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Fry Cook Shifted to Part-Time Work Confronts Obama
http://www.nationalreview.com ^ | February 4, 2014 11:45 AM | By Andrew Johnson

Posted on 02/04/2014 10:18:26 AM PST by Red Badger

During a Google Hangout session on Friday, fry cook Darnell Summers told President Obama that his hours were cut due to the Affordable Care Act. “We were broken down to part time to avoid paying health insurance,” he said. Summers explained that he makes $7.25 an hour and has been on strike four times seeking a wage increase. “We can’t survive, it’s not livin’,” he said.

The president responded by urging states to increase the minimum wage. “I am working to encourage states, governors, mayors, state legislators to raise their own minimum wage,” Obama said. “Obviously, the way to reach millions of people would be for Congress to pass a new federal minimum wage law. So far, at least, we have not seen support from Republicans for such a move.”

The president did not address Summers’s comments about the healthcare law.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: 0carenightmare; jobs; laborforce; parttimejobs
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To: Red Badger

1st Mate: “Captain! Our boat has a leak! We are sinking. What should we do?”

Captain: “We are gonna have to fish faster then!”


21 posted on 02/04/2014 10:32:15 AM PST by Tenacious 1 (My whimsical litany of satyric prose and avarice pontification of wisdom demonstrates my concinnity.)
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To: SMARTY

> Ask him who he voted for and WHY!

Bingo. We all know who he probably voted for. The Left is now getting to sample the fruits of their idiocy.


22 posted on 02/04/2014 10:32:41 AM PST by jsanders2001
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To: pgkdan

I guess it never occurs to him that he should either start his own restaurant or food service business, or go back to school and get an education that will make all his problems moot..................


23 posted on 02/04/2014 10:33:22 AM PST by Red Badger (Proud member of the Zeta Omicron Tau Fraternity since 2004...................)
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To: Tenacious 1

1st Mate: “Captain! Our boat has a leak! We are sinking. What should we do?”

Captain Obama: Drill a big hole to let the water out!......................


24 posted on 02/04/2014 10:34:18 AM PST by Red Badger (Proud member of the Zeta Omicron Tau Fraternity since 2004...................)
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To: Red Badger

A fry-cook who has gone on strike four times? I can’t imagine why this guy hasn’t been promoted to a higher paying management position! /s


25 posted on 02/04/2014 10:35:38 AM PST by Junk Silver
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To: Red Badger

It really is the goal of Obastard to eliminate full time employees with their private group insurance coverage.

And what better way to do that by forcing an increase in the minimum wage which forces employers to lay off and hire part timers only which means NO BENEFITS which means the US can have a majority of WalMart employees who are stuck with FUBOCare.


26 posted on 02/04/2014 10:36:10 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: txhurl

That’s exactly what the Asian immigrants do around here, anyway. They started with mobile food trucks and go around to construction sites and factories at lunch time. Now they have their own restaurants..................

A local millionaire here was a 14 year old boy on one of the Vietnamese boats full of refugees after the war and came here with literally nothing in his pocket and only the clothes on his back. Now he is a real estate investor and developer....................


27 posted on 02/04/2014 10:37:41 AM PST by Red Badger (Proud member of the Zeta Omicron Tau Fraternity since 2004...................)
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To: Justa

[ So, get another SSN then he can do 58 hrs. Obama has what, four? ]

Gee, it is almost like this administration is “nudging” people into breaking the law... soon to be shoving people...

Why?

Well so they can selectively enforce the law against only the lawbreakers that go against them...


28 posted on 02/04/2014 10:37:42 AM PST by GraceG
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To: Junk Silver

A fry-cook who has gone on strike four times? I can’t imagine why this guy hasn’t been promoted to a higher paying management position! /s

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He seems like a smart fella. I bet he could be the local rep for the International Assocation of Fry Cooks and Floor Mopping Workers Union.


29 posted on 02/04/2014 10:38:40 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: Red Badger

Spare us your sad story Mr. Summers!

Anyone doubt who this chump voted for (and why) the past two presidential elections, and if it were possible, who he’d vote for again in a third presidential election?

Your own racism put you in the position you’re currently in Mr. Summers. Enjoy it!


30 posted on 02/04/2014 10:40:42 AM PST by Artcore
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To: pgkdan

A fry cook has skills. He may end up a chef.


31 posted on 02/04/2014 10:41:21 AM PST by miss marmelstein (Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: Red Badger

Obama’s off-the-record response: “Hey, man. The increase in the minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.40 an hour will make up for the cut in your hours.”


32 posted on 02/04/2014 10:41:26 AM PST by MIchaelTArchangel (Have a wonderful day!)
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To: Red Badger

Okay, let me get this straight.

Darnell said his employer must cut his hours because they cannot afford the cost of Obamacare, right?

And Obama’s response to that is to force the employer to pay even more money to Darnell in wages while at the same time the cost of Obamacare continues to increase.

Is that about right?


33 posted on 02/04/2014 10:43:35 AM PST by Obadiah (I Like Ted.)
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To: jsanders2001

Right, you can bet he voted for “O” because he wanted free stuff.

It never occurred to him how the ‘free stuff’ would be paid for.

How immature and stupid do you have to be to reach adulthood and STILL think there is anything in this world that’s free?


35 posted on 02/04/2014 10:46:58 AM PST by SMARTY ("When you blame others, you give up your power to change." Robert Anthony)
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To: Red Badger

That way when the minimum wage is increased Darnell can be without any job.


36 posted on 02/04/2014 10:47:43 AM PST by Kozak ("Send them back your fierce defiance! Stamp upon the cursed alliance! To arms, to arms in Dixie!)
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To: Red Badger

Takes a lot of money to “start your own restaurant.” Guess nobody here watches “Chopped” to find out how hard restaurant cooks work or how many of them dream to start their own businesses. Rather than beat this guy up, I wish him luck in getting ahead. At least HE’S woken up to Obamacare.


37 posted on 02/04/2014 10:48:07 AM PST by miss marmelstein (Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: Responsibility2nd
I'm tellin’ ya that Obama sure is a genius! He almost as good at math as Jethro Bodine!
38 posted on 02/04/2014 10:49:56 AM PST by Obadiah (I Like Ted.)
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To: Red Badger

I had a minimum wage job once...when I was fifteen...


39 posted on 02/04/2014 10:50:00 AM PST by gogeo (The Republican Party is not ours, it is theirs.)
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To: gogeo

Me, too......I made 65 cents an hour..................


40 posted on 02/04/2014 10:52:40 AM PST by Red Badger (Proud member of the Zeta Omicron Tau Fraternity since 2004...................)
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