12-city jobs tour. and so we've gone across the country, to milwaukee, detroit, minneapolis, and we have gone to new york city, we'reoing to have to miami, because we need to hear from the real folks. one lady in minneapolis stood up and said she's a wal-mart employee, a manager, makes $9.80 an hour, no benefits and says she carries three cards in her pocket. one is her wal-mart i.d., the second her discount card, and the third is a welfare card, a card so that she can partake of the basic social safety net that wal-mart refuses to grant to her, even though she is a manager and even though she is a valued employee by them. you wouldn't know it by the pay they give her. so we've gotten outside of the beltway and we'll keep doing it. when i heard orrin hatch's statement today, i was quite frankly flabbergasted and amazed at how out of touch he must be. i mean, when is the last time this guy bagged a grocery or sat in a barbershop? doesn't he know that people are