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Originally Posted by swnoel
Pretty hard paying someone $15 per hour to wait on the window and sell you a cheeseburger for $1.99! Bringing back manufacturing might just be enough to stop the bleeding. You better believe foreign governments that trade with us have been screwing up for years, no thanks to both Republicans and Democrats in Washington. Government is never your friend...
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Great point on the wages, and the same is true for the rent--there's plenty of cost pressure on the restaurants.
I also hope manufacturing does recover as you suggest. Although the increased demand for workers will lead to even higher wages and more expensive cheeseburgers