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    Fast Food Strike: Workers Walk Out In US Cities

    Heres a interesting take. www.newyorker.com/talk/financial/2013/08/12/130812ta_talk_surowiecki? Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I317 using EO Forums mobile app
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    Fast Food Strike: Workers Walk Out In US Cities

    www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/08/15/forty-years-ago-today-nixon-took-us-off-gold-standard/ Sent from my GT-N5110 using EO Forums mobile app
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    Fast Food Strike: Workers Walk Out In US Cities

    One thing that happened in our modern economy is we really work for a credit called the dollar. The value of which is continually decreasing while the cost of goods is increasing. All the while through technology less people are required to manufacture goods. The people that do manufacture...
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    Fast Food Strike: Workers Walk Out In US Cities

    I guess the franchise owners would have to take that up with Mc Donalds. I dont necessarily agree with them, but I dont think we as tax payers should be carrying their health costs. On the other hand I dont want the country to become like mexico where people sometimes beyond their control end up...
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    Fast Food Strike: Workers Walk Out In US Cities

    I guess the point is they are not hurting financially. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I317 using EO Forums mobile app
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    Offline Map App for Android

    Ive been using copilot. Its cheap and seems to do a pretty good job Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I317 using EO Forums mobile app
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    Fast Food Strike: Workers Walk Out In US Cities

    Just to keep things in context McD, s made 1.27 billion in the first quarter of this year with a revenue of 6.6 billion or 1.26 per share Sent from my GT-N5110 using EO Forums mobile app
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    Fast Food Strike: Workers Walk Out In US Cities

    There are adults that work in fast food and support a family. Im sure most of them collect welfare of some sort just like walmart workers. What it comes down to is do we pay the service worker enough to support his family or do we pay higher taxes to pay for his food stamps and health coverage...
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    Fast Food Strike: Workers Walk Out In US Cities

    After just finishing that double filet fish sanwhich from McD's I say they deserve a raise as I drift off into a carb/fat induced coma Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I317 using EO Forums mobile app
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    Fast Food Strike: Workers Walk Out In US Cities

    I wonder how many expediters receive some type of goverment assistance for their famlies. Including medical assistance for children with out the father in the house hold And food stamps Sent from my GT-N5110 using EO Forums mobile app
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    check out that truck good before you agree to drive it

    Well I've been out for about 4 weeks with 4 major breakdowns. Although it has been a good experience we could have made alot more money had we not spent so much time in the shop or waiting for a tow truck like we are now. This time it was the water pump locked up while traveling N on I-75...
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    Spreadsheet learning

    I think the spreadsheet was the best thing to happen to the computer, and if the spreadsheet was the only program ever developed for the PC the PC would still be justified. I know Microsoft provides some excellent resources that can be accessed here Excel Help and How-to - Microsoft Office...
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    Question About Depreciation and Taxes

    Ok this is really confusing me knowing your background. But to make a guess I would think the depreation deduction would not be greater then the payments. But then I guess they are a write off also. It is also my poorly educated guess that repairs and preventive maintiance can replace some of...
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    Truck ride

    So I got a look at it today and the sleeper is bolted directly to the frame and the cab has a small shock located in the middle rear of the cab. Our sleeper is the no sleep sleeper We have leafs on the read axel. We are going to work on getting the shocks replaced and go from there but I think...
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    Truck ride

    We are in a 2004 freightliner with 260 mbe and a 6 speed trans, 22 ft box, 84 in aerobunk sleeper. She has a single drive axel. I notice a little seepage on the shocks. Nothing major but enough to collect dust. I also notice when driving and when I hit a bump the wheel seems to hop. So I think I...
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