Lol McDonalds

[Charai]

[Indy]

As long as you aren't trying to clown me by using the term "able to work" literally instead of "able to get job." Because those are two different things.

There are plenty of super-skilled, educated college grads out there "able to work" right now who can't get a job.

It never ceases to amaze me when I hear the meme put out (not by you Prof) that all these social programs are keeping black people from working and they just need a kick in the ass. Have you ever seen footage on the news of a job fair in your city? A new Walmart opening? A plant opening? Do you ever look at who's in those long lines to apply for jobs?

Don't tell me those people don't want to work. Everybody wants to be self-sufficient. Sure you'll find a few that don't but that's the exception not the rule.

Here's an even better idea Prof: how about ending gov't subsidies for huge, multi-billion dollar, super-profitable corporations or corporate farms? So we tell the poor unemployed guy "Tough shit go to a charity" and yet we hand over wheelbarrels of taxpayer cash to super-profitable industries.

WTF?

I wonder how many food stamps we could buy if we told a BP: no more taxpayer dollars for you. Probably a decade's worth.

[eric]

[Spider]

@charai
I never did fast food, but I did do a restaurant gig once. Seriously the hardest working people around. Also did 7-11 one summer:

Spider: Hey, hows it goi--"
Asshole customer: "MARB RED!"
Spider: "Have a nice day."
Asshole customer: "..."

People suck. Especially when it concerns their food. They think it makes them seem sophisticated to be tools in a restaurant.

Naw. I'll not look down on people stuck doing the shittiest most dead end job on the planet. I'll not equate their brainpower to a damned robot. Its not a career choice, its just a shitty temporary situation. And it sucks. It doesn't say anything about who they are.

[Mr.Bill]

LOL at here in NY $600 for rent/mortgage and $20 for HI and $100 car insurance..

Pretty funny.

[Professor]

[Charai]

[spacemonkey]

It all comes back to an over populated, over automated, finite world. Is almost like trying to surf a wave that is already crashing on the beach.

[Stratego]

A McDonalds worker in Luxembourg also make minimum wage. And their minimum wage is less as a percent of per capita GDP than that of the US. But just because their minimum wage is low doesn't mean that their living standards are low. They get the training needed to get out of the minimum wage jobs, as professor suggested.

[Charai]