Posted on 10/03/2009 5:56:13 AM PDT by sbMKE
From: Date: Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 12:22 AM Subject: Sunday Oct 4th, 0% Tax Increase Rally, Serb Hall 2-4PM! To: You
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You are one of many people in Southeastern Wisconsin who attended the Milwaukee Tea Party and had expressed an interest in holding down taxes and holding politicians accountable for their actions.
As you may know there is another battle raging in Milwaukee County that has implications for all counties in the area. We are asking for your help by inviting you to join us for a Rally and a show of force that demands that government live like its citizens and end tax increases to pay for excessive perks and pay. The rally will feature an address by Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker and a host of businesspeople and families who have been forced to close their businesses or sell their homes because of onerous taxation and regulation in the county.
Support a 0% Tax Increase Rally Sunday, October 4th, 2-4PM (No Packer game that day!) American Serb Hall 5101 W. Oklahoma Milwaukee, WI Click Here for more info
Ever since disgraced Milwaukee County Exec Tom Ament and his cronies on the County Board (one of whom is now the chairman) passed fiscally crippling pension perks for all government employees, Milwaukee County has teetered on insolvency - something that could have a rippling effect on neighboring counties as suddenly "county-less" residents look elsewhere to re-establish themselves.
Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker has taken a bold and direct move to address the county's structural deficit by proposing a 0% tax increase budget that implements county-wide, 3-5% pay reductions (he reduced his own salary 40% the day he took office) and furloughs to forestall massive lay-offs (like average citizens face), a 5% contribution to help offset the crippling costs of the ill-gotten pension perks (do you even HAVE a pension), and increased medical co-pays and deductibles that are more in line with national averages. In short, it is a compensation package that makes government live like its citizens instead of a special and protected class and more fairly shares the burdens of a recessionary economy.
The citizens and taxpayers of Milwaukee County are in for the fight of their lives - perhaps literally. Your attendance and show of support would mean a lot and send a powerful message to politicians everywhere that "enough is enough and we won't take it anymore." It took all thirteen colonies to unite before it could shake the shackles of their king and his onerous taxes. If we are to win we must unite again!
Sincerely,
Chris Kliesmet Citizens for Responsible Government Advocates Part of the CRG Network
The county is heavily unionized and many expect this event to be overrun with union thugs - Serb Hall is in ACORN and SEIU-back congresswoman Gwen Moore's backyard. Her healthcare listening sessions were filled with the now-familiar purple SEIU shirts "astroturfing" the event.
If you are in the area, please consider attending and offering your support. The media will likely be out in full force and hopefully support will be as well.
(County Union) Workers Shoulder Savings (for taxpayers) Burden in Walker’s (Milwaukee) Budget. MJS 10/2/09
http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/63205267.html
Accompanying this provision is one that would make unlawful government action that drives out low wage jobs. Perhaps a bonus wage penalty for every point of unemployment?
Apparently there was a fight at this rally...teaser clip played during halftime news break. Some union thug and protester got in each others face w/ the union guy asking if he wanted to fight.
Woman comes in to break it up and that is when the thug made his move and shoved the woman back into the crowd the other guy goes after him and is throw into some bushes.
Did anyone video tape or take pictures? Rule #1: Have plenty of cameras and, if possible,video to roll.Disposable 35mm types are cheap and can be issued many in your group.
Its on video. Fox 9 here in Milwaukee was showing the teaser.
Well, if you believe that employees are a non-differentiated commodity, that's a great plan. Just don't plan on hiring any doctors, lawyers, engineers, MBAs or anyone else with skills or training that makes them more valuable than the median. Heck, when I finished grad school, the median would probably just about cover my student loans.
A better plan might be to make the case that unionization of public employees is contrary to the public interest and require that all public jobs be "right to work" jobs. Require government to pay fairly for employees based on the market, not the political pressure that their union creates.
“A better plan might be to make the case that unionization of public employees is contrary to the public interest and require that all public jobs be “right to work” jobs. Require government to pay fairly for employees based on the market, not the political pressure that their union creates. “
Absofrickingloutely!
Unions should be illegal in government period. I would like to see that changed in Wisconsin. I know ‘yeah right’.
The first thing Mitch Daniels did upon assuming the governorship of Indiana was to decertify the UAW as representative of state employees, which was his option under the state constitution.
They had been unionized under the “leadership” of former governor Evan Bayh.
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