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young_clinton
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 Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 10:14 am Post subject: McDonald's highering 50,000 |
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| McDonald's is highering 50,000 people. So the unemployment rate ticks below 8.8% pretty soon. If McDonald's hires then so does a lot of other companies that service McDonald's. Other companies are probably going to be influenced by McD's and start hiring also. |
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bucheon bum
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| Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 10:21 am Post subject: |
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| I think the word you're aiming for is hiring. And why would any company be influenced by McDonalds? Mickey D's and Wal-Mart actually saw sales and market share grow during the great recession. Why? Because they sell inferior goods (in economic terms, not in quality necessarily) and cater to low-budget customers. |
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caniff
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We have a post-industrial McDonald's-based economy.
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cyui
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| Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 11:34 am Post subject: |
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| GM's make pretty good ( more then teacher). |
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Ya-ta Boy
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| Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 12:55 pm Post subject: |
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| McDonalds wants you to know that it's doing [the Obama re-election campaign] a favor |
You're not often this cynical. |
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conrad2
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| Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 12:58 pm Post subject: |
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| Wasn't McD's supposed to be almost fully automated by now? |
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Kuros
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| Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 1:07 pm Post subject: |
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McDonalds wants you to know that it's doing [the Obama re-election campaign] a favor
You're not often this cynical. |
I'm not voting for him, Ya-Ta. I plan to toss my vote away. And before you start, most of my criticisms of him are domestic and come from the left or have to do with general competence, actually.
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| Wasn't McD's supposed to be almost fully automated by now? |
I dunno. I had heard that some fast food chain, it was probably one of the Yum! brands, had begun outsourcing their drive-through window orders to India. At some point the drive towards creativity and efficiency reaches absurdity. Is it really more efficient to route an order halfway across the world and back to a computer screen 30ft away? And even if it is, isn't there some line we don't cross? |
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Ya-ta Boy
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| Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 1:15 pm Post subject: |
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Ya-Ta Boy wrote:
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McDonalds wants you to know that it's doing [the Obama re-election campaign] a favor
You're not often this cynical.
I'm not voting for him, Ya-Ta. I plan to toss my vote away. And before you start, most of my criticisms of him are domestic and come from the left or have to do with general competence, actually.
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I wasn't going anywhere in that direction. I was just reminded of how I felt when the economy started recovering before Reagan's re-election and how it seemed like the corporate world was plotting against my hopes. |
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Kuros
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| Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 1:20 pm Post subject: |
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Ya-Ta Boy wrote:
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McDonalds wants you to know that it's doing [the Obama re-election campaign] a favor
You're not often this cynical.
I'm not voting for him, Ya-Ta. I plan to toss my vote away. And before you start, most of my criticisms of him are domestic and come from the left or have to do with general competence, actually.
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I wasn't going anywhere in that direction. I was just reminded of how I felt when the economy started recovering before Reagan's re-election and how it seemed like the corporate world was plotting against my hopes. |
Possibly.
Obama will win. Only one Democrat in the last century lost his re-election campaign. Jimmy Carter. The economy is past the worst, it appears, so Obama will be re-elected. He's done fairly well with this Libya thing, provided he continues to keep it from being an actual war (Libyan rebels are now actually calling for Western boots on the ground to stop the bloodbath in Misrata).
Deserves has got nothing to do with anything. |
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Fox
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| Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 4:06 pm Post subject: |
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| And even if it is, isn't there some line we don't cross? |
Someone needs to just grab America's entire corporate and political leadership by the collar and shake them wildly while asking this question. |
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Space Bar
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| Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 4:56 pm Post subject: |
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| They're getting them higher? |
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West Coast Tatterdemalion
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| You mean "hiring." No thanks. I don't foresee Mcdonald's in my future. Even if I were destitute, I wouldn't do it. Rather live in a cave somewhere like that guy in Utah. Oh, and I wouldn't believe that 8.8% number. They easily manipulate those figures. |
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recessiontime
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| Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 10:28 pm Post subject: |
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| it's interesting how unemployment is 8.8% when the percentage of US citizens getting food stamps from the government is well above 13% at the moment. Strange how that works. |
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Ya-ta Boy
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| Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 2:43 am Post subject: |
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| Fox wrote: |
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| And even if it is, isn't there some line we don't cross? |
Someone needs to just grab America's entire corporate and political leadership by the collar and shake them wildly while asking this question. |
The sad thing is that this will not happen in my life time, and maybe not in yours.
I'm reminded of several regular posters on this site who two years ago were bemoaning that the country cannot run with only one functioning political party. But I don't hear them saying anything now. The Democratic Party is in the hands of moderates so 'moderate' that they swallow the GOP budget-cutting plan and then discover the GOP won't accept it--in the same way they kept compromising on health care until the GOP refused to accept its own health care plan.
Our system won't work with only one functioning party and the only functioning party today is the GOP which is in the hands of radicals.
What we need is a healthy progressive party. I'd support a Howard Dean insurgency except that the result would be to hand the presidency to the GOP and they don't have a single candidate in the field that isn't a candidate for the idiot farm. |
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recessiontime
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| Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 3:12 am Post subject: |
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| oh oh partisan politics alert.. |
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