Posted on 02/17/2011 9:56:55 AM PST by STONEWALLS
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) talks about Wisconsin public workers protesting against a bill that has them make a contribution to their pension and health care benefits. It also eliminates collective bargaining. "It's not asking a lot, it's still about half of what private sector pensions do and health care packages do. So he's [the Governor is] basically saying, I want you public workers to pay half of what our private sector counterparts and he's getting riots -- it's like Cairo has moved to Madison these days," Rep. Ryan told MSNBC's "Morning Joe."
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More like the public workers riots in France.
The Wisconsin teacher’s sick-in should be considered an unauthorized “job action”, a violation of their labor contract and subject to an injunction from a court. If the job action does not cease, teachers and union officials could be subject to jail and/or fines. That is unless that right was bargained away as a political payoff to the unions.
Yep— or Greece as I would observe.
The governor needs to find a pair or borrow them from Christie.
Call out the unions for what they are, go on the attack.
Please just shove the bill down these 'public servant's' throats.
And Greece, Spain, and so on.
The Union that has their folks fussing has a membership of 24,000.
The State has a population of 5.7 Million. Do the math. The Gov is the Goc because he got elected by those 5.7 million to cut the budget.
In the end, the faction of 1% of the population that is a State employee union memeber will lose.
The citizenry needs to protest like they did when the Bell, CA salaries came to light, especially conservative parents who are fed up with outrageous compensation packages for providing a crappy education.
France, Greece...some socialist country, at any rate.
This will probably happen again elsewhere in the US in the future, depending on how this one is resolved. I’m sure Wisconsin is not the only state to have bloated public employee salaries, ugly, thuggish public sector unions, and a leftist university crowd that is no doubt there out there egging this on (as in France and Greece).
Hope the locals are smart enough to take full-face pictures of the worst and most hatefull of these clowns and post them all over the internet. Locals who know these thugs can provide names to put with the faces as the effort progresses.
Those who attempt to intimidate elected officials by showing up at their private homes should be arrested and jailed.
Hope the locals are smart enough to take full-face pictures of the worst and most hatefull of these clowns and post them all over the internet. Locals who know these thugs can provide names to put with the faces as the effort progresses.
Those who attempt to intimidate elected officials by showing up at their private homes should be arrested and jailed.
Once upon a time, these folks were known as public “servants”. Now they have eaten the hand that feeds them and want to eat the entire body!!! There is nothing left for them to feed upon, they have morphed into parasites of the worst kind. They believe they are “owed”.
Unions are a criminal enterprise and should be abolished. Close Franklin Diablo Roosevelt's NLRB, the government agency that gives aid and comfort to union scum.
Call out the unions for what they are, go on the attack.
Ronaldus Maximus had the method and the cajones.
“no more going to yet another Virginia Wolfe conference at a swank NYC hotel...no more easy grants to support year long ‘research’ that no one will ever read”
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I think your post sums it up pretty well. They know that the gravy train is coming to an end and are doing the “temper tantrum” act just like little three year olds.
Walker needs to put these pukes in “time out” by getting a court injunction ordering them back to work.
The Teacher’s Union motto? Most likely: “Strike, strike, stike! Strike Against the Reich!”
Can you imagine paying $40/month for health care? Or nothing at all?
Can you imagine a 10% ‘company’ match for a retirement fund?
Is there a real time news feed out of Milwaukee or somewhere in WI where you can watch this live.
Ii should be great entertainment.
Like others have expressed here, I don’t feel good about Republicans comparing Wisconsin to Egypt. What you’re essentialy saying is, that Walker is Mubarak. A bad analogy imo.
The comparison gives more respect than it deserve. The riots in Athens over budgets cuts would have been more apt.
Should the governor win, the lesson will be, that unions do not represent its member as much as the Bolshecrats do. That is why have a union layer between labor on the party.
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