If you've been following the auto industry's crisis, then you've probably read or heard a lot about overpaid American autoworkers--in particular, the fact that the average hourly employee of the Big Three makes $70 per hour.............read--average wages for workers at Chrysler, Ford, and General Motors were just $28 per hour as of 2007. That works out to a little less than $60,000 a year in gross income--hardly outrageous, . . . Click to read Letter . . .
THE CASE FOR PUBLIC PLAN CHOICE IN NATIONAL HEALTH REFORM
"Words Designed to Kill Health Care Reform," Huffington Post, May 7, 2009
Call your senators and ask them to support the choice of a public health insurance plan. Here's the info for your state:
Senator Jim Bunning
Phone: 202-224-4343Senator Mitch McConnell
Phone: 202-224-2541Then, help us track our calls by clicking here:
Dear MoveOn member,
Last week Republicans on Capitol Hill held a strategy summit on how to defeat key parts of the president's health care plan.
At one point, Republican pollster Frank Luntz declared, "You're not going to get what you want, but you can kill what they're trying to do."1
Luntz wrote a confidential memo that laid out the Republican strategy: Pretend to support reform. Mislead Americans about the heart of Obama's plan, the public health insurance option. Scare enough people to doom real reform.
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