Considering that low wages leave
52 percent of front-line fast food workers needing some kind of government assistance to get by, the following fact has
Philadelphia magazine's Joel Mathis asking if Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett is
a secret socialist:
Between January 2011 (when Corbett took office) and July of this year, the second-fastest job sector growth in Pennsylvania has been in accommodations and food service—basically low-paid hotel and restaurant jobs. The sector added 28,000 jobs during that time, second only to the health care and social assistance segment of the state economy, providing about a fifth of the state’s overall (meager) growth in jobs.
That's socialism Republican style, of course: government pays to pad corporate profits. Workers, of course, get left behind, with pay too low to survive and government assistance that leaves them still falling behind. Meanwhile, people who never set foot in a McDonald's are paying for the company's ability to keep wages and Big Mac prices low and profits high.