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Remember the Republicans are asking the union to lower their wages from the slavelike $150,000 total compensation to the pyramid-builders wage of $90,000. What Victorian cruelty!!
No Detroit autoworker is making $72 an hour. The genius who came up with that number was folding in not only current employees' health benefits and pension plans, but retired workers' pension plans as well.
And please note that no one ever folds in whatever health benefits the Toyota worker in Tennessee gets or whatever retirement benefits they get when comparing the wages. Detroit's and Alabama's hourly wages aren't that far from each other -- it's the benefits that differ.
Another argument for universal healthcare as far as I'm concerned.
