Name:	MartiniMan -	Reply
Subject:	The all too predictable result of a "living wage"
Date:	6/23/2017 3:30:45 PM

Whatever the heck that means.....but I suspect it is the economically illiterate left wing nuts attempt at trying to turn teenage jobs into something else.  Either way, McD's is going to replace order takers/cashiers at 3,000 stores with machines.  They don't need Obamacare, don't skip work to play xbox or recover from a hangover, don't make mistakes or steal, don't give away free food, etc.  And of course the free markets are rewarding them with the highest stock price in years as a result of the forecast improvement in both sales and profitability.  If libtards have their way that thing called a summer or part time job will cease to exist.  Ah the folly of the economically illiterate.  One would think they would get the message with all the restaurants closing in areas that mandated a $15/hr minimum wage.

Name:	Buteye -	Reply
Subject:	The all too predictable result of a "living wage"
Date:	6/23/2017 7:01:51 PM

I'm not a business man but it doesn't take a financial genius to understand that there are certain types of businesses that have a limit on what hourly wage their particular service can support and remain profitable. I'm sure there are plenty of people who are greatful to have a job even though they are not receiving $15.00 an hour. Leave it to the left wingers to scream and hollow for a $15.00 mimnimum wage and then see certain kinds of jobs disappear when companies are forced to find cheaper ways to operate just as MD's is doing.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              As an interesting sideline I was on vacation last week at Gulf Shores with my kids and grandkids and there were restaurants advertising for "diswashers" at $12.00 an hour with a sign on "bonus". I guess I am too old to have a lot of sympathy for people who think they are above working in some jobs. Yes, I realize that things change over time, but I look back as a teenager when I mowed grass, and one of the lawns I cut was about an "acre" which I cut with a non-powered push mower for $3.00, and the temperature would be in the 90's and the humidity out of sight. During the fall schools would let out for six weeks so kids could pick cotton. I picked cotton in a 9 ft. pick sack which farmers paid $3.00 per hundred pounds, and you were a good picker if you could pick 200 lbs. a day(six whole dollars). I'm not bragging but sometimes it's hard for me to put things into prospective.

Name:	Talullahhound -	Reply
Subject:	The all too predictable result of a "living wage"
Date:	6/25/2017 10:42:52 PM

I don't think you are wrong.  Before we started telling young people that they were special, and shouldn't have to roll out of bed for less than $15 an hour for an unskilled labor job, we did jobs that were mimimum wage, and worked 2 or 3 jobs to make ends meet. 

It doesn't surprise me at all that companies would look to technology rather than paying a $15 an hour for unsklled labor.  It solves not only the minimum wage problem, but it also removes personnel problems, such as not showing up for work, surly customer service, and demands for health care, education benefits and some of the other stuff that people feel they are entitled to.  You'll see other companies follow suit.