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Fast Food Strikes Underline Big National Problem
CBS Money Watch ^ | August 29, 2013 | Erik Sherman

Posted on 08/29/2013 9:16:20 AM PDT by Biggirl

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To: Vince Ferrer

Also the local restraunts will very much benifit because the unions will leave those places alone.


21 posted on 08/29/2013 9:40:29 AM PDT by Biggirl (“Go, do not be afraid, and serve”-Pope Francis)
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To: Biggirl

Guess these fast food workers are not familiar with the Twinkie Syndrome.


22 posted on 08/29/2013 9:42:42 AM PDT by LuvFreeRepublic
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To: Darnright

The side benefit of eat at a local eatery is more of your money stays in your town.

When you eat at a franchise most of the money leaves town and may even go overseas to pay for product.


23 posted on 08/29/2013 9:44:44 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Grams A

The local businesses will see a boom.


24 posted on 08/29/2013 9:45:27 AM PDT by Biggirl (“Go, do not be afraid, and serve”-Pope Francis)
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To: Maceman

Hahaha. Plenty of unemployed people would love to work at a fast food place to help make ends meet. Fire all the strikers.


25 posted on 08/29/2013 9:49:48 AM PDT by matt04
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To: wbill

The techs who used to build that kind of machinery in the US used to make twice that $15 an hour for their talents. Now, those same people may make $15 an hour on the high end, due to competition from outsourcing to communist Asian countries, or employers using that excuse to drive the wage scale down. More than likely, those fast food employees were probably those very same people at one time. Welcome to the new reality, where thanks to outsourcing and inflation, we now have a permanent unemployed underclass, that we will have to pay for with all of the money we saved by outsourcing all of their jobs, along with making it impossible for them to get out of the vicious cycle.


26 posted on 08/29/2013 9:50:54 AM PDT by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it.)
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To: Biggirl

Robots will replace the fast food worker if they get their way.


27 posted on 08/29/2013 9:51:51 AM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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Only Three Days Until
September.

Less than $4.8k to Go!!
Keep FR Alive with $25!!

28 posted on 08/29/2013 9:52:14 AM PDT by RedMDer (http://www.dontfundobamacare.com/)
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To: Biggirl
bolstered by support from labor unions, churches, and other groups

I'm sick of these news organizations referring to these "churches" as a "church." They are community agitators that use the Bible to get NFP/tax-free status.

29 posted on 08/29/2013 9:53:06 AM PDT by matt04
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To: Biggirl

In equation form:

minimum skills + minimum ambition = minimum value to employer = minimum wage


30 posted on 08/29/2013 9:53:32 AM PDT by Bob
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To: Biggirl

THE BIG NATIONAL PROBLEM IS DEMOCRATS, PROGRESSIVE REPUBLICANS AND THEIR COMMUNISM... END OF STORY.


31 posted on 08/29/2013 9:53:50 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS!)
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To: Biggirl

My McDonald’s was operating as usual this morning. But I live in SC.


32 posted on 08/29/2013 9:54:26 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: LuvFreeRepublic

The unions probably never told the LIP (Low Info Protesters) about it.


33 posted on 08/29/2013 9:54:57 AM PDT by matt04
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To: matt04

Agreed. The likes of Jackson and Sharptons’ “church”.


34 posted on 08/29/2013 9:55:32 AM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: Biggirl

Anybody actually see the fast food workers in their area striking? Nobody striking here in Philadelphia, at least not that I’ve seen


35 posted on 08/29/2013 9:57:48 AM PDT by old and tired
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To: b4its2late

I think you’re right. And the robot won’t urinate, deficate or masturbate in the food.


36 posted on 08/29/2013 9:57:57 AM PDT by Brasky (You miss every shot you never take)
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To: wbill

Not to mention you don’t have to worry about robots spitting on your food.


37 posted on 08/29/2013 9:59:16 AM PDT by Zack Attack
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To: Brasky

Lol. Similar thought at almost the same time.


38 posted on 08/29/2013 10:00:14 AM PDT by Zack Attack
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To: Biggirl
Striking for a measly 15 bucks?!?!?

Make it worthwhile and go for 30 bucks!

Who can afford a Mercedes, 5 bedroom house, country club membership, yacht and student loans for majors in Womyn's Studies or African-American Kwanzaa Graphic Art Design on 15 bucks?!?!

The FF owners are sitting on piles of ready cash and not spreading it around to the adorable workers!

The owners don't do any work themselves!

< /sarcasm >

39 posted on 08/29/2013 10:02:43 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys=Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat, but they know what's best for you.)
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To: Darnright

Got Chinese take-out the other day. Chicken Egg Foo Yung. Enough for three lunches! $7.00,,,, +$1.50 into the tip jar. That always gets you a bigger meal.


40 posted on 08/29/2013 10:03:19 AM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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