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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMillionaires Unite to Defeat Minimum Wage - Borowitz keeps us informed
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) - 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.
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Millionaires Unite to Defeat Minimum Wage - Borowitz keeps us informed (Original Post)
Mira
Apr 2014
OP
To mark the occasion they decided to wear ties dyed with the blood of the workers. nt
pinboy3niner
Apr 2014
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Gothmog
(145,496 posts)1. I love good satire
Good satire is very close to the truth. Here, this satire is actually based on the facts
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)2. Why all the crimson red "power ties" ?!?!
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)3. To mark the occasion they decided to wear ties dyed with the blood of the workers. nt