Joe Scarborough's take on fast-food workers and the minimum wage:

[AngryOldDem]

"I hope they get their Mazeratis." And their "Cadillac health care plans."

He does acknowledge, though, that these jobs aren't primarily held by kids anymore, and that they are the sole means of income for many who once had higher paying jobs. Still doesn't make a difference. Raising the minimum wage to a subsistence level is still a bad idea.

I don't know what angered me more: What he said, or his attitude as he said it.

[redwitch]

1. I saw that too.

He is a moron. I don't watch anymore because I cannot take his smarmy attitude but I was channel surfing. And Mika smiles and shows off her tan. It's like watching Hannity and Colmes.

[AngryOldDem]

5. I usually don't watch either, but was channel surfing.

I stopped when I saw they were talking about "Must Reads," and this discussion happened after Mika read a part of an NY Times op-ed about fast-food workers and the minimum wage (which I plan to read later -- it sounds really good).

This "let them eat cake" mentality is so off-base and brazen. I think I was more offended by his attitude, the more I think about it. But even implying that fast-food workers want more because they're **greedy** -- the very height of irony and arrogance.

I did appreciate Mika's response, something about keeping the status quo so the CEOs can continue to make their money. She was angry as well. Everybody else just looked uncomfortable.

[TheMastersNemesis]

2. He Is Part Of The 20% And Above "I Got Mine Screw You" Class.

Everyone on DU has to remember that Reagan began the installment of a "new aristrocrat class" in the US separated by class and "gated communities". We do not have official titles like in feudal times but we do have "class apartheid". That reality is what the GOP represents and supports primarily. They believe in segregation by class as well as color.

And as long as they can convince the "poor white crackers" in the South and other places that the GOP and conservatives are on their side, voting patterns will not change. The poorest and sickest in the South hate Obamacare.

[CTyankee]

3. funny, Joe is always complaining about the loser qualities of the Tea Party extremists in his party

and then launches into a diatribe against the working poor. Is he an idiot? HE'S part of that problem!

[B Calm]

4. Just because he has a Mazerati and a Cadillac health care plan

doesn't mean that McDonald workers want the same thing. Hell they might like to own a new chevy.

[CTyankee]

6. He was downright offensive...and he wonders why republicans turn most people off...

he should hear how he sounds when goes on one of these mean-spirited rants. He's like a Frankenstein Republican...

[JHB]

8. The only Mazeratis and Caddilacs fast food workers will get...

...are plastic ones that come with Happy Meals.

Employees of the Month get die-cast ones, if the boss is making a show of how generous he is.

[PM Martin]

7. Wasn't a dead intern found in his office shortly before he resigned?

[B Calm]

9. Yes, but remember we're talking about Florida where one can

get away with murder.

[spanone]

10. he's an arrogant asshole.

[Demoiselle]

11. What spanone said....quadrupled.