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

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by mookiemookie

I as a taxpayer don't like subsidizing WalMart and McDonalds' labor costs. And make no mistake, that's exactly what we're doing when two of the biggest firms in the world, in the richest country in the world, won't pay their employees enough to keep them off of Medicaid and welfare.

Raise the minimum wage to a living wage and people will have more to spend. If people have more to spend, the economy does better. If the economy does better, more jobs are created.

Shop elsewhere. BTW, your idea is simplistic. Just give them more money. They will piss it away on goods. The economy will grow. Same thing the Fed does. Print more money. Give it away. The economy will grow.

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

Shop elsewhere.

AHEM MAN BROTHER!
WalMart survives because people SHOP there! DUH!!!
People whine 'Pay them better' but if prices went up?
WalMart goes the way of the old K-Marts and on and on.
Anyone remember the 5 Cousins stores?
Or many of the old 5 and Dimes?

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by privateer

AHEM MAN BROTHER!
WalMart survives because people SHOP there! DUH!!!
People whine 'Pay them better' but if prices went up?
WalMart goes the way of the old K-Marts and on and on.
Anyone remember the 5 Cousins stores?
Or many of the old 5 and Dimes?

Never heard of 5 Cousins. Five and dimes I remember. Kresgies. Franklin's. Corvettes. All closed due to places like....Walmart! The gorilla in the neighborhood putting folks out of business for years. We shop Target, Sam's and BJ's.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

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

Sam's Club?

That's Wal-Mart.

[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.

[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.

[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.