As fast food workers in seven different cities continue to hold rallies and protests demanding a living wage, to no one's surprise, the pundits over at Fox used it as an excuse to participate on a couple of their favorite pastimes, bashing unions and the working poor.
It was a twofer for Neil Cavuto and his regular guest and fill-in, Charles Payne, who, when he's not attacking the working class, apparently spends his time hawking worthless stocks to anyone foolish enough to take his investment advice seriously.PAYNE: Well, you know, these unions I guess and these sort of antics that are sort of the goal could ultimately be to do what they did to automobile companies and Detroit, which is ultimately to bankrupt them. But look, you know, we feel for you. You're on TV. You've got the kid. You talk about accountability. Everyone has accountability, even the person having two or three kids working on a minimum wage job.And the idea that somehow all of your accountability can be hoisted onto the public, particularly corporate America and that somehow we're all in this together, you can't be a kid, walk off the street and then tell the management of any successful company, you owe me. Now you've got an opportunity to work there. You've got an opportunity to work your way up while you're with an organization.
it's no secret that i have no love for those of color who defend the right wing agenda that has not changed, this guy is condescending to those working in those low wage situation, and firing a warning shot to those about to enter it as a kid or an adult.
he is also IMO the most defeating part is "your having the job is actually all you get, wages are incidental, perks only in that coffee pot", which to me says there is no hope and advancement work your way up, at that rate immigrants will have fulfilled their obligation 13 year wait and now either competing for your job or your supervisor.
nothing like a doom and Gloom from one who's defending corporate America in favor of not just those of color but all people, those jobs are no longer teen jobs. and though corporate earnings skyrocket each generation of low wage workers are still at the bottom with no health plans, paid vacation, maternity leave or sick leave. McSICPABLE THEM.
CAVUTO: And if that becomes the floor, you use the Detroit analogy, that was pretty much the same sort of motif there right? That we want more, more, more and more and so finally they couldn't afford it.PAYNE: Right, they got more and more and more and more. Promises were made and things were made and it was a wonderful thing, but when we hit a few speed bumps in the economy, as, you know, most of the country was able to regroup. Detroit, those automobile companies got gargantuan bailouts from America, save for Ford of course, but were not able to rebound.The bottom line is anyone should have a right to fight for higher wages, but you know, when we start talking about minimum wage of $15 an hour, what we're trying to say is that mediocrity should be rewarded. What we're trying to do actually hurts people. In other words, don't get better. Don't go to college. Don't improve yourself. Go home, play video games and when you go to work, you know, have large families. There's no responsibility on you to do anything. We'll make sure that corporate America keeps paying you more than you really should earn in the free market. That's backwards. You're cursing the person whose making $15 an hour.
where did this condescending SOB get his start and at what ave. did he depart his roots, the name of the game is get out and do better, not get out and smash the dream of those behind you and now those in front of you too, how far is he from waking up one day without the "GOOD FOX JOB" and find himself putting in that appl. at Jack in the Box?
p.s. WTF is he to determin what someones worth is? he definetly has a future with Fox maybe, anyone know the lifespan of Blacks with Fox?
