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Trying to raise a family on a fast-food salary
Reuters (Opinion) ^ | August 29, 2013 | By Christine Owens-Wanker

Posted on 08/29/2013 9:15:48 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Fast-food workers in more than 50 cities Thursday are striking for fair pay and the right to form a union — the biggest walkout to hit the industry.

What can we do to address this low-wage jobs crisis? Exerting pressure on the fast-food and retail giants that rake in billions in profits is a good starting point. These companies can afford to share more of their wealth with their frontline workers and should be doing so.

Boosting wages for America’s lowest-paid workers is a crucial step toward reducing economic inequality and rebuilding a strong economy. Perhaps 50 years from now, we’ll look back on the fast-food workers’ fight as the catalyst we so desperately needed.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: econ101; marxists; minimumwage; socialism; wankers
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1 posted on 08/29/2013 9:15:48 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What a wanker.


2 posted on 08/29/2013 9:16:45 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Raising those wages actually lowers them because they lose their jobs.


3 posted on 08/29/2013 9:17:25 PM PDT by Fai Mao (Genius at Large)
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To: dfwgator

You can’t make this stuff up.


4 posted on 08/29/2013 9:18:29 PM PDT by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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These are jobs for High School kids to break into the job field and gain some experience and people skills and then move on.

These jobs are stepping stones, not career choices.


5 posted on 08/29/2013 9:19:33 PM PDT by Rodney Dangerfield (Ask the MSM about Christopher Newsom and Channon Christian. Observe the subsequent blank stares.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Hey Wanker! You stuck in a teenager’s entry level burger flipper job? Get an education. Get a job. Get a life!


6 posted on 08/29/2013 9:19:50 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
We went to Mickey D's tonight...on purpose.

Up your nose with a garden hose SEIU.

7 posted on 08/29/2013 9:20:23 PM PDT by stboz
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The R&D budget for industrial robots just got a raise, too.


8 posted on 08/29/2013 9:21:37 PM PDT by zeestephen
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Raise a family on a fast food wage? Probably can’t be done, or not done well. Minimum wage entry level positions are just that, a stepping stone to something better - not a career choice. Yeah, that means you may have to wait, put off your family plans until you move on to something better.


9 posted on 08/29/2013 9:30:14 PM PDT by ThunderSleeps (Stop obarma now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
What is this?

A science fiction thread?!

This is from another planet. With no intelligent life.

10 posted on 08/29/2013 9:34:04 PM PDT by Flycatcher (God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
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To: Rodney Dangerfield

You must be a racist, a homophobe, an imperialist capitalist patriarchal something or other to introduce logic, reason and uhh... math and economics into this.


11 posted on 08/29/2013 9:35:47 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Trying to raise a family on a fast-food salary

Why are you trying to raise a family on a fast-food salary?

Is it because you have lost your higher paying job and this is a bridge job?

Then my sympathy.

If you started a family without having gotten married and having a steady job, then what the heck were you thinking?

And why is a lack of planing on your part a concern on my part?

12 posted on 08/29/2013 9:35:52 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Revenge is a dish best served with pinto beans and muffins)
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To: zeestephen
Here's your next burger-flipper, cretin. Marxist economics doesn't recognize Capital-Labor Substitution and achievement of economic efficiency.


13 posted on 08/29/2013 9:36:28 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: stboz

Union goons like SEIU are the only people that really benefit from this stuff.
They have contracts that tie their wage to the minimum wage.

Minimum wage goes up and your $35 an hour union wage goes up.
Everybody else gets screwed.
Especially people on fixed incomes.


14 posted on 08/29/2013 9:38:07 PM PDT by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
I don't seriously believe that fast food jobs were ever intended to be a career. They were the jobs kids took in the summer and after school, folks looking to make a little extra, and those who just had no options took to make some money, but not a career track.

It is a measure of how bad the economy is when people are trying to raise a family in such a professional position, but it may be equally a measure of the ability of large numbers of current High School (or equivalent--or not) graduates.

If burger flipping is as ambitious as today's workforce gets, we're doomed.

15 posted on 08/29/2013 9:41:07 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

These idiots do realize that raising the minimum wage will have an across the board cost effect and their new higher wage will likely have the same, or slightly less buying power right?

Oh wait, they are working a minimum wage job because they are not smart enough to advance up the ladder.

My bad.


16 posted on 08/29/2013 9:43:38 PM PDT by cableguymn (The founding fathers would be shooting by now..)
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The unions are pushing increasing the minimum wage, because many union contracts are pegged to it.


17 posted on 08/29/2013 9:44:29 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Here's a video of one of the strikers confronting fast food management.
18 posted on 08/29/2013 9:45:35 PM PDT by Maceman (Just say "NO" to tyranny.)
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To: mylife

Exactly. Washington State tied it’s minimum wage to inflation after unions pushed through a ballot initiative. Now the unions get a COL raise each year without having to negotiate for it. Minimum wage is now $ 9.15.


19 posted on 08/29/2013 9:47:28 PM PDT by alpo (What would Selco do?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

When I was a kid I baby sat, worked in a department store for holidays and then part time while in college, the post office during Christmas, my cousins picked berries n the summer. Never did we think these would be our ultimate job. We had better plans that fortunately worked out.


20 posted on 08/29/2013 9:48:57 PM PDT by Aria ( 2008 & 2012 weren't elections - they were coup d'etats.)
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