Imho....
McDonalds workers are planning on striking in Flint, Mi today - seeking a $15 an hour salary.
One girl was interviewed by CBS news. She is a single mother. My first question - where is Dad?
Also, the report stated the union pays for strike protesters. I wonder how much they were paid?
To answer your question, she is an example of the new America! Unmarried with children, on food stamps, and getting a free cell phone to make doctor appointments on the new Obamacare program, also free to the entitled!
Granted, anything less than $20.00 an hour, makes working to support yourself and any sized family "Futile!" At least in California, I've done the math, and I can see why people are leery of taking a job for anything less than $15.00 an hour, and a friend who has run out of unemployment, can't begin to support his wife and three kids for anything less than $22,50 an hour!
The truth is, like all other capitalistic ventures in this country, it is top-heavy with management, pulling down 6 of seven-figure salaries. If these folks made a whole lot less, and diverted some of that money to their subordinates whom without, they'd be looking for a job too, people in the rank-and-file range of employment status could live comfortably!
But I suspect this will never happen.
ALSO, I don't want to get into the unions that suck their members dry too! These union folks make ridiculous wages, and that is one more group that if they made a more realistic wage for services rendered, the people who work for a living, could actually live on that for which they are paid, and NOT raise the cost of the product the consumer buys from them!
This is merely my MHO, so please don't jump down my throat, because the world is not going to stop on a dime with what I said, and add that dime to the minimum wage of their galley slaves...
