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		<title>By: AKEK</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[AKEK]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Sep 2013 21:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So what do you propose to do about the fact that Americans like fast food? Let me guess... make it illegal?


You have about as much a grasp of economics and facts as our Dear Leader does. KFC, Burger King, McDonalds, etc. are highly competitive with one another, not to mention every other restaurant in town. Your tastes and disdain for your fellow Americans (?) is irrelevant to that fact. Here is another fact. There is no &quot;Laughlin, NE&quot; according to Google Maps. But given your lack of sophistication with the English language, let&#039;s suppose you mean &quot;Laughlin, NV.&quot; Well, in Laughlin, NV there is no Burger King. There is one 10 miles away in Ft. Mohave (again, according to Google Maps). There are lots of restaurants in Laughlin, NV which means lots of competition. One of those restaurants is In-n-Out Burger, an excellent chain in the western U.S. If burgers in Ft. Mohave were $11-15 nobody would eat there -- they would instead go to In-n-Out or one of the other stores. Your lie isn&#039;t even a very good one.


Oh by the way, the In-n-Out in Laughlin, NV is hiring. Starting pay is $10.50.


Go back to moveOn.org, troll.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So what do you propose to do about the fact that Americans like fast food? Let me guess&#8230; make it illegal?</p>
<p>You have about as much a grasp of economics and facts as our Dear Leader does. KFC, Burger King, McDonalds, etc. are highly competitive with one another, not to mention every other restaurant in town. Your tastes and disdain for your fellow Americans (?) is irrelevant to that fact. Here is another fact. There is no &#8220;Laughlin, NE&#8221; according to Google Maps. But given your lack of sophistication with the English language, let&#8217;s suppose you mean &#8220;Laughlin, NV.&#8221; Well, in Laughlin, NV there is no Burger King. There is one 10 miles away in Ft. Mohave (again, according to Google Maps). There are lots of restaurants in Laughlin, NV which means lots of competition. One of those restaurants is In-n-Out Burger, an excellent chain in the western U.S. If burgers in Ft. Mohave were $11-15 nobody would eat there &#8212; they would instead go to In-n-Out or one of the other stores. Your lie isn&#8217;t even a very good one.</p>
<p>Oh by the way, the In-n-Out in Laughlin, NV is hiring. Starting pay is $10.50.</p>
<p>Go back to moveOn.org, troll.</p>
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		<title>By: Richard Fontaine</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Richard Fontaine]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Sep 2013 01:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you can stick in the phrase &quot;or teenagers trying to learn how the world of work is structured and want to succeed&quot;, for the &quot;immigrants&quot; you mentioned and you have answered your own question. The immigrants come from poor parts of rural Mexico and since I speak spanish I love to hear their personal story of escaping from the stagnant and destructive kleptocracy that is modern Mexico. I don&#039;t blame them for wanting to come here and anyone with eyes can see that they are good workers. I just want the boarders sealed so ALL OF MEXICO doesn&#039;t comes here and as newly registered voters makes all OF AMERICA as corrupt and unjust as MEXICO is today. BARRACK HUSSEIN OBAMAS, intends to create a new AMERICA by registering anyone who shows up as an AMERICAN CITIZEN, whether legal or not, and forcing us to bend to his tyranny. I say no.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you can stick in the phrase &#8220;or teenagers trying to learn how the world of work is structured and want to succeed&#8221;, for the &#8220;immigrants&#8221; you mentioned and you have answered your own question. The immigrants come from poor parts of rural Mexico and since I speak spanish I love to hear their personal story of escaping from the stagnant and destructive kleptocracy that is modern Mexico. I don&#8217;t blame them for wanting to come here and anyone with eyes can see that they are good workers. I just want the boarders sealed so ALL OF MEXICO doesn&#8217;t comes here and as newly registered voters makes all OF AMERICA as corrupt and unjust as MEXICO is today. BARRACK HUSSEIN OBAMAS, intends to create a new AMERICA by registering anyone who shows up as an AMERICAN CITIZEN, whether legal or not, and forcing us to bend to his tyranny. I say no.</p>
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		<title>By: Richard Fontaine</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Richard Fontaine]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Sep 2013 00:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Look I started out fifty years ago supporting myself by working in minimum wage jobs, since then I have done dozens of things including going to colleges and universities you would be impressed by. I have started and run businesses and failed and succeeded. I had to start with only $20 when I was seventeen for reasons that I won&#039;t bore you with. The only point I am trying to make with you is that work teaches in most cases more than our current public schools. A business man taught me how to sell his &quot;stale&quot; merchandise when I was a stupid 14 year old kid working for him as as a salesman after school. He  taught me at fourteen as much as I would later learn at a &quot;well known Eastern business school&quot; some fifteen years later.  I now live and have lived in Baltimore,MD and for the last thirty years have watched young kids who except for their skin color are very much  like me fifty years ago with no parents and  no one to teach them how to earn a living. My  boss was an older jewish gentleman who had no children but was willing to teach me how to sell clothes. Why? Because he cared. Who is  going to teach the tens of thousands of  African American black teenagers in all of our inner cities if your lack of understanding of the basics of how a business survives keeps the minimum wage so high that no businessman or woman in their right mind would ever hirer any black child who doesn&#039;t understand even the basic skills of how to earn a living?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Look I started out fifty years ago supporting myself by working in minimum wage jobs, since then I have done dozens of things including going to colleges and universities you would be impressed by. I have started and run businesses and failed and succeeded. I had to start with only $20 when I was seventeen for reasons that I won&#8217;t bore you with. The only point I am trying to make with you is that work teaches in most cases more than our current public schools. A business man taught me how to sell his &#8220;stale&#8221; merchandise when I was a stupid 14 year old kid working for him as as a salesman after school. He  taught me at fourteen as much as I would later learn at a &#8220;well known Eastern business school&#8221; some fifteen years later.  I now live and have lived in Baltimore,MD and for the last thirty years have watched young kids who except for their skin color are very much  like me fifty years ago with no parents and  no one to teach them how to earn a living. My  boss was an older jewish gentleman who had no children but was willing to teach me how to sell clothes. Why? Because he cared. Who is  going to teach the tens of thousands of  African American black teenagers in all of our inner cities if your lack of understanding of the basics of how a business survives keeps the minimum wage so high that no businessman or woman in their right mind would ever hirer any black child who doesn&#8217;t understand even the basic skills of how to earn a living?</p>
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		<title>By: ziggy zoggy</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[ziggy zoggy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2013 23:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yep. I had to wait until I was 13 to qualify for a regular paper route. Before then I used to hook little advertisement papers onto people&#039;s doorknobs for peanuts. Now adults are delivering papers. Never mind that the newspaper business is outdated and needs to die. How fucked up is society when kids can&#039;t deliver papers on your porch and adults have to dump them in your driveways for peanuts?


Low Minimum wages are obscene.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yep. I had to wait until I was 13 to qualify for a regular paper route. Before then I used to hook little advertisement papers onto people&#8217;s doorknobs for peanuts. Now adults are delivering papers. Never mind that the newspaper business is outdated and needs to die. How fucked up is society when kids can&#8217;t deliver papers on your porch and adults have to dump them in your driveways for peanuts?</p>
<p>Low Minimum wages are obscene.</p>
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		<title>By: ziggy zoggy</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[ziggy zoggy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2013 22:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[.....as second rate as America has become. This Apple I Pad is a perfect example. What a piece of $hit. And yet Steve Jobs is regaled as a visionary, even though Apple products are incompatible with EVERYTHING.


Go watch American Idol or Glee and eat a Big Mac, fat boy.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8230;..as second rate as America has become. This Apple I Pad is a perfect example. What a piece of $hit. And yet Steve Jobs is regaled as a visionary, even though Apple products are incompatible with EVERYTHING.</p>
<p>Go watch American Idol or Glee and eat a Big Mac, fat boy.</p>
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		<title>By: ziggy zoggy</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[ziggy zoggy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2013 22:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What, they&#039;re supposed to charge HIGH prices for crappy products made by unskilled laborers? 


Fast food companies make money because Americans are fat, lazy slobs who will put just about anything in their perpetually whining mouths. The fact that people wait in line to buy the garbage most of them sell proves that it&#039;s a seller&#039;s market. Efficiency has nothing to do with it. Can you name a single decent burger chain besides In N&#039; Out or Johnny Rocket&#039;s? Five brothers may be good. I don&#039;t know, because the cheapest burger on its menu costs more than five dollars and I&#039;m not stupid enough to pay that much for fast food. I can go to Red Robin and get a delicious gourmet burger with bottomless fries for less than ten bucks - and RR serves alcohol like all civilized establishments do.


How much do you want to bet that Red Robin pays its entry level employees more than McDonald&#039;s or Burger King do - even though McDonald&#039;s pulls in more money every week than RR could if it lasts for a hundred years? And I know for a fact that In N&#039; Out pays substantially more than its competitors. It also sells a far superior product and makes them fresh - AND SLOWLY.


YOU ARE COMPLETELY FULL OF $HIT. Conservative dogma may not be as destructive as lefty dogma, but it almost as stupid. The minimum wage is too fucking low. Gas prices are not high because China and India are major market players. (The city of LA has more vehicles on its roads than both countries combined.) the &quot;market&quot; does not correct all its mistakes. Wetbacks will NEVER vote Republican or improve the economy. This insistence on keeping a minimum wage artificially depressed is conservative folly. Sometimes lefties are right to hate us.


Any PROFESSIONAL AND COMPETENT manager knows that minimum wage produces minimum work. Compensating and developing employees makes them better people and improves society. Exploiting them produces a country]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What, they&#8217;re supposed to charge HIGH prices for crappy products made by unskilled laborers? </p>
<p>Fast food companies make money because Americans are fat, lazy slobs who will put just about anything in their perpetually whining mouths. The fact that people wait in line to buy the garbage most of them sell proves that it&#8217;s a seller&#8217;s market. Efficiency has nothing to do with it. Can you name a single decent burger chain besides In N&#8217; Out or Johnny Rocket&#8217;s? Five brothers may be good. I don&#8217;t know, because the cheapest burger on its menu costs more than five dollars and I&#8217;m not stupid enough to pay that much for fast food. I can go to Red Robin and get a delicious gourmet burger with bottomless fries for less than ten bucks &#8211; and RR serves alcohol like all civilized establishments do.</p>
<p>How much do you want to bet that Red Robin pays its entry level employees more than McDonald&#8217;s or Burger King do &#8211; even though McDonald&#8217;s pulls in more money every week than RR could if it lasts for a hundred years? And I know for a fact that In N&#8217; Out pays substantially more than its competitors. It also sells a far superior product and makes them fresh &#8211; AND SLOWLY.</p>
<p>YOU ARE COMPLETELY FULL OF $HIT. Conservative dogma may not be as destructive as lefty dogma, but it almost as stupid. The minimum wage is too fucking low. Gas prices are not high because China and India are major market players. (The city of LA has more vehicles on its roads than both countries combined.) the &#8220;market&#8221; does not correct all its mistakes. Wetbacks will NEVER vote Republican or improve the economy. This insistence on keeping a minimum wage artificially depressed is conservative folly. Sometimes lefties are right to hate us.</p>
<p>Any PROFESSIONAL AND COMPETENT manager knows that minimum wage produces minimum work. Compensating and developing employees makes them better people and improves society. Exploiting them produces a country</p>
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		<title>By: ziggy zoggy</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[ziggy zoggy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2013 22:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A triple Whopper in Laughlin NE costs between 11 and 15 dollars, depending on the franchise owner&#039;s whims. (The price sure as heII isn&#039;t based on market reality.) &quot;The Burger&quot; at a  London BK costs $186.00. 


Do you want fries with that, cheesed1€k?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A triple Whopper in Laughlin NE costs between 11 and 15 dollars, depending on the franchise owner&#8217;s whims. (The price sure as heII isn&#8217;t based on market reality.) &#8220;The Burger&#8221; at a  London BK costs $186.00. </p>
<p>Do you want fries with that, cheesed1€k?</p>
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		<title>By: MrUniteUs1</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[MrUniteUs1]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2013 22:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Plenty of countries with no minimum wage. Not one of them doing nearly as the U.S.  Raising the minimum wage will also raise consumer spending which will generate more hiring and consumer spending. It&#039;s good for business.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Plenty of countries with no minimum wage. Not one of them doing nearly as the U.S.  Raising the minimum wage will also raise consumer spending which will generate more hiring and consumer spending. It&#8217;s good for business.</p>
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		<title>By: ziggy zoggy</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[ziggy zoggy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2013 21:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fast food joints are among the least competitive businesses in the country. They depend on sales volume and low wages to make money. If it weren&#039;t for the laziness and gluttony of fat Americans, most of them would go out of business. Their prices are comparable to those of real restaurants that serve good food and many of them have lousy business models, but there are more fast food joints than any other kind of restaurant. If KFC can make money, any fast food joint can. Americans like crappy fast food. It has nothing to do with quality or competition.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Fast food joints are among the least competitive businesses in the country. They depend on sales volume and low wages to make money. If it weren&#8217;t for the laziness and gluttony of fat Americans, most of them would go out of business. Their prices are comparable to those of real restaurants that serve good food and many of them have lousy business models, but there are more fast food joints than any other kind of restaurant. If KFC can make money, any fast food joint can. Americans like crappy fast food. It has nothing to do with quality or competition.</p>
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		<title>By: ziggy zoggy</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[ziggy zoggy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2013 21:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You are confusing states with areas, and businesses with employees. Besides, WA just raised its minimum wage to $10. Per hour and it has one of the highest employment rates in the country.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You are confusing states with areas, and businesses with employees. Besides, WA just raised its minimum wage to $10. Per hour and it has one of the highest employment rates in the country.</p>
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		<title>By: Sheik Yerbouti</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sheik Yerbouti]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2013 12:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So were paper routes.  But these days you nearly never see a kid on a bicycle tossing newspapers.  It&#039;s usually an older couple in a beat up van.  We&#039;ve seen some very weird shifts in ways to make a buck in the last couple of decades.  The very first in line to be scrood are the young.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So were paper routes.  But these days you nearly never see a kid on a bicycle tossing newspapers.  It&#8217;s usually an older couple in a beat up van.  We&#8217;ve seen some very weird shifts in ways to make a buck in the last couple of decades.  The very first in line to be scrood are the young.</p>
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		<title>By: Richard Fontaine</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Richard Fontaine]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2013 11:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This of course is because ziggy is not quite accurate in most of his acertions. How about Texas, North Dakota, Florida, Montanna, Utah, versus Rhode Island, California, New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Illinois?????     businesses can&#039;t leave these blue states fast enough. with good reason.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This of course is because ziggy is not quite accurate in most of his acertions. How about Texas, North Dakota, Florida, Montanna, Utah, versus Rhode Island, California, New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Illinois?????     businesses can&#8217;t leave these blue states fast enough. with good reason.</p>
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		<title>By: Richard Fontaine</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Richard Fontaine]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2013 11:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NO get off your A$$ and learn a skill that pays more. Like managment, plumbing, carpentry, mechanics, sales or anything more complex than sweeping the floors and asking &quot;If you would like fries with that?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>NO get off your A$$ and learn a skill that pays more. Like managment, plumbing, carpentry, mechanics, sales or anything more complex than sweeping the floors and asking &#8220;If you would like fries with that?</p>
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		<title>By: Richard Fontaine</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Richard Fontaine]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2013 11:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am in complete agreement with this arguement. Illegal immigration AND welfare paying more than working has destroyed the American work ethic.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am in complete agreement with this arguement. Illegal immigration AND welfare paying more than working has destroyed the American work ethic.</p>
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		<title>By: Richard Fontaine</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Richard Fontaine]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2013 11:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Management is a skill. Unlike &quot;gender studies&quot; and other progressive bs masquerading as education in our colleges today.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Management is a skill. Unlike &#8220;gender studies&#8221; and other progressive bs masquerading as education in our colleges today.</p>
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		<title>By: Richard Fontaine</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Richard Fontaine]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2013 11:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been trying to say something similar above, and frankly I think you have said it better. Thanks and congrats. I worked in Burger Chef in Middletown, CT to put myself through college many decades ago, and at least that experience taught me more than the left leaning liberal professors did in my &quot;progressive studies&quot; courses.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have been trying to say something similar above, and frankly I think you have said it better. Thanks and congrats. I worked in Burger Chef in Middletown, CT to put myself through college many decades ago, and at least that experience taught me more than the left leaning liberal professors did in my &#8220;progressive studies&#8221; courses.</p>
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		<title>By: Richard Fontaine</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Richard Fontaine]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2013 11:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Trying to enlighten low information liberals is basically a waste of time so rather than pointing out your obvious lack of understanding or knowledge of any business even one as straight forward as the fast food industry I will reply with the same answer I gave your fellow traveler, ziggy zoogy  below; 
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&quot;any fast food chain that hasn&#039;t squeezed all the inefficency out of their operations is either already out of business or on it&#039;s way out. You appear to be yet another low information liberal with no sense of how a competitive free market works&quot;]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Trying to enlighten low information liberals is basically a waste of time so rather than pointing out your obvious lack of understanding or knowledge of any business even one as straight forward as the fast food industry I will reply with the same answer I gave your fellow traveler, ziggy zoogy  below;<br />
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&#8220;any fast food chain that hasn&#8217;t squeezed all the inefficency out of their operations is either already out of business or on it&#8217;s way out. You appear to be yet another low information liberal with no sense of how a competitive free market works&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: davarino</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/thomas-sowell/minimum-wage-madness/comment-page-1/#comment-5277015</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[davarino]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2013 11:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So the wages go up as the labor pool gets smaller, yes. The workers have more money AND THE PRICE OF EVERYTHING REMAINS THE SAME? The price of hamburger can go down in this environment? You can make the wages of a burger flipper $50 an hour and for a very short while, if the business doesnt go out of business, the workers will enjoy the higher wages. But then everything shifts to account for this imbalance and the $50 an hour wage now feels like the $6 an hour wage I used to make. Sorry, basic economics
I am with you on the illegal immigrant issue, not good for America]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So the wages go up as the labor pool gets smaller, yes. The workers have more money AND THE PRICE OF EVERYTHING REMAINS THE SAME? The price of hamburger can go down in this environment? You can make the wages of a burger flipper $50 an hour and for a very short while, if the business doesnt go out of business, the workers will enjoy the higher wages. But then everything shifts to account for this imbalance and the $50 an hour wage now feels like the $6 an hour wage I used to make. Sorry, basic economics<br />
I am with you on the illegal immigrant issue, not good for America</p>
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		<title>By: JVR</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/thomas-sowell/minimum-wage-madness/comment-page-1/#comment-5276822</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[JVR]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2013 02:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK Richard, suppose for the moment that you are correct, and that fast food is as efficient as it can be in an environment with a large supply of cheap labour.  Then they should go out of business (their business model does not work, and needs the supply of migrants as cheap labour).


This is why I reject your argument about efficiencies.  Fast food restaurants should be able to make a profit in a climate without cheap immigrant labour.  If this dry up, the industry will reorganise (perhaps some marginal places will close down, as they should). In the end this squeezes efficiencies out the remaining, who will compute for workers at a higher wage value but that the volume of sales which makes that affordable.


The supply of cheap labour distorts entire industries, harm the working class, and cause immense harm by building inefficiencies in the the business models of industry.  That is why it is harmful.  Sorry, but I have to reject your arguments above.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>OK Richard, suppose for the moment that you are correct, and that fast food is as efficient as it can be in an environment with a large supply of cheap labour.  Then they should go out of business (their business model does not work, and needs the supply of migrants as cheap labour).</p>
<p>This is why I reject your argument about efficiencies.  Fast food restaurants should be able to make a profit in a climate without cheap immigrant labour.  If this dry up, the industry will reorganise (perhaps some marginal places will close down, as they should). In the end this squeezes efficiencies out the remaining, who will compute for workers at a higher wage value but that the volume of sales which makes that affordable.</p>
<p>The supply of cheap labour distorts entire industries, harm the working class, and cause immense harm by building inefficiencies in the the business models of industry.  That is why it is harmful.  Sorry, but I have to reject your arguments above.</p>
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		<title>By: Richard Fontaine</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Richard Fontaine]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2013 01:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once again. NONSENSE. If you had any knowledge of business you would realize that the whole  fast food industry is very competitive and that any fast food chain that hasn&#039;t squeezed all the inefficency out of their operations is either already out of business or on it&#039;s way out. You appear to be yet another low information liberal with no sense of how a competitive free market works.. AS for your pipe dream about $15 Burger KIng burgers that is a complete fantasy. Would you care to name one? Get a job in the real world and maybe you will learn that workers only earn what they are worth to the enterprise.  AS far as low prices, have you not ever heard of the Dollar Menu? IT is where unemployed liberals get their lunch.  Check it out. You might like it.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Once again. NONSENSE. If you had any knowledge of business you would realize that the whole  fast food industry is very competitive and that any fast food chain that hasn&#8217;t squeezed all the inefficency out of their operations is either already out of business or on it&#8217;s way out. You appear to be yet another low information liberal with no sense of how a competitive free market works.. AS for your pipe dream about $15 Burger KIng burgers that is a complete fantasy. Would you care to name one? Get a job in the real world and maybe you will learn that workers only earn what they are worth to the enterprise.  AS far as low prices, have you not ever heard of the Dollar Menu? IT is where unemployed liberals get their lunch.  Check it out. You might like it.</p>
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