Perseus wrote:
My theory about that silly movement is that as manufacturing and government (not necessarily federal, but state, local and municipal) jobs began to fall away during the Great Recession, these folks began to look at entry-level-job-type employers to pick up the slack and offer the kinds of wages, benefits and other perks that they would have enjoyed had they gone to work for blue collar manufacturers. They use some creative economics (voodoo and otherwise ;-) to make their case and when that doesn't work -- or when employers, reacting to the need to contain costs that are being forced up by local and state wage ordinances, start making staff reductions -- simply go straight to socialism and "guaranteed employment" or "guaranteed monthly wage" arguments, as if pronouncing such a thing so will automatically make it achievable and non-jobs-killing.
Mickey D's and the like are entry level jobs for a reason. They're not meant to provide a career (except in certain management cases) and they're not meant to be a long-term "situation," as they say in Britain. ;-)
"Politics is just show business for ugly people."