Posted on 08/21/2013 6:39:56 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Edited on 08/21/2013 6:45:03 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Labor: Fast-food workers are planning a one-day strike on Aug. 29 to demand an increase in wages from the $7.25 minimum to $15 an hour. But if $15 an hour is so great, why not ask for $100 or $200 an hour instead?
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Give them their $15/hour. Fire half of them and leave the other half to work twice as hard.
I’ll see your $300 and raise you 8 weeks of paid vacation
I always ask something similar and it either shuts the liberal up or it causes them to start sputtering something like: “Well, now...you’re just being ridiculous...we’re trying to help...don’t you care about the poor? blah blah blah”
You can find people a lot more qualified for $15 an hour than those people. Fire them all and replace them with veterans or something.
RE: “Well, now...you’re just being ridiculous...we’re trying
to help...don’t you care about the poor?”
Well, it looks like I’m helping the poor MORE. If giving more money by law is the measure of compassion, I am 20 times more compassionate than the one who wants to raise the minimum wage to a pathetic $15.00 ( I recommend $300, with that, they can get a house pretty quick ).
The minimum wage should be zero.
--that usually draws a blank look and the conversation ends---
Great idea, and I will add :why dont single party states like NY, Maryland, CA do this already?
Once a MW of $200 per HR is seen to work in those places it will catch on.
Dems always want to bypass the ‘set the example’ step and go for the ‘force it on them’ step.
The only fast food franchise to receive my money is Chick-Fil-A. I do not care about the others.
How about $22?
That's the approximate amount according to current news clips of welfare chea... er... I mean... recipients, on the upwards of 162 "low-income" programs and 7 core welfare programs.
The insanity of it all. The market sets wages - or it should. But I guess if they want $15 an hour minimum, they would not mind paying $20 for a Big Mac combo.
Have fun buying a $10 cheeesburger at MickeyD’s and forget the dollar menus at any other fast food joint, lefties. Oh you can’t afford to eat while you’re in college getting ready to graduate but won’t be able to pay back your $100K + student loan because you can’t find any other work other than fast food joints which was all caused by YOU and your kind electing a cult of personality antichrist president? I feel so sorry for you. Have fun being oppressed by the tyrant because of your own stupidity. Its not going to be pretty.
The blank look is due to the fact they’re thinking “how many zeroes is that”?
RE: The only fast food franchise to receive my money is Chick-Fil-A
Unfortunately, they’re not as ubiquitous as McDonald’s. Here in NYC, there’s only one branch ( in the NYU food court ), and the lesbian mayor wannabe, Christine Quinn wants to kick them out.
Uncle Sugar should make the following offer to Americans...
As a once-per-lifetime offer, the government will hand you a million dollars, tax free. In exchange, you waive all rights to welfare, food stamps, section 8 housing, socialist security, medicare, medicaid, Obamacare, Obamafones, etc, etc, etc.
It’s then up to you to manage that money wisely. If you squander it on bling, that’s your tough luck. You get a job or your starve.
“Give them their $15/hour. Fire half of them and leave the other half to work twice as hard.”
Most of these people file for the Earned Income Tax Credit. So, by raising their wage to $15 their EIC will be reduced accordingly. And, being that this is a credit and not a deduction it falls through as a dollar for a dollar. So, the net increase to these fast food workers may not be much if any. However, their labor cost will be shifted away from the tax payer (me) and to the pocketbook of the burger purchaser (not me). So, bottom line, I don’t give a flip (pun intended). Raise it!
The economic argument alone against the minimum wage (reduced employment, higher prices for consumers, etc.), while valid, won’t prevail against the socialists. We need a bold defense of private property proclaiming that American values don’t countenance throwing everyone’s income into one big pot to be divided-up as the politicians ans see fit. The regulators might have a case if employers like McDonald’s monopolized the demand for labor; but this does not wash — we no longer live in a feudal economy where manor lords control the employment of immobile serfs.
I have reservations about the safety of all the others. Chick fil a has the lowest employee turnover in the industry, I've read, so I'm not all that worried.
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