Posted on 11/09/2011 11:17:17 AM PST by SeekAndFind
I agree. It was a public rejection of an attack on cops and firefighters. The GOP was dumb to go after them. They can recraft legislation that leaves them out, in accordance with what the public wants.
Its time for conservatives to go back to the drawing board, not to give in or to give up the fight.
The larger picture is that socialism as usual means Ohio will collapse.
This issue WILL come before the voters again, when Ohio is in an even more precarious state than it is now; unions will again spend millions upon millions of dollars as their apes intimidate the opposition. Sanity may prevail next time, and it may not.
The bottom line is that even if socialism wins it never, ever works. The only real issue is how much the voters will take before they fight back against the destruction of their state and country.
Ohio voters turned out in droves to keep sending their money to the Democrat party via the over-paid public sector union members’ campaign donations. The Obama campaign is very happy, of course.
Ohio will be $8 BILLION in the red next year, due to the huge cost of their government employees. Thousands of these public serpents will lose their jobs when the state can no longer borrow money to stay afloat. Kasich tried to save the state’s economy, but the dumb-as-rocks Ohio voters voted to go broke. So who are the winners again?
If cops and firefighters are the face of public unions, its going to be impossible to defeat them.
Every one likes their cops and firefighters even if they don’t like public unions.
If you can’t grasp that, you’re too dumb to beat the public unions at their own game.
I think it was a bit of an overreach.
We’re still fighting the fight here in Michigan. Just gotta keep the people engaged in the fight.
If you can’t grasp that, you’re too dumb to beat the public unions at their own game.
So now the local yokel's at the city and township level will be forced to lay off these wonderful cops and firefighters.
Since they can't grasp that, the young union members will be on the street, while the old farts with seniority won't have lost a thing.
We'll see who is crying or crowing around Christmas Day when daddy has been laid off.
The Union bigwigs are the winners...the rank and file cops and firefighters will wind up being the losers.
The problem was the language
You had to vote YES if you DID NOT want it.
let me clarify:
A “yes” vote would have kept the law (which removed collective barganing power from the unions), while a “no” vote would have repealed the law. On November 8, 2011 voters voted “no” resulting in the repeal of Senate Bill 5, therefore Issue 2 has been rejected
So if you DID NOT WANT the unions to have power, you had to vote YES
So it was like “Yes I want to not repeal it.”
I am havign a hard time just explaining it....try to picture the lower half of the bell curve following it
I’m not going to even attempt to put a smiley face on the defeat of Issue 2. I will not make excuses for Ohio voters who did not think through the consequences of a “no” vote, but will be left with the stark unpleasant reality that will result from their decision. This may not fit the definition of (union) mob rule, but it’s close enough for me.
If you are correct then perhaps Kasich should put it back on the ballot in simpler, more direct language. The results might reverse themselves next time.
Below was a piece written by Larry Schweikart, a professor at U of Dayton and one of the preeminent historians in the United State. He wrote this piece this morning and puts what happened in the Ohio election yesterday in focus. Take heart one man’s victory as they say is another man’s defeat. He is also a Freeper.............
Victories and Defeats, perceptions and realities
Election day in November of 2011 reinforced the difference between perceptions and realities, victories and defeats. Ohio’s SB-5 was repealed by a 61-39% margin (Issue 2), while Issue 3, Ohio’s choice to opt-out of Obamacare by an even larger margin (65.6 to 34.4%) sent conflicting signals. Or did they?
First, it’s important to remember that there are big differences between real victories and perceived victories. The debt-ceiling/budget showdown is now widely viewed, by both sides of the aisle, as a Republican “victory,” even though conservatives hardly got anything of substance out of the deal. But there is no question it badly damaged Obama with his liberal-whacko base (good) and that some (probably not many) left him for good over that (even better). If you go back to George W. Bush’s War on Terror, recent events involving the killing of Osama bin Ladin and the overthrow of Khaddafi, while attributed in some variations to Obama, were really results of Bush policies.
Throughout the War on Terror, I think it’s safe to say that Bush was far more concerned about the realities of keeping America safe than he was about the PR game of perceptions. This led him to take a beating in the press, probably helped cost the Republicans the Senate in 2006, an enabled the Dems to pound him for seven years at the expense of the GOP and conservatives as a whole. Having met Bush briefly, I would conclude that in his mind if that was the tradeoff, he’d take American security for eight years over political victories or receiving credit.
So what about Ohio? I don’t think the Issue 2 results are as bad as they seem. First, the state GOP did not do an effective PR job of selling this early. They allowed the Dems to set the terms of the debate and define it as an issue of keeping people safe from fires and crime and keeping teachers. Second-—and this is critical for conservatives in all these unionized, sinking states to understand-—this was a pyrrhic victory in the sense that the unions spent millions here having already spent more millions in Wisconsin on the (failed) recalls. It won’t be good for Ohio residents in the short term, but in the strategic sense, this was a case of Ulysses Grant’s comment of having one army “hold a leg while the other one skins.”
The unions appear to me to be in the same shape as the Nazi army on the east front in 1944: rapidly running out of manpower and resources, and the defeat of SB5 will only cause the number of union workers to decline further as the cities and municipalities, now, are forced to do the dirty work.
There is a finite limit to union funds and energy to organize and whine and complain. On the strategic battlefield, they are 1-1 without even touching Michigan yet-—and poorer by a boatload.
LS’s strategy for OH? Pass the most popular part of SB5 again, immediately. Let’s see if the union thugs can do it again. I don’t think they can. Then pass another, then another. In the meantime Ohio now has a balanced budget, and that will only rebound to Kasich’s favor over time.
The opt-out of Obamacare in Issue 3 is equally telling. This is a genuine victory and a perceived victory. No question the message this sent. Moreover, it is interesting that in the news now, the phrase is “Obamacare,” associating a bad plan with a toxic politician.
You could see this in Virginia, where the GOP effectively gained control of the state senate for only the second time since Reconstruction. Politicians there stayed as far away from Zero as geography would allow.
Strategically, the perceived union win in OH will become meaningless, while the genuine coffer-busting attempts to stop Governor Walker in WI and SB5 in OH will prove setbacks from which the unions, long-term, won’t recover. When combined with lost union jobs in OH, it’s a war of attrition that we will eventually win. But the clear defeat of Obamacare won’t need to wait for any future developments to show just how badly the Dems are screwed in the next election cycle.
Check out my post #14 for a good perspective.
Check out my post #14 for a great perspective on this.
Check out my post #14 to get a great perspective on this.
They are still over payeed and pad their paychecks and pensions. I would bet good money their jobs would be snatched up by others without the beenies...... I am tired over paying people cause they live off of taxpayers.
This was an off year election, low voter turn out was to be expected. Non Presidential election year, no congressional seats in Ohio in the election. The Unions were able to turn out the vote.
Despite the people “liking” their fire fighters and police officers they must be able to know they are backed by union thugs, their union dues go to support the leftist marxist President Obama and the deliberately intentional destruction of this nation’s free market capitalist economy, their support for the court certified liar felon President Bill Clinton never faltered.
People “like” this?
Despite often spirited displays of patriotism these public “servants” will vote their state and ther nation to ruin if it meant more money in their pockets.
What would the people “LIKE” about any of this?
Now the unions and these “liked” public servants will be leading the call to raise taxes, or the lay offs will ensue.
The people will like this also?
This happens all the time and we are stupid enough to let it
They purposely make the language so that it is the OPPOSITE of what seems intuitive.
They know a lot of people DO NOT WANT unions to have this power any more. It is intuitive to want to vote NO if you don’t want something.
So if you were against the unions you had to vote YES that you DID NOT WANT to repeal the law wich removed collective bargaining.
I hope Kasich starts massive layoffs tomorrow.
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