Wooo--wooo----Ben Affleck...what a business heavyhitter...

Sheesh...the last person in the world who would understand the economics of a higher minimum wage going to lobby legislators in Washington? Sheesh... A fifth-rate actor who just got lucky and I want him to influence the biggest collection of dolts on God's green earth? Come-on....


Ben Affleck lobbies lawmakers to raise US minimum wage
WASHINGTON (AFP) - He is one of Hollywood's best-compensated actors, but matinee idol Ben Affleck (news) came to the US Congress Thursday to lobby for higher pay for some of America's lowest-paid workers.

Affleck, who earns millions per screen appearance, appeared alongside Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy to urge lawmakers to increase the federal minimum wage from its current five dollars and 15 cents per hour to seven dollars per hour.
A Massachusetts native, Affleck said Kennedy tapped him to appear at the news conference to bring more visibility to the cause.

'Maybe the senator saw my move 'Gigli' and assumed I would soon be working for minimum wage myself,' Affleck said, indulging in a bit of self-ridicule over the widely-panned film in which he co-starred with ex-fiancee Jennifer Lopez. "