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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,127 posts)
Mon Aug 8, 2016, 03:01 PM Aug 2016

Borowitz: Trump Economic Plan Calls for Every American to Inherit Millions from Father

DETROIT (The Borowitz Report)—At a speech in Detroit on Monday, the Republican Presidential nominee, Donald J. Trump, spelled out the details of his economic plan, which calls for every American to inherit millions of dollars from his or her father.

“There are people at my rallies, desperate people, desperate because they want jobs,” he told his luncheon audience at the Detroit Economic Club. “Once they inherit millions from their father, they will never want a job again.”

Using an anecdote to show how his economic plan would work, Trump explained, “A man with zero dollars who inherited forty million dollars from his father would become forty million dollars wealthier.”

“We are going to make America rich again,” he said.

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/trump-economic-plan-calls-for-every-american-to-inherit-millions-from-father?mbid=nl_080816%20Borowitz%20Newsletter%20(1)&CNDID=25394153&spMailingID=9321970&spUserID=MTA5MjQwMzkwOTgyS0&spJobID=980629916&spReportId=OTgwNjI5OTE2S0

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Borowitz: Trump Economic Plan Calls for Every American to Inherit Millions from Father (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 2016 OP
Borowitz uses satire to reveal the truth. Koinos Aug 2016 #1
I love good satire Gothmog Aug 2016 #2
If That's Your Cheviteau Aug 2016 #6
K & R ......that's funny! nt Wounded Bear Aug 2016 #3
Hahaha! workinclasszero Aug 2016 #4
Someone made a very similar joke about Goldwater in 1964 DavidDvorkin Aug 2016 #5
I actually saw Goldwater speak at the Detroit Economics Club in 1964. longship Aug 2016 #7
Walk up to Trump and say, "Dad?" Spitfire of ATJ Aug 2016 #8

Cheviteau

(383 posts)
6. If That's Your
Mon Aug 8, 2016, 05:19 PM
Aug 2016

state flag, you'd have too. Or perish. Full disclosure: I was born and reared there. Left there 58 years ago at the age of 18 and never looked back.

longship

(40,416 posts)
7. I actually saw Goldwater speak at the Detroit Economics Club in 1964.
Mon Aug 8, 2016, 05:39 PM
Aug 2016

I shook his hand, because that's what an ninth grader did back then.

Let's just say that it was a surreal experience. The food was good, though. It was lunch much better than was served at Cadillac Junior High. That is probably why I went. Plus, meeting a presidential candidate. Naive me.

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