Posted on 09/01/2013 9:13:38 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A House Democrat who joined striking fast-food workers in Illinois yesterday said the American economy needs doubled wages for the restaurant workers.
“This gets to the heart of our economic problem in this country which is income inequality. And yes, those arches are made of gold for people like CEO Donald Thompson who makes over $13.7 million in his pay package last year. But I met fast food workers today at McDonald’s who have been working there for a decade and still making $8.50 an hour,” Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) said on MSNBC.
“You cannot live on that kind of wage, and they end up turning to the government for support. So we end up subsidizing Donald Thompson and the profits that McDonald’s,” she added.
Schakowsky said the pay of private entities to workers who choose to take a job there is Congress’ business because “this is an entire industry that is paying poverty wages in this country.”
“Thousands and tens of thousands, maybe millions of people who simply can’t make it on those kinds of wages, and I think that forming a union, getting $15 an hour, which makes a modest income of about $31,000 a year, if you get to work full time, is something that is a proper demand,” she continued.
“And actually these workers are acting — are going to the employers, are going to these companies. I’m standing with them because I think we need it for our economy. If they got paid more, we’re going to see millions of jobs created because there are going to be consumers in the marketplace.”
As far as what Congress can do to compel a higher wage, Schakowsky suggested starting at the executive branch.
“The president could with an executive order do something about the low-wage workers, 2 million of them, that are contract workers for the federal government. That would be a good start,” she said.
“That would be, I think, a very good signal that we don’t think those poverty wages that are paid to millions and millions of workers across the country are good for our economy and certainly not good for those families.”
*ahem* She’s Jewish-Lithuanian-Russian, not Polish.
The clue is that Polish names do not end in -sky.
Shut your pie hole, Jan.
Econ. 101 is not your strong point.
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Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) said on MSNBC.
Why is it that people with the smallest brains, no knowledge about anything, and no perceptible useful experiences have the greatest ideas?
And here I thought only the Congressional Black Caucus were the only ones with a collective IQ of 140...
Yes they will, and the robots already exist:
Eight Types Of Food You Love, Now Made By Robots
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3057376/posts
and they’re outsourcing the drive-thru line:
Fast-food industry tests outsourcing
http://www.blog.infinit-o.com/fast-food-industry-tests-outsourcing/
That is just stupid. That is only $31,000 per year. Also, since Obamacare has created a situation where employers are cutting hours to below 30, we need to establish minimum wage to at least $32/hour. At $50,000 per year fast food and low wagge earners will be much better off.
We should have about 170 million people employed today.
We’re 40 million short. I figured it out recently, and it comes out to something like 22.8% of our potential work-force out of work. And that doesn’t address how many are working for far less than they used to make.
It’s disgusting.
And so what do our pathetic exuses for leaders do, they spent all their time trying to keep our worker’s replacements in country. If the clowns in D. C. were physicians, they’d be paying massive amounts of money for malpractice.
If the minimum wage is ‘a monument to superficial thinking,’ then what is a democRat?
These people are elected by the stupid and clueless who respect these representatives for being so much more stupid and clueless than they are.
My apology. In this case she is American born liberal Jewish woman. I’m not far away ;-))
Put this idiot right up there with Pelosi’s unemployment checks are the best way to build the economy. People that have no concept of economics, or at least how a business works should be kicked out of office. Why is so often that the least capable of serving not only get elected, continually reelected.
She should have been aborted!!!
The real problem isn’t this idiot, but the idiots who elected this idiot.
The answer is that even more idiots vote for them.
Billions!!!
Or even trillions!!!!
The economy would be soooo good that each person would have to work 2 or three jobs...
Oh, wait...
Why don’t these masterminds start a business,
pay the wages they think people deserve
and show us all how it can be done?
They wouldn’t have the first clue how to do such a thing.
They wouldn’t have the first clue how to do such a thing.
“We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.”
Benjamin Franklin
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