Who's really the poor's friend? McDonalds, that's who

I've had some periods in my life where I've been, well, broke.  I mean totally broke.  I've found that the one business establishment most helpful and friendly to the broke is McDonalds.  Yes McDonalds, the same McDonalds that the so called 'progressives' excoriate for being so 'evil' and 'exploitative' and whatever else they squeal while banking their bongos and carrying around their huge, stupid puppets.

McDonalds is a place where you can get a sandwich for a buck (unless you live in a place where bongo puppet squealers are powerful, then it's probably a buck and half or more), you can get warm if it's cold, wash up and buy a cup of coffee that they'll fill over and over while letting you use their wifi.  They'll even look the other way when you refill a coke at dinner that you really bought yesterday.  They actually cater to people without much money and understand their needs.  Many of the people who work there are poor.

This is in contrast to the hepcats at Starbucks or the local coffee shop collective.  Those places don't sell anything that's cheap, don't allow free refills and aggressively police their premises for the 'indigent'.  After all they are hip locations and the poor are definitely not 'hip'.  Besides they like to broadcast their commitment to 'progressive' causes like 'rainforests' or poor people too far away to infest their stores.  Poor people as props, you see, to demonstrate that they care.  Not real poor people.

Or real disabled people.  Every McDonalds that I've gone to regularly has at least one disabled worker.  Who actually works, no matter how slow. The rest of the staff usually seem protective of this worker.  This contrasts with the hepcat model of the progressive coffee shop.  Everyone who works has to be hip and retards are not hip at all.  I'm sure they give to agencies for the disabled, I guess mostly to keep them away.  But heaven forbid that one of them work there and damage the brand.

This is typical of Prog institutions:  they use the poor as props to get their way politically, they don't particularly care about them.  Don't believe me?  Go ask them.  They're at McDonalds.