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Showing Original Post only (View all)Sitting in a restaurant today I realized how much trouble we are in for [View all]
Was looking at the waiter at a local restaurant today. He is the first male waiter I have ever seen in this restaurant. He is a good kid too. I like him a lot. Be proud to have him as my own son. That good of a kid. My daughter was a waitress at this same restaurant when she was 16 and still in high school. Doesn't pay anything. My daughter made enough there to live home at no cost and make a small car payment and her car insurance. That is it. Got millionaire farmers who come there and have their coffee cups filled and be waited on hand and foot for hours on end and leave a nickel tip. Those farmers are still coming in there. They still leave a nickel. Now I see this adult waiter doing the same thing my daughter did when she was a kid for that same nickel.
This kid is old and healthy enough to be loading hoods at an auto plant. That is what he would have been doing 30 years ago. Hard work. But good money and benefits. Now I see this kid waitering making shit money and ask myself is this who we are going to be depending on to fund social security, medicare for the old folks and pay our government employees and their retirement benefits in a few years?
Then it hit me. This just isn't going to work. No matter how bad we want it to work, it just isn't going to work.
Now multiply what this kid is doing times millions more kids just like him all across America.
See what is about to happen?
Don