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I dare liberals to buy a McDonald’s franchise, and pay the workers $15 an hour
wordpress ^ | December 11, 2013 | Dan from Squirrel Hill

Posted on 12/11/2013 4:05:35 AM PST by grundle

I dare liberals to buy a McDonald’s franchise, and pay the workers $15 an hour

Liberals are always talking about how easy it would be for McDonald’s to pay its workers $15 an hour.

However, so far, no liberal has actually bought a McDonald’s franchise and paid those wages.

So, I dare liberals to prove that it’s as easy as they claim it is. I dare liberals to buy a McDonald’s franchise, and pay the workers $15 an hour.



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KEYWORDS: economics; fastfoodstrike; liberalhypocrisy; minimumwage
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To: grundle

Even the wait staff at big eating places do not make even min wage. Tips are supposed to pick up the slack.

Our Military do not make Min wage. And they lay their lives on the line every day.

So why should a burger flipper with no skills whatsoever make more than Min Wage? Worst thing could happen to a burger flip is some hot grease.

GIVE IT A BREAK, you don’t have enough education to make more money!


41 posted on 12/11/2013 5:50:01 AM PST by GailA (THOSE WHO DON'T KEEP PROMISES TO THE MILITARY, WON'T KEEP THEM TO U!)
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To: kjam22

The “fix” for that is a grumbling belly.


42 posted on 12/11/2013 5:51:23 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: grundle

The only thing that will happen is that McD will automate like Aldi food stores, stockers and 1 cashier and a manager. and get rid of these under educated people. Who will end up on welfare. Which is their goal any way.


43 posted on 12/11/2013 5:51:50 AM PST by GailA (THOSE WHO DON'T KEEP PROMISES TO THE MILITARY, WON'T KEEP THEM TO U!)
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To: grundle

They are the big idea thinkers not the doers.

Heck, look how their website development project went.

The customers would all get food they never ordered and it would cost 3X as much as now.


44 posted on 12/11/2013 5:52:56 AM PST by sickoflibs (Obama : 'If you like your Doctor you can keep him, PERIOD! Don't believe the GOPs warnings')
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To: fruser1

Some years back during the Bush admin, a libhole in my office was railing against gas prices and big-oil using all the typical lefty clap-trap. As she was prattling on, she had a cup of Starbucks in her hand. I asked her if gas at $3 (or whatever it was at the time) was such an outrage, why didn’t she have a problem paying over $12 a gallon for coffee? What about the evils of “big-coffee”? The silence was deafening. I stepped back before the logic made her head explode.


45 posted on 12/11/2013 5:54:38 AM PST by wny
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To: grundle
Empty gesture for a business doomed to fail.

Liberals like money, too. More specifically, they like their OWN money. It's only when they're spend other people's money that they're liberal.

46 posted on 12/11/2013 5:56:01 AM PST by wbill
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To: grundle

Lefties think that all businesses exploit their employees. Their end goal is complete takeover of all of the means of production.


47 posted on 12/11/2013 5:57:04 AM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible traitors. Complicit in the destruction of our country.)
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To: Moonman62

exactly.

a minimum wage hike has a domino effect through the economy on wages and prices and thus inflation.

Everything will cost more and the minimum wage people will be in the same boat they are now.

Everyone pushing for a higher minimum wage is actually just pushing for higher inflation. And you know who he real losers are with high inflation? those who are retired who already made their money and are now living off a fixed income.


48 posted on 12/11/2013 5:58:55 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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To: grundle

In Venezuela they would just, “nationalize” McDonald’s.


49 posted on 12/11/2013 6:00:27 AM PST by outofsalt ("If History teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything")
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To: kjam22; knarf
Kjam.....question for someone who knows a whole lot more than I on this....

To me, it appears that many, if not most, of the FF workers' jobs could be automated. I'm thinking - specifically - anything customer-facing, or counter-related. What do you think?

I say this because $15/hr is what I'd expect a front-line, entry-level automation service tech to make. A good handful of minimum wage counter staff could be replaced with automation (touchscreens, CC swipes, etc) and a single tech to make sure that it stays working. Libs should be careful with what they wish for.

50 posted on 12/11/2013 6:02:47 AM PST by wbill
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To: Little Pig
Never happen. McD’s is one of the most expensive franchises. No liberal who could actually afford to buy one would ever do something so economically ignorant as to actually pay these schlubs that much money.

Or, if they DID need to pay $15, they would not hire schlubs. They would only hire people worth $15/hr. The schlubs would be jobless and have to go on welfare -- which is exactly what the Dems want.

51 posted on 12/11/2013 6:06:58 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: grundle
They don't want a misogynist president unless it is a lieberal.

They want a business to pay workers $15/hr unless it is owned by a lieberal.

52 posted on 12/11/2013 6:09:08 AM PST by deadrock (I am someone else.)
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To: wny

Yeah, I had similar conversation when gas first hit $3 but pointed out that with profit margin of 7% it meant that if you subtracted away all of their profit, it’d only cut the price by 21 cents per gal, which was actually less than the gas taxes.

I had the same head exploding threat.


53 posted on 12/11/2013 6:09:11 AM PST by fruser1
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To: wbill
robots linked automat. cafeteria.

54 posted on 12/11/2013 6:10:01 AM PST by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Caligula / 0'Reid / 0'Pelosi :-)
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To: wbill

I agree. At some point it makes economic sense. I think you can dump a certain number of “order takers” when they economic themselves out of a job. When I go to a grocery store, lowes, home depot.... or if I’m really brave Walmart.... I always default to the self service / swipe the card checkout.


55 posted on 12/11/2013 6:12:06 AM PST by kjam22 (my newest music video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7gNI9bWO3s)
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To: wbill
Liberals like money, too. More specifically, they like their OWN money. It's only when they're spend other people's money that they're liberal.

That makes a good operational definition: Liberal - somebody who desires to be generous with other people's money.

56 posted on 12/11/2013 6:14:10 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: kjam22

“When I go to a grocery store, lowes, home depot.... or if I’m really brave Walmart.... I always default to the self service / swipe the card checkout.”

Same here.... unless I want to pick up some beer, in which case CA law forces me to use a living, breathing cashier.


57 posted on 12/11/2013 6:29:13 AM PST by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (I'm not anti-government, government's anti-me.)
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To: PapaBear3625
That makes a good operational definition: Liberal - somebody who desires to be generous with other people's money.

Hence the reason the answer to the bottom line of this question is NEVER to lower the tax burden on the business, or individuals, in question.

58 posted on 12/11/2013 6:32:22 AM PST by Turbo Pig (...to close with and destroy the enemy...)
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To: grundle

Sure, but who’s gonna spend $20 for a Quarter Pounder ?


59 posted on 12/11/2013 6:33:36 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: kjam22

Well using your numbers, if labor is 20 percent, doubling the minimum wage to $15 raises labor on a $1 burger from 20 cents to 40 cents, and the burger now costs $1.20, or 20 percent more.

And I assume you may sell less burgers at this price, skewing your baseline expense percentages.

...or, the burger joint hires fewer people, and expects its employees to run around like decapitated chickens, to keep labor costs down.


60 posted on 12/11/2013 6:34:25 AM PST by lacrew (Mr. Soetoro, we regret to inform you that your race card is over the credit limit.)
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