Too Many Idiots

[piece-itpete]

Originally Posted by bhunter

... I worked for $1.65/hr—so what. I sure the hell didn't stay there and it did provide experience.

I learned a LOT when I worked at Burger King - mainly that I didn't ever want to work there again.

Pete

[Dondilion]

Originally Posted by barbara

Not just California.... Our whole nation has primarily service industry jobs. This is true in both red and blue states.

Indeed!

[4-2-7]

Originally Posted by Oerets

Most of the people I see in fast food jobs look to be much much older. Very few teenagers.



Barney

Exactly my point! To that I say so it's not the employers fault.

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by 4-2-7

Well yes I would if I was a youth getting started in life.
I worked for minimum wage when it was $4.00 an hour.

But you're not a young man anymore. You're a grown man trying to live off of your earnings. That's the point you're missing.

As I see it, this is the root of the problem;

One thing you have right is that people shouldn't expect much from service industry jobs. Those jobs should be full of little more than young people trying to get started. And, that is exactly what they used to be.

Now, we have shipped off so many of the "good" jobs off to foreign lands in the name of fatter profit margins and lower prices................

......that what's left cannot meet the market demand for better employment.

So, now, we have millions of people who should have moved on years ago, stuck in the food service industry.

Trouble ahead, my friend. It only gets worse from here.

Dave

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by 4-2-7

Exactly my point! To that I say so it's not the employers fault.

Doesn't matter whose "fault" it is. Nobody cares about that. Forget it. It's the existential issue of there being no better employment.........

..........but people still have to live, Dan.

Dave

[BlueStreak]

How long did you think the idea of a economy built on low wage employment would last?

[BlueStreak]

Like it or not, most Americans have become dependent on the need for an employer. It's what we are now. And if the available employment base fails to provide upward mobility and/or livable wages, there is going to be trouble. You can bet your life on it.

Even Mitt Romney and a few other "establishment" conservative politicians and business leaders have come to understand this. Problem is, they helped create this mess with their anti-worker and outsourcing bullshit and now they're going to have to figure out how to help fix it.

It's been a long time comin'. I hope you're ready for it.

Dave

[Ike Bana]

Originally Posted by 4-2-7

By my estimates $15.00 per hour is 85% higher than the world population makes per day.

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Back to Africa with the ungrateful sons a bitches, eh 5 below?

[Ike Bana]

Originally Posted by Oerets

Most of the people I see in fast food jobs look to be much much older. Very few teenagers.



Barney

5 below is nothin' if not a right wingnut worn out cliche generator.

[Ike Bana]

Originally Posted by BeamOn

Yet another post from this narcissist asshole who I might add failed to graduate high school. How much credibility does one give to such a person. If intelligence was a commodity, he would be a pauper.

Hey!!! Watch it, dude. He's a victim of dyslexia and mean libtards.