Posted on 09/04/2014 4:15:03 PM PDT by EveningStar
Sixty-one years ago last month, the third-ever McDonald's opened in Downey, Calif., a suburb of Los Angeles and home to Apollo, the third-ever NASA manned spaceflight program. McDonald's went to 119 countries from Baku, Azerbaijan, to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; Apollo went to the moon.
A man who witnessed much of this history is Ron Piazza, who owns the landmark McDonald's in Downey —the world's oldest-operating McDonald's— along with nine other golden-arched franchises in the area.
Piazza is something of a throwback. Plainspoken and serious, he is the type of business owner whose name and phone number are printed at the bottom of all the customer receipts...
"I started at a dollar an hour. Poverty is as severe as it was when I was making a dollar an hour. The minimum wage increase, frankly, hasn't reduced our poverty problem....
Do I think it’s fair that people live in poverty? Of course not. But I don’t know how you can say that business is responsible for that."
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Those who claim they want higher salaries for the working class should fight for an immigration shutdown. We don’t need immigrants, yet we’re taking in a million a year plus illegals. It makes no sense.
I wonder which of those people protesting would be willing to give up their position so a fellow employee could receive that $15/hr?
I like that approach.
Elections have consequences. Millions of people decided they'd rather sit at home and have four more years of Caliph Obama than to throw him out.
I often thank the employees that work fast food because we all know that’s maybe not where the want to be, but “stuff” ain’t free for everyone. Thanks to those that do their job and not so much to those that are buying into the union line of BS. More dollars/hr, less workers. Duh! The walk outs would be the first to go. Buh bye!
That’s just cause the plans for the unionization of
the unemployed haven’t been implemented yet, just wait.
Here is the bottom line quote: “With that, he wished me well, hopped into his Maserati, and drove off down a California highway.”
Yo! Knuckleheads!
Work hard. Stay sober! Persist!
The Maserati can be yours!
That is truly a historic landmark!
The loons on the left never seem to connect the two.
I grew up in Downey from early 1946, when my father was discharged from the Navy, until April of 1956 when we moved to La Mirada.
I still remember the sign when they said ‘50,000 Burgers Served!’ We all thought, that’s such an unbelievable number of burgers.
Pretty soon, it was a 100,000. Then, one day, the sign said ‘A Million!’.
A real mind-blower back then.
I went there about 20 years ago just to experience a little nostalgia for when California was the ‘Golden State’.
Shouldn’t those colors be reversed to reflect the ‘blue’ dems holding the gun to the head of the red republicans?
Many of them will do so, whether they’re willing to or not. They just don’t realize that yet.
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