Video: Who’s Keeping Burger King Workers Below the Poverty Line?

What would you do with an extra $18,000 in your pocket?

That’s the amount of extra cash each and every Burger King employee in America would have received last year if Goldman Sachs (one of the fast-food chain’s largest owners) had shared its bailout billions with rank-and-file workers. Instead, Goldman Sachs squandered 6.5 billion of our taxpayer dollars on bonuses for their financial staff. These were some of the highest bonuses on Wall Street! Meanwhile, Burger King workers earn wages averaging just $14,000 a year — well below the federal poverty line for a family of three.

Goldman Sachs has been having it their way with Burger King workers for too long. It’s high time you had it your way with Goldman Sachs. Tell the Wall Street giant how they could have used the $6.5 billion blown on bonuses. We’re looking for the most creative, constructive, or comical ideas to curb corporate greed and help fix the financial crisis. We will send all ideas to Goldman Sachs as a reprimand for their wastefulness. The winner of the Have It Your Way with Goldman Sachs contest will have their idea featured in our next video. The contest ends March 3.

Pass this video and contest to your friends and family. Tell them working people all over the country are pushing back against Wall Street excess. Tell them we’re joining with SEIU and others to stage demonstrations and hold Goldman Sachs accountable! And tell them it’s time to end this era of corporate greed and impunity.

Do you think Goldman Sachs should be forced to give back their bailout money to taxpayers, should they have to raise Burger King workers’ wages, explain their spending to the government, or be left alone because they are living the American dream? Vote now in our online poll.

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Jason Thompson

Actually, it was our last Republican President that wanted it to be no strings attached.

tommyms1972

That’s the amount of extra cash each and every Burger King employee in America would have received last year if Goldman Sachs (one of the fast-food chain’s largest owners) had shared its bailout billions with rank-and-file workers. Instead, Goldman Sachs squandered 6.5 billion of our taxpayer dollars on bonuses for fidelity 401k their financial staff. These were some of the highest bonuses on Wall Street! Meanwhile, Burger King workers earn wages averaging just $14,000 a year — well below the federal poverty line for a family of three.

DennisKnicely

Last week a report came out stating that neighborhoods where fast food joints abound have higher stroke rates. Put into consideration that places like Burger King make a fortune from selling greasy fried foods, you can see why.

Look what happens to kitchen drain pipes when lots of grease is washed down through the sink, and you can imagine what happens when grease, passing through lining of stomach, hits our blood stream. The net result is sometimes known as hardening of the arteries, heart disease, etc.

I once saw a "before and after" video of blood tests from a man eating a cheese burger. "Before" was a test tube with 2 1/2" of red blood. 1/2 hour "after" showed 1/2" of puss on top of the red blood

Frying foods at high temperatures also creates acrylamide, a major cause of numerous cancers.

It is SAD [Standard American Diet] that people really do not understand why they get sick, yet sometimes take huge amounts of extremely expensive pharmaceutical drugs thinking that makes them well. Just eating correctly could potentially save our country $hundreds of billions now spent on otherwise unnecessary surgery, chemotherapy, and big pharma, yet those concerns would all have to cut back some, and join the rest of us.

My opinion: Goldman Sachs is more a problem company than a solution, yet why are they getting bailed out after so much misappropriation of funds? Why not bypass the greedy Wall Street vultures, and get funding straight to average Americans, that really need financial help?

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Jim Miller

We MUST boycott all fast food businesses, especially those like Burger King -- for our own health if for no other reason. Studies have shown that eating red meat and grease greatly increases the heart attack rate and clogs our blood vessels. I'm not a vegetarian, but have now realized I need to eat more veggies, especially the green ones.

More importantly, we need to send a message to Burger King, McD's and others. The only language they understand is when their gross revenue drops because of the boycott. Vote with your dollars. Eat Slow Food.
Jim Miller

Khalid

So what? You gave it to them with no strings attached. Think next time.