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Mira

(22,380 posts)
Wed Apr 30, 2014, 07:04 PM Apr 2014

Millionaires 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 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.”

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Millionaires Unite to Defeat Minimum Wage - Borowitz keeps us informed (Original Post) Mira Apr 2014 OP
I love good satire Gothmog Apr 2014 #1
Why all the crimson red "power ties" ?!?! blkmusclmachine Apr 2014 #2
To mark the occasion they decided to wear ties dyed with the blood of the workers. nt pinboy3niner Apr 2014 #3
+1 lunasun Apr 2014 #4

Gothmog

(145,496 posts)
1. I love good satire
Wed Apr 30, 2014, 07:07 PM
Apr 2014

Good satire is very close to the truth. Here, this satire is actually based on the facts

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