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McDonald’s Advises Employees Not To Eat At McDonald’s
NBC News is reporting that McDonald’s is now telling its workers not to eat fast food like cheeseburgers and fries. The good news for McDonald’s employees is they are paid so little they can’t afford anything sold at McDonald’s. Turns out paying an unlivable wage keeps workers living.
Another post labels a meal with a cheeseburger and fries as the “unhealthy choice” and one with a submarine sandwich and salad as the “healthier choice,” noting that it’s more of a challenge to eat healthy when visiting a fast-food place.
McDonald’s accuses NBC of taking the advice entirely out of context adding that they go out of their way to provide customers with healthy alternatives like being closed after eleven p.m. so people have to go someplace better like Subway. NBC goes on to report…
Last month, the company detailed tipping advice for workers, many of whom make around minimum wage. It listed pricey suggestions for tipping au pairs, personal fitness trainers and pool cleaners from etiquette maven Emily Post — advice it removed after a CNBC inquiry. McDonald’s told CNBC the post was third-party material and said it would “continue to review the resource and will ask the vendor to make changes as needed.”
Bill O’Reilly’s War on Jesus
The brilliant and heroic Robert Scheer, if you’ll pardon the expression this Christmas Eve, really nails it…
So, what would Jesus do about the profound inequality of opportunity that both the pope and our president have identified as the most pressing moral crisis of our time? O’Reilly didn’t cotton to the statements of either man and took particular umbrage over the comments that the spiritual leader of his own Catholic faith made in late November: “… Pope Francis said that income inequality is immoral. … I don’t know if Jesus is going to be down with that.”
Boy does he zero in on our hypocrisy…
Quite a challenge for our nation that largely continues to request at every public occasion that God bless America. We are a country, as our president tells us, where “the problem is that alongside increased inequality, we’ve seen diminished levels of upward mobility in recent years. A child born in the top 20 percent has about a 2-in-3 chance of staying at or near the top. A child born into the bottom 20 percent has a less than 1-in-20 shot at making it to the top. … The combined trends of increased inequality and decreasing mobility pose a fundamental threat to the American Dream, our way of life, and what we stand for around the globe.”
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