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HomerRamone

(1,112 posts)
Fri May 2, 2014, 12:52 AM May 2014

BOROWITZ: Millionaires Unite to Defeat Minimum Wage (satire?)

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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 today’s 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.”


http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2014/04/millionaires-unite-to-defeat-minimum-wage.html
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BOROWITZ: Millionaires Unite to Defeat Minimum Wage (satire?) (Original Post) HomerRamone May 2014 OP
Homer Ramone? MannyGoldstein May 2014 #1
This article is satire by Andy Borowitz but people have so accepted what millionaire congressmen HomerRamone May 2014 #3
Satire sits on a razor's edge MannyGoldstein May 2014 #5
Now advertised in the subject line. Than I give up nt HomerRamone May 2014 #6
They don't call 'em millionaires for nothin'. JohnnyRingo May 2014 #2
To mark the festive occasion... pinboy3niner May 2014 #4
I love good satire Gothmog May 2014 #7
We need to start raising the minimum wage at the city and state levels Dozer May 2014 #8

HomerRamone

(1,112 posts)
3. This article is satire by Andy Borowitz but people have so accepted what millionaire congressmen
Fri May 2, 2014, 08:57 AM
May 2014

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
Fri May 2, 2014, 09:10 AM
May 2014

To be good, it has to be close to the truth, but too close to the truth and it's... well, the truth.

JohnnyRingo

(18,581 posts)
2. They don't call 'em millionaires for nothin'.
Fri May 2, 2014, 03:42 AM
May 2014

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...
Fri May 2, 2014, 09:04 AM
May 2014

...Republican legislators wore matching ties dyed with the blood of the workers.

 

Dozer

(27 posts)
8. We need to start raising the minimum wage at the city and state levels
Fri May 2, 2014, 12:35 PM
May 2014

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.

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