Posted on 02/18/2011 5:42:06 AM PST by SJackson
The hypocrisy of the American left is on full display in the heart of America, as the teachers’ union in Wisconsin continues to show how it will use any tactic, no matter how reprehensible, to try and get its way. Threats, intimidation, violent imagery and inflammatory rhetoric – all of the sorts of tactics that the left and the mainstream media routinely accuse conservatives of using – are on full display in Madison. But, rather than condemning such behavior, left wing champions from Barack Obama to Michael Moore are falling over themselves to show solidarity with the teachers’ union.
Protesters carried signs likening Wisconsin governor Scott Walker to Adolf Hitler and Hosni Mubarak. One protester carried a placard that posed the question “why do Republicans hate people?” while others likened Walker’s budget cutting efforts to rape. He was called a dictator by some and an image of the governor was overlaid with crosshairs by at least one protestor. A rent-a-mob marched on the governor’s home. None of this behavior seems to bother leaders on the left, no more than the same kind of extremist rhetoric and actions concerned them when the left directed it towards George W. Bush for the better part of eight years.
Wisconsin state senator Randy Hopper, a Republican, told National Review that he and his colleagues have been receiving threats of a physically violent nature, and that law enforcement has stepped in to protect the homes and businesses of Republican legislators in the Dairy State. And how does the President of the United States react to all this? Barack Obama, after all, called for more civil and respectful political debate in America just a few short weeks ago. Here’s what the President had to say in an interview with Milwaukee’s WTMJ:
“Some of what I’ve heard coming out of Wisconsin, where you’re just making it harder for public employees to collectively bargain, generally seems like more of an assault on unions. I think it’s very important for us to understand that public employees, they’re our neighbors, they’re our friends.”
Leftist hero Michael Moore was less circumspect, tweeting: “Madison is the new Cairo! Wisconsin teachers, nurses, firefighters — shut the state down! All of working America is with u!” Like the Madison teachers who are effectively engaged in an illegal strike, Obama, Moore and all of the rest of the left don’t understand what’s happening in Wisconsin any better than they grasp what previously happened in New Jersey. It’s not about education, it’s not about collective bargaining and it’s not about freedom and democracy. It’s about the future of America, it’s about unsustainable debt and it’s about making sure that our children have the same kind of opportunities that we were blessed with.
Wisconsin voters rejected the teachers unions’ agenda when they elected a Republican governor and gave the GOP a majority in both houses of the legislature. Walker promised that he would fix the state’s budget mess and, clearly, there is no way that he could do that without addressing teacher pensions and health care plans. Soon after he was sworn into office, he asked teachers to contribute more of their paycheck to cover their pensions and to insurance costs. The teachers’ union, used to getting its way in every particular, demonized Walker and his plan. Had the union accepted the governor’s proposal then, it’s very unlikely that Walker would have felt the need to drop the other shoe. But, as was the case in New Jersey, the Wisconsin teachers union has been able to make legislators dance to their tune for so long that even losing an election in one of the most left-leaning states in the Midwest didn’t make them wonder if they weren’t quite as powerful as they used to be.
New Jersey governor Chris Christie showed the way. Christie’s brilliance was that he stayed on point: he made sure that his constituents knew that he wasn’t anti-teacher, but that he was rather working to reign in a bloated, arrogant and out of control union. Driving that wedge in between teachers and union leaders made all the difference, because most of the public is sympathetic to teachers and the work they do, but a growing segment of the populace is waking up to the role that government employee unions have played in creating the fiscal crisis we find ourselves in. Like Christie, Walker went for the jugular after the union blew off his original proposal. Now, entirely belatedly, the union says that it’s OK with increased employee contributions, but taking away mandatory union membership and mandatory union dues is just too much.
Walker’s proposal appears to have the votes to pass both chambers in Wisconsin, which explains why all fourteen Democratic Senators in the state are effectively in hiding. At least one Democrat has to show up for the Wisconsin State Senate to field a quorum and to thus be able to pass the bill. To prevent passage, the state’s Democrat Senators decided that a leave of absence was in order. “It’s kind of unbelievable that they’re elected to do a job and they wouldn’t show up to do it,” Republican state Assembly Speaker Jeff Fitzgerald told Fox News.
The possibility that there could be a federal government shutdown if Republicans play hard-ball with the budget enrages many of the left. Yet, here we have duly elected representatives of the people of Wisconsin refusing to do the job that they were elected to do and are paid to do, and nobody on the left seems to care. That’s another bit of evidence to add to the hypocrisy file, demonstrating once again that the left operates with one puritanical set of standards that apply to those of us who disagree with them, but are perfectly willing to toss those standards out of the window when a pet cause of theirs is involved.
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Union thugs.
Union fascists.
Unions = communism.
If the strikes are illegal, then all of these thugs should be fired... NOW!
Typical communist tactic. Unions have always been filled with communists just repackaged in name to democrats.
Parasite Nation on the march.
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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I agree. Unions are the foundation that communism is built upon. Without unions, there would be no communism.
Teachers unions in government schools is why homeschooling has grown so rapidly in America
One protester carried a placard that posed the question “why do Republicans hate people?”
I would ask that protestor why he hates Americans?
Why he hates children born and future children since he seems willing to saddle them with debt that will drown them.
‘Greedy thugs’
‘Robbing and stealing from the taxpayers of Wisconsin’
‘Using children as human shields’
‘Robbing our children’s future’
‘They need to pay their fair share’
‘Union fatcats’
These slogans and many more need to be shouted from the mountaintops.
The Wisconsin state Republicans and Governor Walker would have been wise to have waited until the end of the school semester to pass this legislation. It would have taken the school shutdown tactic off the table. Unless of course they were hoping to draw out the thugs and show who they really are.
First, look at the low GPA averages required to get into even the “best” schools of education. Very very low. Teachers, as a class, are some of the dumbest people in our society. Then... consider this... the taxpayers have had enough of deficit spending and borrowing to fund really bad service and output. Let them protest. Let them howl. We are cutting off this failed mess. Dewey was a communist and this nightmare was planned in the 1930s. The day of reckoning has come and the huge mass of taxpayers have had enough. We will no longer be raped by Stalin’s vanguard. When it becomes the TAXPAYER’S turn to riot, teachers will live in extreme fear... we know where they live...
Public Service doesn't mean you're to be serviced by the public for life
President Kennedy’s Executive Order 10998, allowing Federal unions, is what opened the door for public sector unions at the state and local level, which is leading to bankruptcy from bloated public sector salaries, benefits, and retirement plans. Businesses that offered plans like many governments have would go bankrupt. Gov’t entities will, too, eventually, but it will be much more painful.
This is why unions should again be outlawed for public employees.
When collective bargaining was brought into American schools in the 1960s, it was a revenue stream and power base for Big Labor. Suddenly, union bosses became more interested in building political muscle than educating children.
At that point the battle between unions and school boards became more focused on salary, benefits, pensions and working conditions for adults, and less about students.
Kids are only pawns in the self-serving union game.
What is the purpose of teacher unions? To work for children? Establish new and better requirements? Push their members to better serve parents and children?
"Despite what some among us would like to believe, it is not because of our creative ideas. It is not because of the merit of our positions. It is not because we care about children. And it is not because we have a vision of a great public school for every child. NEA and its affiliates are effective advocates because we have power. And we have power because there are more than 3.2 million people who are willing to pay us hundreds of millions of dollars in dues each year because they believe that we are the unions that can most effectively represent them, the unions that can protect their rights and advance their interests as education employees" ...National Education Association's just-retired General Counsel Bob Chanin. (The NEA is the County and State Association's parent body).
NEA General Counsel Bob Chanin Says Farewell:
As legendary New York teachers union leader Albert Shanker said, "When school children start paying union dues, that's when I'll start representing the interests of school children."
All government unions should be banned. The idea that government workers need protection from guess who?? THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, is ridiculous. remember, teachers are government employees. Ban government unions.
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If they start to lose these battles,
they are going to try to punish the public.
Be prepared.
This is good for America to see the left on full display. They can contrast that with what they’ve seen in the past two years with tea parties. There were no threats at the tea party. All the people who for years have been Democrats in name only but share our values (just do not get that involved in politics) can now see what the Democratic party is all about. They can ask themselves if that is what they want to identify themselves with.
An older gentleman called in to one of the talk shows yesterday. He had ridden his bike to the rally to see what was going on. He said the Socialists were handing out literature. He also said that most of the protesters were just ordinary people, but that there is a scary element mixed in among them. He said one woman chased him with intent to topple him and his bike.
NO TEACHER LEFT BEHIND
First, the day of the unions has passed because, whether they demand it or not, those who employ union members are simply out of money. So demand away!
Second, America is at war. This is no longer a political struggle at the voting booth between Liberals, Independents, and Conservatives...this is a war between America and those who support her and those who seek to destroy her by violent uprising.
Just as Obama has fanned the flames of racial hatred, he is fanning the flames for an internal war against our country.
Obama is indeed trying to bring Cairo to the streets of America. Only America is further down the road than Cairo...we already have democracy (well, a republic at least). Just as the MB will try to overthrow democracy once it is establish in Cairo, Liberals are trying to overthrow Democracy in America.
We can’t take them serious, they are just a bunch of TEAchBAGGERS. /S
Simple brilliance-you are exactly right!
Learn their tactics.
How they gain control of school boards in their own words.
Electing your employer
imPACting the future MEA PAC NEA fund
http://www.meaexposed.org/documents/SchoolBrdElectManual07.pdf
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