Guest Post by Andy Borowitz
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.
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I expect that over the next couple of years, you’ll come to hear about Tom Emmer – MN’s latest contribution to Congress. He replaced Michelle Bachman. He has the same general philosophy – but he’s not as smart. His neck is as thick as his head, and he’s as likable as your sister’s abusive ex-husband.
Isn’t it amazing how much harm they can do working only one hundred and thirty-seven days a year?
I agree with Marc…I really don’t want these critters working ANY day.
Where’s the onion?
MA