Posted on 02/17/2011 7:56:36 AM PST by Lazamataz
Behind closed doors, Scott Walker, the Republican who has been governor for about six weeks, calmly described his intent to forge ahead with the plans that had set off the uprising: He wants to require public workers to pay more for their health insurance and pensions, effectively cutting the take-home pay of many by around 7 percent.
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Scott Fitzgerald, the Republican leader in the State Senate, slipped out of the Capitol Wednesday morning with his sunglasses on, head down. Protesters had gone to his home earlier in the week, forcing his family (including his wife, a school guidance counselor) to go elsewhere for a bit.
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There is simply no question. Public sector workers make more than private sector workers. Here in Pennsylvania, our crazy pension system allows teachers to retire at 55, and then make 2/3 of the salary they were making when they retired until they die. The teacher must put 7.5% of their salary into the fund every year. Usually, that means a teacher who’s been in the system for 30 years is making $80-90k, so they walk away with $60k a year for the rest of their lives.
Where is that in the private sector? Plus, all their benefits, sick leave, vacation days, gold-plated heathcare are almost completely paid for by the taxpayer as well. Of course, the pension fund is broke, because the amount of money it takes to pay that 55 year old teacher $60k for the rest of their lives is wa-a-a-y more than the pandering politicians thought it would be.
Any politician who is tackling these overfed, bloated public sector employees should be roundly applauded.
After 15 years, their average is over $100K. If making less, then are part time.
> Just call in the National Guard with guns at the ready...
Full auto, baby. Get ready, aim, fire!
It is a proud day to be a Freeper.
“Paging President Reagan”
Time to pull another “Air Traffic Controlers” mass firing.
What would happen if the PTA (or PTO/PSO) at each school organized a group of parents to go into the classrooms and teach those students who want to show up for school?
Schools are public buildings paid for by the private sector; perhaps some parents in Madison and other cities in WI can take the initiative to render these freeloaders irrelevant.
I was thinking that conservatives could form a ring around the state capitol to show our support for these changes (and to deter these nuts)
7%? That's IT??? I can count on one hand the number of my friends who DIDN'T get a 10% pay cut in 2009. And they were happy to still have a job, and many now have had their pay restored. But these f-ing ingrates are rioting in the streets and abandoning kids in schools all over a stupid SEVEN PERCENT, when they are amongst the highest-paid citizens in Wisconsin? Just disgusting, treasonous, bastards.
And unfortunately, they all live next door to each other. It's about to get very ugly. How do you tell your public-servant liberal neighbor that you're going to let their kids, who play on the soccer team with YOUR kids, starve? You know damn well you're going to feed those kids. I've been preaching preparedness for years, and the people who told me they were coming to my house instead have been enlightened that no, they're not, but I will help their children.
Everyone is replaceable.
just ask all the former Congressrats from last November.
Crappola.
“Not replaceable”...right!
And neither were the Air Traffic fools...they learned, didn’t they?
Thank you for the link!
What does that mean?
I bet if the school teachers were allowed to vote by the Union , and given an option of losing their jobs or taking a pay cut. the overwhelming majority would support paying part of their own medical. The union has no intention of allowing them to have a honest vote!
Or, maybe better: Troll the shows, posing as radical leftists endorsing even greater shows of force by the union thugs... and see what each host does with that.
Just curious if these protesting teachers had parents’ permission to take their children off school property?
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NO. They did not. Worse, some schools forced their kids to show up at the rally to get their school work.
This action is illegal, and the teachers union and the teachers can be sued via class action on behalf of the parents who are losing work - having to stay home to take care of their kids.
Public opinion in WI land is overwhemingly against these public workers who hate their employers. The illegal strike was the last straw for many parents who might have otherwise supported them.
Having grown up in Madison, I don’t find the actions of public sector union members (especially teachers) at all surprising.
They can yell, scream and protest, within the confines of the law, but when they begin targeting individual legislators at their homes, they should be arrested and held accountable for their disgusting, greedy, intimidating, unlawful behavior.
EODGUY
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