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Ironically, the healthiest meal I was able to get at McDs was also the cheapest. Grilled chicken value meal sandwich, no mayo. Side salad, no cheese or mayo. Cup of water. About $3.50 or so for a relatively balanced meal of protein, carbs, and vegetables, under 400 calories total.

See why can't you just post like this.

You may increase the amount of effort to advance above the required living amount, but you also require less effort to maintain that required living amount. Its no lie that people on a part time job can not afford to live an average lifestyle in the US. Raising the minimum wage may allow more people to do that it will pull some people off government assistance, and it will reduce assistance many need by pulling the very large % of people that aren't close to the average living requirements closer to it.

And it has no impact on anyone already over those amounts, other than some ego thing where they think they are entitled to earn more because they worked there longer. If a company feels long term employees deserve to keep their spread from minimum earners, then that is the companies choice. Just as it is the companies choice to pay one dude 1000x more than the average earner in the company. and if you don't like that someone who just started earns closer to the same amount you do...you can always go and find a new job that will pay you what you think you deserve.

Edited, Mar 5th 2014 11:27am by rdmcandie

That other stuff is just shameless overpriced filler so they can make more money. It's fast food, it's McDonalds, the bar is low. You find out what gives you the most calories/dollar and wolf it down before you can start to think about what they made it out of.

Got nothing against their shakes, fries are average, nothing special. It's also entirely possible I've been there too many times in the last couple of years. Something about kids and chicken nuggets, whatever they put in those things to keep the little ones addicted is working.

I had a Shamrock shake the other day. It wasn't as good as I remembered, even though they dress it up these days in those clear cups with the domed lid and whipped cream on top.

Yeah, it wouldn't have taken much to be better than that shake. It wasn't inedible but it wasn't anything to purchase twice either.

I doubt I could pass a double blind taste test in salts although the sea salt seems to season my chicken better when I cook it. Might just be the size of the crystals and their reaction to the cooking process or something. Or I'm just a tool of Big Sea Salt.

Its healthier to, since it is largely unprocessed it retains many other mineral deposits like magnesium, potassium, and calcium. Table Salt doesn't retain these minerals due to its processing and is mixed with other additives like Iodine, and an Anti Clumping agent that is not toxic but does nothing of worth for the body.

You guys are so ******* brave. Me, I feel a constant need to censor myself just to fit in.

Tragic, really.

What Joph said.

And if they had any actual belief in what they were saying they wouldn't care.

Get your own shtick.

Under 400 calories isn't really a meal, anyway. You do actually need energy to live, I don't know if anyone ever told you that.

The point I was making about buying power was that raising the minimum wage will not increase the buying power of those at the minimum because costs will adjust to match.

Good point. Except, of course, that we've raised the minimum wage before, and there's never been inflation related to the wage increase, ever. one of those things that sounds promising in your head, but on paper makes no sense and in practice is obviously idiotic.

For costs to "adjust to an increase in the minimum wage" that increase would have to be, in aggregate, about 1000 times larger than it actually is (not hyperbole, it's really that stupid of an idea). About 3 million workers are paid minimum wage. They work about an average of 1000 hours per year. Raising the minimum wage $5 an hour brings in about another 2 million employees who would now be below the federal minimum, also averaging about 1000 hours per year. So let's just say 5 million at 1000 hours each, or 5 billion hours per year. Let's also just assume they all get a raise of $5, pushing an extra $25B into the economy annually. Your argument is that this $25B increase into a 15 TRILLION+ GDP is going to cause inflation.

Can you really not see how ******* mindnumbingly stupid that is?