Watching cable news today, the reports from Manhattan said fast food workers struck most of their establishments for (some say) double their current wages.
"We can't make it on XXX dollars an hour, " one guy said, " it's too expensive to live in Manhattan on that. We have to have double that - over $15 an hour to survive." Other "victims" of the fast food industry went on to display with their signs, statements, and demands pretty much along the same lines.
The CNN reporters and HLN staffers who covered the story offered no back up to the comments from the strikers other than sympathy, " it's pretty tough making it in downtown New York on that kind of money, " one said.
This story will grow legs. No one YET has given any credence to the economic effects of doubling wages of those workers - 100% increases in their pay.
Will the public pay $10 or more for a hamburger in Manhattan? How much of a loss of a customer base will each store lose because those lower paid secretaries can't afford $50 a week on hamburger lunches? (brown bag city, here we come). When the loss of revenue to fast food hits the owners pockets, how many workers will hit the street?
You don't need columnist George Will to figure this one out. No one CARES to do the Detroit MATH on this one. Yes, it's expensive to live in New York City. I wouldn't live there if offered a $250K a year job. I hate the idea.
There is a option to those who can no longer afford to slug it out in the Big Apple on such little pay. MOVE. I did. Most of America does and it's become a habit. You move where the work IS, not where it isn't . You move where the fish are biting, where the money is. You DON'T bleed the city or business dry.
Don't think so? Does the word DETROIT mean anything to you?
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