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: Date: Sun Apr 25, 2004 12:29 pm
: Subject: HAVE THEY NO SOULS OR BASIC MORALITY
:
:
http://www.moderateindependent.com/v2i4retirees.htm
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: HAVE THEY NO SOULS OR BASIC MORALITY?
: Republicans Unanimously Vote To Allow Employers To Rip Promised Retiree
Health
: Benefits Out From Under Everyone's Nose
: by John S. Ashton
:
: APRIL 23, 2004 - "Retirees who qualify for Medicare would see their health
: benefits cut or eliminated under a proposal approved Thursday by the Equal
: Employment Opportunity Commission.
:
: "The commission voted 3 to 1 in approval of the proposed rule, with three
: Republicans in favor and one Democrat opposing it."
:
: So reports CBS News (see:
:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/...in613305.shtml )
:
: This election is about morality, plain and simple. The Republican Party
has
: entirely lost its conscience. Promised, expected retiree health benefits
are one
: of the most vital things a person depends on. Currently it is illegal for
: companies to go back on their word and eliminate them. The Republicans -
: unanimously - want to change that, allowing any employer who feels like it
to
: simply go back on their word.
:
: What employer won't? In an age when "cost cutting" and "downsizing" has
squeezed
: current workers without mercy or morals while executive compensation has
grown
: exponentially, there is no incentive at all for companies - en masse - to
not
: choose to go back on their word and eliminate the health care benefits so
many
: depend on or were planning on. There is no downside for the companies -
what can
: a retiree do, quit in protest when they don't even work for the company?
:
: Today, the 3 Republicans appointed by President Bush to a board that
exists not
: to deal with healthcare in the first place but only discrimination in the
: workplace had no problem, no moral values whatsoever, to stand in the way
of
: them using what is supposed to be a minority protecting entity for the
sake of
: assaulting the basic safety and security of millions upon millions and
: Americans - all for the sake of corporate profits.
:
: The EEOC. This is the tool that President Bush used to attack all retired
or
: retiring Americans who had counted on promised health benefits, this is
the tool
: that President Bush is using to stick America with something our elected
: officials in the Congress just voted down.
:
: As CBS reports, ".the new rule is identical to Section 631 of the Senate's
: version of the Medicare Rx bill, which was killed by Congress "after
hearing
: from tens of thousands of AARP members."
:
: But President Bush doesn't care about the will of the people and the votes
of
: their elected representatives. He has no moral code and doesn't value
either any
: American people or democracy. Coldly and entirely without conscience, he
moved
: against the will of the people to rip the health coverage away from a
seventy
: year old woman being treated for cancer, an eighty year old man with a
heart
: ailment, men and women with diabetes - suddenly, they'll lose their
coverage.
: And the President was so determined to commit this horrible atrocity
against
: millions of Americans that he went around Congress and used what is
supposed to
: be a commission that protects workers from racism and discrimination to
commit
: his entirely amoral, coldly brutal ends.
:
: As CBS reports, "Unfortunately, the EEOC has turned a deaf ear to those
same
: concerns and is now trying to accomplish through the backdoor what
Congress
: refused to do directly in the law." The EEOC commission appointed by
President
: Bush.
:
: Except for the one Democrat on the panel, who voted against this nonsense,
: pointing out, as CBS reports, ""I came to the commission as a civil rights
: lawyer," Ishimaru told the Times. "Before making an exemption to a major
civil
: rights law, you need a compelling reason, which I have not seen."
:
: Another example of why no good American, why no one who believes in
Democracy,
: why no one with even the most basic moral values, can support President
Bush and
: his brand of Bush/Limbaugh Republican scum.
Excellent post. Keep on.
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