The plan, according to the article, is part of an overall community development project. Exactly what sort of development will occur is hard to predict. The relentlessly union-phobic corporation, whose founder, Ray Kroc, once funneled $250,000 to Richard Nixon's 1972 re-election campaign because he was eager to get presidential support for a bill that would allow businesses like McDonald'sTM to pay 16- and 17-year-old workers a salary 20 percent below minimum wage, is hardly on the cutting edge of social justice issues. But then, as we all know, the Lord works in mysterious ways.
