Sadly, she says it exactly like it is. Our government has been sold to the highest bidder -- lock, stock, and barrel. We are no longer a Democracy/Republic and the majority of Americans that includes the middle class and poor dont matter anymore except for the powerful rich and privileged few -- of which many have inherited their wealth. If only our forefathers could see what has happened, they would turn over in their proverbial graves. Now, according to Andy Borowitz, unskilled workers are reporting to Washington, D.C. tomorrow and this is what he says: WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Sixty-four unskilled workers will report to new jobs in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday as part of a federal jobs program that provides employment for people unable to find productive work elsewhere. The new hires, who have no talents or abilities that would make them employable in most workplaces, will be earning a first-year salary of $174,000. For that sum, the new employees will be expected to work a hundred and thirty-seven days a year, leaving them with two hundred and twenty-eight days of vacation. Some critics have blasted the federal jobs program as too expensive, noting that the workers were chosen last November in a bloated and wasteful selection process that cost the nation nearly four billion dollars. But Davis Logsdon, a University of Minnesota economics professor who specializes in labor issues, said that the program is necessary to provide work “for people who honestly cannot find employment anywhere else.” “Expensive as this program is, it is much better to have these people in jobs than out on the street,” he said. Get news satire from The Borowitz Report delivered to your inbox. Andy Borowitz is a New York Times best-selling author and a comedian who has written for The New Yorker since 1998. He writes the Borowitz Report for newyorker.
Posted on: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 13:09:09 +0000
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