Fast-Food Workers Who Want $15 Per Hour Are Clueless About Costs....
This is the title of an article I came across tonight on The Denver Westwood pertaining to strikes by local food service workers....Obviously the writer of this drab is the clueless one, let me explain why....
Point #1 McDonald's announced Monday that it raked in $1.5 billion in profits in the third quarter, up 5 percent from last year.
The number is strikingly close to the $1.2 billion taxpayers are shelling out each year to help pay public assistance to the McDonald's workforce, according to a report released last week by the National Employment Law Project.
So while the fatcat CEOS are cutting themselves huge bonus checks, they are making the public pay for their employees basic needs. Instead of giving these guys $15/hr they pay them $8/hr and make taxpayers foot the bill, because lets face it no one can feed a family on $8/hr.
We let the elite control 90% of the wealth in this country and make the rest of us fight for the scraps...and to those reading this think they are part of the elite, and feel defensive, unless your worth, 10,000,000+ you are part of the 90% just like the rest of us, don't let them turn you against your own brothers.
Point #2 So people say get a "better job". Let me explain why this is false logic....What is a "better" job? Pick your top 3. Doctor, lawyer, CEO? Well what if EVERYONE was a doctor, lawyer, or ceo? The doctor would have no hospital to work in because there would be no one left to build the hospital. They lawyer wouldn't have courthouse to stand in, without the men who cut down the trees, who gave it to the men who drove it to the site, who gave it to the men who built the courthouse and so so and so on. If everyone was a CEO of their own company then who would be the employed there? Company of one? The world NEEDS sanitation workers, food service workers, etc. We all share a symbiotic (not symbolic...google it if your'e not familiar with this term) relationship, that depends just as much on the people on the "bottom" as it does on the "top". A machine needs every part to operate functionally, therefore every part has an equal value, regardless if it's the engine or a two dollar bolt. This isn't a matter of opportunity, it's a matter of equality.