CNN Writes McJobs are the Problem in America: McDonalds Creating Jobs is Now a Bad Thing for the Economy

Can you believe this? High unemployment has put great stress on state budgets all across the United States and has caused the United States to increase its deficit spending. Some idiot at CNN has the nerve point the finger at McDonalds for being part of the problem.

Annette Bernhardt writes McJobs are an empty-calorie fix for unemployment.

We are starved for signs that the economy is picking up. So when McDonald's threw its doors open to hire 50,000 workers nationwide, media networks scrambled to film applicants lining up across the country for that increasingly elusive piece of the American dream -- a job.

The hirings were billed as a boost to the economy, and for a fraction of the country's 13.5 million unemployed, landing one of these jobs will be a huge and welcome relief.

But let's step back from the McDonald's public relations bonanza for a minute and recognize that nothing is great about low-wage jobs, even when they flood the economy by the thousands. Low-wage jobs subject families to unrelenting economic stress. They trap workers in dead-end careers, denying them the money and time to invest in education and new skills. And they rob local communities of middle-class incomes and stable households.

Whoa, whoa, whoa Annette! Are you serious? So sitting around collecting a government hand out is actually healthier for the middle class and stable households who are going to see more of their income confiscated from them to pay for these unemployment entitlements?

At McDonalds, you have the opportunity to move up into management, especially as an adult. Every McDonald's job filled relieves stress from state budgets that are struggling to keep up with the money going out of the state treasury. You sound more like a class envy warrior than someone with enough common sense to discuss this issue, and that's what this is. You are really saying how sad it is that these people are being forced to work at McDonalds, and maybe you should look at federal regulations, especially from the EPA, that have sent jobs packing outside of the United States. I think the Obama administration good place to start looking.

She continues her rant:

If lower-wage jobs continue to be America's growth model going forward -- and so far in our recovery they largely have been -- anyone who cares about the future of the middle class and the strength of our economy should be very worried. Right now, America is filling up on empty calories.

Hey Annette, do me a favor and do some research about all those jobs Obama created or saved with the nearly $1 trillion in stimulus money and then ask yourself why if it was so successful are people going to work at McDonald's.