I reposted this in a new thread so the night Freepers will see it.
Please go over there and keep it up front.
Thanks
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2310136/posts
[I hope Jim Rob doesn’t kick me outta here!]
” At the linked article above, they discuss the letter John Sweeney sent to AFL-CIO members exhorting them to turn out at town hall meetings.
In the letter he also lays out the unions’ non-negotiable demands in the health bill. One of Sweeney’s demands is:
...that the legislation contain “relief for company/union funds providing pre-Medicare retiree coverage...
Freepers, this is blockbuster stuff.
WE will be forced to pay for union health benefits that WE DON’t GET!
Remember when the UAW whined about the “deep concessions” their retirees made so Obama could screw the GM bondholders? Well, here Obama is giving them back...plus a few billion.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2310136/posts
I bumped it, quite the story, huh. We end up paying these union stiffs to retire on the likes of thousands per month, a far cry better than the income I’ll be receiving.