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Banker’s Insulting Waitress Tip Incites Class Warfare Between the 1% and the 99%
Yahoo News ^ | 27 Feb 2012 | Melissa Knowles

Posted on 02/27/2012 12:04:08 PM PST by Repeat Offender

Just when you may have thought the ongoing battle between the 99% and the 1% was dying down, it may have been reignited. A wealthy banker left a $1.33 tip on a $133 lunch at the True Food Kitchen restaurant in Newport Beach, California.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: economics; minimumwage; ows; tip; tippers; tippings; tips; ungratefulservers
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To: GeronL

“If you can make more on welfare, then it is absolutely logical and conservative to take that choice too.”

This is not a conservative argument. This is a liberal argument.

For a conservative, self-sufficiency overrides convenience and ease. I find it very concerning that you are seriously advocating that it is “conservative” to take welfare and deriding those who are choosing a more self-sufficient route.


141 posted on 02/29/2012 11:28:36 AM PST by Altariel ("Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!")
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To: Altariel

The conservative argument is to take the most rewarding route


142 posted on 02/29/2012 11:59:34 AM PST by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: GeronL

...which would, under no circumstances be “take the government handout”.

What you are suggesting is that it’s better to be supported by people who are actually working than to take a job which has a base salary lower than minimum wage.

That is not a conservative proposition.


143 posted on 02/29/2012 12:53:57 PM PST by Altariel ("Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!")
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