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Are you sure it isn't the HFCS, pink slime, or the stuff they make yoga mats out of?
Yeah, those aren't pleasant either. We only eat McDonalds if it's all that's available. Like stuck on the interstate in the middle of nowhere. (They have easily accessible bathrooms.) I usually have a chocolate shake and eat a home-made power bar. Their shakes are quite tasty and I figure one here and there isn't going to do me in.
Doubling the minimum wage is absolutely, positively going to reduce the number of jobs," says Scott DeFife, executive vice president of policy and government affairs at the National Restaurant Association.
The problem with MediaMatters and the liberal "economists" they choose for affirmation bias is they don't give a crap about fast food joints anyways. Left up to them they would all wither away. Those liberal "economists" don't give a crap about the people and businesses in that industry in the first place.
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"The fight for $15 is a fight against technology, not management — and that's a fight that these union-organized protestors can't win. Instead of securing a bigger paycheck, the less-experienced employees demanding a more than 100 percent pay increase will find their jobs replaced by less-costly alternatives," Michael Saltsman, research director at EPI, said in a statement.
So, all things being equal, those people would lose their jobs. The liberal "economists" says "they shouldn't have those jobs anyways and at least the people left will be making better wages and the others will be forced to find something else."
No doubt the liberal "economists" simply mean those people can go to another industry and demand higher wages so they can be out on the street again "looking for something else."
I don`t know of anyone who is "demanding" the chef be paid more but if he was he would be able to pay taxes and not be called a moocher by some plastic looking billionaire and get this. He`ll be able to actually BUY something and perhaps create jobs for other people. Australia has a $16.88 minimum wage and an unemployment rate of 5.4%. Their cost of living is higher than ours but certainly not twice as high.
What's the UE rate in Australia for the younger less educated crowd? That would be 17%. Now you have an apples to apples comparison.
The strike will result in nothing being accomplished.
Franchise owners will simply fire those that are unproductive and trouble makers and hire the many that are in line waiting to be hired just like what happens each and every day at the typical fast food restaurant.
A single mother with five kids working at McDonalds isn't my concern or McDonalds. Why should everyone have to suffer because of her poor life choices? A fast food job is not meant to raise a family on. However, she could make an effort to be more polished and professional looking and acting, and then get a job as a waiter in a fine dining restaurant and make a lot more money there.
A single mother with five kids working at McDonalds isn't my concern or McDonalds. Why should everyone have to suffer because of her poor life choices? A fast food job is not meant to raise a family on. However, she could make an effort to be more polished and professional looking and acting, and then get a job as a waiter in a fine dining restaurant and make a lot more money there.
I voted for higher price/higher wage McDonalds. This extra dollar or two makes no difference to me, but would greatly improve the workers' living standards.
I voted for higher price/higher wage McDonalds. This extra dollar or two makes no difference to me, but would greatly improve the workers' living standards.
Until the artificially inflated wages raise the cost of everything relative and we're all back to where we started.
I voted for higher price/higher wage McDonalds. This extra dollar or two makes no difference to me, but would greatly improve the workers' living standards.
No, it wouldn't. It would lower everyone else's.
Do you think that there's a magic money tree that employers can just pick from or something? Many businesses - especially the very large ones - work on very thin margins. If you think you can raise the minimum wage any non-insignificant amount without a dramatic corresponding increase in the price of goods and services in every business and industry, you're a fool. Doubling it? The economy would inflate so fast it would make your head spin.
I really don't understand why it's so freaking difficult for people to understand such a basic concept. Are you all just so caught up in the hype that you've had to turn off your brains in order to manage?
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