The addition of thousands of positions at an employer such as McDonalds is, however, indicative of a significant trend taking hold throughout the US economy; to whatever degree large manufacturers and service companies are adding jobs, they are doing so on the basis of poverty wages. In the auto industry, for example, the major companies are in the process of increasing the number of employees at their plants who work for $14 an hour, as opposed to the average $28 an hour previously earned by workers at these enterprises. They are doing so with the active support of the trade unions.
And we have Republican assholes and neoliberal Democrats who want to abolish Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.
Disgusting.
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