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As Public awareness grows,
corporate lobbyists spend more to slant the media…….
The corporate lobbyists have spent upwards of $200 million on deceptive media campaigns spreading fear and misinformation in order to smear the Employee Free Choice Act. The banking lobbyists are also spending huge sums of money to smear the Employee Free Choice Act as well as block financial reforms. Why? The corporate and financial interests want to continue using OUR money to pay their outrageous salaries and bonuses. OUR money, which was stripped from US due to weakened financial regulations. OUR money, given as taxpayer funded bailouts. OUR money, taken through reduced employee wages and benefits.
The greed driven corporate and financial interests are fighting the Employee Free Choice Act because it would make it easier to join a Union, and Unions fight corporate greed.
The same is true in the battle for Heathcare reform. The insurance lobbyists are spending untold millions on deceptive media campaigns to misinform the public and smear the public option. They want to continue to profit under the current system, while forcing US to continue to suffer. To keep things the way they are, they spin the media so we would fear a government run healthcare plan. But, they have a big problem. Medicare is a government run plan and if you want a fight just tell a senior you are taking it away from them! Talk to those who have Medicare and talk to doctors who work with Medicare Medicare is a government run healthcare plan, and it works! Why can’t we have a government plan like Medicare for all citizens? After all, 55 of those in congress are on Medicare….and they love it. They have a public option, yet because of the lobbyists influence many of these hypocrites are against a public option for the rest of US! We CAN have affordable healthcare, and we must CALL our Senators and Representatives to DEMAND it.
Call 1-877-323-5246 and follow the instructions. This is a free call. Call as many times as needed to talk to all of your representatives. Tell them that you demand a public option and oppose any new taxes on the middle class. Ask your friends and neighbors to call and then call again to demand that they pass the Employee Free Choice Act. Make your voices heard now!
Not motivated? Watch the PBS FRONTLINE documentary "The Warning" online at http://video.pbs.org/video/1302794657/ or go see the movie “Capitalism, a love story”. Better yet, see them both. Then join the fight against CORPORATE GREED!
Best Regards,
Joseph Pijanowski
IAM Local 126
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