Lovin’ it?

• IrishBill
• 15 years ago
• Categories: economy
• Tags: mcjobs

Stuff reports that McDonald’s is getting up to $16,000 of taxpayer money per person it recruits from the benefit.

I doubt this per-person maximum is reached that often but it does seem that a lot of public money is going to the extremely profitable fast-food giant (and, presumably, its franchisees) every year.

I’m all for getting people into jobs but, even putting aside the godawful employer behaviour McDonald’s is infamous for, when the government is cutting access to the kind of training and education that would provide us with a skilled and productive workforce, forking out big dollars to subsidise burger-flipping jobs seems like serious economic mismanagement to me.

If this is what John Key means when he bleats on about being “ambitious for New Zealand” I’m not lovin’ it at all.