[Occupymendocino] Fake news but, a great idea!

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God bless Borowitz -


>From Andy Borowitz: AMERICANS FAVOR FIFTEEN DOLLARS AN HOUR FOR CONGRESS
>
> Washington – Americans took to the streets in large numbers on Thursday
> to show their support for a fifteen-dollar-an-hour wage for members of
> Congress.
>>
>> In major cities across the nation, fast-food workers and other service
>> employees held signs, shouted chants, and gave impassioned speeches to
>> demonstrate their conviction that Congress deserves a maximum hourly
>> wage of fifteen dollars.
>>
>> “Members of Congress are people, just like you and me,” Tracy
>> Klugian, a McDonald’s employee who took part in the Washington
>> protest, said. “They should be paid what they deserve.”
>>
>> Assuming that they continue to take off approximately two hundred and
>> forty days a year, members of Congress earning the proposed maximum
>> would see their average annual income adjusted from a hundred and
>> seventy-four thousand dollars to thirteen thousand five hundred dollars,
>> a salary that many marchers called “fair and equitable.”
>>
>> “I know what members of Congress will say: ‘I can’t live on
>> that,’” Harland Dorrinson, a protester in Chicago, said. “Well, if
>> they want to earn more, they should go out and acquire some skills.”
>>
>> While organizers of the marches proclaimed today’s protests a success,
>> in some cities the demonstrations met some opposition from
>> counter-protesters, who argued that fifteen dollars was too much.
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