Obama's deficit reduction plan uses the despicable "two-tier" union-busting strategy on Medicare

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1. Divide & Conquer.

Then some changes were made to the contract, and the two-tier core number concept was introduced. This placed the prospects of qualifying for benefits on a distant horizon, a horizon literally years away. I was by then essentially a full time employee, but with no sick leave, no long term disability plan, no pension benefits, and no prospect of a lay-off package in the event of a plant closure. If I was diagnosed with a serious but curable illness that required perhaps a year of hospitalization and rehabilitation, I and my family would be facing a financial disaster, with perhaps no guarantee of a job waiting for me when I recovered.

As the injustice of the situation became clear, I began to realize that economic discrimination knows no boundaries; if it works, then the system will use it to extract profit. The nominal basis for the discrimination is irrelevant, as long as it works to secure profit. The pretext for discrimination is just that, a pretext, it can be about color, race, culture, or sex, and it can be something as abstract as a number.

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