The Battle of Wisconsin... or Richard Trumka is a SCARY guy!

One of the most onerous bits of Leftist/LSM propaganda is that the Wisconsin (and other state’s) battles with public unions is about “worker’s rights” (straw-man!). Public unions are inventions of the Democrat Party, who having long advocated public funding for elections... in effect have it (for decades… but just for them). The sad reality: they have bought (with public money of all Americans) not rights but PRIVLEDGE similar to a quasi-royalty (something the Founders NEVER envisioned)! The Democrat Party of our parents is but a faded memory as big city/state Democrat machines morphed into “banana” republics! There is little input from the “downtrodden” they claim to champion (Rham: the people cast ballots, but are the "votes" already counted?). Many times we have observed, when a “protected” class citizen attempts “escape” (Clarence Thomas, Condi Rice, Allen West, Herman Cain, etc.) they are ruthlessly attacked by the “enforcer overseers”… such as the Reverends(NOT!) AL/Jesse as “Uncle Toms” and “not really Black”. To attempt escape from the 21st Century Democrat “Plantation” is only slightly less dangerous than their ancestors attempts of Ante-Bellum days. Could we maybe we need a 21st Century Underground Railroad?

The oft forced union “workers” are played for chumps, and are only revered for their union due$ (many are forced and do not support the “public union label”). Much of our citizenry are victims of the NEA and other “education” unions decades of indoctrination in the classroom (many excellent teachers are frustrated and quit). And Johnny/Jane still reads lousy, and can't speull so good.

The BIG battle of Wisconsin, etc... IMHO: is the state going to continue to collect union dues as payroll deductions or force the unions to do it themselves? Thus the UPROAR! If victorious, Scott Walker and other GOP governors will have won a political victory of a magnitude yet to be measured… the possible de-funding of a corrupt and gangsterlike Democrat party. Now like with wounded cornered animals, the fight will be vicious, and long! I have a measure of sympathy for the Democrat run-away legislators. I bet they WERE TOLD to leave and would be in physical danger (Richard Trumka is a SCARY guy!) if they dare return without the “blessing” of their union masters. The next half-century could be at stake in this battle! HIGH STAKES! This is a MUST win fight for BOTH sides!

When a state recognizes a labor union formed around public employees it is, in effect, extending what is known as a "privilege" not available to others.

That's what a title of nobility gets you ~ "privilege".

It's the same thing. The Constitution pretty much prohibits the United States, or any one of them, from granting a title of nobility.

Seems to me the Governor of Wisconsin could simply invoke the Constitution to deny the validity of all those "privileges" claimed by unions.

And if conservatives and the Tea Party don't rise up and directly confront the leftist rent a mobs, we will lose IMO. I don't think the State is up to the job alone. The police are marching and sleeping with the demonstrators in solidarity. Governor Walker is letting the State House stay occupied as a tactical matter, but the left only grows stronger with the delay and injury to Wisconsin. The pressure is building against individual GOP state senators and eventually some will flip. The left wants a media covered confrontation with the police or the National Guard, but this will have to happen unless the GOP folds or the people rise up and throw the red shirt thugs out themselves.

For the Dems, the union slush fund is their Ring of Power.

THAT is what Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, and the other Repub govs in the fight, are trying to destroy, and THAT is why the battle is so fierce:

"Concerning this thing, my lords, you now all know enough for the understanding of our plight, and of Sauron’s. If he regains it, your valour is vain, and his victory will be swift and complete: so complete that none can foresee the end of it while this world lasts. If it is destroyed, then he will fall; and his fall will be so low that none can foresee his arising ever again. For he will lose the best part of the strength that was native to him in his beginning, and all that was made or begun with that power will crumble, and he will be maimed for ever, becoming a mere spirit of malice that gnaws itself in the shadows, but cannot again grow or take shape. And so a great evil of this world will be removed." (Gandalf)

If Walker and the other Republican governors can cripple the public employees unions, then Dem politicians will lose access to union money, and coerced union "volunteers". They will lose even bigger than they lost in 2012, and the factions that compose the Dem party will attack each other to gain a slightly bigger piece of the diminished pie.

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