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1 posted on 06/06/2012 5:04:31 AM PDT by SJackson
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In other words, for those Americans interested in limited and fiscally responsible government that represents the peoples’ interests, Wisconsin is a harbinger of many things to come.


2 posted on 06/06/2012 5:13:30 AM PDT by ILS21R (John Locke: When the social contract is broken, the people must revolt.)
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Somebody needs to tell the University of Minnesota to tell Bernadette Gillick that her services are no longer required.


3 posted on 06/06/2012 5:15:47 AM PDT by Arm_Bears (Journalists first; then lawyers.)
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...and about difficulty voting due to a new 28-day residency requirement in the state.

I'm guessing this sentence means that people who "moved" to a Wisconsin hotel last week and who are not being allowed to vote today are calling up "a hotline" and reporting that they "are having difficulty voting."

Notice that the article doesn't mention any specifics about the "hotline."

4 posted on 06/06/2012 5:19:08 AM PDT by Steely Tom (If the Constitution can be a living document, I guess a corporation can be a person.)
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What was Walker’s margin of victory? I’ve looked online, but haven’t found it. Must be impressive for the ‘media’ to ignore it.


5 posted on 06/06/2012 5:19:27 AM PDT by Islander7 (There is no septic system so vile, so filthy, the left won't drink from to further their agenda)
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“In addition, all four GOP Senators also facing recalls triumphed over their Democratic opponents — by large double-digit margins in each case.”

I just read a couple articles that said one of the RATS won a Senate race by 779 votes?


9 posted on 06/06/2012 5:53:44 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Free Republic -- One stop shopping ....... It's the Conservative Super WalMart for news .)
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Years ago President Franklin Roosevelt called the idea of public sector unions "unthinkable and intolerable." Not long after, AFL-CIO President George Meany declared that it was "impossible to bargain collectively with the government." They were both speaking to the morality of public servants making demands on taxpayers' earnings under the threat of withholding public services -- or as FDR put it, "looking toward the paralysis of government by those who have sworn to support it." "Stroke of the pen. Law of the land. Kinda cool." --Clinton presidential aide Paul Begala, July 1998

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:

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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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13 posted on 06/06/2012 6:30:54 AM PDT by Elle Bee
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