now, if you will excuse me, I have to go chase the birds off my bird feeder. "HEY YOU BIRDS, GET OFF OF MY BIRD FEEDER, WHAT DO THINK I AM, RICH OR SOMETHING? I CAN'T AFFORD TO FEED YOU ALL."
Fast Food and Minimum Wage
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that's the problem with bird feeders. It creates a cycle of dependency. Instead of going down to South America and getting a real job for the winter, they hang around all winter trying to get a free hand out.
but getting back to the minimum wage, here's what I do. I tell them on the first brisk day in October, "Here's what I can afford, one fill a day. If you can't make it on that, you need to go somewhere else."
where is that "somewhere else"? I don't know. I hope it's not up my ass, because that could be painful.
nothing worse than a goddamed burger flipper. If you don't watch them every step of the way, they will eat you out of house and home.
One of the most important problems facing congress today (and I hope they will break the gridlock and act) is how much a Big Mac should cost?
As a hard right wing conservative libertarian, one of my dreams is that a Big Mac could trade on the open market at it's true price.
Then (if taxes were low) I think this country would thrive again.
Just like it did back in the days of "Leave it to Beaver."
If Morgan Stanley got involved, I can envision acres upon acres of cold storage units in Cushing, Oklahoma, all stacked to the ceiling with BigMacs. Then the public would start howling about Wall Street speculators pushing up the price of BigMacs, with no intention whatsoever to eat them all themselves.
Wall street would "explain" that the speculators were doing us all a favor by adding liquidity to the BigMac market, and the real reason for the steep rise in the price of a BigMac was increased demand. Not exactly a lie, but in the time honored tradition of Wall Street, not exactly the truth either.
Then the BigMac Desk at Morgan Stanley would swing into action hawking BigMac contracts to German Banks anxious to get in on the BigMac Boom. The price of BigMac contracts all the while reaching new highs. The banks would be happy until the contracts neared expiration, liquidity dried up, and there was no one to take their BigMac contracts off their hands. They would soon be the less than happy recipients of millions of frozen BigMacs.
German's would not go hungry for a long time. Meanwhile Morgan Stanley would begin buying insulin futures and filling their empty, Cushing, cold storage units with delivered insulin cars.
Wall street would "explain" that the speculators were doing us all a favor by adding liquidity to the BigMac market, and the real reason for the steep rise in the price of a BigMac was increased demand. Not exactly a lie, but in the time honored tradition of Wall Street, not exactly the truth either.
Then the BigMac Desk at Morgan Stanley would swing into action hawking BigMac contracts to German Banks anxious to get in on the BigMac Boom. The price of BigMac contracts all the while reaching new highs. The banks would be happy until the contracts neared expiration, liquidity dried up, and there was no one to take their BigMac contracts off their hands. They would soon be the less than happy recipients of millions of frozen BigMacs.
German's would not go hungry for a long time. Meanwhile Morgan Stanley would begin buying insulin futures and filling their empty, Cushing, cold storage units with delivered insulin cars.