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<blockquote data-quote="dmac1" data-source="post: 3252857" data-attributes="member: 60252">You are saying that people with skills shouldn&#039;t take a job at McDonalds or other low wage jobs, assuming that there are just millions and millions of jobs available for everyone everywhere. THAT is ignorant. There are more low wage workers than there are open better paying jobs.&nbsp;For a lot of people, McDonalds or other low wage jobs are their only option. And while you may think that an employer has no obligation to support their employees off duty, the FACT remains that as long as there are employers who don&#039;t pay enough to live on, we will all be paying more in taxes to help those people survive. You may want to base life on the ideal, but I want to base it on the real. Ideally there would be good paying jobs for everyone equipped to do the job, but that isn&#039;t the case. Companies like McDonalds are taking advantage of the oversupply of workers to the detriment of taxpayers. A conservative wouldn&#039;t want taxpayers to be screwed over by highly profitable companies who are hurting taxpayers.&nbsp;I think any employer who uses people to make a profit needs to make sure those workers don&#039;t result in a burden on the rest of us.&nbsp; If a company can&#039;t make it without putting more demand on taxpayers, they shouldn&#039;t be in business. No one who works full time should need taxpayers to make up the difference between&nbsp; what the employer pays and the basic needs of staying employable..</blockquote>

[QUOTE="dmac1, post: 3252857, member: 60252"] You are saying that people with skills shouldn't take a job at McDonalds or other low wage jobs, assuming that there are just millions and millions of jobs available for everyone everywhere. THAT is ignorant. There are more low wage workers than there are open better paying jobs. For a lot of people, McDonalds or other low wage jobs are their only option. And while you may think that an employer has no obligation to support their employees off duty, the FACT remains that as long as there are employers who don't pay enough to live on, we will all be paying more in taxes to help those people survive. You may want to base life on the ideal, but I want to base it on the real. Ideally there would be good paying jobs for everyone equipped to do the job, but that isn't the case. Companies like McDonalds are taking advantage of the oversupply of workers to the detriment of taxpayers. A conservative wouldn't want taxpayers to be screwed over by highly profitable companies who are hurting taxpayers. I think any employer who uses people to make a profit needs to make sure those workers don't result in a burden on the rest of us. If a company can't make it without putting more demand on taxpayers, they shouldn't be in business. No one who works full time should need taxpayers to make up the difference between what the employer pays and the basic needs of staying employable.. [/QUOTE]

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