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Fast-food protesters cuffed at higher-pay rallies
AP ^ | Sep. 4, 2014 1:27 PM EDT | JOSEPH PISANI

Posted on 09/04/2014 10:42:09 AM PDT by re_nortex

NEW YORK (AP) — Police handcuffed dozens of protesters in cities around the country on Thursday as they blocked traffic in the latest attempt to escalate their efforts to get McDonald's, Burger King and other fast-food companies to pay their employees at least $15 an hour.

The protests, which were planned by labor organizers for about 150 cities nationwide throughout Thursday, are part of a campaign called "Fight for $15."

(Excerpt) Read more at bigstory.ap.org ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: fastfood; fdr; goons; holder; minimumwage; scum; thugs; union; wages
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Bring on the Pinkertons and start cracking the heads of the pro-union scum!

The majority of the low-life rabble is comprised, not surprisingly, of holder's people. The minimum wage (an invention of the vile Frances Perkins of the FDR "Brain" Trust) is slavery and these people are just asking to be returned to the DemonRAT plantation.

1 posted on 09/04/2014 10:42:09 AM PDT by re_nortex
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That's a photo of the aforementioned Frances Perkins conspiring with Franklin Diablo Roosevelt to shred the Constitution. Her vile schemes resulted in the NLRB, the minimum wage and the pernicious Ponzi trap known as Social Security. As much as anyone, she's responsible for the rise of communism in America.

2 posted on 09/04/2014 10:47:32 AM PDT by re_nortex (DP - that's what I like about Texas)
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Typical partisans of the minimum wage.

4 posted on 09/04/2014 10:50:11 AM PDT by re_nortex (DP - that's what I like about Texas)
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To: re_nortex

for later


5 posted on 09/04/2014 10:50:18 AM PDT by Doctor 2Brains
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To: re_nortex
The owners of these franchises should have a meeting of employees and show how X workers will have to lose their jobs
in order to go to $15 per hour wages. Let them vote on who goes. It would probably be the first informed vote they
ever made.
6 posted on 09/04/2014 10:51:53 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (To win the country back, we need to be as mean as the libs say we are.)
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The owners of these franchises should have a meeting of employees and show how X workers will have to lose their jobs in order to go to $15 per hour wages. Let them vote on who goes. It would probably be the first informed vote they ever made.

I disagree. These types lack the intelligence to be reasoned with. Overwhelming force is the only way to knock any sense into their thick skulls. The Pinkertons were effective to neutralize the strikers in Homestead, Pennsylvania. It's long past time to deal with union scum and the minimum wage rabble in that no-nonsense manner again.

7 posted on 09/04/2014 10:56:36 AM PDT by re_nortex (DP - that's what I like about Texas)
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You are correct!


8 posted on 09/04/2014 10:57:21 AM PDT by Doctor 2Brains
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9 posted on 09/04/2014 10:57:57 AM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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NOTHING sickens me like sub-human filth demanding their God-given rights to the property of others, especially when disrupting traffic or the entrance/exit of private property. Where’s a decent MG-42 when you need it?


10 posted on 09/04/2014 10:58:36 AM PDT by Doctor 2Brains
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Sorry for leaving out the link - this is not a joke, it is a real machine from a real company:

http://momentummachines.com/


12 posted on 09/04/2014 10:59:56 AM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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machines can replace many agricultural workers if their wages rise enough to allow for invention and manufacturing of replacements...


13 posted on 09/04/2014 11:01:14 AM PDT by rolling_stone (1984)
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The dirty little secret that these people are too stupid to understand is that while they’re chasing a “living wage” above the poverty level, the poverty level is an arbitrary statistical gimmick based on what all people earn, which actually rises the more the aggregate population earns - so the more they make, the more they’re going to be facing a higher poverty line - a dog chasing its own tail - the only people who stand to gain from this silliness are the union bosses, whose income - a percentage of a lot more people’s marginally higher wages - will go up dramatically.......


14 posted on 09/04/2014 11:02:11 AM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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Thanks, FRiend, for that compelling visual. I'm personally a big fan of automation since it's a means to cripple union thugs. Even though Walmart takes a few hits even here on America's premiere site for Conservatism, I applaud them for eliminating the "humans" working the register in the checkout lines. The machines are clean, efficient and not malodorous unlike the majority of the low-life scum they replace.

Abolish the minimum wage! Crush unions! Restore American prosperity!


15 posted on 09/04/2014 11:04:21 AM PDT by re_nortex (DP - that's what I like about Texas)
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Consumers need to get it through their heads that they THEMSELVES hold all the cards.... just BOYCOTT the places where people are making these ridiculous demands!!

Fast food ain’t a necessity of life like say home energy or a petroleum...it wouldn’t take more than a week for fast food places to get the message. AND their ‘employees’ would get the message too, real quick!


16 posted on 09/04/2014 11:05:17 AM PDT by SMARTY ("When you blame others, you give up your power to change." Robert Anthony)
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17 posted on 09/04/2014 11:10:00 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: TangoLimaSierra
Assume 12 workers make $10 an hour each. That would be 10 workers at $12 an hour (a more realistic increase). They'd have better workers and less benefits to pay out. I say go for it.

Those numbers a realistic. McDonalds and the dregs of the fast food industry get the worst workers who don't last long. They're always training new people who mostly don't stick around. How is that profitable?

The problem would take care of itself if US workers didn't have to compete with invaders. If low-income workers had any brains, they'd be protesting having to compete with unnecessary foreign labor.

18 posted on 09/04/2014 11:12:17 AM PDT by grania
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To: Doctor 2Brains
NOTHING sickens me like sub-human filth demanding their God-given rights to the property of others, especially when disrupting traffic or the entrance/exit of private property.

Our choice of terms to characterize these protestors may seem extreme to leftists: sub-human filth, goons, thugs, low-lifes, bipedal garbage and such. I think those words are quite apt and descriptive. Yet those associated with Big Labor have a far more offensive term they apply to those of us who prefer to work rather than strike: SCAB! I've been called that numerous times when I boldly cross picket lines.

19 posted on 09/04/2014 11:12:21 AM PDT by re_nortex (DP - that's what I like about Texas)
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I think you are confusing the fast food workers who
WORK at the restaurants being picketed with the protestors (most of whom have probably barely worked a day in their lives). There is little, if any, overlap between the two groups.

The $15 crowd are by and large outside agitators, not actual fast food workers.


20 posted on 09/04/2014 11:12:45 AM PDT by Above My Pay Grade (The people have the right to tell government what guns it may possess, not the other way around.)
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