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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
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. | 
