Medicare and the minimum wage. I need volunteeers.

I seek grassroots organizers to spread this message.

The US senate has voted not to pass an unamended minimum wage law.

To the people of this country please call your local Wendy's, Outback Steakhouse, Red Lobster and Olive Garden restaurants, each of these companies gives money to the Republican party. Tell the manager that you will never patronize their restaurant again until

1. Your parent company stops giving money to the Republican party.

2. Your CEO gets the senate and the house to get a clean law enacted raising the minimum wage to $10 an hour.

Unless you punish the friends of the Republican party, you will have a tough effort to get Republicans to do anything to help the less fortunate in this country.

Will you please spread this message around? Thank you.

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I'm writing to you about the junk Medicare Part D prescription drug program. Merely giving the Medicare administration the power to negotiate drug prices will not do anything for people like myself. I have waited 8 years for medication coverage. The Republicans created 2 classes of beneficiaries: 22 million Medicaid beneficiaries who ALREADY had medication coverage got hijacked by the Republicans into this program to hide the meagerness of the benefit of those people who had social security retirement benefits and social security disability benefits but did not have medication coverage who by means test get a meager 20 percent discount on average. I did the math and the 35 dollars a month premiums, and the 250 dollar deductible and the coverage gap would mean people paying 5 thousand dollars for medications would get 1 thousand dollars back. People paying 2 thousand dollars for medication would get 975 dollars back and those who only have 670 dollars of medication to buy would get nothing back. At worst some people get nothing back, some people get 25 percent back and some people get 50 percent back. This appears hardly a benefit to people like me.

I want to see congress enact a prescription drug benefit covering 80 percent of medication regardless of income, meaning there exists no means test, no coverage gap, no late sign up penalty for the drug benefit and place it in Medicare Part B, where people can go to the pharmacy, show their Medicare Card and Social security card and pay only 20 percent of the medication cost at the pharmacy counter. Then the pharmacy can then get their reimbursement similar to the way doctors get reimbursement in Medicare part B. I don't care if congress repeals part D but this new benefit in Part B will let elderly people and disabled people vote with their feet and leave the junk Medicare Part D program until it withers on the vine. The new 2007 drug benefit in Medicare Part B will get run by the government and not a consortium of insurance companies. Also this new benefit in Part B implies that you pay only the 90 dollar part B monthly premium and nothing extra and the 125 dollar yearly deductible and nothing extra.

Also I want to see that the congress repeal the general means test for Medicare Part B that the Republicans snuck in to the 2003 law gets repealed. The Part B program should remain universal and not means tested.

This concerns something that in my view appears something that millions of elderly and disabled people really want because they probably have not enrolled in Medicare Part D and want a real benefit.

I have a plan to force congress to do what I have described. Get every person that you can to call your local Walmart, Eckerd, CVS, or Walgreens pharmacy in your neighborhood and tell the owner of the pharmacy "Unless you get your CEO to get the congress and the pResident to enact a repeal of the means test in Medicare Part B, and place a simple prescription drug benefit covering 80 percent of medication in Medicare Part B, with no means test, no extra premium, no extra deductible, no coverage gap and no late sign up penalties, I will never buy any consumer products in your pharmacy again and I will never buy any medications from your pharmacy ever again."

This will prove more effective than merely calling your congressman or woman because you will pressure the donors to Republican officeholders to get what we want or they lose millions of people's business and their money.

I hope you will join me in one of the largest economic movements for social justice.

Thank you.

"The Republican party appears weak and vulnerable at the cash registers of those companies that donate money to them."

The Liberal Democratic Party of the United States

http://www.dmocrats.org