The “right” people being the one who will screw the already-screwed even harder, as opposed to those who stand a chance of improving their lives.

I tend to mistrust that this McDonald’s franchise was alone in sending out letters like this to their employees. I suspect that the origins of this letter may well have come from higher up the Mickey D’s corporate ladder.

This is shameful bullshit! Didn’t walmart pull a stunt like this a couple years back?

OT, but I’d like to ask California voters to write in Brian Wilson’s Beard, me, if you’re not comfortable with any of the ballot choices. Don’t let your vote go to waste.

When I was a kid (circa 1950′s) my dad worked for a very large US coporation. This company told all their managers to vote Republican and generally that is what happened.

Last night, my wife commented that many people were going to vote for Republicans because they either need a job or are afraid of losing it. They believe that business is punishing the working and middle class by not creating jobs as a political tactic to defeat Democrats. If the Republicans win – the theory goes – business will start hiring. If the Democrats win, businesses will continue to hold back the economy until the next election.

At the time, I thought this was pretty far fetched and the paranoia of a small group of individuals. Now, I wonder – could they be right.

I bet the person responsible for this won’t even do any time. That’s assuming there is even a trial.

God dammit, now I’ll have to boycott. And just when they were bringing back the McRibs. /s

Since clearly we can’t rely on our “constitutional law president” to fashion a remedy to Citizens United, have any of the FDL attorneys suggested one?

I suspect the same based upon what one manager told me about Corporate’s practices and the choke hold they exert on the “franchises.” Sounds like a class action suit to me.

Did you even the read the law (helpfully linked to by the author) before spouting off? It clearly states that the only punishment is a fine, not jail time.

@JaDodd

It’s a good theory except for one thing. If corporate America sees a way to make money today, they will. Their greed instinct is way to strong to let politics get in the way.

Stick with the poi … it’s probably better for you any way. :)

Poison that tastes good is still poison – “Just a spoonful of sugar…”

This time it’s in writing though. It will be pretty hard not to prosecute unless we’re still “looking forward”. I guess that depends on how many politician McD’s owns and if Holder is one of them.

I don’t see why they won’t get away with it. They’ve been serving stuff they call food for decades when it isn’t actual food.

A fine, no matter how large, will have little effect. A nationwide boycott might hurt though.

Too late for me. I haven’t eaten any of their polyvinyl chloride in decades.

I’ve boycotted McDonalds since February, 1974 when I had to sit through a live McDonalds ad during the Shrine Circus. I figured if the children in the audience were so brain washed as to scream for Ronald on cue after the announcer asked “who’s your favorite clown?”, I realized then and there corporations were taking over. My boycott alas went unnoticed.

I read that many corporate employers threatened their employees with layoffs during the run-up to the election of 1896 if William Jennings Bryan won against McKinley. It seems to have worked.

Yes, I think it is incredibly likely that millions of people are going to stop ordering their Big Macs because a franchisee in Ohio violated local election law.

And to be clear, we’re talking about “a fine of not less than five hundred nor more than one thousand dollars.” Not exactly the stuff bankruptcies are made of.

Yeah, kids, better to vote Repub, because this Party wants to cut the minimum wage, if not totally abolish the minimum wage…

Actually, we need a cap of $500/hr for a maximum wage. This works out to $1,000,000. per year. Total compensation: bonuses, stock options included. And raise the minimum wage to fifteen dollars per hour, close to a “living” wage…

We need a way to communicate with the stockholders of companies. They should be directly told what the companies are doing. I’m sure that not all the stockholders of McD are Republicans.

It’s been since 1978 for me when I realized that what I was eating couldn’t be classified as food. Imagine my chagrin when I joined the Navy and found out that McDonald’s had the franchise rights on all US Naval bases. Most of my contemporaries though we had “lucked out”. Well, squids aren’t known for their intelligence.

I have to agree with you, PW, about this letter coming from higher up on the McDonald’s food chain.

I would boycott them, but I haven’t eaten there in probably 25 years. However, now I’ll only eat there half as much!

That was the argument I presented to my wife. She then reminded me that corporations are making record profits regardless of the recession and high unemployment rates. Rather than building new plants or hiring people, they are investing the profits in the market. Remember GM used to be an automobile manufacturer which occasionally would lend its customers the money to buy their cars. GM is now a financial instituion which manufactures automobiles on the side.

Yeah, and them’s damn pesky requirements too. The nerve of people!

I am now boycotting McDonalds. I like their biscuits, but I can do without them. They probably weren’t healthy anyways.

That’s a good idea, and I certainly endorse it. The reality is that most stock is owned by the corporation and/or or other large financial entities. The average shareholder holds such a small amount of stock that shareholder votes in annual corporate meetings hold little sway.

As always the serfs lose out to the Oligarchy, but knowledge is power.

It’s good to bring this up; thanks for the post. Sadly I doubt that anything “real” will come out of this. It’s just bidness as usual on Main Street USA…

Republicans have to be the biggest and most mean spirited bastards in the world. Their mothers didn’t give birth they took a dump.

McDonald’s spreading heart disease the world over.
their stuff tastes like the oil they fry it up in is months old…part of the appeal for some, I guess…….weren’t they the first to use that oil that keeps the french fries crisp and the arteries clogged? what? mono saturated or something?
I haven’t ever eaten much from them, and never in the last ten years
The workers are caught in a cleft stick…with no government support either. If they vote R they’ll never get those bennies either.
McDonald’s doesn’t seem to be a corporation many would consider a “career choice”.

At some point, don’t the voters have a responsibility to actually, you know, inform themselves and vote accordingly? We can blame corporations and the billionaires that own them for being dishonest, but that doesn’t mean they can get away with lying if voters actually made an effort to find out the truth.

Forget soylent green. McDonalds hamburgers are PEOPLE.

I wonder if the employees at the “Big Mac” feel leveraged, squeezed? Now they realize they have no rights, essentially gutted by the power of corporate money. Corporate scum!

Corporate America can die!