What is $15 minimum wage doing to Bay Area restaurants'

Really doesn't sound good for Ontario

Yeah right. $12 hamburgers are so 2005

$15.87. You forgot to convert from American to Canadian.

All kidding aside I read the article. If the same happens here wonder how the government is going to explain that high a lose when they said this would help the economy as people would have more money to spend. Not everyone is going to go on a spending spree that includes restaurants or whatever else they think people are wanting

Meanwhile in the Worker's Socialist Paradise of Venezuela:

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation- ... 72104.html



Seems that as bad as capitalism is it's still a whole fuckload better than the nightmare of socialism that you'd impose on the US and Canada if you had your way.

Also I like how the article refers to Venezuela as a 'once wealthy' nation. Just goes to show that if your nation is prosperous and wealthy that socialism can fix that for you.

Then there's North Korea.

It's also worth noting that even the sort of "Democratic Socialism" people like Bernie Sanders claim to favor can only exist on the back of Capitalism.

While we tremble under the bed heeding the warnings of who can't distinguish between 'democratic socialism' and their examples of N Korea and Venezuela.
OMG my Teenburger might go up 25c but the kid making it might give enough of a shit for his job he'll get the order right!

Hang on...who's that, herb? It sure as Hell isn't me. If it was, the quote wouldn't read " the sort of "Democratic Socialism" people like Bernie Sanders claim to favor." Did you catch the qualifier

To the rational mind that would suggest a difference between outright communist countries and Democratic Socialist countries such as some of those in the EU, which are only able to exist on the back of Capitalism. Get it? Or will you need pictures?

No one gives a shit about their minimum wage job because they can earn that rate anywhere.

Pay them significantly more than the minimum like In-N-Out Burger does and they're committed because they can't just go get another job for the same money.

And unscrupulous employers are still going to hire illegal aliens for $5 an hour.

You just reminded me of an old National Lampoon comic "Illegal Aliens From Outer Space" ... they arrive in saucers with mattresses tied on the roofs... Americans are protesting holding signs "Two arms, two arms!" because they can sling burgers faster with their 4 tentacles...

They have to pay the same rated up here. The TFWs at the local Subway, KFC and Timmies get about $12 an hour, almost $2 above minimum. They can't even attract teens or retirees to work for that.
A retired mayor and bank manager work at the grocery for the paltry wages just for pin money and something to do. But they're 'leave me out of the corporate team building bullshit' and management politics, please.

If you die before you turn 50 it'll be your own damned fault.

Seriously, I wish you'd knock it off with this bullshit basement revolutionary thing of yours and apply yourself. Get an education, get a decent job, and make something of yourself so that maybe you'd envision living to a ripe old age.

You're probably the person on this site who frustrates me the most. You're clearly intelligent, you're naturally curious, and you're engaged. Yet for some reason there's something in your head that's convinced you you're a loser who can't accomplish anything.

Not knowing you outside of this site my default advice is to encourage you to join the military because the military excels at developing people into more than they thought they were. They'll teach you to look at obstacles in life not as permanent barriers but as mere problems that some thinking and applied strategy will easily overcome. And that's a life skill you really need.