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McDonald's boss says he's "proud" of wages as thousands of workers call for a rise

Re: McDonald's boss says he's "proud" of wages as thousands of workers call for a ris

This of course as his company starts testing workers that don't require absurd pay levels for doing nothing...

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Lets put this into persepective. Burger flippers want $15/hour. Do you guys know how much you pay your EMT's staffing your community ambulance? The median is around $12/hr. No wonder so many of us get burned out so fast.

So consider that. All these people fighting for burger flippers...when 911 isn't even properly paid. No one's fighting for us...and you actually need us...unlike the burger flippers lol. Puts the world into some real perspective.

EMTs only get twelve bucks an hour on average?

That's outrageous.

Burger flippers getting minimum wage is OK by me. That sort of job should be staffed by teens making pocket money anyway. EMT should be a well paid semi professional job, IMO, so that quality people are attracted to the work.
 
Re: McDonald's boss says he's "proud" of wages as thousands of workers call for a ris

That article seems insufficient. How about the minimum wage worker at the farms McDonalds gets the food from. The cost of their food goes up. How about the MW increases impact on the cost of the manufacture of the paper goods. Etc, etc.

And that's why I provided a second reference.
 
Re: McDonald's boss says he's "proud" of wages as thousands of workers call for a ris

Oh please. Stop embarassing your self. When Heritage states a fact, it's fact.

Really? So when the Heritage Foundation first began trumpeting their big idea for health care coverage - what we today call OBAMACARE - it was a fact and they were right? I really look forward to your reply on that one! :lol:

FYI, even though I'm a strong progressive, I don't automatically dismiss what the Heritage Foundation says - and I do have a healthy respect for the Cato Institute. They're not automatically right...but neither are they automatically wrong. That's why I honestly read and consider what they say, for if I don't do so, how can I possibly get all sides of the story?
 
Re: McDonald's boss says he's "proud" of wages as thousands of workers call for a ris

I never said 15.00 an hour was a high wage. I still maintain that anyone staying in an entry level position is not motivated or has reached their level of incompetency.

I AM out of touch with the work force today. I AM RETIRED!!!!! I spent a long time saving my money so I could RETIRE. We lived well below our means for decades to save for retirement. When I got back from Iraq the Army said I my hearing was shot so they retired me. I worked as a roofer, taco bender, steel worker, auto mechanic, carpet layer, framer, electrician, bucked hay, day labor doing whatever they had for me that day and finally aircraft mechanic. I took a lot of low paying jobs just to eat and pay for gas. That is how you earn something. Nobody is owed anything. Nobody deserves anything until they earn it.

Oh yeah, in two years my wife will retire too and both of us will be RETIRED!!! Just two old farts and a dog wandering around in the mountains enjoying being RETIRED!!!!

My first job was at Taco Bell at 3.65 an hour, that was in the 70's.

So enjoy that socialist program we call "Social Security"!

But that's a snarky and undeserved remark, so I apologize for it (even though I'm leaving it there). I can retire today, too - retired military, own a house overseas outright - but we've got too many responsibilities to take care of first - gotta make sure that the rest of the family's in a good situation (not by giving them money, but by giving them guidance and opportunity).

Good on you that you were able to save for your retirement - that takes a lot of self-discipline. But here's the rub: just because you are able to do something doesn't mean that you should expect everyone else to do what you did. Different people have different challenges to overcome, and many of them have challenges you probably never faced...some of which are probably far more difficult than you might think.

For instance, I remember back in the Navy, there was this woman who had two daughters. She was an alcoholic slut, pure and simple - her oldest daughter told my best friend (who ended up marrying her) that one night her mom had brought home three men, one for herself, and one for each of her daughters. At seventeen, the oldest daughter had two children and at fifteen, the youngest had one daughter and had had an abortion. And this was at a time when underage sex didn't carry the stigma that it does today.

Now think about what these girls had to face, what they had to overcome. They'd lived their lives being raised by this alcoholic slut, and before they were eighteen, they both were saddled with babies of their own. They were immediately on the public dole and were much more likely to wind up with people on the wrong side of the law. Was it the fault of these girls? No. They weren't bad girls, but simply got handed a crappy roll of the dice...and they were facing a social and financial cliff-climb that you likely never dreamt of.

Same thing with the parents of my medically-fragile Foster child. He has fetal drug syndrome - has a trach, g-tube, rods in his back, seizure disorders (had a serious seizure at 4AM this morning), developmentally disabled, cleft palate, scoliosis...yeah, he's got all that. His mother did drugs while she was pregnant. But do we blame her? How can we? We don't know what kind of situation she was in - maybe she was essentially forced to do drugs like the two sisters I described above were forced to have sex with strangers by their mother.

My point is, good on you for what you did, what you accomplished - but it's a mistake to expect everyone else to be able to do what you did.
 
Re: McDonald's boss says he's "proud" of wages as thousands of workers call for a ris

That is exactly the federal governments job, when people are being taken advantage of, their job is to fix it. They've done it numerous times with the highway system, military, and federally mandated minimum wage.



I would never want someone to do what I did to escape the black hole that is the Midwest.

Edit* It lies with the employers when they making people work below the standard of living required to not be on government assistance.

AMEN! And what you said about the Midwest is sorta like how I describe my home state of Mississippi to others: "Mississippi - it's a wonderful place to be away from!"
 
Re: McDonald's boss says he's "proud" of wages as thousands of workers call for a ris

Good news for the unemployed, there will be a bunch of job openings at McDonald's soon. Kwanza Brooks and Terrence Wise are soon to be on unemployment as well as food stamps. And if you've been making $8 an hour for the last 11 years and working at a fast food joint you're dumb as a sack of hammers and lucky to be getting $8 an hour.

Last time I checked it was underemployment was a problem... Or is underemployment now a "good thing" as well?
 
Re: McDonald's boss says he's "proud" of wages as thousands of workers call for a ris

And that's why I provided a second reference.

Great. Then you realize that hte price of McDonalds would go up far more than indicated in the initial reference.
 
Re: McDonald's boss says he's "proud" of wages as thousands of workers call for a ris

I have a very good friend who is very liberal. We were talking about something political and he said something which I think describes the political dichotomy perfectly. He said I don't know what I think but I know how I feel. This is the way liberals feel about the minimum wage. They feel that entry level workers need more money but they don't think about the industries affected. I'm tired of saying this. You can't uncouple productivity and wages. If a job doesn't financially justify itself financially it will go away and minimum wage becomes unemployment.

If you want to raise all boats and see entry level jobs pay more there is only one way that's sustainable. Full employment. While we have successfully transformed outr economy to a service economy and away from manufacturing, primarily because of labor costs, growth of the economy is what we need. The market will take care of wages if there is competition for employees. It's happened in my furniture manufacturing business and it's happening in North Dakotas oil fields. Bernie Sanders says that the real unemployment number is thirteen percent. The reason is the administrations management of the economy. Wall Street is doing great and main street not so much. Wall street is succeeding because Janet Yellen keeps pumping and is keeping interests artificially low. Printing all that cash won't end well. The health insurance law prohibits growth and is making a mess of the insurance industry. We have taken all the wrong financial steps to recover from the great recession.

So, some people are suffering and Obama believes that Keynesian economics has a better feel than real prow business, pro growth policies because, God forbid, people who take risks and own businesses might make more than people at the lower end of the socioeconomic ladder. I guess that throws the rising tide theory out the window.

But with the exception of Obama's stimulus (which itself was too small and a third of it was tax cuts), he hasn't really been able to implement any truly Keynesian measures, mostly because the Republicans in Congress were able to prevent it. So he and the Fed have been forced to consider other measures in order to stimulate the economy.

And when you say, "the market will take care of wages", that's true when it comes to highly-skilled workers...but not when it comes to entry-level workers. Look at the world around you and ask yourself what democracies out there have a significant minimum wage (or strong unionization like Germany), and what nations don't. Without exception, the first-world democracies have a strong minimum wage, and the third-world democracies don't. Why? Because when it comes to entry-level workers, if there is no government-enforce mandate for a significant minimum wage, the wage floor starts going lower and lower. I've got a house and a lot of family in one of these countries - I spend a lot of time there (I'm going there next month) and this really is how it works for entry-level workers in a nation where there is no significant government-enforced minimum wage.
 
Re: McDonald's boss says he's "proud" of wages as thousands of workers call for a ris

No! you cherry picked the earliest year of 1970 to make $3.65 equal to $22.
CPI Inflation Calculator
The 1970's are from 1970 to 1979, Minimum wage was only close to $3.65 in 1979,
While it is not accurate,(Because minimum wage in 1979 was only $2.90),
$3.65 in 1979 would be $11.90, again with your calculator,
CPI Inflation Calculator
On a side note Conservative must have been a kick A$$ taco maker to make $3.65
in the 70's!

No, I didn't cherry pick anything. I replied directly to what he said. I'll even quote it for you.

My first job was at Taco Bell at 3.65 an hour, that was in the 70's.
If you want to use 1979 by all means, use 1979. That still means they paid people $3+ more in 1979 than they do currently. Either way its an abomination of our workforce, that such a large number of people are under employed, simply because employers are slowly turning back into the issues from the 1940s.

Productivity has never been higher and we are paying people less than what they were paid in the 70s.
 
Re: McDonald's boss says he's "proud" of wages as thousands of workers call for a ris

Where is that described in the Constitution as the responsibility of the Federal Govt. to tell a private business what to pay its workers? That isn't what this country was built on and like far too many liberals you think only with your heart and not your brain. That plus you never respond as to why that isn't a state and local responsibility?

The highway system has nothing to do with this issue as it is funded by the excise taxes you pay when you buy gasoline or other petroleum taxes. It is a use tax.

No one held a gun to anyone's head to work for minimum wage. Why won't you answer the question, do you work for minimum wage and if so why?

I was born in Seattle, grew up in the Midwest and know you have no idea what you are talking about when you call it a black hole. One of these days you are going to learn how business works and if you don't like the economy here, Europe is a great place for you
Why does everything have to come down from the Constitution with people like you, I'll never understand that. Just so you know, not every law is automatically pushed up against the Constitution, however if you'd like to read about the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 by all means. Read up on the court cases concerning it. I'll even link you to one of them: Anderson v. Mt. Clemens Pottery Co. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Now that, that is out of the way lets move on to more fun things.

You are right, no one has held a gun to someones head to work for minimum wage for a few decades. I'm glad that time period is over personally.

I've said repeatedly I don't work for minimum wage, yet I did for many years back in the MidWest and that leads me to believe you don't know what the Midwest actually is. If you think it isn't an economic sink hole for the majority of its residents than you really need to get out of that large city midwest setting and go see the actual Midwest.

The economy in the Seattle area is amazing and decades ahead of what I had to deal with in the Real™ MidWest™ (Trademarked of course). I'm sorry you still live there.

The things I had to do, to get out of the area... No one should be forced to do them, ever.
 
Re: McDonald's boss says he's "proud" of wages as thousands of workers call for a ris

Really? So when the Heritage Foundation first began trumpeting their big idea for health care coverage - what we today call OBAMACARE - it was a fact and they were right? I really look forward to your reply on that one! :lol:

FYI, even though I'm a strong progressive, I don't automatically dismiss what the Heritage Foundation says - and I do have a healthy respect for the Cato Institute. They're not automatically right...but neither are they automatically wrong. That's why I honestly read and consider what they say, for if I don't do so, how can I possibly get all sides of the story?
You're conflating opinion with facts. When Heritage says 'the minimum wage is a bad idea', that is opinion. It could be right , it could be wrong.
However, when Heritage says 2/3 of minimum wage workers get a raise in the first year, you can be pretty sure that is what happened. In fact they almost always footnote such statements to show where they got it from.
 
Re: McDonald's boss says he's "proud" of wages as thousands of workers call for a ris

No, I didn't cherry pick anything. I replied directly to what he said. I'll even quote it for you.


If you want to use 1979 by all means, use 1979. That still means they paid people $3+ more in 1979 than they do currently. Either way its an abomination of our workforce, that such a large number of people are under employed, simply because employers are slowly turning back into the issues from the 1940s.

Productivity has never been higher and we are paying people less than what they were paid in the 70s.


you all have to stop using productivity as a measurement

all uses of that went out the window in the late 70's with the advent of the personal computer, and in the 80's and 90's with machinery and automation

we will ALWAYS be higher now than we were before.....forever more

and ALMOST NONE OF IT is because of the human element

it is also why the rich have gotten richer.....they invested in machines, and computers and are reaping the benefits of such
 
Re: McDonald's boss says he's "proud" of wages as thousands of workers call for a ris

But with the exception of Obama's stimulus (which itself was too small and a third of it was tax cuts), he hasn't really been able to implement any truly Keynesian measures, mostly because the Republicans in Congress were able to prevent it. So he and the Fed have been forced to consider other measures in order to stimulate the economy.

And when you say, "the market will take care of wages", that's true when it comes to highly-skilled workers...but not when it comes to entry-level workers. Look at the world around you and ask yourself what democracies out there have a significant minimum wage (or strong unionization like Germany), and what nations don't. Without exception, the first-world democracies have a strong minimum wage, and the third-world democracies don't. Why? Because when it comes to entry-level workers, if there is no government-enforce mandate for a significant minimum wage, the wage floor starts going lower and lower. I've got a house and a lot of family in one of these countries - I spend a lot of time there (I'm going there next month) and this really is how it works for entry-level workers in a nation where there is no significant government-enforced minimum wage.

There were no tax cuts in the Obama stimulus but rather a tax rebate as your taxes stayed the same. Most of the Obama stimulus had strings tied to it which again shows how little he understood about the U.S. economy and how little his supporters know.
 
Re: McDonald's boss says he's "proud" of wages as thousands of workers call for a ris

you all have to stop using productivity as a measurement

all uses of that went out the window in the late 70's with the advent of the personal computer, and in the 80's and 90's with machinery and automation

we will ALWAYS be higher now than we were before.....forever more

and ALMOST NONE OF IT is because of the human element

it is also why the rich have gotten richer.....they invested in machines, and computers and are reaping the benefits of such
That is completely based on the human element. We invented the machines and productivity is exponentially higher and instead of paying people the correct amount based on productivity we've dumbed down their wages.

There was a movie based around such BS back in the 1990s, perhaps you've heard of it, "Office Space", shortly after that movie came out, a lot of companies began to offer "bonus" incentives and continue to do so, which brought productivity and happiness back up. We are once again in a wage slump thanks to inflation and we need to have higher wages to fix the issue of underemployment as the lies fed to us by the "don't tax the job creators".
 
Re: McDonald's boss says he's "proud" of wages as thousands of workers call for a ris

That is completely based on the human element. We invented the machines and productivity is exponentially higher and instead of paying people the correct amount based on productivity we've dumbed down their wages.

There was a movie based around such BS back in the 1990s, perhaps you've heard of it, "Office Space", shortly after that movie came out, a lot of companies began to offer "bonus" incentives and continue to do so, which brought productivity and happiness back up. We are once again in a wage slump thanks to inflation and we need to have higher wages to fix the issue of underemployment as the lies fed to us by the "don't tax the job creators".


and the engineers who design the computers are making good money

the guys who program them are doing okay too

and the ones that fix the machines are getting paid also

as technology advances certain jobs become obsolete.....and the people doing those jobs must train to do other work

the blue collar line workers for the most part are gone.....now you need more than a basic high school education to get ahead

you need technical, vocational, or higher education to get the better paying jobs

"can i get you you fries with that" is only worth x dollars to an employer

nothing you say will ever change that fact......
 
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There were no tax cuts in the Obama stimulus but rather a tax rebate as your taxes stayed the same. Most of the Obama stimulus had strings tied to it which again shows how little he understood about the U.S. economy and how little his supporters know.

Google 'bikini graph' and look what happened after the stimulus took effect.
 
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Google 'bikini graph' and look what happened after the stimulus took effect.

When the stimulus took place there were 142 million working Americans, two years later there were 139 million working Americans. That doesn't sound like a success to me nor does it answer the question about the tax cuts. There was a 500 rebate check given to taxpayers but there was no tax cuts other than strings attached for doing certain things. That is micromanaging a private sector economy and that is failure.

Labor Force Statistics from the Current Population Survey
Original Data Value

Series Id: LNS12000000
Seasonally Adjusted
Series title: (Seas) Employment Level
Labor force status: Employed
Type of data: Number in thousands
Age: 16 years and over
Years: 1980 to 2013

Year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2008 146378 146156 146086 146132 145908 145737 145532 145203 145076 144802 144100 143369
2009 142153 141644 140721 140652 140250 140005 139898 139481 138810 138421 138665 138025
2010 138439 138624 138767 139296 139255 139148 139167 139405 139388 139097 139046 139295
2011 139253 139471 139643 139606 139681 139405 139509 139870 140164 140314 140771 140896

Let's see if a progressive can apologize and admit when wrong?
 
Re: McDonald's boss says he's "proud" of wages as thousands of workers call for a ris

and the engineers who design the computers are making good money

the guys who program them are doing okay too

and the ones that fix the machines are getting paid also

as technology advances certain jobs become obsolete.....and the people doing those jobs must train to do other work

the blue collar line workers for the most part are gone.....now you need more than a basic high school education to get ahead

you need technical, vocational, or higher education to get the better paying jobs

"can i get you you fries with that" is only worth x dollars to an employer

nothing you say will ever change that fact......
There will always be jobs like "Do you want fries with that?".

They may not be specifically like that, but they will be there. Paying people a living wage for doing those jobs does not hurt the economy nor the business.
 
Re: McDonald's boss says he's "proud" of wages as thousands of workers call for a ris

There will always be jobs like "Do you want fries with that?".

They may not be specifically like that, but they will be there. Paying people a living wage for doing those jobs does not hurt the economy nor the business.

You have shown no evidence that you have any idea how business works as well as never holding people accountable for the poor choices they make. Your social engineering is what caused the problems we have today. Start your own business, make the investment, be the last person paid, and have someone else tell you what to pay your employees. Make sense to you?
 
Re: McDonald's boss says he's "proud" of wages as thousands of workers call for a ris

You have shown no evidence that you have any idea how business works as well as never holding people accountable for the poor choices they make. Your social engineering is what caused the problems we have today. Start your own business, make the investment, be the last person paid, and have someone else tell you what to pay your employees. Make sense to you?
You haven't shown anything, other then preferring to hear propaganda from a conservative think tank.

While that is great and all, I can see how out of touch some people are on here with what exactly we are talking about. Apparently no matter how much it is explained some people won't get it. Which is fine, but continuing to be willfully ignorant is kind of silly.

I'd personally prefer to keep my life as it is, unknown, because of previous internet trust issues. Which I hope you can understand. :)
 
Re: McDonald's boss says he's "proud" of wages as thousands of workers call for a ris

You haven't shown anything, other then preferring to hear propaganda from a conservative think tank.

While that is great and all, I can see how out of touch some people are on here with what exactly we are talking about. Apparently no matter how much it is explained some people won't get it. Which is fine, but continuing to be willfully ignorant is kind of silly.

I'd personally prefer to keep my life as it is, unknown, because of previous internet trust issues. Which I hope you can understand. :)

What you don't seem to get is personal responsibility as well as wages being a state and local issue not a federal issue. You have given no reason to change that or prove why the Federal Govt. should get involved in setting wages a private sector business pays its workers. What you are doing is thinking solely with your heart and not your brain. Cost of living varies by city and state and that is where the responsibility rests for establishing business policies, not at the Federal Level.
 
Re: McDonald's boss says he's "proud" of wages as thousands of workers call for a ris

What you don't seem to get is personal responsibility as well as wages being a state and local issue not a federal issue. You have given no reason to change that or prove why the Federal Govt. should get involved in setting wages a private sector business pays its workers. What you are doing is thinking solely with your heart and not your brain. Cost of living varies by city and state and that is where the responsibility rests for establishing business policies, not at the Federal Level.
It is a federal issue, it was made a federal issue back in the 1930s. If you don't it to be a federal issue then get that law repealed but good luck with that.

I'm sorry but you don't have anything to really stand on with this point.

This has nothing to do with personal feelings, it has to do with personal experience and what I've seen from my friends who still live in that black hole of a state. There are quite a few people who can relate too. I'd love to see someone like you, go live on minimum wage in these states where the cost of living is "so low" but so are your wages. They are so low that if you don't own a car, you can't afford one and if you can afford one then you are short on rent, electric, phone, etc.

This basic principle is something that isn't being understood. I'll even use raw numbers from the time I used to live back there.

So, my rent was $430 a month (Single Bedroom, 450sq ft) in the middle of DT (where I shouldn't need a car, I had one though). The nearest job that paid minimum wage and was hiring was 5 mi outside of the DT, which requires a car as there is no public transit past 5 pm and before 8 am.

Electric was anywhere from $45 to $150 (depending upon time of year, spring and fall were best rates so lets go with an average of $97).

I didn't have a car payment, thankfully but insurance was still $100 a month (I wasn't young either(over 25) and it wasn't a fancy car (Pontiac Sunfire)).

So, working minimum wage at 80hrs a week would equal 580 for two weeks. $1160 a month (before taxes) after (single, no kids) 986$~.

986-627 = 359 left over, groceries are around ~200 a month, leaving ~159 for a month.

This says nothing about gas, needed to get to and from work.

Like I said, out of touch with minimum wage.
 
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When the stimulus took place there were 142 million working Americans, two years later there were 139 million working Americans. That doesn't sound like a success to me nor does it answer the question about the tax cuts. There was a 500 rebate check given to taxpayers but there was no tax cuts other than strings attached for doing certain things. That is micromanaging a private sector economy and that is failure.



Let's see if a progressive can apologize and admit when wrong?

And you really don't understand how those numbers are compiled, do you? There were many who decided to drop out of the workforce, who said to heck with continuing to work if they no longer needed to. And before you snort at this, there's a LOT of senior citizens out there who work who don't have to work but do so anyway just to stay busy...and I understand how they feel.

What's more, the day Obama took over we were losing over half a million jobs PER FREAKING MONTH. He was handed the worst economic crap sandwich since the Great Depression. What's the jobless rate now? 5.5 percent? And we're STILL in the middle of the longest private-sector job growth streak in ALL AMERICAN HISTORY.

Yeah, YOUR Great Recession was tough for most people (it drove me into bankruptcy and caused us to let our house go into foreclosure), and it's still tough for a lot of people...but we're a heck of a lot better off than we were the day Obama took over...

...and what I was taught from day one in my career is when you stand a watch, you leave it better off than when you started it. Obama's DONE that. If you had even the least ability to pull your head out of the right-wing echo chamber, you'd realize that with his accomplishments, if he'd had that (R) behind his name, y'all would be screaming to have his face added to Mount Rushmore. But he's got that (D) - never mind about his name or the shade of his skin - therefore nothing he does can ever be considered good or right no matter what.

But you're going to listen to none of this and I'm just wasting my time with you. You go ahead and have the last word. I won't reply.
 
Re: McDonald's boss says he's "proud" of wages as thousands of workers call for a ris

Fight the good fight! Nobody working full time in the United States should be living in poverty.

McDonald's boss says he's "proud" of wages as thousands of workers call for a rise | Business | The Guardian

Thousands of McDonald’s employees and union activists descended on the company’s headquarters near Chicago on Thursday to hold the biggest ever protest against “poverty wages” paid to most of its 400,000 employees, as the company’s board gathered for its annual shareholder meeting. About 5,000 McDonald’s employees from across the US chanted: “We work, we sweat, put $15 in our cheque” as they marched towards the burger giant’s headquarters holding banners reading “McDonald’s: $15 and Union Rights, Not Food Stamps.” As the meeting began protesters delivered a petition signed by 1.4m people calling on the company to support a $15 minimum wage and to respect workers’ rights to unionize.

“We’re here to tell McDonald’s and its shareholders to invest in the company and its workers instead of wealthy hedge fund managers and executives,” said Kwanza Brooks, a McDonald’s worker and mother of three from Charlotte, North Carolina, who is paid $7.25 an hour. “We’re tired of relying on food stamps to feed our own families. We need $15 and the right to form a union and we need it now.” Terrence Wise, 35, travelled 12 hours by bus from Kansas City with his three young daughters. “Was it worth it to stand here? Yes definitely. I want my voice to be heard. I’ve worked at McDonald’s and Burger King for 11 years earning $8 an hour. I have three little girls to care for. I work two jobs, my partner works too, yet we still struggle to survive. We rely on food stamps. I don’t want to live on food stamps, I want to get paid what I deserve and work hard for. McDonald’s can clearly afford to pay us a living wage. They need to, now.”

Lol !!

Nonsense. Government mandated cost increases on private bussinesses don't lead to " livable wages ".

Just more unemployed and less private investment.
 
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Lol !!

Nonsense. Government mandated cost increases on private bussinesses don't lead to " livable wages ".

Just more unemployed and less private investment.

Myth: Increasing the minimum wage will result in job losses for newly hired and unskilled workers in what some call a “last-one-hired-equals-first-one-fired” scenario.
Not true: Minimum wage increases have little to no negative effect on employment as shown in independent studies from economists across the country. Academic research also has shown that higher wages sharply reduce employee turnover which can reduce employment and training costs.

Minimum Wage Mythbusters - U.S. Department of Labor
 
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