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Fast Food Workers

6/4/2017

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When I was a boy millions of people had jobs as telephone operators, service station attendants and unskilled assembly workers. Those jobs are gone. They have been replaced by automation. I fear fast food workers may be the next to go.
Being a fast food worker is not a profitable career choice. However, millions of young people have used it as an entrée into the working world and gone on to bigger and better things.

Unfortunately that path may soon be cut off. There is a movement to impose a $15/hour minimum wage on fast food workers. Like it or not, the economic value of a fast food worker is lower than that. Since the work requires relatively little skill, it is fairly easy to automate it. Efforts are under way to do just that. It would be horrible if all those starter jobs went away.

In effect, the message proponents are giving is to tell a young couple to drop out of school and make no effort to get marketable skills and earn $60,000 a year flipping hamburgers. What do these people do when their jobs disappear?
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Millions of families are in dire financial straits because they don’t have the skills and experience to succeed in the new economy. In the last election Clinton ignored them and Trump promised the old jobs are coming back. It’s time for someone to do something.
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    Hi! My name is Dave. I'm in my 60s and live in Indiana. I'll write about whatever is on my mind but most posts will be political. I'm a centrist who thinks both sides are on the wrong path.

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At long last this idiotic shutdown is over. Hopefully cooler heads prevail and it doesn’t start up again.

The real story is that 800,000 government workers are back on the job and many millions of people are no longer inconvenienced.

Unfortunately, that is not the story we are hearing in the media. Their story is about how Speaker Pelosi beat President Trump. He got himself into this mess. She decided that all that mattered was winning. The harm done to the people involved was of no concern whatsoever. A good leader puts the good of the people over political gamesmanship,

it would be nice to think that both people have learned their lesson and will try to do what is best for the
country. I sure wouldn’t bet on it.
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