Freddy Figbottom
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No they aren't.
More than Half of Fast Food Workers Rely on Welfare
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No they aren't.
Only 13% of fast-food workers make the minimum wage or less.
http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/cepr-blog/slow-progress-for-fast-food-workers
Freddy Figbottom
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Ok. and the rest make a little bit more. Big woop. Keep deceiving yourself that their lives are great.
Keep deceiving yourself that I said "their lives are great".
Billy the Great Khan
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Well, they should probably learn a skill that is more difficult than breathing air and flipping a burger, or a robot will take their job and then what will they do?
Freddy Figbottom
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So what is the argument behind the 13% statistic you provided? What does that prove, to you?
Freddy Figbottom
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That sounds nice, but many people with college degrees still cannot find good jobs, due to globalization zealotry and the outsourcing it causes.
Billy the Great Khan
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Yeah, we're so outsourced that here in MOTHER FUCKING DETROIT skilled trades are in higher demand than 20 years ago.
Freddy Figbottom
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wow so most in fast food make less than 10.09 per hour. Great table, moron.
Freddy Figbottom
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wow. Sorry you have to live in detroit.
Billy the Great Khan
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Of course you are, you've never been here.
Freddy Figbottom
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But seriously. Despite your detroit pride and detroits "full recovery", we are still having a jobs problem here in the u.s. generally.
Freddy Figbottom
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Maybe the entire economy depends on people having enough money to purchase goods and services.
The recent conservative myopia and ignorance about the economic interdependence of all social classes is suprising considering how they pride themselves on being economically literate.
Explain how the federal government is empowered to selectively and arbitrarily raise the cost of doing business whenever the whim strikes liberals.
And do you or do you not have a vested inteerst in raising fast food workers pay?
Lorca
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Maybe it also depends on them developing skills that actually demand being paid a higher wage?
Freddy Figbottom
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We all have a vested interest in a rising standard of living for all strata of the economy. As for part a of your question, I dont know what the f you're talking about.
Freddy Figbottom
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Maybe it depends on corporations not sending jobs overseas too. Maybe. You need to stop blaming the victims here.
Lorca
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OMG, crying that people with low-paying jobs are victims. Get real.
There is no reason that someone of normal mental and physical capabilities cannot develop marketable skills and move up in some organization or business. There are excuses, of course.