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[QUOTE=Leslie;11892248]That's a tiresome trope.
Americans would do that work in a minute. What they won't do is work for slave wages.[/QUOTE]
Fine if you don't mind paying 300 dollars a night for a 2-1/2 star hotel and twenty-five bucks for a burger, fries and coke.
Americans would do that work in a minute. What they won't do is work for slave wages.[/QUOTE]
Fine if you don't mind paying 300 dollars a night for a 2-1/2 star hotel and twenty-five bucks for a burger, fries and coke.
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[QUOTE=dc koop;11892274]
Those are not remotely close to true. Gross exageration of the truth
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But since you went there. Who do you think works at McDonald's? Or Walmart? Those working for cash under the table are working for significantly less than even the people who flip your burgers.
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[QUOTE=dc koop;11892274]
Huh
You would need to pay $100 bucks an hour to get anywhere close to that, probably more.
You would need to pay $100 bucks an hour to get anywhere close to that, probably more.
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War drums throbbing in the night. Stand back you Islamic wrong doers
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There are no McD's etc in the local ski town, but I know there are plenty working in the back with no legal status.
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I know. The point is that Americans are willing to work at low paying, labor intensive jobs. I'm not interested in fighting the 'right or wrong' of allowing Mexican labor in the US. I was challenging the notion that Americans won't do this type of work therefore the (poor darlings) business owners are forced (completely against their will) to hire undocumented workers.
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Three of my daughters had early jobs cleaning hotel rooms. They averaged 30 minutes per room. Now another 5 dollars an hour would add 2.50 to room rate..if it were even passed along. Studies were done that showed a 15 dollar an hour wage would only increase the price of a burger at McDonalds by about 10 cents.
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On the upside with all the fast food joints going out of business the national obesity rate might drop significantly
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A fast food franchise owner is not going to jack up the hourly rate from 6 bucks an hour to what the government say is a livable wage of 15 dollars an hour (which it still isn't) without having to raise his prices significantly. Either that or take a big cut in profits with all the overheads still to pay on top of that.
On the upside with all the fast food joints going out of business the national obesity rate might drop significantly
On the upside with all the fast food joints going out of business the national obesity rate might drop significantly
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I know. The point is that Americans are willing to work at low paying, labor intensive jobs. I'm not interested in fighting the 'right or wrong' of allowing Mexican labor in the US. I was challenging the notion that Americans won't do this type of work therefore the (poor darlings) business owners are forced (completely against their will) to hire undocumented workers.
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