Corporate profits, above all else

NOT LONG AGO a lady who works at McDonalds for eight dollars an hour, and has for ten years, made quite a sensation in the media, which is quite unusual. Usually, its the top dog executives who get the ink, but this time, score one for us little people. IN order to do so, however, she had to behave extremely rudely. While CEO Jeff Stratton was giving an inspirational speech to his minions ehxorting them to ever greater levels of productivity for the obvious rewards to be gotten therefrom, the lady stepped out of her rightful place in the back row, stood up, and began accusing the wealthy elite of horrible crimes, such as underpaying and exploiting the masses of workers. Strattion told her "I've been working here for forty years." As if she'll be where he now is in another thirty. The furor quickly died down, her cries for help went unheard and unanswered, and back to work she went. How surprising. In the long a bloody history of wealth versus labor in America, the poor workers usually return to work dutifully, with only an occasional improvement in their plight to show for their trouble. Her difficulties unabated, the lady tried phoning something called the McResource hotline, which seemingly is intended to give unredressed employees an outlet for their rantings, sorta like hanging a punching bag in the corner of the company cafeteria. McResource line. Whatever junior executive thought of this marvelously clever idea must surely by now be a senior executive. What happened is that the computer or person on the receiving end told our worker that she was not eligible for McAssistance on the McTelephone, because she did not work at one of the privileged franchised outlets which provieds access to it. True to its history of magnanimous compassionate concern for the weak, even when unjustified, the corporate entity on the phone told our lady of the cash register; go apply for food stamps, and maybe even medicaid. She said she was shocked by this treatment. But why? Shouldn't she have expected something like that? She indicated she did not intend to take the advice. Why not? Hell, who knows? Maybe she feels that anyone with a full time job shouldn't ask the tax payers for extra help, or shouldn't have to. Maybe she's a republican, like the company executives most likely are, and just plain don't believe in government meddling in the economy, even to help people. Interesting, isn't it, how the very people, corporate management, who consistently oppose all government involvment in the free market economy, suggest to their own employees going to the government for a hand out? We the tax payers of America spend over a billion dollars a year providing the necessities which McDonalds withholds, steals, from its own workers, and McDonalds the corporation of executives and lawyers saves over a billion. Corporate socialism. Those big costly entitlement programs which the wealthy so often complain about have so much to offer the wealthy that one wonders why on earth the wealthy, or for that matter anyone ever complains about them. Raise wages, raise prices, and the tax payers, including the poor ones, pay again. Either way, the people at large pay. Because one thing we all know for damned sure; the last place money will ever be found is in the cutting of corporate profits.