This morning on Morning Joe (MSNBC), the topic of McDonald’s
advise to their minimum wage employees that if they cannot make “ends meet”
they should get another job. In classic conservative fashion, one of the guests
said, what they should do is go to college. It reminded me of the Anne Coulter’s
famous remark about people who sleep on grates in Washington D.C., paraphrased
as, ‘they should get up, work hard like me, and go to Harvard’. The
insensitivity of the remarks about McDonald employees was soon challenged by
one of the guests, who pointed out that people who are already working two jobs
because they cannot make enough money to live cannot some how generate time,
intelligence, and over hyped tuition to go to college.
The point of this post is that someone on that TV program
could even say such a thing as, “they should go to college”. As an ex-teacher, I always felt if a student
made a remark it probably meant the ten students were thinking the same thing. I
feel there are many people in the world who believe minimum wages are OK,
because the people who work these jobs are lazy or just kids who live with their
parents, etc; therefore, they cannot afford transportation and a place to sleep
or they do not need such things.
Many times, I heard people say that people who die because
they cannot afford high medical costs should have had insurance. What is it
about a $7.25 hour jobs and the cost of insurance premium that these people do
not understand. Even with a Harvard education, if you do not want to understand
something, you probably wont. Even then, there is always a place for you on Morning
Joe.
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