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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>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.<br><br>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.<br><br><div>> From: fotopro63@hotmail.com<br>> To: dickow@turbonet.com; vision2020@moscow.com<br>> Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2014 03:15:32 +0000<br>> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Minimun wage and burgers WAS: RE: [Spam 4.11] Hawkins mall<br>> <br>> I had a $20 burger in NYC last month. The burger was fine, nothing really special, but the service really sucked.<br>> 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.<br>> <br>> <br>> ________________________________<br>> > From: dickow@turbonet.com <br>> > To: vision2020@moscow.com <br>> > Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 13:02:37 -0800 <br>> > Subject: [Vision2020] Minimun wage and burgers WAS: RE: [Spam 4.11] <br>> > Hawkins mall <br>> > <br>> > <br>> > I rarely go to MacDonald’s, but seems that the last time I did, I <br>> > ordered a Big Mac, a large fries, and maybe a drink, and I think it <br>> > almost amounted to $9.00 or something. Whatever, I was still hungry <br>> > after I ate it. For roughly the same moolah you could go to the Super <br>> > China Buffet and get all you can eat of (probably) more healthful and <br>> > arguably better tasting food. I would suggest that the min wage <br>> > short-order burger joints have fare is already way overpriced, and they <br>> > should be paying their employees $20/hour anyway at the prices they <br>> > currently charge. But—as they’ll tell you—I’m no business man . <br>> > <br>> > <br>> > <br>> > By the way, you can get a really pretty darn good burger at Dick’s in <br>> > Spokane for $1.00. And, gosh, remember when back around 1968 you could <br>> > get four burgers for $1.00 at some roadside joints off the Interstate? <br>> > –and, if you like catchup, they weren’t half bad either. … ah… but <br>> > enough nostalgia already. The workers there were probably getting $ <br>> > 0.75/hour or were volunteers or doing mandatory community service. ;-) <br>> > <br>> > <br>> > <br>> > Bob Dickow, troublemaker <br>> > <br>> > <br>> > <br>> > From: vision2020-bounces@moscow.com <br>> > [mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com] On Behalf Of rhayes@frontier.com <br>> > Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2014 6:15 PM <br>> > To: vision2020@moscow.com <br>> > Subject: [Spam 4.11] [Vision2020] Hawkins mall <br>> > <br>> > <br>> > <br>> > Today's Topics: <br>> > <br>> > 1. Re: Developing the corridor (Scott Dredge) <br>> > 2. Re: $20 Hamburgers if Minimum Wage is Raised? See answer <br>> > below (Scott Dredge) <br>> > <br>> > <br>> > <br>> > <br>> > ======================================================= List services <br>> > made available by First Step Internet, serving the communities of the <br>> > Palouse since 1994. http://www.fsr.net mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com <br>> > ======================================================= <br>> <br>> <br>> =======================================================<br>> List services made available by First Step Internet,<br>> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994.<br>> http://www.fsr.net<br>> mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com<br>> =======================================================<br></div> </div></body>
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