No guns and no burgers on base but cold pizza in a bag will keep
them happy, healthy and safe.
Burger King Fleeing Military Bases
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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2 comments:
Maybe this is NOT the ONLY place that you should be looking at with your pocket money.
I have been in the the trucking industry now for over 7 years and have seen the desperate ways companies try to stay alive with their Truck Stops, but it appears the bigger corporations are beating out the smaller guys.
But if Pilot, Flying J, T/A, Petro, and Love's are doing that then they are maneuvering together to become one in due time.
Once that happens they either collapse like the Dollar or they take control and the Diesel fuel will be at $10 per gallon.
I would suggest that YOU the People come together in your county and organize a group to make Truck Stops within 10 miles of each other with at least 50 parking spaces for each.
Los Angeles County ONLY has 3 Truck Stops, in Castaic, that has overnite parking for over 20 vehicles, with 10 million people living there.
They want to make it a law that the drivers come into town, pick up or drop off their goods, then leave town, then they can write tickets for the drivers violating the parking times or the excessive times driving On-the-Clock.
If the cities and counties make those Truck Stops then they will have those goods to come and go and NOT have a problem to SURVIVE!
And having independent retailers and restaurants provide goods then that helps the communities.
WITH WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE ME AND THE FACT THAT THESE KNOTHEADS AND IDIOTS HAVE BEEN KILLING EACH OTHER FOR 2,000 YEARS.....I SAY LET THEM PRACTICE THEIR FORM OF BIRTH CONTROL AND BRING ALL OF OUR TROOPS HOME.....
AFTER ALL THE CRIMINAL POPE EMBRACES THEIR RELIGION OF PEACE......PEOPLE WAKE UP WE ARE PAWNS IN THEIR GAME....
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