You should read Trump's entire comment that day. You should also listen to his comments in the following days. He clearly and repeatedly said the "the both sides" were those that were there to peacefully protest. The media just can't see it that way because racism is there favorite(and only) go to political point.
Yeah, I read his comments, and he pretty much stuck up for the White Supremacists who wanted to keep the statue of Traitor and Slave Rapist Lee up.
To answer your question, yes, I have flipped burgers...in HIGH SCHOOL and freshman year in college. Maybe it was hard work for you, maybe it even push the limits of your intellectual abilities, but it the pay was in line with how easy the work was both mentally and physically. Granted,. you do have to stand up the entire shiift, but it was air conditioned and I wasn't exactly digging ditches. There is no way that that ob should pay 30k/yr.
That's your opinion. I haven't had to flip burgers, ever. (I did work in a Pizza Place and as a bus-boy, however.) I'd never want to do that again, no matter how much you paid me.
The thing is, when I did those things, minimum wage was 2.90 in 1979. If it had kept up with inflation, we'd be at 10.25 now. That's not quite 30K, but it's better than the starvation wages the poor make now.
then being the manager of that establishment(Wendys in my case), should be making around 300/yr because their job is at least 10x as difficult and they actually have to think a little.
Naw, I think the problem is not only do working people make too little, but managers and owners make too much.
Back in those wonderful days of the 1970's, CEO's only made 40 times what a worker made... Today it's 271 times. Not as bad as the 400 times of the early oughts, but still pretty ******* bad.
So here's a solution. Let's tie CEO pay to worker pay.
Yes, eventually everyone will be on the dole. Democrats promise free stuff, promise to force ridiculous wages for non-skilled labor and the lower end of society will all go your way. Most already are. The poor and uneducated are overwhelmingly Democrats for that reason.
Naw, man, the poor and uneducated are the dumb-ass white trash in Jesus-land who keep letting the rich SHIT on them as long as they talk about Gods, Gays and Guns. If we ever had a real discussion about the economy, where the lower 60% has less than 5% of all the wealth in this country, this wouldn't be a discussion at all.
Now, if you are in the 60% where you only have that little >5% of the wealth, why would you vote for more of that.
The more you can pull down(and let in illegally in hopes of gettying amnesty), the more votes they will get. Your candiates act as if they are running for middle school president. Offer free pizza on Wednesdays and win every time. Most of the Democratic constituents are no more emotionally mature than those middle schoolers.
So what is your alternative... "Keep working very hard and let the rich cheat you!"
Here's the thing, I do very well, because I work very hard all the time. But the one thing I learned in 2008 was that for most of us, we are one medical crisis or one stock market crash from being completely wiped out. You might be fine with living in the Casino Economy, but I'd rather not.
Here's the ironic thing.... You whine about assistance to the poor to get Democratic votes, but the biggest expenditures are for what I like to call "White People Welfare" - Social Security, Medicare, Unemployment Benefits, Veteran's Benefits. (Not because they are exclusive to white folks, but because white people are all for them.)
The Republican Party will often try to cut these things quietly, but they never run on eliminating them. At least, not since Ike used the cartoon you use as an AVI and admitted those things were here to stay.
No, the problem is not that the Democrats have changed. We won the argument of the role of government a long time ago, back in the 1930's. The problem is that you guys use racism to tell poor white trash that those darkies want half their cookie after the rich have wolfed down the other 10.