“....simply ignore economic reality.”
In the era of Obama, most Americans are ignoring reality in one way or another.
Yes, private ownership doesn’t enter into the equation at all.
Take one restaurant and ask the question: “What are the bills?” and you’ll probably get a glassy-eyed stare. Mortgage, electric, sewage, tax, product, supplies, wages, benefits, advertising, utilities, transportation, communications, etc., all go into that business.
If there’s nothing left over for the owner, then why should he keep his money there?
With the price of capital these days, it isn’t that hard to justify replacing a $15/hr job.
Robot hamburger factory makes 360 Gourmet Burgers every hour...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3100817/posts
Watch This Vending Machine Make Pizza
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3159855/posts
The $15 an hour crowd obviously doesn’t watch Restaurant Impossible and Kitchen Nightmares.
Why can’t conservative groups cut a humorous ad mocking these protests?
Throw these morons out on their butts. Cut off their welfare. Let them starve, riot, and die. I am tired of supporting cockroaches!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmXLqImT1wE
It is already made, fifty years ago. They just have to update the machinery so it can be made by the slaves in China.
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Give them the raise. The working poor are among the hardest working people in America. And the work many of them do is vital to keeping our businesses and homes and hospitals functioning. They deserve decent pay.
For Compare/Contrast:
In St. Louis County, the Beverly Hills Police Department starts at 12 dollars an hour.
Training requirement: 600 hours of police academy, minimum. Most academies are over a thousand hours of training now.
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“...sawing off of that first rung on the economic ladder of success.:
They sawed that off back at $7.25/hour. I’m hard-pressed to find anyone in this uber-liberal ‘haven’ that’s worth even THAT much to me!