Fast Food, Slow Economic Justice
The Wall Street Journal, where rarely you find fake news because they mostly print all that in their editorial section, breaks the news that Trump is going to name his labor secretary.
President-elect Donald Trump is expected to name fast-food executive Andy Puzder as labor secretary, according to people familiar with the decision.
Mr. Puzder, chief executive of CKE Restaurants Holdings Inc., the parent company of the Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s burger chains, has been a vocal advocate for cutting back regulations he says have stifled growth in the restaurant industry, which represents 10% of the American workforce.
Needless to say, he hates the Affordable Care Act. He also hates raising the minimum wage higher than $9 an hour.
He’s not what you would call a people-person.
“They’re always polite, they always upsell, they never take a vacation, they never show up late, there’s never a slip-and-fall, or an age, sex, or race discrimination case,” says Puzder of swapping employees for machines.
Remember when Rick Perry wanted to eliminate three federal agencies? It appears that Trump wants to turn them all into Darth Vader.
“Voters in high dudgeon against Wall Street manipulators and the Washington aristocracy vote for the billionaire populist who puts tycoons in power … If Billy the Kid had been smart, he’d’ve run for sheriff.”
— Garrison Keillor
I hate these people. I can’t help it.
Clusterf*ck doesn’t even begin to describe his appointments.
1Call it the Puzder “fast food challenge” – finding a machine that will eat that garbage he sells. No Andy, you don’t need a high tech AI gizmo. The common dumpster has served admirably for housing what you sell. That, or store what you offer up in the guise of food to BLOTUS. Any attacks on his coronary arteries are viewed as a public service.
2I believe this could be characterized as The RuPaul Doctrine. The idiots think they got a beautiful, sexy woman, but then the wig, makeup, and gown come off… and it’s a man. Quelle surprise!
May they should change the name to RUBElicans.
3This does bring back memories from my Latin classes, of the emperor Caligula appointing his horse, Incitatus, as consul of Rome. I would like to suggest American Pharaoh for national security advisor or secretary of defense. 1. He’s a proven winner, and the Minority Cheeto really likes winners. (Triple Crown, which is two more than Trump thinks he has!) 2. He can really kick butt. 3. He’s highly unlikely to advise starting a war. 4. Just look at the name: perfect match for the Orange One’s self-image.
4JAKvirginia, wot? Just when I thought @KellyannePolls might be a self loathing lesbian, are you suggesting that I’ve been in a twitter war with a man?
5There is nothing unintentional or stupid about what the incoming Repukes are doing, they are knowingly planning every minute step. Their purpose is to completely dismantle every policy, act, law, regulation, whatever, that is designed to assist, help, protect all average citizens.
Everything in the slightest progressive thing enacted since Teddy Roosevelt’s time.
It is a John Birch Society, radical reactionist, teabagger’s wet dream come true.
Some of SOBOTUS’s latest appointment’s are even worse: the Oklahoma AG (so tight w/oil that he oozes hydrocarbons) as head of the effen EPA, another Marine ex-general as head of DHS, etc.
Theit plans to dismantle and gut Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, SSDI, and everything else is criminal. -Tens- make that hundreds, of thousands of average citizens ARE GOING TO DIE FROM WHAT THEY ARE DOING; just in the early years of this incoming regime.
6The coming cuts, ‘death vouchers’, outright thefts, removal of safeguards from foods, drugs, financial matters, travel systems, lack of planning for future events, etc., are going to devastate 90% of Americans.
I’m starting to lean towards hoping some nut comes up with a cal .45 solution for #45…
And the service industry is one of the biggest blocs of industry in the country. They also have one of the biggest and most active unions. Think of them for instance when he have someone in the meat department of your supermarket do a specialty cut for you and when someone serves you at your table in a restaurant or cleans the halls in your building.
PS I can just see a robot blowing a fuse from over-work and dumping an entire meal on some hotshot at a banquet and then running over him!
7PS: Used to sometimes seek out a Carl’s Jr. place on rare trips to the city ’cause I like some of the menu items; something else going on the boycott list, oh well.
8I’m not giving up my New Balance velcro sneakers though, no way. I’d wear my various fav boat shoes everywhere instead, but it ruins them for their intended purpose (the sole sipes collect harmful grit from walking on dirtland that tears up the decks).
I saw on the History Channel that Caligula, as a boy, liked to hang out with the Roman soldiers. He even had his own uniform. The soldiers gave their future Emperor a nickname: Caligula, meaning “Little Boots.”
9Just one more instance where the “low information” voters have voted against their own self-interest and everybody else’s.
10While Trump forms a military junta-cabinet to insulate him from the peons, we’re seeing the end of democracy right before our very eyes.
J&PKM: They bought the fake facade. Now, off comes the disguise and they’re… surprised?
(I’m assuming you didn’t catch my wit attempt. Maybe I’m not catching yours.)
11JAKvirginia, we’d never miss your fine wit. Totally agree about the rubes. Those Iowa farm boys sure had a knack for finding all the bar girls that weren’t. Fool me once? No, they were more into the Dubya think of “Fool me – you can’t get fooled again.” At the time I was too busy trying not to be shot or not step on an IED to give it much thought.
😀 But now that I have time, it’s probably because little boy rubes were not allowed to play with dolls, but were not prohibited from exploring the sheep, their sisters, and any critter unable to out run them.
12Oh dear, @JAK, it’s that Kellyanne Conway is a transvestite. She makes poor Anne Coulter (a slow cousin of American Pharoah?) look attractive, shudder!
13I’m beginning to think that falling on an IED might be a reasonable backup plan y’all. My husband said this was all going to happen if we elected another Rethug. And the Michigan recount has been stopped by the courts. Our only hope is the electoral college, which seems pretty hopeless at this point. El Jefe is right, we are SO screwed…
14Also, the Wall Street Journal has an article on the stagnation of wages that contains a great deal of truth.
https://www.google.com/amp/www.wsj.com/amp/articles/the-american-dream-is-fading-and-may-be-very-hard-to-revive-1481218911?client=safari
Back to my project…
15All y’all, it is clear that The Donald does not want his presiduncy to succeed. Based on his actions and twittings, not to mention his appointments, his plan is to destroy America and sell the pieces to the highest bidder.
Not joking here; stayed tuned for more of the same.
16Aggieland Liz, from the same issue of WSJ, check this;
http://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-WB-66942
After running on shutting down TPP, he appoints supporters of it to his cabinet?
17charles r. phillips: Yes, indeedy. And Donnie gets the commission!
18Aggieland Liz: I’m not gonna go there with Mz. Conjob. I’ve known a few “impersonators” and you could have taken them home to Mom who would’ve said “Marry her!” They were that good. Kellyanne? I think that’s what happens when you let resentment, pettiness, and hate rule you. It ain’t pretty. The ugly goes right to the bone.
19CRP @16–I think you nailed it.
20M. Conway is hard to speciefy. I don’t think it’s human. Maybe a robot, like the unsuccessful Micro$oft twitterbot.0
21I think 2020 will be like 1932 with the nation so sick of snacilbupeR f**kups that Democrats ran the country for the next 20 years and held Congress for even longer. The first job then, as in 2020 will be repairing snacilbupeR damage, then moving the nation forward.
That’s the good news. When snacilbupeR have power they show just how incompetent, greedy, morally bankrupt and worthless they really are. They’re off to a fast start with it.
22Coulter “more attractove?” Surely you can see how much she resembles her brother Rick Scott. As for Motormouth Shoveljaw, there is nothing attractive about her. Recently she has been seen with a gob of eye makeup, enough to resurrect the ghost of Tammy Fay.
23Just heard this AM that CJ deliberately went after as many billionaires as he could get. Yup. It wasn’t their social conscience – of which most of them have none – but their $$ that was the point. Allegedly this is supposed to be a scenario like an over paid athlete bargaining with the top management of a team. ???? This is his idea of how a government should operate? That sure does leave me and mine out in the cold.
24First a Secretary against Public Education and now a Secretary against Laboring People.
25The Donald has figured out that he will have one shot at extracting money out of the citizens of this country. One shot, so make it count.
Avoiding jail to spend it will also be part of the game plan.
26This came to me in the middle of a toss and turn night. Wasn’t it Paris Hilton doing those naughty commercials for Carl’s Jr? I can recall my late husband declaring them “soft porn”.
27Want to see the look on this tool’s face when he gets his first bj from a robot.
28Wingnuts have been saying for years they want to starve gubmint til it fits in a bathtub and then drown it. They appear to be getting some of what they want. They just can’t make military spending shrink at all. Mayhaps they can convince ultra right wing nut job Charley Daniels to fiddle while DC cooks.
29epo–What always amazes me is that they don’t seem to grasp the idea that if you shrink the gubmint and drown it, you don’t get to be Americans anymore…
30It’s now up to the electors in the Electoral College to do the right thing. I’m not optimistic.
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