Chicago, IL—Those fast food
workers seeking unionization and a $15.00 per hour minimum wage are incredibly
delusional. Frankly if they were smart
enough to figure out the folly of the efforts they’d not be working in fast
food!
Fast food appeals to
Americans because it’s cheap and fast.
Unionization will kill this necessary industry along with the jobs and some
needed training workers are currently enjoying.
Flipping burgers was never
meant to be a career but a stepping-stone.
Getting a job at one of the many fast food chains is suited for young
people just starting out in the workforce.
These jobs may also suitable
for some retirees supplementing social security and to stay useful in declining
years. An entry-level job in fast food
is anything but a suitable career goal.
If burger flippers were paid
as skilled workers they would never have incentive to learn and move on to
become more valuable to our workforce.
Let’s talk about the fast
food products. Fast food is generally
minimally acceptable for healthy diets. This is the rock bottom of nutrition. Pink
slime and pressed mystery meat processing has made unsalable meat products
somewhat acceptable at least in looks. In the end most of it's really crap.
Our nation has rapidly declined
and is spiraling into joining the Third World.
A $15.00 per hour minimum wage will certainly kill jobs along with important incentive for workers to gain better skills.
The poverty that fast food
workers complain about is exactly why fast food is popular. The poor cannot afford to eat at the
sit-down restaurants where burgers are better and cost $8.00.
Even our middle class has to
settle for cheap meals at least part of the time. Paying for the kid’s braces or gas for the
car means more visits to the Taco-Bell for meals.
If the demands of some fast
food workers are met they will actually suffer more than ever. Not only will their employers shut down but
also they will no longer have meals they can afford.
In the end it will be fast
food workers that suffer the most with a boost in the minimum wage.
