Bart Stupak: “These workers we spoke to, especially ones outside this plant, and even the textile workers down in Columbus, Georgia…”

“These workers we spoke to, especially ones outside this plant, and even the textile workers down in Columbus, Georgia, if we look at that photograph, and I know it is hard to see for the folks, but those workers there are not young people just out of high school. They had 25 to 30 years. This was the last plant they had of making these telephones. So they moved, some of them, five and six times trying to keep their jobs. And the gentleman is right, they were making about $13 or $15 an hour and, now, working at Target, for like $7 an hour. But look at these workers. They were mid- to late 50s. They have 25 to 30 years in with this company. And they said we have been gone now for over a year and we are struggling to find work. And their big concern, what was their big concern? While they were retirees and had vested benefits, they were now taking their health benefits away.”