Applebee's, Papa John’s & Darden Restaurants threaten staff cuts

[The Troll]

You act like it's some huge amount of money.  A Subway franchise, as an example, only requires $15K in cash to launch.

  Hell, I payed more for a operation than that.    It is amazing what comes out of the mouth of a person who can't even run their own business.   

  Owning a franchise is like renting a million dollar condo.  You get to take care of it, but you and I mean YOU don't own it, you're just renting it for the price of admission.     You can lose it in a flash of an eye.   

[Palehorse]

The reality is, once the economy recovers these low wage,  abusive, "employers" will find themselves havint to hire illegal immigrants because no one else will work there anymore.

[The Troll]

The reality is, once the economy recovers these low wage,  abusive, "employers" will find themselves havint to hire illegal immigrants because no one else will work there anymore.

  If you want to see the chilling facts about owning a franchise these Republicans talk about here on the zone and how ill informed they are.  Just Goggle in "myths about owning a franchise".  It sound great and wonderful, a straight track to being a millionaire.    It all boils down to, "You are still working for the man, the boss man."  It all a fairytale    

[Henry Hawk]

troll you are getting side tracked here.......it is not about "franchises"  it is about small business, doing what it takes to stay profitable.  You take away the profits, and they will say screw it...and take their money elsewhere...

[The Troll]

troll you are getting side tracked here.......it is not about "franchises"  it is about small business, doing what it takes to stay profitable.  You take away the profits, and they will say screw it...and take their money elsewhere...

  You're always preaching the values of small business.  I agree that mom and pops, the small business man needs help.     But the small business the Republican Party is talking about is Multimillion dollar business.  Just like John McCain's wife.  She is worth millions and takes in millions of dollars off the business her last husband and father left her.  But she is considered a small business.  The same way with John Kerry's wife with Heinz Ketchup inherited income.   

  But the really small business man doesn't make much money for himself and he pays as little as he can, with the least benefits to his employees.  We all need them and we all want them, but you are trying to guild a Lilly with gold foil and calling it a solid gold rose.  Not all "SMALL" business are small, they are large and very rich, PAL.   

[me]

  You're always preaching the values of small business.  I agree that mom and pops, the small business man needs help.     But the small business the Republican Party is talking about is Multimillion dollar business.  Just like John McCain's wife.  She is worth millions and takes in millions of dollars off the business her last husband and father left her.  But she is considered a small business.  The same way with John Kerry's wife with Heinz Ketchup inherited income.   

  But the really small business man doesn't make much money for himself and he pays as little as he can, with the least benefits to his employees.  We all need them and we all want them, but you are trying to guild a Lilly with gold foil and calling it a solid gold rose.  Not all "SMALL" business are small, they are large and very rich, PAL.   

Why are you so jealous of people who were able to build up a business into a corporation and be able to make money?  A lot of those started out as mom and pop businesses they didn't just start out as large corporations.  Think man think. 

[Henry Hawk]

Not ALL corporations are evil........as a mater of fact, I would say the most do WAY more good than any sort of bad.  Sure, there are some that do not have the best interest of their employees....but to lump all corporations as evil, is a liberal mindset and wrong imo.

[The Troll]

Why are you so jealous of people who were able to build up a business into a corporation and be able to make money?  A lot of those started out as mom and pop businesses they didn't just start out as large corporations.  Think man think.

  Oh you got your crystal ball back out.    Where do you get that I'm jealous of people who are able to build a business into a corporation.  All I got to say is you're eating those POOP cycles again.  Not so.  Sweet Pea. 

  Sam Walton when he started out he was for doing right by his customers.  He sold good American products at a fair price.  But when he died and the greedsters and the bean counters took over. Then you seen all of the cheapest products from the cheapest wage slave countries, like China, Mexico and thing they could buy at the cheapest price to palm off on their poorest of the poor customers.   

  Take Henry Ford, when he started out he was good to his employees and sold a good car for a good price.  He put America on the road.  But, when he became rich he became a dictator a mean and cruel taskmaster.  You need to talk to some old time Ford workers and let they tell you about Henry and his evil henchman Harry Bennett.  Yep Henry was the salt of the earth.     

[followsthewolf]

Not ALL corporations are evil........as a mater of fact, I would say the most do WAY more good than any sort of bad.  Sure, there are some that do not have the best interest of their employees....but to lump all corporations as evil, is a liberal mindset and wrong imo.

Be careful of that ". . .WAY more good than any sort of bad. . . ." stuff, Hank.

Lots of that "good" is done for gain, not for altruism.

Charity donations -- tax write-offs.

Foundations for the public good -- tax write-offs.

Et cetera.

[Henry Hawk]

Be careful of that ". . .WAY more good than any sort of bad. . . ." stuff, Hank.

Lots of that "good" is done for gain, not for altruism.

Charity donations -- tax write-offs.

Foundations for the public good -- tax write-offs.

Et cetera.

Good still came away.....despite if their heart was in the right place or not. 

[followsthewolf]

Goes to the point, though.

Not done for the good of others; done for the good of the greedy.

"IT IS NEVER ENOUGH!" shouted one of the robber barons. (I think it was Andrew Carnegie.)

[The Troll]

Goes to the point, though.

Not done for the good of others; done for the good of the greedy.

"IT IS NEVER ENOUGH!" shouted one of the robber barons. (I think it was Andrew Carnegie.)

   There was a saying years ago that I have remember as one of the truest sayings I ever heard.  "NOBODY DOES NOTHING FOR NOTHING!"  Every act of goodness is done for a reason.  Every act of evil is done for a reason and an act of goodness by a rich man is about the money.  Just think about that old saying.