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First off, let’s get one thing straight: Fast food gigs were never, and this dog repeats, never intended to be the primary source of income for an extended period of time. Those jobs, by design, were to be a springboard for bigger things. That’s why they’re called “entry level” jobs. They’re designed for someone just entering the job market.

So all this fuss about the city council being cow towed into a discussion on raising the minimum wage is just a bunch of manure designed to placate those who hold those traditionally lower paying entry level gigs. McDonald’s has been the most vilified in this case, but this newsdog knows a thing or two about the Golden Arches and their advancement program that’s designed to put their most talented staffers on track to be a franchise owner. For low information folks, that means small business ownership. Here’s a quote from McDonald’s founder Ray A. Kroc about that program called Hamburger University: “If we are going to go anywhere, we’ve got to have talent. And, I’m going to put my money in talent.” What? Huh? Nobody talks about this? Of course not, because it doesn’t fit the narrative. The framers of the argument want you to believe they’re victims. They’re downtrodden. Their lives don’t have worth. And believe it or not, our illustrious city council has bought into this bovine excrement and passed a higher minimum wage for specific businesses despite the fact that it’s unconstitutional as all hell. Councilman Ed Ford, whom Bunny has vilified in these pages before, was the only nay vote on this constitutional train wreck, much to his credit.

Ford says it may not help who it’s designed to help and it will largely be unenforceable in the long run. That said, why in the name of all that is Holy is the city council even entertaining this discussion, much less passing this anti-business piece of legislation? Councilman Wagner, with all due respect, passing legislation to start dialogue is like Nancy Pelosi’s ridiculous statement on passing Obamacare: “We have to pass it to know what’s in it.” Can you say back-asswards?

Suggestion to the council – quit being bullied by these rent-a-mob union thugs and get back to the business of approving some infrastructure improvements for the city’s urban core. As for the people who think they’re trapped in a go-no-where job, maybe head over to the Golden Arches Supper Club and see if you’re a fit for their management training program that would eventually put you in the sweet gig of franchise ownership.