Jeff Stahler for January 14, 2015

I am not sure that I agree with the second part. Unless one is expecting them to only offer healthy choices. At a certain point it does simply become a matter of choice and responsibility on the part of the consumer. As long as the healthy choices are easily available and inexpensive, then it is a fair choice.

Working at any fast food joint should be considered a starter job not a career.

Wow…they added cutie oranges to Happy Meals

If all you achieve is the equivalent of an 8th grade education, then McDonald’s, Burger King and, yes, Walmart WILL be your career! Raising the minimum wage will only result in higher prices and thus wiping out the raise you just got.

If you don’t like the wages at McDonalds go work somewhere else. Anywhere that your motivation and education will get you a job.

Seems many here do not understand the realities of reality.Especially jobs, (McDonald and such have put the diners out of business where one could make more than the min. Just as the “Big Box” stores have put the very small business owners out of business, ) and the economy.

Billions served vs. Billions heard…let’s see what happens

If people working full-time make so little as to qualify for food stamps, as happens at McDonald’s and Wal-Mart, this means the US taxpayer subsidizes the salaries paid by those entities. McDonald’s and Wal-Mart are large and wealthy enough; this is yet another example of corporate welfare, and costs us far greater dollars than they want us to know about.

What to do about it is problematic: my first thought would be to bill the companies for the taxpayer’s subsidies, just as we (should) bill polluters for the taxpayer’s costs for cleanup. I’m sure there are other ideas, and probably better ones. But ignoring the problem will not make it go away.

You miss the point. If you have a minimum wage job then you WILL be dependent on assistance to live. There are plenty of people with college education working these low paying jobs because that’s what’s available. One job for every three people LOOKING, that doesn’t count the low wage workers on assistance who are not looking. If the country was brimming with unfilled higher wage jobs your argument would make more sense, but it isn’t, and it doesn’t.

And where do you glean this wealth of insight from.