School teachers and cops get good healthcare, vacation packages, and retirement. Soldiers (active duty, anyway) get free housing and food.

I'm worried.. what if it takes too long and Americans lose weight because of it.. we wouldn't be able to make fat jokes anymore...

I don't think they deserve $15 an hour neither but they sure need a little more then what they make now since most fast food places pay barely more then minimum wage and the biggest company MCD is probably the worst offender when it comes to underpaying their workers.

In my opinion they shouldn't be trying to make a career out of Mcdonalds or Burger King. When I was growing up fast food jobs were stepping stones to responsibility and motivation for a better career.

I do, however, believe that minimum wage should be raised. Just not to $15 an hour for flipping burgers.

Restaurants will probably cut down their work force if they have to pay $15 minimum wage and/or we would definitely see the end of the $1 menu.

I disagree with everything except the part about Soldiers.

My feelings? I hope they become severly sick from their free meals

I guess it depends on the area.  I know a cop and he struggled to make $30,000 a year.  Shitty benefits, too.

I'm glad we have so many people who are concerned about the ability of McDonald's to make even more money. Clearly we can't have the inferior fast food employees making enough to actually avoid becoming burdens on the system. If we don't look out for these massive corporations, who will?

Fast food is hard, stressful work. I hope that I never have to work it again and I'm not saying that just because of the salary.

I've also got to say that I love the "go to school and you'll get a better job" line. Because it's just that easy. It's not like college graduates are looking for work, either, thank goodness.

I've worked in retail before.  Wal Mart in Atlanta, Georgia.  Worst job I ever had in my entire life and I've built trailers for less than $6 before!  That was another job that paid next to nothing and I dreaded going there every single day.  I respect any job that requires people to deal with the public.  People are horrible.  I never went to college, by the way.  I do make a pretty swell living. I'm not commenting from a place of hate.  I'm commenting from experience.  I know prison inmates that were pretty much un-hireable.  They did what they had to do to survive like becoming truck drivers or factory workers.  There's work out there.  It may not be what people want but sometimes you have to do things you don't want to do to make your life what you want it to be.

Hungry.