Doo-Gooders

No, that's not a typo....

I see McDonald's and other fast-food places are "under pressure" to serve vegies now.  Apparently they are scrambling to do so.

I wonder who is "pressuring" for vegies.  I can't imagine.  But it seems to me that this is one sure way to kill fast-food restaurants.  C'mon, who will stop for vegies?  Maybe I'm wrong and people will, maybe lots of people. I just don't see it.  When was the last time I went out with others to eat and people, just one, ordered vegies--no meat or spaghetti or fish?  Oh, never or at least I can't remember ever having someone order that.  I think, at some wedding dinners, there have been vegie choices instead of chicken or beef (I originally mistyped "beer," a Freudian slip?) and some folks have eaten that choice.  But, boy, not many at all.

So if these vegie doo-gooders do manage to drive fast-food places out of business or merely hurt their sales, who takes care of the people who have lost their jobs?  The doo-gooders?  Hardly.  They remind me of the guy who was walking along a pier and heard cries for help by a nonswimmer who had fallen into the water. The doo-gooder found the lifebuoy/ring and threw it out to him.  When the drowner grabbed the lifebuoy/ring, the doo-gooder asked, "Do you have a good hold of it?"  When assured that the drowner did, he said, "Good," dropped the rope attached to the lifebuoy/ring and moved on to do another good deed. Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, Burt Folsom, and others have enumerated countless of well-intentioned people whose deeds had terrible unintended consequences.

Perhaps on a bit of a different note, but related.  (And I know it's dangerous to generalize on things like this, but....)  I stopped at a fast-food restaurant today and wondered, "How can these workers demand a pay raise up to $15 an hour??????"  My bill came to more than $6 for my four-year old and me--and I ordered off the so-called "Value Menu."  Then, it took between 15 and 20 minutes to get our food.  Granted it was 12:45, but there was only one person ahead of me who hadn't ordered.  And, my order was wrong!  To top things off, my tummy has been growling all afternoon.