can create private sector jobs. '

Yes. That happens all the time. Many regulations and provisions create distortions in the economy. Look FED interest rates, housing boom.

The tax code alone 'creates' a whole sector of private enterprise. Yet, that does not mean we should have that sector. There is countless regulations to be followed that us peons have to do. That alone creates a entire private job ecosystem.

[Smokin' Joe]

I'm hard pressed to cite an example where government regulations/legislation can create private sector jobs.

There are armies of private sector employees out there making sure their respective companies or assisting other companies in the area of regulatory compliance, from OSHA to the IRS.

Mandatory safety training alone employs dozens of people. Mandatory equipment requirement changes have created entire industries (aside with the industry of ensuring compliance), including NFPA 2112 compliant clothing (flame resistant standard for anyone on a drilling location), and tons of other mandatory safety gear.

Environmental compliance on construction sites (those runoff dams to limit sedimentation) are another sector.

So, yes government does create private sec`tor jobs, although they may not be necessarily what you would consider 'productive'.