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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJoe Scarborough's take on fast-food workers and the minimum wage:
"I hope they get their Mazeratis." And their "Cadillac health care plans."
He does acknowledge, though, that these jobs aren't primarily held by kids anymore, and that they are the sole means of income for many who once had higher paying jobs. Still doesn't make a difference. Raising the minimum wage to a subsistence level is still a bad idea.
I don't know what angered me more: What he said, or his attitude as he said it.
redwitch
(14,944 posts)He is a moron. I don't watch anymore because I cannot take his smarmy attitude but I was channel surfing. And Mika smiles and shows off her tan. It's like watching Hannity and Colmes.
AngryOldDem
(14,061 posts)I stopped when I saw they were talking about "Must Reads," and this discussion happened after Mika read a part of an NY Times op-ed about fast-food workers and the minimum wage (which I plan to read later -- it sounds really good).
This "let them eat cake" mentality is so off-base and brazen. I think I was more offended by his attitude, the more I think about it. But even implying that fast-food workers want more because they're **greedy** -- the very height of irony and arrogance.
I did appreciate Mika's response, something about keeping the status quo so the CEOs can continue to make their money. She was angry as well. Everybody else just looked uncomfortable.
TheMastersNemesis
(10,602 posts)Everyone on DU has to remember that Reagan began the installment of a "new aristrocrat class" in the US separated by class and "gated communities". We do not have official titles like in feudal times but we do have "class apartheid". That reality is what the GOP represents and supports primarily. They believe in segregation by class as well as color.
And as long as they can convince the "poor white crackers" in the South and other places that the GOP and conservatives are on their side, voting patterns will not change. The poorest and sickest in the South hate Obamacare.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)and then launches into a diatribe against the working poor. Is he an idiot? HE'S part of that problem!
B Calm
(28,762 posts)doesn't mean that McDonald workers want the same thing. Hell they might like to own a new chevy.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)he should hear how he sounds when goes on one of these mean-spirited rants. He's like a Frankenstein Republican...
JHB
(37,160 posts)...are plastic ones that come with Happy Meals.
Employees of the Month get die-cast ones, if the boss is making a show of how generous he is.
PM Martin
(2,660 posts)B Calm
(28,762 posts)get away with murder.