Posted on 02/26/2015 8:02:58 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Pursuant to my earlier point about why liberals hate Governor Scott Walker with supernova fury: the Wisconsin State Senate passed a right-to-work law on Wednesday, sending it on to near-certain passage in the Assembly and signature by You Know Who.
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Ditto.
“Bush has an enormous war chest” and all the rest of the candidates share in a smaller purse. Bush can afford to essentially sit on the sidelines and dump truckloads of drek on the others in the early primaries until they are all dropped or pushed out and then sweep the later primaries as the only candidate that hasn’t been chopped into little pieces. In that he will have enormous help from the Democrats who will know their candidate before the second primaries, even if it isn’t obvious to non Democrats, and will vote in the Republican Primaries, either openly as Democrats in the open contests or by becoming Republicans-for-a-day to vote in the closed ones.
UNions have never been “peaceful;” they have always carried an implied threat of violence, often bolstered by the real thing.
Bullseye !
Here’s the last line, the very last line, in the NYTimes article describing the 2,000 protesters in Madison yesterday:
“About two hours into the debate on Wednesday afternoon, protesters inside the Capitol had dwindled to several dozen.”
I suspect that if we had real journalism in this country, that they would find the largest by far, positive impact on the worker in America was free enterprise, especially the initiative taken by Henry Ford to raise wages to $5/day.
At the time, workers could count on about $2.25 per day, for which they worked nine-hour shifts. This action was free enterprise at its best.
My family NEVER made up the personal financial losses as a result of strikes in the steel industry. A few pennies an hour increase in wages was never enough to compensate for hundreds or thousands of dollars lost in wages, lost opportunities, lost credit ratings, and threats of physical violence to my father if he did not show up on a picket line.
Although I was just a kid I ran the numbers; there was no contest.
>>THAT’s truly what the left fears about trying conservative ideas, because they work...<<
I recently ran across just the sort of ammunition Walker needs to make his case. It’s the Gallup Polls annual survey of hiring intentions.
Gallup, during each year, surveys employees in each state to find out if the state’s employers are hiring, firing, or doing neither. They survey hundreds or thousands in each state and then get a raw number that is just %hiring minus %firing. So if 40% are hiring and 25% are firing the state gets a raw score of 15. States are then ranked by raw score. North Dakota has come out on top for the last 5 years, as would be expected given the fracking revolution and the small population in the state.
Wisconsin, under Democrat Governor Doyle ranked poorly, in the mid 30’s among all states in 2008 and 2009 (before and after the recession). During Walker’s first year in office in 2011, WI ranked 20th. After a steady improvement each year, it’s now essentially tied with Texas and Nebraska for second place behind North Dakota. (It’s actually ranked 4th, but all three have the same raw score after rounding...31 vs. ND’s 36.)
So, in a nutshell, during Walker’s first term, Wisconsin became one of the top states to find employers who are hiring whereas under Doyle it was in the bottom third.
(Using search terms “Gallup job creation index 2014” will get you to the survey for the past year and changing the year will get you other years’ surveys.)
Funny how all those “pro-choice” states on the east and left coast are so “anti-choice” when it comes to whether or not to join a union, no?
The states along the Great Lakes aren’t called the Rust Belt for nothing. Plenty of unions but no more factories & steel mills.
Liberalism always requires compulsion.
Cool. Cruz is now speaking at CPAC!
No he has not saved Wisconsin from it.
He has delivered a couple blows to them and they’ve screamed far louder and longer than how bad it actually is for them. Act 10 got them to pay a pittance for health care and allowed people to opt out of public unions save police and fire, and gave local govts more contract bargaining ability. The screaming was the left over-dramatizing how bad it was going to be, and history has shown that’s exactly what it was. Right to work has them doing the same thing. These are not draconian or severely harsh or complicated laws correcting a ton of things and causing tthe true end of the world for liberls - even thouh they scream so - that’s just what they do when anything threatens thngs they don’t want to lose.
Ths has not done anything to remove the liberals entrenched in bureaucratic government in this state. Courts. Law enforcement. Schools. DNR. They are entrenched in like thousands of spindly tumors t all levels and they are still doing what they’re doing.
An analogy is that the cancer patient has had some success with treatment and is in remission. But remission can mean anything from tumor shrinkage to tumor not getting bigger. In this case the tumor has not decreased much. And the tumor is ever-vigilant.
“One narrative I haven’t seen yet is the one that calls Walker a quitter for not finishing college.”
Probably because the ones who would do it don’t want attention drawn to their worthless liberal arts degrees and jobs at Starbuck’s.
I heard that one last night from a friend who is a leftist.
I asked her what she knew about Obama's college years, his grades, his senior thesis, etc. She admitted she knew nothing. So I asked, if Obama's academic achievements weren't important to you when you voted for him, why are Governor Walker's academic achievements important to you now?
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