With Day of Protests, Fast-Food Workers Seek More Pay

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

We shop Target, Sam's and BJ's.

Sam's Club?

That's Wal-Mart.

[August]

Originally Posted by soopaman2

So the rubes below your scale should just be happy to be relegated to thier crappy lives?

No we're saying that if you want better pay then get yourself a better job. Take a class, volunteer as an intern, work part time on the weekends learning a trade but don't sit on your butt expecting that a McDonalds job will support you.

And you wonder why America revolted against England...

No we revolted against England basically because they tried to raise taxes. Something you tax and spend Democrats might want to consider.

[yubba]

Ain't no rubes below my scale I'm the lowest of the low if I made two thousand dollars this year I'll be lucky, I work for my self I've been known to hire out to help old folks around their homes for 5 bucks an hour but most of my clients have died off, I would gladly take a job at micky D's so if they don't like what they are getting paid,, they can get a hair cut and get out of the way and let some one else climb the ladder of success,, it is the land of oppurtunity is it not,,and capitalism is the only way,,, we have been builders, merchants, and traders since the dawn of time,,and not till the advent of communism has there been so such misery in the world,, you say we are getting to be like China well look who you voted for,, we use to be number one in the world,, what, we are 7th now that is far from forward ....will the big mac go the way of the twinkie ????? oh guess what I'm not on food stamps yet, or medicade yet,, though I need to go to the VA, the only good thing Obama did,,, was to sign the Camp Le Jeune water act this last fall into law,, either I hit the lottery or I have had my ticket punched I'll find out in time..

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Sam's Club?

That's Wal-Mart.

Sams' Club is buying bulk. I do not shop Walmart. I have my reasons. Most of the reasons are running carts into the side of my cars in the parking lot. Right after their kids slam their mom's Chevy Impala door into it. Customers walking the isles talking on a cell with a empty cart. The place is a mess.

Target, Sams, BJ's not so much.

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

So, why does the Big Mac I paid fifty cents for in 1970 cost seven times that now?

Don't confuse him. As of his last post he has it all figured out. Luck is just luck. The rest of it including one's experiences and working their way up is just stories. It was always easier back then.

[Armistead]

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

Sams' Club is buying bulk. I do not shop Walmart. I have my reasons. Most of the reasons are running carts into the side of my cars in the parking lot. Right after their kids slam their mom's Chevy Impala door into it. Customers walking the isles talking on a cell with a empty cart. The place is a mess.

Target, Sams, BJ's not so much.

You making fun of my wifes Impala again....If you go to Walmart, don't drown with your nose stuck so far in the air...

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by Armistead

You making fun of my wifes Impala again....If you go to Walmart, don't drown with your nose stuck so far in the air...

I don't go to Walmart. There are other stores that carry the same product but are less of a mess, a bit more friendly and genuinely care about their business. I don't support the mess of a store found in my neighborhood. It is no different than those that do not support Walmart because of poor health insurance for employees.

[AVGWarhawk]

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

I have my reasons.

Ah. Those are good reasons. I don't have a car, so I wouldn't know.

[Gerald]

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

My ears,

[Gerald]

[Takeda Shingen]

Originally Posted by yubba

we have been builders, merchants, and traders since the dawn of time

This is incorrect. Men of the Lower Paleolithic (approximately 2.6 million years ago, and where our record of human history begins) were scavengers, and they spent the better part of 1 million years doing it before becoming true hunter-gatherers. 'Permanent' settlements did not appear until the Neolithic (approximately 12,000 years ago), and they would have functioned largely in a manner that would have been considered true communism. The crops grown and game hunted were shared by the community would not have been considered individual property, as barter economies would not develop for several thousand more years, and true currency long after that. So, recite the far-right's line that man's natural state is capitalism is completely inaccurate, as we have spent the overwhelming majority of history as nomadic scavengers and hunters devoid of basic markets and currency.

and not till the advent of communism has there been so such misery in the world

I will wager that this is not true. I have all of history prior to 1917 to back it up too.

This is incorrect. Men of the Lower Paleolithic (approximately 2.6 million years ago, and where our record of human history begins) were scavengers, and they spent the better part of 1 million years doing it before becoming true hunter-gatherers.

That is incorrect the earth is 5000 years old and started on a tuesday afternoon

[u crank]

Originally Posted by Tribesman

That is incorrect the earth is 5000 years old and started on a tuesday afternoon

Correct. Reason..long weekend.

[Armistead]

Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen

This is incorrect. Men of the Lower Paleolithic (approximately 2.6 million years ago, and where our record of human history begins) were scavengers, and they spent the better part of 1 million years doing it before becoming true hunter-gatherers. 'Permanent' settlements did not appear until the Neolithic (approximately 12,000 years ago), and they would have functioned largely in a manner that would have been considered true communism. The crops grown and game hunted were shared by the community would not have been considered individual property, as barter economies would not develop for several thousand more years, and true currency long after that. So, recite the far-right's line that man's natural state is capitalism is completely inaccurate, as we have spent the overwhelming majority of history as nomadic scavengers and hunters devoid of basic markets and currency.




I will wager that this is not true. I have all of history prior to 1917 to back it up too.

It takes a village....