letmedance Loc: Walnut, Ca.

No but the Grandchildren love it, our 16 year old can drop 20 bucks on the counter for lunch. You do realize that major retail businesses here in our Blue State and the rest of the Union blue or red.

hondo812 Loc: Massachusetts

After a significant motorcycle accident my doctor told me years ago that "running" is one of the things I'll never do again. I can walk though and both feet are attached and warm.

dennis2146 Loc: Eastern Idaho

Thank you for that truthful comment. I somewhat often go into a McDonald's and have on every visit mentioned my displeasure at their prices continuing to rise. It used to be I could go to a McDonald's and get a hamburger, fries and drink for a price cheaper than going to an Applebee's or Chili's for example. Not now so much. The so called fast food restaurants are pretty much eliminating me from purchasing much other than a 6 piece chicken nuggets and a drink. Anything more and I will go to a walk in and sit down establishment where that money goes to a waitress or waiter who actually brings my food to me on a plate with proper customer service to go with it.

That is what we consumers get for allowing states and the federal government to give high school kids and seniors $15.00+ for a minimum wage. The idiot stupid actions of the Socialist Left have consequences and those are higher prices for consumers not commensurate with what we pay for.

Dennis

Effate Loc: El Dorado Hills, Ca.

Try $20 per hour in California (unless you are Gavin’s buddy). Guess I won’t be hopping on my Honda 50 and riding down to the arches for a seventy-five cent meal (2 cheeseburgers, fries and large coke) any time soon.

ArtzDarkroom Loc: Near Disneyland-Orange County, California

There used to be a Bumper Sticker: If you can't afford 15% tips, STAY HOME! lol
Today, if you can't afford the prices... In This Economy, because Fast Food servers get a livable wage above the poverty line, cook at home. It's a luxury some don't need.

Texcaster Loc: Queensland

The po-faced Trump-Three-Timer sez - "... chicken nuggets and a drink." Very endearing, you think McNuggets are 'chicken'. Just as you 'three timers' think Trump is some kind of majestic-strong-Mcleader-man-on-the-world-stage. "McNuggets and Trump start every day as a 'grey slurry'" Melania.

"The creepiness was palpable. We all saw it." Malcolm Turnbull, former Aussie PM re: Trump and Putin's interactions

Australia’s former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull says that former US President Donald Trump was like a 12-year-old boy in awe of his hero whenever he met Russia’s Vladamir Putin.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-27/malcolm-turnbull-on-donald-trump-and-vladimir-putin/103505294 (go to 4:26 first vid)

Speaking on Australian broadcaster ABC’s Q+A, Mr Turnbull said that Mr Trump’s possible return to the White House posed a “terrifying” threat to democracy, because of his embrace of autocratic leaders.

"He is attracted to dictators and tyrants like [North Korean leader] Kim Jong Un and [Chinese President] Xi Jinping and he threatened to undermine or pull out of America’s longest standing alliances,” Mr Turnbull said, referring to Mr Trump’s recent threat to pull out of NATO.

The former prime minister, who was in office when Donald Trump first took office in 2017, said he had not bowed to Mr Trump’s pressures to “suck up” to him, as other leaders had.

During their overlap as leaders of their respective countries, Mr Turnbull said he had seen Mr Trump with Russia’s President a few times.

"When you see Trump with Putin, as I have on a few occasions, he’s like the 12-year-old boy who goes to high school and meets the captain of the football team. My hero!” Mr Turnbull said, calling the reverence shown “creepy”.

"What if Donald Trump forces Ukraine to surrender to Putin? What if Donald Trump pulls out of NATO? Donald Trump has threatened to pull out of NATO,” Mr Turnbull continued.

"Donald Trump stood up in front of an audience and he said to an unnamed European leader, if you don’t spend more money on defence I’m going to encourage Putin to have a go at you. That’s more or less what he said.”

Mr Turnbull said Australia would have to get used to the idea that the United States was no longer aligned in its values as it was a few decades ago.

“The scary thing is that for countries like Australia and many European countries, we may find ourselves not dealing just with two autocracies in Russia and China, but what is Trump’s America going to look like?” Mr Turnbull said. “This is a guy leading a party that is no longer committed to democracy as we understand it.”


BTW - Malcolm Turnbull is the only conservative I have ever voted for in Aussie or the US

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

The first McDonald's I ever saw was near the small college where I was a freshman in Kentucky. Most of the college ate lunch there. $1 for the small burger meal and you got change. This was 1964.

Yesterday I was reading an article about how beef production was down 1 billion pounds from its peak and thanks to anti-Climate Change rules etc. the cattle herds are back to the 1970 level so we should expect beef production to go down and the price to go up again.
The anti-Climate Change rules will also impact most almost all food production to the point where things we have the ability to produce ourselves will be imported from places that are ignoring the Climate Change freak out.

So US Farms and ranches will be in trouble, go bankrupt, close down and sell out while other nations make big money selling us food that we can and used to produce ourselves. We were not only producing our own food but even with the drop we are the #1 exporter. But under the new rules can we keep it up?

ArtzDarkroom Loc: Near Disneyland-Orange County, California

Some people are eating less meat, that could also be a factor. Vegans don't eat any.

Effate Loc: El Dorado Hills, Ca.

We already depend of foreign sources for batteries, technologies, many pharmaceuticals so why not let them legislate our food supply off shore. As someone here pointed out last week from Pogo, “we have met the enemy and he is us.”

dennis2146 Loc: Eastern Idaho

Let's not forget other countries will want to make money selling Americans crickets and grasshoppers to eat while the Liberal Socialist Party tells us it is beef flatulence that is causing global warming. That is why beef is down. I can't for the life of me understand how beef has been an American for hundreds of years and yet only recently it is causing global warming. Did beef just start shitting a few years ago right after Obama was elected? A more accurate statement would be that Democratic running of the mouth disease is the reason for the global warming. Maybe we could even accept the earth has been globally warming for billions of years now and nothing we do will stop that from happening no matter how much Greta Thunberg and Al Gore whine and bitch.

Dennis

dennis2146 Loc: Eastern Idaho

Yessir I am well aware of the $20.00 per hour now but was talking about the push for everyone to get 15.00 an hour a few years back. Thank you for your comment. I have heard California will want $25.00 per hour which of course would include high school kids just starting out and the elderly just trying to make a few dollars to make ends meet. None of those mentioned will be looking to make car and house payments. They are part time starting jobs but of course the foolish Left doesn't care. They just want to create more division across America.

Dennis

dennis2146 Loc: Eastern Idaho

Well now if we all stay home then who will the fast food restaurants serve? Surely if you try common sense you will realize there is a line that consumers won't cross when it comes to getting fast food for high priced restaurant prices. The jobs you are talking about are mostly high school kids just starting out in the work force and/or elderly folks who just want to make ends meet or stay busy. Neither group needs 20-25 hours an hour nor is that amount deserved. But it sure as hell will ruin the low prices that used to be standard fare at fast food restaurants.

Dennis

Kraken Loc: Barry's Bay

If they are chocolate-covered it won't be so bad.

dennis2146 Loc: Eastern Idaho

Of course that isn’t the point is it. The point is a tyrannical government telling We the People what it thinks is best for us. Americans have been eating beef and other meats for hundreds of years with no problems whatsoever.

But now under dictatorship rule by Obama and Biden we are told beef is harmful to the environment. Not even the dumbest moron would really believe that. Millions of other animals inhabit the planet and there is no discussion of doing away with those animals.

Dennis

ArtzDarkroom Loc: Near Disneyland-Orange County, California

This sounds like a common problem for many. They can't understand. If only there were a source of information. Hmm... Do some people really not know how to find information? Ignorance is a choice today that some have chosen, just because it is not one of their priorities. After 35 years of teaching, I recognize students that are nearly "experts" on a topic by how they describe/solve/deflect the situation. As students they can be directed to find answers that are supported by research/experience/science... instead of anecdotes/"common sense"/the Bible etc.