Hitlerage Foundation lies about autoworker wages

Well, the Heritage Foundation has struck again, haven't they?

The Hitlerage Foundation is the crew of right-wing crackpots who consistently rank Singapore as one of the world's freest countries (despite it having one of the planet's vilest dictatorships).

If you're wondering where the wingnutosphere gets its laughable claim that autoworkers make $75 an hour, now we know. It turns out this lie is being spread by the Heritage Foundation. Their aim is to place blame for the automakers' woes on the unions and the autoworkers for allegedly being paid too much.

Something tells me the CEO's and other execs are making quite a bit more money than the autoworkers, so maybe the autoworkers aren't the ones who are demanding too much money.

It turns out that autoworkers at American auto plants actually make about $28 an hour. To us, this might sound like a good wage, but in today's economy, that doesn't exactly make one rich. If the Republicans' demand that autoworkers take a 50% pay cut was carried out, the workers wouldn't be making nearly enough to support their families.

But Heritage Foundation continues to fib. And the right-wing intelligentsia maliciously spreads this lie. Right-wing Rep. Spencer Bachus (R-Alabama) said, "Even with recent changes, the average hourly wage at General Motors is still $75 an hour." Except it isn't true, Spencer.

Who else is fed up with the Far Right's lies about workers supposedly making too much money, while execs make many times as much? In their fantasy world, the workers wouldn't be paid at all and would just get a bowl of soup each day.

(Source: http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/do_auto_workers_really_make_more_than.html)