Good move. The parable doesn't really work if the workers who show up at the end of the work day mug the workers who cleared the forest, plowed, planted and watered the field, invested their savings in it and protected it from hostile assaults; and if the latecomers then throw out the original workers and demand they be hired instead.

The US has a lot of people who need help. A man who lets his own family go hungry should not expect to be praised for giving alms to beggers.