KANSAS CITY INSIDER FACT CHECK: COULD THE FIGHT FOR $15-AN-HOUR END UP COSTING JOBS IN THE LONG RUN?!?!
Kansas City is the epicenter of the "fight for $15" and this weekend the struggle for higher wages continued.
Take a look:
KSHB: Fast food workers and minimum wage employees met at All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church in Kansas City to share their message and lobby for support for the upcoming Fight for Fifteen march.
Angry marches and cries of equality have their charms . . .
However . . .
CHECK OUT THIS WORD FROM A KICK-ASS KANSAS CITY INSIDER CONTRADICTING RHETORIC REGARDING A HIGHER MINIMUM WAGE!!!
Here's the word:
"Something to keep in mind is that only 4.3% of ALL hourly workers are employed at the minimum wage….
"Here, however, is a very quick note from the CBO… basically they say that if you raise the minimum wage to 10.10, you’ll lose 500,000 jobs… Link to their report can be found here @ The Congressional Budget Office
"When they raised the min wage from 5.15 to 7.25, we saw a jump in teenage unemployment from about 10% to more than 17% in a 2 year period (it was stepped in, but each year unemployment jumped with the wage increase.)."
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Check the graphic:
You decide . . . Will a "fair wage" boost the economy or kill local jobs. You decide while trying to think of better lunch options than fast food.
Developing . . .
Just look at the crowd and you see what? A bunch of bitching niggers thats what. Give them the raise and then the losers still won't have a job.
ReplyDeleteThis "Stand Up" bullshit is starting to wear thin on me. How about certain people "Standing Up" and obeying the current laws and be productive citizens.
ReplyDeleteThese lame, misguided morons.
ReplyDeleteFast food jobs used to be mostly for teenagers living at home wanting to earn some extra money. Not a career choice.
ReplyDelete"Use to be" a pretty good deal for the kids. "Back in the day".
^^^^^^^^ thats a fact
ReplyDeleteIt would sure help taxpayers to get these low wage, part time workers off the various government assistance programs.
ReplyDelete7:58 is 100% correct. Low wages are simply a way fpr big corporations like mcdonalds, burger king, etc to have theor employees supplemented by government assostance. An invisible corporate welfare system. Conservatives dont want you to hear that
ReplyDeleteWrong 7:58 & 8:14. Government assistance programs will only expand. Liberals don't understand that.
ReplyDeleteAgree with 8:25. The employees who would be retained at $15 per hour might eliminate or reduce their welfare dependency, but the 500,000 who lose their jobs will increase it. At some point it will be much cheaper and more efficient to replace employees with automatic ordering and delivery systems, at which point every person now employed will be 100% welfare dependent.
ReplyDelete"KANSAS CITY INSIDER FACT CHECK: COULD THE FIGHT FOR $15-AN-HOUR END UP COSTING JOBS IN THE LONG RUN?!?! "
ReplyDeleteYES
There used to be manufacturing jobs back in the day. A lot of these same folks would have held them earning a living wage. Well, those are gone and Clinton's "service industry economy" roughly translates into fastfood work, as the franchises can't outsource the frycook to India. These folks aren't the problem. They are WORKING. Perhaps if they were paid more by their employers, we taxpayers wouldn't have to pick up the tab on their housing and health care through government programs. And no, the price of a hamburger would not jump to $10. That would end the fast food industry. No, the cost would not be passed to the consumer, instead it would be taken off of the top. It's not being a socialist to understand that our economy is very top heavy these days. Reward work, isn't that what everyone wants?
ReplyDeleteA company called Momentum Machines has built automation that could radically change the fast-food industry.
ReplyDeleteMomentum Machines cofounder Alexandros Vardakostas told Xconomy his "device isn’t meant to make employees more efficient. It’s meant to completely obviate them." Indeed, marketing copy on the company's site reads that their automaton "does everything employees can do, except better."
I am all for raising wages. But until they can get my " ketchup and onion only" request right. Then fuck them.
ReplyDeleteThe populace will survive via:
ReplyDelete1. Labor
2. Welfare State
3. Violence
Which seems like the best option?
Scotty "Sparky" Parks channels his hero, but Ryan Seacrest has no lisp. Is Sparky voguing?
ReplyDelete"No, the cost would not be passed to the consumer, instead it would be taken off of the top."
ReplyDeleteWho are you kidding? Of course the costs will be passed along to the consumer. You're right, it won't result in a $10 burger, but that's because business will find a way to automate wherever possible, and it'll probably only result in a $5 burger.
The basic problem with the $15/hr proposal is that it hopes to ignore a basic rule of wage economics, that being that wages are held to a point where labor no longer responds (i.e. no one will take the job). If you want to increase your wages, increase your skill level to a point where not anyone without skills can do your job.
Taking fast food orders and flipping burgers was never meant to be a career capable of supporting a family, it's a job that kids (again, without any marketable skills) can handle, and the pay reflects that.
Who in the fuck would buy a $5 McDonald's hamburger?
DeleteBanking ain't pretty either
ReplyDeleteGive em 10.....
ReplyDeleteThere is a reason these uneducated niggers and beaners were hired at this level of pay for a reason. If the companies are forced to pay top dollar minimum wages do you think Lacleophus and Martinez are going to be hired over an educated person for that much!
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