Reply #92: My wife makes over $30,000 a year as a salary manager

[Red Knight]

and it has helped to raise two kids who are now both in college.

We NEED that job.

And yes--she started out as just a lowly hourly worker but took advantage of her opportunity.

No--it isn't an engineers salary but she isn't an engineer.

The choice is not Mcdonald's jobs OR good jobs. The economy is connected. If we add even low paying jobs vs. no jobs it will help those with skills who build things or make things because there will be more customers. Often teens get these jobs as first jobs--and where are they supposed to go in an economy where everyone is forced to work until they drop? Much of their income is free flowing---it gets into the economy.

I can't look at this as anything but good news.

Better news would be higher wage manufacturing jobs---but Mcdonald's isn't preventing that. Your watching the shiny object and being distracted by people like Steve Jobs who builds those nice IPads cheaply overseas. Don't blame Mcdonalds for that. Blame him, or GE, or companies that make things--somewhere else--cheap.

Yes-Mcdonald's is cheap--but you'd have a pretty warped view of reality to think that those are useless jobs and better abandoned.