Posted on 11/10/2015 7:22:55 PM PST by artichokegrower
Impassioned demonstrators took to the streets of Bay Area cities Tuesday for an all-day nationwide protest dubbed “Fight for 15†by fast-food workers calling for higher wages
While low-income workers in cities across the country walked off their jobs to push for a $15-per-hour minimum wage, in San Francisco, outcries over skyrocketing housing prices eclipsed the wage issue.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Right! Congrats about your granddaughter, she's got gumption to know not to stay at the bottom of the ladder. She'll do better and better. Same with our oldest daughter. While going to college she worked at Starbucks at low pay. She knew it was not forever for her, and gravitated to other jobs that paid more and more. A dozen years later she is making a six-figure income. You want something, you go for it and work hard.
The media won’t give conservatives the time of day. They only give little time to the GOPes akna the DOPEs.
The media won’t give conservatives the time of day. They only give little time to the GOPes akna the DOPEs.
Who is paying these protesters?? Follow the money!
Where in the country are you located? The irony about these fast-food workers in this article, is that it is San Francisco. A lot of people are highly critical of this region, but what attracts people here is the fact that there are many jobs available. The problem is the high cost of living (housing costs). There are lots of jobs in the SF Bay Area other than fast-food jobs. Everywhere you look there is construction work going on. One of my nephews was a disaster in schooling, but got work in construction and is now a carpenter. Lots of jobs in biotech, publishing, IT/computing, transportation, manufacturing and many other fields. The problem is that many young people are not focused and gravitate to bottom-rung jobs in the fast-food industry. Maybe bad parenting or lack thereof.
I’m in northeastern NJ (about a dozen miles west of NYC); when news sites report that all new jobs have gone to immigrants, we are exhibit A. Not just crappy jobs, but also the few remaining decent jobs are being filled by imported coolies to replace the Americans in those roles.
Construction work (such as it is, given the death spiral here) is filled with Hispanics; you can visit the Meadowlands Flea Market next to Giants Stadium (about half a dozen miles north of me) every Saturday and watch them buy tools (and every other household item - lamps, toasters, etc.) from the laid-off Americans that are losing everything. Manufacturing left here decades ago, and IT is filled with Asians (whole housing developments have watched them replace Americans over the years).
The simplistic solution is to simply leave, following jobs - and many do. It doesn’t just leave an area devoid of young people (and a LOT of empty homes); often those young people themselves don’t make more young people - and we are living with the consequences. We are trafficking people here (including illegals) just to keep apartments and public school classrooms occupied at this point - and the dwindling pool of tax-paying Americans are footing the bill for their every need (housing, food, schooling, healthcare, Obamaphones, etc.).
The city most equipped and likely most inclined to replace them with Robots.
Let me know how that works out for youse guys, alright?
It’s EVERY commercial, no matter what the product.
An entry level job should not be a lifetime career objective.
Get a better job or get one or two part time jobs to supplement your income.
They did not flood them.
I went by the 24th & Mission McDonalds at about 6:15 am. Plenty of camera crews, lights. . .
and about 40 protestors? Which is not small at that hour but hardly a flood.
Flood S.F. streets to become unemployed and further drive down a wounded and reeling national economy.
They are hoping for a layoff due to higher wages so they can sit home a collect. Meanwhile NYPD was offered 1 percent in thier contract talks with the city while the sandanista mayor was a guest speaker street side at thier rally and the despicable govenor agreed.
Volvo commercials?
How about work-type pick-up trucks?
The fact is that in appealing to an ill-informed clientele many companies are reaching out to blacks while basically writing off whites for a couple of reasons: They are better-informed (in general) and less likely to impulse-buy something.
And just plain flattery/pandering.
Just said to the wife...”if robots can make cars, they can darn sure make a hamburger”
That's a shame. I've taken the train from Trenton to NYC, and seen a lot of blight in New Jersey along the way. Figured it was just the area surrounding the tracks, but just didn't know much about New Jersey. It just looked bad compared to what we have in California. The worst areas here in the SF Bay Area look pleasant in comparison.
As I said, there are lots of jobs here. Unfortunately, a lot of immigrants (and out-of-state Americans) are attracted here. A lot are ill-equipped and end up homeless. And as you said, a lot of construction work (the simpler variety) is filled with Hispanics. At many homes undergoing remodeling you can hear the workers chattering away in Spanish. In some better SF neighborhoods like the Richmond District or Pacific Heights there are remodeling projects going on almost every block. There are cranes downtown building various buildings. Those larger building projects still have lots of white workers. Lots of new buildings going up for biotech, medical, IT, hotel and museum workers. Whole new neighborhoods created in the last 15 years from nothing. Construction is hot.
In IT, yes there are lots of immigrants, but legal, not illegals. A lot of Asians, many of which are Chinese and Indian. But also many from Europe and Russia. Having retired from IT, I encountered many programmers from Russia and Ukraine (many came from the USSR after the Soviet breakup). Cities down south on the SF peninsula, formerly all white, are now majority Asian, which is a big change.
The consequence of this influx are children. Lots of family types, and young people having babies. Baby strollers are everywhere. Children playing everywhere. Numbers of gays has dwindled and is going down, as they leave to be replaced by people better equipped to pay high costs of housing. There is friction between the haves and have-nots here, as evidenced by the protests. But the net result is that infra-structure improves, and quality-of-life is pretty good, a far cry from what is happening elsewhere. It sucks having liberals running politics. The growth here is not due to them; they benefit from the University/business model here. Hopefully, as more normal people flood in maybe the liberals will be forced out.
If one has schooling (and is not lazy), an American can get a good-paying job here (although you might not be able to afford the rent). My daughters have jobs in biotech and publishing. My nephews and nieces are in various fields like engineering, carpentry, government etc., but not in fast-food which is occupied by the unskilled. If you look closely at the protesters you'll notice most are latino immigrants.
I don't know what the answer is for NJ, other than as you say, to leave. Politicians rarely fix things. Change has to come from individuals who create change that starts growth. We got lucky out west. There are good opportunities going on in the south. Lots of growth in Texas.
I understand what you are describing in the SF area.
What Americans are learning here in NJ (and many other places) is that LEGAL immigrants pose as much a threat to our way of life as the illegals (if not worse, as they don’t have to live in the shadows). A lot of white-color jobs (of various skill levels) are being taken by Asians here in the NYC metro area (and even SE Pennsylvania); they are businesses’ solution to salaries in the white-collar fields. There is no shortage for any field they fill; they are just driving wages lower.
Both types of immigrants are being trafficked here to simply replace Americans who are increasingly dying off without breeding...
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