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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsObama’s Plan to Pay People Enough to Eat Stirs Controversy /Borowitz unveils
Washington (The Borowitz Report) President Obama has sparked outrage in Congress and renewed calls for his impeachment by signing a daring Presidential memorandum that would pay workers enough to eat.
The memorandum, which is based on the Presidents view that people should be paid for the hours they actually work, is shaping up as one of the most controversial and incendiary actions of his Presidency.
House Republican leaders held a press conference this morning to warn Obama that, by advancing his agenda of paying people for the work they do, he is playing with political fire.
A Presidential memorandum is a powerful tool and should be used sparingly, said House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio). It is not a vehicle for this President to enact his pet theories about people earning enough to survive.
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Virginia) concurred, telling reporters, With one stroke of the pen, President Obama is removing the single greatest incentive for work: hunger.
Apparently, President Obama needs a lesson in American history, he said. Hunger built the railroads. Hunger picked the crops. When the American people learn more about this action of the Presidents, they will see it for what it is: a hunger-killer.
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Obama’s Plan to Pay People Enough to Eat Stirs Controversy /Borowitz unveils (Original Post)
Mira
Mar 2014
OP
He wants people to live? How dare he?
malthaussen
(17,204 posts)2. This isn't even satire. Borowitz slipped up...
... and just reported the truth!
-- Mal
Rod Beauvex
(564 posts)3. If nothing else...
The poor can sustain themselves with John Boehner's delicious tears.