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Doug Schoen: Wisconsin Union Protests Prove the Midwest Is Now America's Middle East
Fox News ^ | March 4, 2011 | Douglas E. Schoen, Democratic Strategist

Posted on 03/15/2012 11:16:47 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

With a strong democratic tradition and an equally strong history of confidence in our institutions, the American people – on both the right and the left – have long believed with absolute confidence that the United States is immune to the kind of threat to stability that has rocked and is currently rocking the Middle East – in countries like Egypt Bahrain and Yemen.

This is no longer true.

The United States today is a country that lacks fiscal stability, political stability, and economic stability.

It is clear, with the tens of thousands of public employees that have descended on Wisconsin’s Capitol Hill to protest Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's proposal to limit union bargaining– following a week during which 14 Democratic State Senators fled the state and went into hiding to deprive the Senate of a quorum and Madison Wisconsin’s schools were forced to close due to a district-wide teachers union “sick out”–that the legislative process is breaking down.

Put simply, the Midwest has effectively become our Middle East...

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2011; obama; oldarticle; teaparty; unions; volatilemidwest; wisconsin
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1 posted on 03/15/2012 11:16:56 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Indeed. Richard Trumka was part of the Arab SpringFlingaDingDong. And each and every Muslim, just as each and every union member, will be faced with the question: Whose side are you on?


2 posted on 03/15/2012 11:28:27 PM PDT by jobim (.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The police, firefighters, teachers and government workers have gone parasitic against the people of Wisconsin..

They are worried that Wisconsin will no longer be their cookie jar.. their prey.. a cadaver for feeding..
They are worried that the State may go “right to work”..

They are drones fighting for “the HIVE”...
Political insects.. automatons.. you know democrats...


3 posted on 03/15/2012 11:30:22 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole...)
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To: hosepipe

Their behavior is bewildering.


4 posted on 03/15/2012 11:35:23 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Newt/Sarah 2012)
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To: nutmeg

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5 posted on 03/15/2012 11:37:26 PM PDT by nutmeg (Rest in Peace, and THANK YOU, Andrew Breitbart)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Thugish community organizing at it’s best. At some point, their tactics of intimidation by mob are going to be met with equal and opposite force. Pictures of SEIU muscle yelling at grey haired patriots coming up.


6 posted on 03/15/2012 11:43:23 PM PDT by bossmechanic (If all else fails, hit it with a hammer)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I don’t think “bi-partisan” efforts are ever going to fix what is wrong in this country.

We have international elitists (institutional, political -
both parties - and business) who basically disrespect Americans , our culture and who hate our country’s foundation. They have no loyalty and no integrity. That includes the unions. They have ripped apart our social and economic fabric and created a monster. Socialism is illegal under the constitution and it’s amoral humanist diversity tribal culture does not support the design of America’s ethics, integrity, freedom and independence. Our culture, born out of living the constitution’s ideology, is why we used to be peaceful and prosperous.

Will the Left use this as an opportunity to create their revolution? Yes, that is why they have worked so hard to culturaly cleanse, hurt and tear apart everything that was good and strong in this country so they could have their Marxist revolution.

I don’t know if they will get away with it, but they have a marxist in the White House to help.


7 posted on 03/15/2012 11:44:53 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Public unions were a bad idea from the start...it pits the union member against his friends, neighbors, and family because they are ultimately the evil corporate bosses trying to bury the working man.
8 posted on 03/15/2012 11:45:34 PM PDT by crazyhorse691 (Obama is just the symptom of what is destroying the U.S.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This article is over a year old. Why post it now?


9 posted on 03/15/2012 11:52:39 PM PDT by M. Thatcher
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To: M. Thatcher

Because the article isn’t a year old, if you go to the link, it was just posted 12 hrs. ago.


10 posted on 03/16/2012 12:11:16 AM PDT by Tamar1973 ("Never care what the other guy has, it is not yours and someone always has more."--isthisnickcool)
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To: SaraJohnson

“I don’t think “bi-partisan” efforts are ever going to fix what is wrong in this country.”

I have always preached on FR that co-existence with liberals will never achieve anything. They are the ones who have to “go” as each day they plan to destroy the country..


11 posted on 03/16/2012 12:12:39 AM PDT by max americana
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To: Tamar1973
I did go to the link.

By Douglas E. Schoen Published March 04, 2011

It is now 2012.

12 posted on 03/16/2012 12:16:34 AM PDT by M. Thatcher
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Do they REALLY want to have this fight? Govt unions against the rest of America?


13 posted on 03/16/2012 12:17:32 AM PDT by Bullish
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hey folks. Take this with a piece grain of salt. Doug Schoen is actively trying to inject a third party candidate to cause a Ross Perot effect this election. His #1 choice for a candidate? Jon Huntsman. There may be an agenda here to spin things.


14 posted on 03/16/2012 12:19:54 AM PDT by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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To: Lazlo in PA

I agree. I live in Wisconsin and the liberal left shouts louder because they have the union support and the liberal press, but most of the Wisconsinites I know are quiet conservatives, who roll their eyes at the teachers with their undies in a bundle and just let them rant.


15 posted on 03/16/2012 12:24:53 AM PDT by ScubieNuc (When there is no justice in the laws, justice is left to the outlaws.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Am I wrong, did’nt we have laws against government employees having unions? Then we allowed unions, but they had a no strike clause?

Then came unionized garbage strikes, then unionized teachers strikes etc.


16 posted on 03/16/2012 12:32:06 AM PDT by LetMarch (If a man knows the right way to live, and does not live it, there is no greater coward. (Anonymous)
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To: LetMarch

Am I wrong, did’nt we have laws against government employees having unions? ....Kennedy signed on to the law establishing public sector unions but I don’t know about strike prohibitions. Probably for “Critical” jobs, which is why Regan fired the Air Traffic Controllers.


17 posted on 03/16/2012 1:01:03 AM PDT by Safetgiver (I'd rather die under a free American sky than live under a Socialist regime.)
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To: LetMarch
Am I wrong, did’nt we have laws against government employees having unions?

Undone by a single Executive Order by JFK.

18 posted on 03/16/2012 1:55:56 AM PDT by itsahoot (Tag lines are a waste of bandwidth, as are my comments.)
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To: hosepipe

They’ve been doing this in NJ for decades, driving the state into economic ruin. Now cities have laid off 1/3 of their police forces; it is time to pay the piper. Our class sizes will be 50 children, but it has becme clear that this is what we can afford when teachers working 180 days per year, 6.5 hours per day, earn $80K at age 40. Another result is that our roads rival those of Namibia; there is no money left for any maintenance.


19 posted on 03/16/2012 2:22:07 AM PDT by kearnyirish2
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To: max americana

America is in decline, and the “us vs. them” sentiments fired up by the left are much to blame. The virtue of opportunity for self-improvement and prosperity has given way to the narcotic of government largesse.

Events will get uglier before they ever get better. In Wisconsin, the factions benefiting most from the status quo of that government-benefit narcotic — the public sector unions — may turn to open violence if their last hope of overturning last year`s state budget laws, i.e., the recall of Gov. Walker, fails.

The thugs know Alinsky`s tactics well and will use them to their dying breath. They`ve called the shots in the Rust Belt states and will not give up power easily.


20 posted on 03/16/2012 2:23:37 AM PDT by ScottinVA (A single drop of American blood for muslims is one drop too many!)
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