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More on bogus $70/hour for auto workers

More on bogus claim the auto workers making $70/hour.
From Economic Scene – Figure Skews Debate of a Bailout for Detroit – NYTimes.com

“We’ve heard this garbage about 73 bucks an hour”, Senator Bob Casey, a Pennsylvania Democrat, said last week. “It’s a total lie. I think some people have perpetrated that deliberately, in a calculated way, to mislead the American people about what we’re doing here.”

Here’s a nice graphic:
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