[Vision2020] Minimun wage and burgers WAS: RE: [Spam 4.11] Hawkins mall

[Scott Dredge]

Yikes!  I've known a few high school drop outs with limited skills who have earned very good livings and I know college graduates who are unemployable.

But to generally answer your question below, of why 'should [entry level McDonald's employees] get paid $20 an hour?', the answer is that they shouldn't until either minimum wage requires it or because no one is willing to work for less than that amount.

> From: fotopro63 at hotmail.com
> To: dickow at turbonet.com; vision2020 at moscow.com
> Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2014 03:15:32 +0000
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Minimun wage and burgers WAS: RE: [Spam 4.11] Hawkins mall
> 
> I had a $20 burger in NYC last month. The burger was fine, nothing really special, but the service really sucked.
> Why, pray tell, should a high school drop out with limited skills get paid $20 an hour? Many trained chefs don't even make that.
> 
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> > From: dickow at turbonet.com 
> > To: vision2020 at moscow.com 
> > Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 13:02:37 -0800 
> > Subject: [Vision2020] Minimun wage and burgers WAS: RE: [Spam 4.11]  
> > Hawkins mall 
> >  
> >  
> > I rarely go to MacDonald’s, but seems that the last time I did, I  
> > ordered a Big Mac, a large fries, and maybe a drink, and I think it  
> > almost amounted to $9.00 or something. Whatever, I was still hungry  
> > after I ate it. For roughly the same moolah you could go to the Super  
> > China Buffet and get all you can eat of (probably) more healthful and  
> > arguably better tasting food. I would suggest that the min wage  
> > short-order burger joints have fare is already way overpriced, and they  
> > should be paying their employees $20/hour anyway at the prices they  
> > currently charge. But—as they’ll tell you—I’m no business man . 
> >  
> >  
> >  
> > By the way, you can get a really pretty darn good burger at Dick’s in  
> > Spokane for $1.00. And, gosh, remember when back around 1968 you could  
> > get four burgers for $1.00 at some roadside joints off the Interstate?  
> > –and,  if you like catchup, they weren’t half bad either. … ah… but  
> > enough nostalgia already. The workers there were probably getting $  
> > 0.75/hour or were volunteers or doing mandatory community service. ;-) 
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> >  
> > Bob Dickow, troublemaker 
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> > From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com  
> > [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com] On Behalf Of rhayes at frontier.com 
> > Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2014 6:15 PM 
> > To: vision2020 at moscow.com 
> > Subject: [Spam 4.11] [Vision2020] Hawkins mall 
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> > Today's Topics: 
> >  
> >    1. Re: Developing the corridor (Scott Dredge) 
> >    2. Re: $20 Hamburgers if Minimum Wage is Raised? See answer 
> >        below (Scott Dredge) 
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