Dear Mr. President, Please Help Me...

[kpete]

The Plum LineGreg Sargent's blog
Obama “Day In Shoes” Worker To President: Please Help Me

Finally! It took the SEIU long enough, but the union is now directly addressing President Obama over his decision not to penalize Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger for cutting the pay of California homecare workers, infuriating the union.

The SEIU has a full page ad in today’s Los Angeles Times featuring a letter to Obama from Pauline Beck, the worker in whose shoes Obama famously walked for a day during the campaign. In the letter, which coincides with Obama’s arrival in Los Angeles for a fundraiser today, she reminds him of their day together and asks for his help:
http://www.seiu.org/a/dear-mr-president.php



Dear Mr. President,

I am Pauline Beck — the California home care worker you spent a day on the job with in August 2007. You helped me provide care to Mr. John Thornton, an 86-year old man in a wheelchair who is able to stay in his home because of the care I provide.

I know you are very busy, but Mr. John and I, and my fellow home care workers and their clients, need your help.

You see, Governor Schwarzenegger wants to cut my pay back to $8 an hour. These are tough times, but if my pay gets cut to minimum wage I won’t be able to support my family. It’s just wrong to pay us so little for taking care of people who have given our communities and our country so much…

I know you are a good man and I am proud of the job you are doing. I hope you and the Governor can work together to help Mr. John, me and the 750,000 of Californians just like us. It would make such a difference in our lives. Thank you.

Sincerely,

Pauline Beck

http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/labor/obama-day-in-shoes-worker-to-president-please-help-me/

[Vickers]

1. K&R

:thumbsup:

[deaniac21]

2. I'm guessing the reply will be the sound of crickets...

[SammyWinstonJack]

3. Just saw this. Rec!

[defendandprotect]

15. Silence is also a response ---

[Winterblues]

4. Sorry but Citi Bank needs help first and then Bank of America and then AIG and then....

But someday America might get around to putting a Sales Tax on you so you can feel you are doing more to protect the bankers. Lord knows the world would stop without the bankers taking home millions..

[SammyWinstonJack]

5. The Greed Pigs come first and everyone else gets the bill.

[NYC_SKP]

6. This thread needs a kick

and a rec.

[bluesmail]

7. Where are the consequences? I see solidarity. eom

[Mnemosyne]

8. KnR for greater visibility. n/t

[Wednesdays]

9. K&R

:kick:

[femrap]

10. Arnold need to return to Austria. nt.

[Iwillnevergiveup]

11. Proud Rec #33

Time to begin investing in people like Pauline.:thumbsup:

[farmboxer]

12. "We The People" are not needed now

a friend in need is a friend in deed. They needed our votes, the got them, now we mean nothing, except for the cameras now and then. We need health care ASAP, but the rich will never let that happen. We are taken for granted. We were lied to.

[Amonester]

13. K & R

http://www.whitehouse.gov/CONTACT/

[Mithreal]

14. Is the time coming where everyone is thankful for a minimum wage job. nt

[mackerel]

16. They made a big cut in SDI too.

[leftstreet]

17. K&R

[Norrin Radd]

18. kr

[MannyGoldstein]

19. Calm Down People - She's Not A Banker

These uppity little people! I knew it was a bad idea to teach them to read and write!

Perhaps she should get a job scrubbing the 14th bathroom in a banker's 5th vacation house. The pay's no better, but the job security is good.

Sincerely yours,

Larry Summers

[Amonester]

25. Yep. She's too small to succeed.

No We Can't

[placton]

20. Let's Not Criticize Obama!

He is a Democrat! He must keep his powder dry! He has to break promises to keep promises! He is soooo handsome and speaks so well!

[bigscott]

24. you forgot

:sarcasm:

[northernlights]

21. Dear Pauline, we all have to make sacrifices.

The bankers need their private jets. I suggest you trade in your car for a bike. Riding your bike 100 miles per day, as you travel from home to home, will keep you fit, save you money and save on greenhouse gases.

Sincerely,
your president

[solstice]

22. This is NOT why I voted for Obama. I thought he cared about the most vulnerable.

Now - sure doesn't seem like it.

[natrat]

27. as if he is calling any of these shots,,,,hello

[Kablooie]

23. California will be cutting a heck of a lot more than just her salary.

They are about to go bankrupt, don't cha know.

[bvar22]

26. I "Hope" Pauline....

...and all those like her get the help they need.


NOW we have Your Children’s Money too !!!
And there is not a fucking thing you can do about it!
Now THIS is “Post-Partisanship” !
Better get used to it!!
Hahahahahahahahaha!




"There are forces within the Democratic Party who want us to sound like kinder, gentler Republicans. I want us to compete for that great mass of voters that want a party that will stand up for working Americans, family farmers, and people who haven't felt the benefits of the economic upturn."---Paul Wellstone

[midnight]

28. Mr. Wellstone is greatly missed. I wonder how he would

look down on those doing without so those with more can be secure in getting more.