Solve The Riddles
The article from the CFL discusses SB 2 and Prop 72 where California Voters were deceived into voting NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT
To have health coverage!!!
If the voting public could be duped so easily by the forces of evil to vote against their own interest as illustrated below then it was likely that that same voting public would have voted for the Proposition that the Governator threatened the democrats with if they didn't sign SB899.
How do you get people, who presumably have a rational mind, to vote against their own interests???
Why would the Governor of the people want to prevent his subjects, who loyally voted him into power, from having health care?
Why would that same Governor promote a bill such as SB899 that deprived the working people of California from having decent benefits if they are injured while on the job?
Why would a man who has fame and wealth beyond our imagination sell out to big business when he has the power to do good for the majority of his subjects?
How can such a man still have a 55% approval rating when all he has done since taking office is screw the 55% of the people that still think he is acting in their best interests?
These questions defy our belief that human beings have rational minds. How is this possible??
How is it possible,with our advanced state of technology and knowledge, to have massive starvation, genocide, religious wars in much of the world.
How is it possible that we have massive pollution of the environment, slums, malnutrition, homeless and rampant crime in the richest country in the world?
At this point in the history of mankind you would think that these problems would have been solved.
At least you would expect that the problems were getting better not worse. Yet they are getting worse. WHY???
Please post your answers in Commentary under the new topic Solve the Riddle.
http://www.calaborfed.org/issues_politics/healthcare/SB2_Main.html
SB2_Main.htmlStatement on Proposition 72
from Art Pulaski
We acknowledge all of the great work that unions did in this election. The hard work and dedication of so many of you made the closest that any fight for health care reform has come - in the State or in the nation.
Proposition 72 achieved 49.1% of the vote. This razor-thin margin shows that Californians know that we are in a health care crisis. One out of five Californians has no health insurance. And the problem worsens weekly. As the cost of health insurance increases we are being faced with painful choices at the bargaining table. Members are paying more for the coverage and shouldering the burden of the millions of uninsured.
The largest - and the most profitable - corporate special interests like Wal-Mart, McDonalds and others spent $16.1 million to wage a deceptive campaign of misinformation, confusion and scare tactics to try to convince California voters that Proposition 72 would drive jobs and business out of the state.
The truth is that Proposition 72 would have made California businesses stronger and their workers more productive. Proposition 72 would not have cut jobs. Proposition 72 was not government-controlled health care. Proposition 72 would not have hurt small businesses. They were exempt.
But big corporations are not the only ones who acted shamefully. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger won office by promising to look out for all Californians. He broke that bond of trust by denying California's workers access to health care coverage.
The public deserved the truth from the Governor and from these corporations and they didn't get it. Instead Governor Schwarzenegger took money from corporate special interests and helped them shirk their responsibilities to California workers. Taxpayers like you and I are the ones who will pay the bill.
More Californians will lose our health coverage. Most of us will pay more for it. And all of us will continue to subsidize Wal-Mart, McDonalds, and others through both higher insurance premiums and more taxes.
We are being called to action as we have been called before at critical times in this state's history. Union workers are going to stand up for this basic and fundamental right, for this urgent need for all Californians to have affordable health care. We will hold corporations accountable to California's workers.
Protecting what we have is critical; helping others get what they deserve is even more so. We will do what is right until we win.
Top 'NO on 72' Campaign Contributors
Please inform your members that these corporations opposed health care reform.
* CA Restaurant Association and Issues PAC $4.5 million
* McDonald's (McDonald's Corp. and franchise owners) $1.5 million
* Wal-Mart $648,000
* Round Table Pizza (includes franchises) $482,000
* Macy's $400,000
* CA Business Properties Association PAC (Wal-Mart, Home Depot, Target) $325,000
* Outback Steakhouse $323,000
* Sears $300,000
* Robinson May $300,000
* Best Buy Purchasing $300,000
* Jack in the Box $260,000
* CA Chamber of Commerce Business PAC $255,000
* Target $250,000
- J. Geller
March 25, 2005
