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‘Progressive economics strikes again!’ Wendy’s proves that the real minimum wage is actually $0.00
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Posted on 05/13/2016 6:18:04 AM PDT by TigerClaws

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To: Personal Responsibility

How about wage and price controls? We haven’t seen that since Carter.


41 posted on 05/13/2016 7:32:33 AM PDT by ichabod1 (Make America Normal Again)
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To: ichabod1

I doubt we’d see that under a Republican administration and Obama only has 250ish days left in office. If Hillary or Bernie wins? Yeah, that’s definitely a next step.


42 posted on 05/13/2016 7:34:53 AM PDT by Personal Responsibility (We need a separation of press and state!)
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To: nesnah

My 18 YO son landed his first ever job at a fast food place. He’s been there 6 weeks and has already got two promotions and two raises. He comes home and tells me how many other employees were fired today and why (fists fights between employees in the lobby, sleeping through their entire shift out back in the car, drinking liquor out of a soda glass while on duty, etc.). Just astonishing to me. Unfortunately for this restaurant, he’s already learned the life lesson intended and is actively planning on his escape.


43 posted on 05/13/2016 7:36:07 AM PDT by lafroste
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To: ichabod1

I think too that our economy has indeed changed; away from manufacturing. I remember progressives and Democrats telling us how great a “service” economy would be.

Unfortunately, service jobs don’t typically pay a lot.


44 posted on 05/13/2016 7:38:29 AM PDT by dhs12345
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To: lafroste

Perfect. While there is still a chance to change and adapt, every kid should work in a terrible job as incentive for something better.

The path to success is not easy and requires a great deal of hard work and patience and an experience like a terrible, thankless job is invaluable.


45 posted on 05/13/2016 7:46:55 AM PDT by dhs12345
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To: TigerClaws

How many Rats do you think will admit this Shame?


46 posted on 05/13/2016 7:50:23 AM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: dhs12345
Cash might be trickier.

I doubt cash will exist in 5 years, because we have the technology to replace it. People only use cash now when the they have to otherwise it is swipe a card or smart device.

47 posted on 05/13/2016 7:55:33 AM PDT by itsahoot (Trump is a fumble mouthed blowhard that can't finish a sentence, but he will finish a term.)
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To: wayoverontheright

But who’s going to spit in my food if it’s made by robots?


48 posted on 05/13/2016 7:58:32 AM PDT by Blogatron (...and the train it won't stop going, no way to slow down.)
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To: itsahoot

Agreed. But that would mean that everyone would be required to carry a means of paying electronically. A credit card or a debit card can be hard to obtain for some. Especially kids or people with bad credit.

It makes sense that cash would be a thing of the past. But it isn’t clear how it would happen.


49 posted on 05/13/2016 8:02:30 AM PDT by dhs12345
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To: wayoverontheright

Yes! The surly attitudes of those behind the counter, and the fear of what would happen to your food if you call them out on it, prevents me from going too often. I do like Subway, because you can watch them make your food.


50 posted on 05/13/2016 8:24:00 AM PDT by gop4lyf (Gay marriage is neither.)
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To: dhs12345
Maybe our economy has evolved or devolved but fast food joint jobs were not intended to be a lifetime career path. Something is wrong if an adult in his or her late 20s, 30s, 40s is still working in fast food.... and demanding a living wage. This is the real problem and maybe we should be asking why.

The Powers That be encouraged shipping good-paying jobs overseas, replacing our well-paid techies with H1Bs, and winked at cheap illegal labor pouring across our border.

Result: A hollowed out middle class, too many educated young people for too few well-paid jobs. What to do? Raise the wages of low-paid unskilled jobs.

Been working for years, so now that's the only alternative.

51 posted on 05/13/2016 8:43:06 AM PDT by Oatka (Beware of an old man in a profession where men usually die young.)
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To: ThePatriotsFlag

I’ve been to several Mc Donald’s where they have truly improved customer service; smiling and attentive staff, table flags & bringing slower orders to your table, table visits for ketchup, other. In Canada, they have Build Your Own Burger (with good options like pepper cheese and grilled onions) touchscreen kiosks, including payment, table flags and your order brought to your table. They check your satisfaction, and will even get ice cream for ya.


52 posted on 05/13/2016 8:49:11 AM PDT by polymuser (Enough is enough!)
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To: Oatka

Exactly. But it can’t sustain itself. Merit based increases make sense. Across the board, everyone gets one, doesn’t.


53 posted on 05/13/2016 8:55:17 AM PDT by dhs12345
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To: Gadsden1st
My sunglasses are prescription, neutral gray, polarized too. It causes me grief with the LCD displays on gas pumps and my Harley Fat Bob odometer screens. I usually have to switch to my non-polarized lenses to do any kind of interaction with LCD display devices.
54 posted on 05/13/2016 9:00:19 AM PDT by Myrddin
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To: wayoverontheright

I’m all for removing a lot of the human element, especially when it comes to ordering. I have a hearing problem which makes it extremely difficult to separate a conversation out from competing background noise, and there is so much background noise in today’s restaurants. Add to that the endless choices of ordering (white, or whole-wheat, large, medium or small, what dressings, toppings, etc, etc). It’s become impossible to simply tell a waitperson or microphone a simple item, no, there must be endless variation based on the waitperson’s spiel. If I could simply push a button indicating my choices, I would be much happier. Don’t even get me started about ubiquitous music and television blaring in the restaurants. Unless I order online for takeout, dining out has become a miserable experience for me.


55 posted on 05/13/2016 9:00:24 AM PDT by caseinpoint (Don't get thickly involved in thin things.)
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To: itsahoot
I doubt cash will exist in 5 years

So we're paying big taxpayer bucks to put Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill WHY, exactly?


56 posted on 05/13/2016 9:00:58 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: TigerClaws

First company to make a pizza delivery drone is going to make a load of money.


57 posted on 05/13/2016 9:14:46 AM PDT by toast
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To: dhs12345
It should be fairly idiot proof.

They'll just keep making better idiots.

58 posted on 05/13/2016 9:16:36 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

Yep.


59 posted on 05/13/2016 9:17:29 AM PDT by dhs12345
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To: grania

earn a living wage ($12/hour ....Is that a living wage for a person who lives at his parent’s house and takes a bus (or less likely walks) to work or is a living wage for someone who rents an apartment (or God forbid pays a mortgage)has children and needs a vehicle to fullfill his obligations? I’m cornfused. Is this Socialism writ large?


60 posted on 05/13/2016 9:23:45 AM PDT by Safetgiver (Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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