Happy Meals to go the way of the Twinkie

[jrogers]

It is quite amazing. Just read some of the things being said in this thread. It is almost as if they believe "it can never happen to me" or don't realize that they are next.

Wait until those 401Ks are more steadily in their sights.

First they came for the 1%,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a 1%er.

No, that's not quite right. I don't think that's how it goes.

FTFY.

Ah, but prosperity for whom?

I hear you brother.......... I hate bologna as well.

Ridiculous! As if I would ever smoke a pipe! How common!

Also, his tie is askew.

 

[jrogers]

About 35 years ago I worked at a local Steak n Shake. I was a curb hop. I got paid $2.05 and hour which was minimum wage for tipped employees. I worked there for four years and if you got a nickle raise once a year, that was normal and it was because the min wage went up. If you got a dime, that was really great, that showed real employee appreciation, a 20 cent raise was almost unheard of and I only knew ONE person to get 25 cents and she was sleeping with the store manager. <grin> Now if you jumped from employee to a manager slot you'd jump maybe 50-70 cents an hour, and get to work about 60 hours a week...you would be filthy rich in no time at that rate. Some store managers were rumored to be making upwards of $10 an hour!! Imagine all the extra cash you'd have then!

$10 an hour 35 years ago is a bit better than $35/hour equivalent today. At 60 hours per week that's a pretty decent living. Especially when one earns time and a half for overtime, yet another benefit won on the backs of Organized Labor.

Where?

Where are these gold mine jobs? 80% of the work force in the US is paid hourly. BLS estimates that 70% of job growth in the next decade will be in service sector, low wage jobs. Serving burgers or stocking shelves. Screaming, get more skills, go to school, or suck it up isn't going to produce the results demanded.

Wal-Mart and McDonald’s: What’s wrong with U.S. employment - Salon.com

The answer, my dear sir, is bootstraps. I propose a nationwide drive to address the grave bootstrap shortage that faces our citizens. Naturally we cannot simply provide the bootstraps, as that would constitute dread socialism, but perhaps we can publicize techniques for manufacture of ersatz bootstraps out of common household materials such as Grit and The American Spirit!

 

[level.eleven]

You have to respect the job creators. Perhaps another tax cut is in order.