Doesn't it look like, the government is really after McDonald's?
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I wouldn't say that the goverment is after McDonald's. I think they are just concerned about the health of the kids. I think they are trying to help them make better food choices.
871612
I don't know and I don't think many people would care! \nThe McDonald Brothers would probably become members of parliament.
509141
Since McDonald's employs Humburglar to steal its burgers, I don't think that it is actually theft.  Besides, they always get the burgers back.  However, he should probably steer clear of states like Texas, where an overzealous staff member might shoot him with legal justification.
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McDonald's has become emblematic of globalization, sometimes referred as the "McDonaldization" of society. The Economist magazine uses the "Big Mac index": the comparison of a Big Mac's cost in various world currencies can be used to informally judge these currencies' purchasing power parity. Because McDonald's is closely identified with United States culture and lifestyle, its international business expansion has been termed part of Americanization and American cultural imperialism. McDonald's remains a target of anti-globalization protesters worldwide.I LIKE FOOD!!!!!!!!\n\nThomas Friedman observed that no country with a McDonald's had gone to war with another. His "Golden Arches Theory" has since been disproved, first when the U.S. invaded Panama (which has had McDonald's restaurants since the late-1970s) in 1989, and later when NATO bombed Serbia in 1999.\n\nSome observers have suggested that the company should be given credit for increasing the standard of service in markets it enters. A group of anthropologists in a study entitled Golden Arches East (Stanford University Press, 1998, edited by James L. Watson) looked at the impact McDonald's had on East Asia, and Hong Kong in particular. When it opened in Hong Kong in 1975, McDonald's was the first restaurant to consistently offer clean restrooms, driving customers to demand the same of other restaurants and institutions.\n\nIn addition to its effect on business standards, McDonald's has also been instrumental in changing local customs. By popularizing the idea of a quick restaurant meal, Watson's study suggests, McDonald's led to the easing or elimination of various taboos, such as eating while walking in Japan. McDonald's also flattens the social strata during dining -- there is no problem of losing face for certain customers (who might be embarrassed when someone else ordered a more expensive item in a restaurant); the food at McDonald's is all similarly priced.
570719
I know of a story that is not so unlike yours.\n\nYou are so totally right. The United States government is not all that it says it is.
648267
Well, this is not conspiracy, it's reality. If there wasn't cheap labor a lot of stuff specially fruits and veg's would be expensive,think about it do you really think burger king or McDonald's franchise owners would have 15 or 20 restaurants if they paid an American 10 or 12 dollars an hour to make the food, if there is no cheap labor there is no cheap products.
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You mean like.. the y2k problem was a government cover up for sporks and super-soldiers? Well, they were placed there beforehand the y2k problem. How did they know of the y2k problem? Well they planned the y2k 'problem' and started circulating the sporks in order to keep a certain amount of control of what we use for utensils in common fast food restaurants knowing that more and more people would begin buying those popular breakfast meals. This way, they could keep tabs on how much we bought of those [because there is a correlation between who buys the breakfast meals and a vulnerability to one of their super-drugs], and effectively make a 'mistake' in a margin that they extracted and replaced with the 'breakfast meal' results therefore creating the hype of a 'y2k problem'. They needed to get this information inside of the system before the year 2000 to effectively wipe this potentially dangerous data from existance. The data only made it into a certain super secret document. What could they gain of this? Well they had much to gain. They needed the information on how popluar these breakfasts really were to be able to feed us super sedatives to breakfast meal buyers (which answers the age-old question of 'Is the government controlling fast food joints?') and abduct a few selected buyers for a project to create super-soldiers. These super-soldiers are disguised as those Roomba vacuum cleaners.
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actually, in that state of mind, i`d think what would work would be a tv show about McDonalds. Now, dont you think that would make a good tv show? dramatic!
1079453
YES !!!  \nIt's a huge government conspiracy and they are after you!!!
682051
Iran has their own unique culture and form of government.  They should accept only those things which they feel fit into their culture within their borders.  Is McDonald’s right for Iran?  Only they should make such a decision.
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Not at all - if the companies control the government [or do they already? Not here yet, thx God!] then they will do only what benefits them and gets them reelected - no thought for the ppl.
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It appears to be a governmental bungle, if thats what you mean.
876028
I have assumed from the time I was a teenager that the government already monitors everything and that certain words or phrases are flagged, analyzed and stored.\n So if they are working together it would not surprise me the least.
1032021
Seems a little iffy to me.  I'll have to hear some more actual facts first.  (Which is probably a pipe dream since, according to our present government, just about everything is a state secret related to "national security").
1038491
Define bogus.  Is it really the government's job to find energy of any kind?\n\nI don't think so.  That is a private sector issue.  Go look up Economics and our Constitution.  We have no right to any fuel of any sort.
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It might be than that the government would go back to being merely a servant of the people -- merely a temporary servant; And not the people a servant to them.\n\n Its function might be to obey orders, not originate them.\n\nMaybe.
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You can't believe what government tells you.