Posted on 02/18/2017 8:22:47 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
You have hit on a big point that the author of the study and most commenters are missing. A universal $15 per hour minimum wage will not just add to labor costs at the restaurant worker level. It will add to labor costs at the farm,at the processing level and the distribution level. So the fast food restaurant will pay more for all ingredients and packaging, even before they have their own labor costs.
This madness needs to stop. A minimum wage is Not a living wage. It is a starting wage or a supplemental wage. Is there for young people with no skills or no experience to get started, or old folks to get some supplemental income.
Raising that wage is a war against the young and the elderly in our society. And anyone claiming to have worked 20 years for minimum wage only have themselves to blame
Eaten routinely by fake journalists everywhere.
Can confirm a similar experience from a missionary friend of the family, though it was half a decade ago. They thought they’d try a local diner instead of McDonald’s and literally thought they’d been served a ratburger. Tossed it and prayed, they had no way to tell and the staff acted insulted for them asking.
I’ve been repeatedly warned about eating any kind of meat overseas that doesn’t very obviously come from an American-run or supplied store. Western but non-American sources treat with caution, anything else visually verify the meat source, or buy it yourself at the market/bodega/whatever and have it cooked. Otherwise just don’t eat it period. There’s a reason many non-Westerners don’t eat meat much and it’s not because it’s expensive...it’s because a frightening amount of questionable sources of ‘meat’ end up in the pot or on the grill. Rats, various bushmeat, etc.
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