So Much For the American Dream

Rob | Consumerism | Monday, February 26th, 2007

Well you have to hand it to McDonald’s. There is no false advertising here. Take a job working for Ronald and Co. and someday you will be lucky enough to afford your own bicycle. Woo-Hoo!!!! In case you can’t read the blurred words toward the bottom (I took this photo with my cell-phone) it says, “I’m taking my career as far as I can”. Although it’s easy to bash McDonald’s for — well — being McDonald’s — I think the real problem lies in in the fact that the economy and the job market are so dismal, for so many, that working the line at a burger joint is appealing. How many kids are in high school thinking — someday I hope to be making eight dollars an hour handing sacks of heart disease out a little window. Hopefully not too many. Unfortunately this is the fate of more and more people as jobs are sent overseas and inner-city public schools get worse. Anyway, I guess I should climb down from my soap box and get my fat ass down to Micky D’s and help some poor slob put a ten-speed on layaway.

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