That seems to be the moral of this story.
Fast food workers across the country are protesting today in the hopes that their petulant whining will garner them a $15 minimum wage.
I want to applaud the workers who are organizing today int he fight to raise the minimum wage. #FightFor15 pic.twitter.com/8ngJ8WOarN
— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) April 15, 2015
"Let's make some noise!!" #FightFor15 @SOULInChicago @IIRONACTION pic.twitter.com/IQPkgF6t2Z
— Grace Pai (@gracekp3) April 15, 2015
#NYC's #FightFor15 march takes Times Square by storm: "$8.75, not enough!, $15 and a union!" @NYWFP @citizenactionny pic.twitter.com/nokrXOR0JJ
— Patrick Conway (@psconway) April 15, 2015
L.A. workers say #StandForSecurity #FightFor15 #RaiseAmerica #PovertyDoesntFly #1u pic.twitter.com/eQdtOblo6r
— StandforSecurity (@StandforSec) April 15, 2015
300 people with @RBReich at an Oakland McDonald's. 2 workers walked off the job and joined the #FightFor15! pic.twitter.com/KbWhFMavGY
— Fight For 15 (@fightfor15) April 15, 2015
And New Yorker Alec Baldwin is totally behind them — he really is! — except that they’re cramping his style:
Protestors have blocked off a huge quadrant of midtown traffic in support of a higher minimum wage. I support their goal, not their method.
— HABFoundation (@ABFalecbaldwin) April 15, 2015
Life in NY is hard enough as is. The goal is to not make it more so. How does clogging rush hour traffic from 59th St to 42 do any good?
— HABFoundation (@ABFalecbaldwin) April 15, 2015
NY's ethos dissolves every day that individuals or groups put their needs/goals ahead of everyone else's
— HABFoundation (@ABFalecbaldwin) April 15, 2015
There are ways to rally people to your cause without inconveniencing an entire City.
— HABFoundation (@ABFalecbaldwin) April 15, 2015
Of course, sometimes it’s fine to inconvenience an entire city. As @SooperMexican points out, Baldwin’s OK with inconveniencing a city when he’s joining in on the inconveniencing:
LOL! Hypocrite Alec Baldwin LOVES Leftwing Protests… Until They Inconvenience HIM! http://t.co/MZBfgRWSQP
— ¡El Sooopèrr! ن c137 (@SooperMexican) April 15, 2015
Ahem:
On my way to OWS.
— HABFoundation (@ABFalecbaldwin) October 19, 2011
I'm glad to see OWS back on the streets in NY….
— HABFoundation (@ABFalecbaldwin) March 22, 2012
Went down to livestream with OWS at
50 Broadway.— HABFoundation (@ABFalecbaldwin) November 20, 2011
So, Mr. Baldwin, with all due respect, cry us a river.
@ABFalecbaldwin It interrupts your comfortable life, for one.
— user name (@simonlcupcake) April 15, 2015
@ABFalecbaldwin You support them as long as they don't inconvenience you.
— Em Wo (@YellowEnvelope) April 15, 2015
https://twitter.com/DCinAZ/status/588480333919739904
https://twitter.com/DCinAZ/status/588481583679676416
Take a bow, Alec.
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