Posted on 02/18/2011 6:08:11 PM PST by Wanderer659
Essentially, the Wisconsin Legislature is working on a bill that will limit union power. The goal: Have public union workers pay some of their pensions (but still less than the average private sector worker). But, for the unions, any potential limits on their power demands a rent-a-mob response. So, shirts were printed, buses were obtained, hotels reserved, teachers called off “sick,” and off they went…just like any other “real” grassroots movement.
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Obama had a hand in this demonstration of thugs too, which needs to be addressed and investigated. Unions are bankrupting states, yet they don’t care. They want theirs, be damned everybody else. Selfish, greedy a-holes.
1. Democrat state senators miraculously reappear in the state capital ready to do business.
2. Major progress is made in closing the state budget deficit.
3. Sympathetic parents, students, and teachers get to have fun figuring out how to salvage the academic year.
Yeah, I know; wishful thinking.
This is an attempt to impose mob rule.
I like the author’s idea. Let them throw a lot of money at this. They won’t have as much to spend in 2012. They can’t do it forever.
I think so too. That’s why it’s so important not to give in now.
The hysterical ravings of a woman were so beyond the pale that I need to know who that was, and what she represents.
I only know that I wouldn't want that irrational woman within 100 miles of any of my children, or grandchildren, and I am prepared to back that up.
Paraphrasing, "if the teachers' union is dismantled, it will mean our children and grandchildren will no longer have a 40 hour week and will be subject to slave wages."
To her and her ilk perhaps, who believe in self defined rights and the entitlement mentality, who also believe in the right to tell their employers how much they are worth, and the right to continued exploitation of elected representatives who are even more stupid and useless than they are.
Time to recall one of the few words FDR ever uttered that I happen to agree with :
Particularly, I want to emphasize my conviction that militant tactics have no place in the functions of any organization of Government employees. Upon employees in the Federal service rests the obligation to serve the whole people, whose interests and welfare require orderliness and continuity in the conduct of Government activities. This obligation is paramount. Since their own services have to do with the functioning of the Government, a strike of public employees manifests nothing less than an intent on their part to prevent or obstruct the operations of Government until their demands are satisfied. Such action, looking toward the paralysis of Government by those who have sworn to support it, is unthinkable and intolerable. It is, therefore, with a feeling of gratification that I have noted in the constitution of the National Federation of Federal Employees the provision that "under no circumstances shall this Federation engage in or support strikes against the United States Government."
Quite clearly, the reason that the "United States Government" is specifically named supports the certainty that even FDR recognized the distinction between the central government and state governments.
It would be insensate to presume that State or Local governments have any less authority and obligation to protect the citizens they represent, for exactly the same reasons.
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