Callously defined in the MSM as a "burger worker" this Kansas City activist achieved an important milestone in the fight for higher wages recently.
Better than media reports, Stand Up KC shares this story behind the story:
"Terrance Wise from Stand Up KC, a father of 3 daughters who works for McDonald’s in Kansas City, MO, just introduced President Barack Obama at the White House Summit on Worker Voice. He's a leader in the Fight for $15 movement and helped organize the first fast food worker strike in Kansas City in July 2013.
"His mom, also a fast food worker, was also in the audience. Because neither can afford travel, this was the first time they got to see one another in 10 years. The Fight for $15 movement is made up of so many families just like Terrance's, who are just trying to provide for their kids. They struggle to raise their 3 kids on joint salary with his partner who is a homecare worker.
"They skip meals have been homeless, even though they both work. We deserve wages that allow us to make ends meet."
Here's the video of this week's higher minimum wage summit @ The White House . . .
Now, we've debated the Stand Up KC folks in this forum but by and large we respect their struggle . . . In fact, our only quarrel was with the politicos who made this group empty promises that they knew couldn't be carried out legislatively through local channels.
Fact is, in this political climate only the Feds are capable of raising the minimum wage to $15 per hour . . . However, legislation on the table is a longshot at best, for now there's just talk from the highest bully pulpit in the land.
Ironically, once again the activists of Stand Up KC might have traveled all the way to the nation's capital in order to earn only more empty promises.
Seems like they might've used their time more effectively by looking for a better job.
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How come nobody ever talks about hope for change anymore?
ReplyDeleteThat was to keep stupid niggers and white guilt faggots on the democratic plantation! TRUTH.
ReplyDeleteWhen I see an adult making minimum wage I see a wasted life. There are so many jobs out there that pay much more and only require some learned skills and a good work ethic. Traditionally many fathers guided young men into careers, but of course we no longer have fathers, we only have baby daddies. Mothers who have been on welfare for generations are of little help in guiding their kids.
ReplyDeleteYou cannot legislate the demand for jobs. Raising the minimum wage will help some, hurt others, and create all kinds of unanticipated economic dislocations. It would be far more productive to lessen the regulatory burden on small business who create most of the lower rung jobs. This would create more demand for jobs, thereby increasing wages. But large corporations like regulations that stifle competition, politicians like them because it gives them power and of course it keeps bureaucrats employed.
Thoughtful and without hate 935. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteMaladjusted, angry hater at 910 does nothing but spew antagonism. Thanks very little for being part of the larger problem facing this Country, i.e. anonymous thugs that don't have the sack to be part of any solution.
Remember, I will be overcome with sadness if you call be a libtard. Geeze.
Another Libtard fail idea = Raise minimum raise for low, low level workers. Libtards must be masturbating at the thought it can pass.
ReplyDeleteGo enjoy your Global warming.
We won't raise the minimum wage because we never do the right thing.
ReplyDeleteThe only people on the planet who deny global warming are American "Conservatives". That tells you everything that you need to know.
Did you find the interesting aspects of this article?
ReplyDelete"Terrance Wise from Stand Up KC, a father of 3 daughters"
"He's a leader in the Fight for $15 movement and helped organize the first fast food worker strike in Kansas City in July 2013."
"His mom, also a fast food worker, was also in the audience. Because neither can afford travel, this was the first time they got to see one another in 10 years."
"struggle to raise their 3 kids on joint salary with his partner"
"President Barack Obama at the White House Summit on Worker Voice."
So, what we have here, is apparently a case of multi-generational working poverty. A man with 3 children, with a "partner" not a wife, who can't afford birth control or doesn't have the understanding that one doesn't bring babies into the world when you're struggling to take care of yourself.
He has time to organize a worker strike, yet doesn't have time to become a McDonald's manager?
He hadn't seen his mother in 10 years? Add "family dysfunction/disintegration" to the above multi-generational working poverty.
And President Obama is ALL TOO HAPPY to exploit these under-educated politically ignorant wards of the state, while his own daughters attend one of D.C.'s elite private schools and will soon be off to an Ivy League college, following in the footsteps of POTUS/FLOTUS.
Too bad Mr. Wise doesn't understand that Obama represents everything that he's fighting against.
What makes this fool think I will pay eight bucks for a Big Mac at the burger joint, which is what the prices will have to be to pay for the increased workers pay?
ReplyDeleteAnd the previous post raised a great point. Why isn't this loser a manager by now?
Just more welfare. Stand Up For Welfare KC?
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ReplyDeleteNot welfare, WORK asshole. These people are working for you and you still don't want to pay them fairly.
The person that's not listening is the one who fails to hear you when you say that the market won't tolerate the margins on food it would require to pay someone $15 per hour. This industry is trying to tell you that because of that fact, this is not a job meant for a head of household trying to raise a family. BTW You will have to work harder for $15 per hour than you do at Micky D's. Give the kids and part-timers their job back and get a job that is more appropriate to raise a family on.
ReplyDeleteSounds to me like some of these genius libtards need to start a business from the ground up and show us exactly how they would do it.
ReplyDelete10:13, the only people who still believe in CAGW are: those on the government funding gravy train; those without any other religion; and intellectually dishonest leftists. See:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.nationalreview.com/article/425232/climate-change-no-its-not-97-percent-consensus-ian-tuttle
Wasn't there a program that gave the Negros free transportation to America, a job once they got here and free room and board? It was a pretty good program until Lincoln and his damn War of Northern Aggression.
ReplyDeleteMy great-great granddaddy sponsored a number of Negros under that program.
It's about SKILLS.
ReplyDeleteGet some.
One skill these people do not have is understanding basic economics like supply and demand and markets react to those variables. There are a number of people migrating here from the Third World who will happily work for minimum wage.
ReplyDeleteYeah, that NIGGER works for a fast food joint, WHENEVER he's not too busy robbing a convenience store or jacking some human's car. No, not Obama, the other NIGGER.....
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