You’ve got to feel for McDonald’s. Every time the misunderstood corporation tries to offer its’ low-wage employees a hand, it backfires. First the fast food giant was ridiculed this past summer for dispensing helpful budgetary advice to its struggling workers (in a nutshell: get another job). Now the company is in hot water again after a recorded call to its’ McResource helpline, in which an employee who reported not being able to make ends meet was advised to sign up for food stamps and other government assistance programs, went viral online. Strangely though, the very people who ought to be most upset about this state of affairs – small government loving republicans who don’t want anyone relying on federal assistance for anything – have raised little or no objection.
When Nancy Salgado, the employee at the center of this latest storm, called the McResource line to tell them she was having to ration food and couldn’t take her kids to the doctor, the helpful employee on the other end of the line didn’t offer to raise her wages or sign her up for health benefits, but advised her instead about the various federal government programs she could avail of. While it’s not news that hugely profitable corporations like McDonald’s are only too happy to rely on the American taxpayer to subsidize the non-living wages they pay their workers, (Salgado earns $8.25 an hour) the blasé nature of the phone call still sparked considerable outrage, but not from budget conscious Republicans.
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This really represents how confused and hypocritical Republicans are- they say they hate “big government” and social welfare, yet don’t support raising the minimum wage. Obviously, this only leads to people needing “big government.”