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City Fast Food Workers Walk Off Job to Demand $15 an Hour
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| Wednesday, April 15, 2015
Posted on 04/15/2015 10:31:31 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Red Badger
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posted on
04/15/2015 11:34:31 AM PDT
by
stephenjohnbanker
(My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
To: cuban leaf; All
“I worked at Shakeys for $1.90 an hour. I wanted more money so I went to drafting school. Then I got $5.75 an hour. I wanted more money so I went to COBOL programming school. Then I moved to $6.75 and peaked at $125 an hour.
If someone wants more money, they make themselves more valuable - or get used to driving an old Vega.”
POST OF THE DAY.
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posted on
04/15/2015 11:35:40 AM PDT
by
stephenjohnbanker
(My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
To: stephenjohnbanker
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posted on
04/15/2015 11:37:31 AM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(The question, Jeb Bush? The answer: NO! Rove, is a devious propagandist & enemy of Conservatives!)
To: stephenjohnbanker; cuban leaf; All
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posted on
04/15/2015 11:37:43 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
To: envisio
then fast food managers reach into their desks and sort through 100 applications and have them replaced by the end of the day. They fixed that with their never ending conga-line of millions of low wage workers $$.
Profits regardless of consequences.
What difference does it make right?
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posted on
04/15/2015 11:38:47 AM PDT
by
dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
To: nickcarraway
America is beginning to show more of thise early signs pointing toward collapse.
To: dfwgator
One of my favorite scenes!
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posted on
04/15/2015 11:46:44 AM PDT
by
cuban leaf
(The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
To: nickcarraway
The dumbing down of the American youth really worked.
It seems like the average modern 25-30 y/o is the equivalent of the average 18-19 y/o of say the 1980’s? You almost are required to treat them like children they are so clueless.
Many of them have not even attempted to leave home or if they did it was for a few month and then back to moms. Where they pay little or not rent. Do not save any money for the future. Mom does their laundry, even cooks and cleans their room?
Its really kind of embarrassing. Adult children.
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posted on
04/15/2015 11:48:55 AM PDT
by
Leep
(To put it in laymen's terms liberal/progressive ist coo coo.)
To: nickcarraway
“Every month, I make two-thirds of my rent, and that’s the only thing I can do, is pay my rent. I can’t buy food, I can’t buy toiletries, I can’t treat my grandchildren to a day out,” said one person at the protest. “It’s very difficult.”
...
That’s what happens when you spend your entire lifetime voting for Big Government and tolerating its corruption in exchange for entitlements.
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posted on
04/15/2015 11:50:07 AM PDT
by
Moonman62
(The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
To: cuban leaf
Some people will never make more than minimum wage. They need to be told that minimum wage was never meant to support a family of four. In many places it cannot support a single person without pitching in and room with two or three other workers.
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posted on
04/15/2015 11:55:41 AM PDT
by
Chickensoup
(Leftist totalitarian fascism is on the move.)
To: stephenjohnbanker
You’re probably old enough to remember when fast food was termed “McJobs” by Pelosi.
In the Baraqqi Depression they are suddenly supposed to provide a middle class living for a family of 4.
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posted on
04/15/2015 11:55:42 AM PDT
by
nascarnation
(Impeach, convict, deport)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
04/15/2015 11:57:36 AM PDT
by
Vaquero
(Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: nascarnation
” Youre probably old enough to remember when fast food was termed McJobs by Pelosi.”
Heck, I’m old enough to remember when 45 cents bought a burger, fries and a shake at McD’s.
“In the Baraqqi Depression they are suddenly supposed to provide a middle class living for a family of 4.”
If they work 120 hours a week, they will be fine : )
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posted on
04/15/2015 12:02:27 PM PDT
by
stephenjohnbanker
(My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
To: nickcarraway
Many workers taking place in today's protest say that they work 40 hours a week and still don't make enough to cover their rent and the basic costs of living. Those jobs are typically for teenagers so that they can buy gas and enjoy life a little. Who in his right mind would even mistake one of those jobs for one that could support a family?
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posted on
04/15/2015 12:26:01 PM PDT
by
GingisK
To: Chickensoup
Some people will never make more than minimum wage.
Why is that?
It does appear that some will work many, many hours just to survive. Well, unless we have a welfare state. ;-)
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posted on
04/15/2015 12:32:24 PM PDT
by
cuban leaf
(The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
To: nickcarraway
$8.75 an hour comes out to $1400 a month. If that's 2/3 of your rent, maybe you should be finding a roommate or a smaller place. I highly doubt $2k/mo is the cheapest place you can find. Then maybe you can take the grandkids out!
If you have a wife and 4 kids, not sure why you're living in an expensive city, and working at Mickey D's. I'm sure your local community college has a cheap (maybe free!) short class on how to build a budget.
To: cuban leaf
Why is that?
It does appear that some will work many, many hours just to survive. Well, unless we have a welfare state. ;-)
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because some are just not intelligent enough, motivated enough, disabled, uninterested, or unfocused.
There will always be impoverished and low wage earners. Very rarely did these people expect to have more, and they were fixutres in their families homes, caring for parents, babysitting and doing small jobs. Not a bad life back then.
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posted on
04/15/2015 1:59:16 PM PDT
by
Chickensoup
(Leftist totalitarian fascism is on the move.)
To: nickcarraway
So the fast food places give in and pay them all $15 an hour. What do you bet within five years that won't be enough. Then it will be "we need 20...uh...25...uh no...30 dollars an hour. Yeah. No wait... 40 dollars an hour."
It will never end.
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posted on
04/15/2015 3:32:35 PM PDT
by
driftless2
(For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
To: Vigilanteman
Excellent point. And once all the withholding taxes are taken out of his check, he's probably lucky to take home $7 per hour.With five dependents and a minimum wage job, he's not paying any taxes. In fact he gets a goodly sum in the form of the Earned Income Tax Credit EITC.
To: hinckley buzzard
He's paying social security, state unemployment and other assorted taxes at minimum. He probably even blames his company for withholding those taxes.
He may even opt for Federal Withholding because he loves all the money he gets back in February or March. And people of this intelligence level thinks the EITC comes from the great and benevolent federal government.
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posted on
04/16/2015 5:44:56 AM PDT
by
Vigilanteman
(Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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