"Michael McKelvy" wrote in message
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: Date: Sun Apr 25, 2004 12:29 pm
: Subject: HAVE THEY NO SOULS OR BASIC MORALITY
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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.
:
:
: You left out some pertinent details, why am I not surprised.
Such as? I can't begin to fathom what it take to surprise an asshole like
you.
:
:
: "Such benefits are provided on a voluntary basis at the discretion of
each
: employer and the Commission is acting to preserve these valuable benefits
: for retirees," Commission Chair Cari Dominguez, a Republican, said in a
: statement.
:
: The Times reports that several commission members argued that employers
are
: more likely to continue providing health benefits to retirees under 65 if
: they are allowed to reduce or eliminate benefits for those 65 and older.
:
: The rule change has the backing of the American Benefits Council - a trade
: group representing large employers - as well as the National Education
: Association and the American Federation of Teachers.
:
: The language of the rule adopted by the panel says that it "is not
intended
: to encourage employers to eliminate any retiree health benefits they may
: currently provide."
:
: Before it becomes final, the proposed rule must go through further review
by
: federal agencies and the White House Office of Management and Budget.
:
:
:
: 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.
:
:
: Another excample of how democrats lie and distort.
Another example of how know-it-all repigs regularly put their stupidity,
bigotry, and ignorance on display for all to see.
:
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