McDonald's Budget Suggestions: No Food, No Heat, Get A Second Job

[limpyhobbler]

Disingenuously preaching “You can have almost anything you want as long as you plan ahead and save for it,” the Czars at Mcdonalds have teamed with Visa to launch a website to "help" its workers budget on their massive paycheck of $18,000 and change a year, or $8.25 an hour, because clearly the only reason their workers are having a hard time making ends meet is because they're clueless and irresponsible, not because they Just Don't Make Enough Money To Live. Their "calculations" include $20 a month for health care, $600 a month for rent, nothing for heat, food, clothing or child care, and, oh yeah, a second job. The kicker: According to their own math, workers would need to make $15 an hour - roughly the amount they are now fighting tooth and nail to prevent - to survive. Last year, Bloomberg News found it would take the average McDonalds employee a million hours of work to earn as much as the company’s CEO. What's more outrageous: that fact, or the grotesque, self-righteous, patronizing hypocrisy of this site? Tough call.

http://www.commondreams.org/further/2013/07/15-1

[lunasun]

1. Which is worse? IMO," the grotesque, self-righteous, patronizing hypocrisy" of the site.

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[marble falls]

2. I've been boycotting McD's since '86.

[Populist_Prole]

3. Curiously missing is an admonishment to have a healthy diet

[drynberg]

4. GOOD AD FOR $15/HR

Thanks, Ronald, a clown with a heart...

[lunasun]

8. but even that $15hr is with a 2nd job in the budget plan..............

[naturallyselected]

5. They've been hearing about this

If you look at the website now, they have changed the Heat number from $0 to $50 - still absurd, but I wouldn't be surprised to see these numbers adjusted little by little. The question is - how clueless, or cynical, are they to think that this crap wouldn't offend people?

[Populist_Prole]

6. They can't take it back now. I hope it goes viral.

"The question is - how clueless, or cynical, are they to think that this crap wouldn't offend people?"

More clueless than cynical, in that I doubt it's to show contempt. It's just how the 1 percent see the world. Such is life inside the sterile bubble.

[lunasun]

7. I say extremely clueless, they have been eating RW crap 4ever and really think others should

be able to sail through life on the little square plan they provide . All is covered by Big D's plan not
Maniacally cynical for the planning info,data and number$ they provide on the site!!!

[shneepsen]

9. Posts like this

Are being smothered by all the RT and TYT posts. And they are the most realistic ones. Seriously...

[limpyhobbler]

10. I like TYT...