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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBOROWITZ: Millionaires Unite to Defeat Minimum Wage (satire?)
Last edited Fri May 2, 2014, 10:48 AM - Edit history (1)
A broad-based coalition of millionaires converged on Washington today to defeat a bill that would have increased the minimum wage for American workers to $10.10 an hour.
Leaving behind their mansions and yachts, the millionaires were motivated by what they saw as an existential threat to the country, Mitch McConnell, a spokesman for the millionaires, said.
This was an extremely diverse coalition, McConnell said, noting that everyone from the rich to the very rich to the super-rich united to vote down the bill.
McConnell hoped that todays vote would burnish the millionaires reputation as people who get things done.
Folks who have tried to pin a do nothing label on us are dead wrong, he said. When it comes to stopping workers from being paid more, we spring into action.
Leaving behind their mansions and yachts, the millionaires were motivated by what they saw as an existential threat to the country, Mitch McConnell, a spokesman for the millionaires, said.
This was an extremely diverse coalition, McConnell said, noting that everyone from the rich to the very rich to the super-rich united to vote down the bill.
McConnell hoped that todays vote would burnish the millionaires reputation as people who get things done.
Folks who have tried to pin a do nothing label on us are dead wrong, he said. When it comes to stopping workers from being paid more, we spring into action.
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BOROWITZ: Millionaires Unite to Defeat Minimum Wage (satire?) (Original Post)
HomerRamone
May 2014
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This article is satire by Andy Borowitz but people have so accepted what millionaire congressmen
HomerRamone
May 2014
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MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)1. Homer Ramone?
The Nuke Plant Bop.
Hey! Ho! Let's glow!
HomerRamone
(1,112 posts)3. This article is satire by Andy Borowitz but people have so accepted what millionaire congressmen
will do to those less fortunate that no one seems to be noticing...
MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)5. Satire sits on a razor's edge
To be good, it has to be close to the truth, but too close to the truth and it's... well, the truth.
HomerRamone
(1,112 posts)6. Now advertised in the subject line. Than I give up nt
JohnnyRingo
(18,581 posts)2. They don't call 'em millionaires for nothin'.
They sure didn't get there by wasting money on the people who do the actual work.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)4. To mark the festive occasion...
...Republican legislators wore matching ties dyed with the blood of the workers.
Gothmog
(144,005 posts)7. I love good satire
This is still satire even though most of this post is also true
Dozer
(27 posts)8. We need to start raising the minimum wage at the city and state levels
We need to start raising the minimum wage at the city and state levels to show in action that it is a good thing. I wish the the federal govt would do it on their own but I'm not holding my breathe.