Ben Affleck helps Senator Kennedy propose minimum wage increase

NBC ^ | 4/29/04

[Blue Highway]

Capitol Hill-AP -- Ben Affleck is helping Senator Edward Kennedy propose a dollar-85 increase in the minimum wage.

The small room in the Senate where their news conference was held today was overflowing with reporters -- and female staffers who wanted a glimpse of Affleck. Kennedy jokingly asked "where were you" the last time he proposed an increase in the minimum wage.

Kennedy and other Democrats want the minimum wage raised to seven dollars an hour.

Affleck's father and stepmother worked for low wages as janitors at Harvard University, but he joked that Kennedy invited him because he thought he'd be back working for minimum wage after his movie "Gigli (JEE'-lee)" bombed.

[GRRRRR]

Why only a Buck-eightyfive?? Why not 25.00/hour??

I know, it's a stupid question, but the Dumborats and RINO's get all squiggly when you ask it...

G

[Don Corleone]

I know, it's a stupid question, but the Dumborats and RINO's get all squiggly when you ask it...

Its not a stupid question. Just keep raising the amount till they say that its too high. Then they will have proved the stupidity of their own argument.

[My2Cents]

AFFLECK!

[My2Cents]

Can't wait for the United Federation of Planets to bring us to the golden age, when money is eliminated, all needs are provided for, and everyone works for simple pleasure of doing a job well.

[traumer]

Will Ben chip in some of his $$ ??

Now let's talk about an inflation around the corner...

[GulliverSwift]

And why doesn't Ben push for a "living wage" for all of the grunts who work on his movies? How about he take a 5% pay cut so that these average Americans can have a bit more to feed their families with?

[GnL]

Not only is Ben Affleck a lousy actor, he is a moron to boot.

[Falcon4.0]

"Affleck's father and stepmother worked for low wages as janitors "

Another Multimillionaire Super Star who's family eats out of the trash cans every night. How could he be so cruel? For Shame!

[Dan from Michigan]

Gee Ben, how much do you pay your people on the set?

BTW - Your acting sucks, wimp.

[Free ThinkerNY]

Affleck's Next Movie

[Walkingfeather]

FUNNY, why doesnt he work for union scale... minimum?

[Dan from Michigan]

BTW - How did this joker get the Jack Ryan part?

[Callahan]

People often tell me that I look like Ben Affleck, which I take as a compliment. I'll have to start acting insulted if he continues to hang out with Ted Kennedy.

[socal_parrot]

Mao?

[Maceman]

Can't wait for the United Federation of Planets to bring us to the golden age, when money is eliminated, all needs are provided for, and everyone works for simple pleasure of doing a job well.

Don't laugh, that was the original Progressive vision of America's Pregressive Era - 1870-1920. The bible of that period was a novel written in 1887 by Edward Bellamy called "Looking Backward - 2000-1887."

The book tells the story of a 19th century American aristocrat who falls asleep through "Mesmerism" and wakes up 113 years later in Boston in the year 2000. The America he finds in the future is a perfect society where where everyone works for an enlightened government that has produced untold material abundance for every member of society.

Everyone goes to school until they are 21, and then goes to work at their chosen profession until they retire at the age of 45. Thereafter, they live a life of leisure and intellectual fulfillment.

There is no poverty, no war and no crime. Everyone is paid the same by the government, and whenever someone buys something they pay the government with a credit card.

The book is a hoot, and needless to say has not aged well. It is as loopy an idealized vision as one can imagine, but in 1935 it was voted in no less than three published surveys to have been the most influential American novel of the prior 50 years.

You can get the book on Amazon, and I highly recommend it for those who really want to see the poisonous roots of the modern Democratic Party agenda.

[patriciamary]

Who cares!Two dumb drunks,one fat with hair ,the other a wig wearing
Fool!

[freekitty]

This is a rich one. Two rich guys wanting to give a couple of dollars extra to the peons.

[cookcounty]

I thought Affleck moved to France.

[SamAdams76]

Seven dollars an hour? Why doesn't Ben Affleck and Ted Kennedy try feeding their families on $7 an hour? What elitists. What nincompoops.