hard work – The Burning Platform

By Doug “Uncola” Lynn via TheBurningPlatform.com

For the most part, I’ve lost interest in the news. Ukraine war? Don’t care. Lost submarine? Yawn. Pride Month? Good luck with that. Canadian wildfires? So what. Russian civil war? Whatever. Elections? Been there, done that.

I believe it was French Philosopher Voltaire who defined “cynicism” as armor against despair, but, honestly, it’s not that. On the contrary, I am enjoying life more than ever and my days are meaningful and well-spent.

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One year ago, I wrote about helping a former business associate by driving a dumptruck a few days a week. In that moderately metaphorical article, entitled “Building Roads While the World Wilts”, I described my perception of America’s remaining attributes, particularly, out here in the “fringe” and mentioned how people “here on the edge seem to be ignoring The Borg”, then wondered…. “For how long?”

Now an entire year has gone by… and in spite of all the new headlines… very little has changed in my world. So far.

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Keep your eyes peeled if you are visiting Washington DC this summer. You might just run into Malia and Sasha Obama working at McDonalds or Popeye’s. Moochelle thinks they need to get “a taste” of doing real hard work for the minimum wage. They need to experience the tough life path followed by their parents:

1. Minimum wage job for a few months.

2. Private College.

3. Ivy League Law school

4. Government paychecks.

The picture below is their arrival at their first day of work at McDonalds. This country and its leaders have become such a farce, it’s hard to take anything seriously anymore.

Obamas want daughters to get taste of minimum-wage life

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Michelle Obama accompanied by daughters Sasha and Malia and mother Marian Robinson.

President Barack Obama and wife Michelle want their daughters Malia and Sasha to get a taste of what it’s like to work for minimum wage. The president and first lady both worked minimum-wage jobs before they went to law school and tell Parade magazine they want the same sort of experience for their teenage daughters. As Reuters writes, President Obama has focused this year on issues including raising the minimum wage, now $7.25 an hour. Asked by Parade whether they want their daughters to work in “character building minimum-wage jobs” as their parents did, the first lady replies: “Oh, yeah. I think every kid needs to get a taste of what it’s like to do that real hard work.”

“We are looking for opportunities for them to feel as if going to work, and getting a paycheck is not always fun,” the president says.