McDonald's president who made $7.4 million last year says proposal to pay fast-food workers $22 an hour is 'costly and job-destroying'

[AZrailwhale]

/---/ I get an email update from Readers Digest almost daily. Guess what was in today's article.
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In-N-Out is my first choice for a quick lunch. Followed by a local chain called The Habit that is slowly expanding out of California. Otherwise I’ll go to a restaurant, or try a mom-and-pop stand. I just found one, the food isn't cheap, there isn’t any atmosphere but the food is great. I eat where I get good value.

 

[Batcat]

And he's 100% correct! $22.00 an hour for entry level burger flippers is ridiculous!

'Business Insider' is a leftwing site, and they're doing their best to guilt-trip anyone who opposes paying these kind of entry level wages.














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MSN

For that type of money the owners of fast food joints will just buy robots to flip burgers.

I don’t oppose that in the least as I will know the robots aren’t picking their noses and putting the results in my food.

 

[frigidweirdo]

And he's 100% correct! $22.00 an hour for entry level burger flippers is ridiculous!

'Business Insider' is a leftwing site, and they're doing their best to guilt-trip anyone who opposes paying these kind of entry level wages.

MSN

Yes, probably too much. However the US needs to find that balance, and right now it's not finding a balance with anything.

 

[Captain Caveman]

Markets are based on voluntary trades, I would scrap minimum wage.

Every time wages are forced up, another robot is hired.

 

[Captain Caveman]

Yes, probably too much. However the US needs to find that balance, and right now it's not finding a balance with anything.

Too much government interference, too much red tape stifles and distorts the market. And they push even harder believing that's the answer.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

McDonalds is bad for your health. Cauliflower and crickets would be healthier and taste better than what they try to pass off as beef or chicken, the Coke is fake and the fries haven’t been edible since they changed the fry oil 30 years ago

 

[initforme]

Markets are based on voluntary trades, I would scrap minimum wage.

Every time wages are forced up, another robot is hired.

Nobody forced them to raise their wages. They did that on their own.

 

[fncceo]

McDonald's has 200,000 employees globally. If you took the entire salary of the President $7.4 Million and divided it amongst all those employees.

It would give an extra $37 per year, or 1.8 cents extra per hour for a full time employee.

 

[pknopp]

Except illegals are doing every unskilled and semi-skilled job. Construction? Almost all illegals. Food industry? Almost all illegals. Farming? All illegals. Custodial and hotel/motel? All illegals. With some states giving illegals licenses, trucking is heading the same way. I believe California is allowing Mexican trucks something like a hundred miles north of the border. Unless a job requires a certification illegals are pushing citizens out of it.

That's right. As a country we have decided we want the cheap illegal labor.

 

[Lisa558]

That's right. As a country we have decided we want the cheap illegal labor.

That’s because we give out the equivalent of $50,000 and more in welfare to citizens who aren’t working. Lower that amount, and tie it in with work requirements, and unskilled, uneducated Americans will go back to taking the jobs that only illegals accept now.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

That's right. As a country we have decided we want the cheap illegal labor.

We didn't decide that as a country. We decided we want cheap products, but a majority doesn't support illegals.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

For that type of money the owners of fast food joints will just buy robots to flip burgers.

I don’t oppose that in the least as I will know the robots aren’t picking their noses and putting the results in my food.

And maybe after they turn to robots, the sandwiches will actually look like the ones on their commercials. Plus the elimination of them always forgetting to put something in the bag like they did to me yesterday morning.

 

[Lisa558]

We didn't decide that as a country. We decided we want cheap products, but a majority doesn't support illegals.

We could have cheap products, at least as far as the labor costs are concerned, if we 1) require Americans on welfare to get a job to keep their taxpayer-provided freebies, or 2) lower the amount of welfare that work refusnicks get, forcing them to get a job.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

The unions had nothing to do with us being the manufacturing capital of the world. The fact that we were the only major country not trashed by WWII either fiscally or physically was responsible for that.

What I meant is that the unions killed us being the manufacturers of the world.

 

[Lisa558]

And maybe after they turn to robots, the sandwiches will actually look like the ones on their commercials. Plus the elimination of them always forgetting to put something in the bag like they did to me yesterday morning.

If you’re at the drive-through, you need to check the bag before you drive away from the window. They get it wrong a lot.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

Except illegals are doing every unskilled and semi-skilled job. Construction? Almost all illegals. Food industry? Almost all illegals. Farming? All illegals. Custodial and hotel/motel? All illegals. With some states giving illegals licenses, trucking is heading the same way. I believe California is allowing Mexican trucks something like a hundred miles north of the border. Unless a job requires a certification illegals are pushing citizens out of it.

Not only that but these foreign drivers don't even have to take our tests to get a CDL. I know because I've watched many of them try to back in a trailer. While it's been many years since I first got my CDL, I know there is no possible way they passed the test we have to take.

Worse than that is some of them don't know a word of English. You know if they can't speak the language, they certainly can't read our road signs.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

If you’re at the drive-through, you need to check the bag before you drive away from the window. They get it wrong a lot.

At least over here they do. I mean how hard is it to put an entire meal in a bag? I don't know what people who order for the entire family have to go through. I'm only one person with one order.

What it's going to boil down to is artificial intelligence vs no intelligence.

 

[pknopp]

We didn't decide that as a country. We decided we want cheap products, but a majority doesn't support illegals.

A majority do accept it. If that wasn't the case we would address it. But you know this.

 

[pknopp]

That’s because we give out the equivalent of $50,000 and more in welfare to citizens who aren’t working. Lower that amount, and tie it in with work requirements, and unskilled, uneducated Americans will go back to taking the jobs that only illegals accept now.

Look at you clamoring for the people to work three jobs just to make ends meet.

 

[Lisa558]

Look at you clamoring for the people to work three jobs just to make ends meet.

Look at you content to have people work NO job and just live off OPM.

And how is requiring a person to have ONE job to keep collecting welfare the equivalent of three jobs?