Where Does the Left Get the Time?

National Review ^ | 2/17/2011 | Jay Nordlinger

[Servant of the Cross]

As I look at the union members swarm the Wisconsin capital, I have a familiar thought: A great advantage of the Left is that they are organized and determined — and have a lot of time. Paid time. The taxpayer is funding these “days of protest,” engaged in by the public-school teachers. They are using their “sick” leave, provided by the taxpayer, to go rallying.

And what are the other citizens of Wisconsin — the majority — doing? What they always do. Going about their business, or businesses; providing for their families. As we speak, some are having to stay home with their school-aged children, who have been locked out of their classrooms by their teachers — their “teachers.”

Ordinary Wisconsinites aren’t paid to go rallying in the capital. Besides, they “rallied” at the polls last November. They had their say then. And now, Governor Walker and the rest are trying to conduct the people’s business.

I am reminded of why I was so amazed at, and admiring of, the Tea Party. Right-leaning types almost never get together and rally, in my experience. But the Tea Party was something special, something new. Here was a genuine democratic movement. Its participants were not like the hordes of purple-shirted unionists, holding their prefab signs, shouting their prepared slogans. They were just folks, with their own, individual clothing, and their own, homemade signs. The Tea Party movement itself was homemade.

[Servant of the Cross]

Let me close with a quotation from a column I cited earlier today: the one by Patrick McIlheran, in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. He said that union leaders “must figure that if they bring 13,000 shouting people to Madison, they can overrule the election.” And I love what he said next: “Any worried legislators should keep in mind that Walker drew about five times that many votes in Dane County alone in November.”

[mreerm]

BINGO!!!

a HUGE amount of their ‘power’ is that someone other than them is footing their bills

[WOBBLY BOB]

time is money/ money is YOUR taxes.

[chickadee]

Pardon me for repeating that excellent quote:

Let me close with a quotation from a column I cited earlier today: the one by Patrick McIlheran, in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. He said that union leaders “must figure that if they bring 13,000 shouting people to Madison, they can overrule the election.” And I love what he said next: “Any worried legislators should keep in mind that Walker drew about five times that many votes in Dane County alone in November.”

[Califreak]

Where stimulus money really went...

[traditional1]

Look at their voterbase: non-productive parasites, students with no jobs to take up their time, convicted felons and those on parole, Public Employees (who use sick time and could be absent for days at a time, without being noticed missing since they produce NOTHING when they're "on the job"), and various other forms of societal mis-fits, who have no sense of responsibility, and are dedicated to telling OTHER PEOPLE how they should "contribute" their earnings for the Liberal Agenda.

If you see an on-line poll, you can rest assured that those with nothing but time on their hands will bombard it with votes in favor of the Liberal Agenda there, too.

[I see my hands]

I often wonder how many posters and lurkers here are at work stealing time from their employers.

[bert]

They are AWOL

Many are bussed in and are not local

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Kudos on your post! Well said!!!

[Inyo-Mono]

Yeah, I’m too busy working two jobs putting my kids through college (they work too) to have any time to go to any kind of political rally. I have only had one day off in the last three weeks so you won’t see me waving any signs at a protest soon.

[dforest]

Easy, they get paid by YOU whether they work or not. If YOU did this YOUR private sector employer would probably fire YOU, or at the very least, not pay YOU.

They gots it made.....

[relictele]

In unguarded moments you will hear government employees snickering about full days off for minor federal holidays.

[kearnyirish2]

TEA Party events are on weekends, when people have a day off from their jobs. Leftist events can be any day; no such consideration necessary.

[kearnyirish2]

Good point; I’ve never posted from work. I’d lose my job, not for wasting time, but for views. Also, companies can log keystrokes and such, therefore obtaining your actual passwords.

[Gene Eric]

>> time is money/ money is YOUR taxes.

Exactly. They get the time on the taxpayers’ dime.

[freeangel]

“The taxpayer is funding these “days of protest,” engaged in by the public-school teachers. They are using their “sick” leave, provided by the taxpayer, to go rallying.”

Fire every last one of them unless they have a doctors note.

[traditional1]

"I often wonder how many posters and lurkers here are at work stealing time from their employers"

Well, at least in MY case; my employer is ME, and I approve the time-theft!

LOL

[Clioman]

Identify those who abandoned their publicly funded classrooms and FIRE them all. Every. Last. Damned. One.

[proudpapa]

Exactly!

Rockford and Chicago, Illinois are just a few miles down the road.

Also lots of firefighters w/ their hats at the protest. Most firefighters work 2 days a week.

[JimRed]

They are using their “sick” leave, provided by the taxpayer, to go rallying.

A doctor's note should be required to return to work; otherwise they should be docked for the day(s).