Posted on 06/06/2012 9:45:04 AM PDT by Hojczyk
But when a Republican governor, in a Democratic state that Obama carried by 14 points in 2008, wins by six points, it shows how overwhelming our victory later this year will be. Add to these facts the high turnout in Wisconsin (over 60 percent, compared with less than 50% in 2010) and the handwriting is clearly on the wall for Obama.
But, in Wisconsin, Walker flung down the gauntlet to public employee unions and they accepted the challenge only to go down to a total defeat. Their power will never be the same. Already, the National Education Association (NEA) has experienced a 150,000 decline in its 3.2 million memberships this year and expects another 200,000 falloff in the next few months – more than a ten percent drop. As states follow Wisconsin’s example and stop automatically deducting union dues from their employee’s paychecks, the funds available to unions will continue to drop – and with it will go much of their political power.
But even the fall of the power of public employee unions fails to capture the full extent of the impact of the Walker victory.
Its most important impact is on America’s schools. By elbowing teacher unions aside and permitting local school boards to abolish teacher tenure and insist on merit pay and school choice, the Walker reforms open the door to a vast and rapid improvement in educational quality throughout the nation. No other education reforms have worked. Now we have no choice but to insist on competition at every level of our educational establishment to improve the product. Teachers must compete for jobs and higher pay even as their schools compete for students. It is the only way we have left that can raise student performance. The sun is shining and Walker won!
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My Kaspersky calls Dick Morris’s website contaminated/dangerous.
***Its most important impact is on America’s schools...,the Walker reforms open the door to a vast and rapid improvement in educational quality throughout the nation.***
I sure hope DM knows what he’s talking about. The public schools are a politically correct wasteland (for the most part).
Actually, union greed is slashing the numbers - by opting for pay raises instead of wage freezes or reductions, they are forcing state governments to slash teacher payrolls, thereby reducing the number of teacher's union members available to vote for Democrats.
If we are only able to remove people like that crazy ass Obama supporter in NC, we will be 1000% better off. The minute these teachers find out their unions aren’t worth squat and they can’t hide behind tenure, they’ll start stopping this rabid liberalism they’re teaching - or they will be identified, weighed, measured and trashed like they should be.
FWIW My Kaspersky (Pure) has no problem with the Morris web site.
Beverly Perdue is already gone gone gone and Pat McCrory holds a commanding lead, so yeah, NC is going Republican Red all the way (our legislature is already Pubbie by large margins in both houses).
Wisconsin Freepers should be very proud.
You’ve elected a good man, and you were there to defend him.
I’m very glad to hear it.....live in freedom.
“Wisconsin Freepers should be very proud.
You’ve elected a good man, and you were there to defend him.”
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All honest, productive, tax-paying Americans owe a hat tip and a warm handshake to the stalwart conservatives in The Badger State.
He does, but sometimes his hyperbole goes a bit over the top. He does know politics.
Wisconsin Freepers should be very proud.
You’ve elected a good man, and you were there to defend him.
Hear, hear!
Here’s another impact of the Walker win:
The polls continually claimed the race was “neck and neck” and “too close to call.” Then, it was a landslide afterall (and this was even after all the ‘rat cheating was factored in). Therefore, it calls into question all the other political races and polls that are allegedly “too close to call” for 2012.
Makes me think that the LSM is ignoring the political wind and just trying to keep their base motivated to show up.
Meaning of Scott Walker’s win = NObotulism
We can only hope!! Public education can't get much worse than it already is.
(Note to those who think I'm wrong - Dreck is NOT a formula for success - and dreck is the foundation of what is being "taught" in public schools!!)
Do they not know that 'tctc' is a way to be sure that the OTHER side turns out in numbers; too?
The ONLY way Wisconsin can begin to get right is by Statewide right to work laws..
Wisconsin needs to be a right to work State..
NO more proof is needed that UNIONS are seditious.. probably treasonous as well..
They all stand in direct opposition to ALL taxpayers benefit..
They are malicious and aggressive.. in every way..
It should be illegal for State and local givernment workers to even join a Union..
To organize against “the Peoples” benefit, the taxpayer..
It should be unconstitutional... and lobbying should be severely monitored and controlled..
It corrupts Congress and the Presidency.. and the whole Executive Branch..
K-Street(lobbying) needs a douche AND an Enema...
Merit pay will do nothing to improve the schools. What is required is a reform of the education colleges. The simple expedient of requiring a 1000 on the SAT for entry into teacher training would immediately improve the quality of teachers. But the number of education courses required for a certificate should be reduced and the number of liberal arts courses increased. This will be hard to do, because those who run these colleges believe in education in terms of process rather than content. Hence, an elementary teacher graduates with little more knowledge of subjects like math ,science, history and politics than the average high school graduate. Which is why the GRE scores of teachers applying for graduate school are lower than those of students in every other speciality. Reformers since Rickover have been pointing this out, but no one has ever acted on this. One would think that a high school teacher ought to be as well trained in his field as a dentist is in his, but such is seldom the case.
My 5 day old KIS 2012 said trojan program “xxxx://ecdecec.in/index.php?showtoplc=285163//index “, denied.
I replaced the http with xxxx because I don’t want to type that url.
Any indication why? Is this really his site or a re-direct?
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