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Obozo Strikes Again: Burger King And Other Fast Food Franchises Vacate All Military Bases
Posted By: Watchman
Date: Thursday, 15-May-2014 19:39:48
The Burger King national headquarters announced this month that they will be pulling their franchises from our military bases. Soon to follow will be Popeye’s Chicken, Pizza franchises and the chain of barber and beauty shops which operates inside the gates of our military facilities. Reason? Obama’s mandate that all companies who do business with the federal government pay a $10.10 per hour minimum wage.
The companies cite the fact that a limited military customer base cannot sustain acceptable profit margins while still offering up a hefty share of profits to the Army and Air Force Exchange System’s Health and Morale fund and paying $10.10 an hour as Obama has directed for any contractor doing business with the DOD. For those who don’t know, hundreds of commercial franchises have operated on military bases for years. This partnership has been a boon to the non-profit AAFES system. All profits go toward programs such as organized athletic programs for the military and their dependents, exercise equipment, support for social clubs and the like.
Coming at a time of tighter defense budgets the withdrawal of commercial franchises is going to put quite a squeeze on the military health and morale programs. Every time a military grunt got a haircut, every time a military wife got a manicure or hair styling, with every burger or slice of pizza or chicken dinner sold, a portion of the profits went to this much needed program.
Alas, as with all things Obama, every time he does something to please his socialist friends, someone suffers. In this case it will be our military. While this will be a serious loss for our stateside troops, the troops who will be most hurt by this are our troops deployed to remote areas of the world where our military folks had little to look forward to but a Burger King Whopper and fries at a small concession that might bring them a little bit of home to their lives.
This should not surprise me at all but it does. I should have been prepared for this when Obama eliminated hot meals for our troops in Afghanistan even as he and Joe Biden were booking $500,000 per night hotel suites in Paris and London….or Obama’s total disregard for costs as he and Michelle have run up over $600 million dollars in vacation costs during his tenure.
Oh well, I understand the military’s food research facility up in Illinois is working on “Pizza in a Pouch” for the new cold ration packs. “Screw the grunts” seems to be Obama’s philosophy…even as he and Michelle host Jay Z and Beyonce at one of those fancy White House dinners.
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4 comments:
I AGREE WITH THE 10.10 HOURLY WAGE.
B.S. TO THE REASON THEY ARE LEAVING....WHY NOT PAY SOMEONE WHAT THEY DESERVE.
LET THE DIFFERENCE BE PAID BY THE PROFIT MARGIN OF EACH PARENT COMPANY - WHO
HAS MADE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS.
HOW PATRIOTIC OF THESE COMPANIES TO SAY --- WE WILL NOT PAY AMERICANS FOR THEIR
WORK.
IMHO - THERE SHOULD ONLY BE A 10% DIFFERENCE IN PAY BETWEEN THE LOWEST TO THE TOP
BECUZ EVERY POSITION IS JUST AS IMPORTANT TO GET THE JOB DONE. THAT WOULD SOLVE
SO MANY PROBLEMS ACROSS THE BOARD.
10.10 PER HOUR - CAN CHANGE SOMEONE'S FAMILY.
WE ARE ALL LIVING ON THIS ONE SMALL PLANET TOGETHER - AND SHOULD START ACTING
LIKE WE CARE FOR EACH OTHER TOO.
BK & Popeye's? You would think our military would have better food than this illuminati poison to maintain their health and agility. I guess Agenda 21 is all-encompassing.
McDonald’s Corp. (NYSE:MCD), the largest eatery operator in the world that earned $1.2 billion in profit in the first three months of the year, has been the primary target, but the U.S.-based movement is demanding that all major fast food chains, including KFC, Pizza Hut, Domino’s and Burger King, fork over more hourly pay to their line cooks and cashiers.
Fast-food workers in the U.S. make an average of $9 an hour, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 24 percent more than the federal minimum wage but lower than what some states and cities require.
Many fast-food workers earn less than that in some of the country’s most expensive cities, like New York, and have difficulties obtaining full-time work as companies try to avoid paying health benefits by keeping workers under 30 hours a week.
- FROM ARTICLE -
Fast Food Labor Rights Movement Goes Global
By Angelo Young
fyi - ITS NOT OBAMA - ITS THE GREEDY CORPORATIONS THAT HAVE CAUSED THE DIVIDE!!!
fyi - WE ALL LIVE ON THIS SMALL PLANET TOGETHER - AND ITS ABOUT TIME THAT THERE
IS EQUALITY ACROSS THE GLOBE.
THERE IS NO NEED FOR A CORPORATION TO HOARD BILLIONS WHEN THERE ARE MILLIONS
WHO ARE JUST ASKING TO BE TREATED WITH A BIT MORE RESPECT FOR THEIR SLAVE LABOR.
It is a hard truth, in the public sector profit determines the viability of a business. A business survives only if the profit potential is there. The margins in a fast food restaurant are dependent upon volume, while I am not privy to the finances of these restaurants I suspect that there is a sound basis for their withdrawal from military bases. While compassion, political correctness are factors within government such concepts in the private sector have no place in surviving as a business entity. Contrary to popular belief, the private sector is the basis for success or failure of any governing body, the ability to print money is not sustainable for any period of time.
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