How to pull $73 directly out of your ASS.

If you don't live in a cave, you've probably heard how the evil American auto workers are robbing us blind to the tune of $73 dollars an hour. The only problem is that the figure comes from a right wing blogger who pulled it directly out of his ass.

They invented the number by adding together every penny paid to every employee who has ever worked at every plant, and the cost of health care for every employee that works, and has ever worked at every plant, and divided by the number of hours the CURRENT employees work.

In other words, the figure is complete and utter BULLSHIT.

The average UAW line worker earns $26 dollars per hour.

Now, it is true that the cost of paying the health care of retired UAW employees and their families is getting expensive because .... OUR HEALTHCARE SYSTEM IS A COMPLETE AND UTTER SCAM!! A system that many of the foreign car companies with whom we compete are not required to participate in because THEIR HEALTH CARE IS FREE!!