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Thousands of Union Protesters Storm WI State Capitol; Target Homes of GOP Lawmakers
Fox News ^ | Feb 17, 2011

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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To: LadyBuck

Re your #102 - What would happen if a Teacher loaded up a school bus load of students and took them to a Tea Party for a whole day? Do you think they would still have a job the next day, union member or not?

Every time a conservative is even suspected of something untoward, the moonbats are howling for a “full investigation” and “prosecution to the full extent of the Law!!!”

Isn’t it about time some patriotic and fearless AG served them a full dose of their own bloody medicine?

Exploiting minors for a political agenda is nothing short of child abuse IMHO, and those moonbat thugs should face hard time for it!

I also wonder if Parents are being told or even getting the option of granting permission or not? I wonder how many of these UI “students” are getting bussed in from other cities and states - at taxpayers expense of course?


221 posted on 02/17/2011 12:05:13 PM PST by George Varnum (Liberty, like our Forefather's Flintlock Musket, must be kept clean, oiled, and READY!)
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To: Keith in Iowa

I agree. For too long we’ve gone to work every day to pay the freight for all this. We’ve spent our time raising kids by involving them in productive activities instead of farming them out to caretakers, TV, and X-boxes. While we toiled and endeavored, the left has had free rein in installing their communist policies throughout our institutions and political infrastructure. We naively believed that all Americans wanted the same thing for our families and our country. Clearly we were foolish. We took our eyes off the ball for many years. We were too trusting.

Now it’s time to reverse that course and do some serious ass-kicking.


222 posted on 02/17/2011 12:08:36 PM PST by ratsreek
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To: cyberlaw
Sergeant of Arms just enacted Call of the House/Senate. DemonRats can be picked up and forcibly returned to the Capitol.

I hope they bring the traitor socialist demoRAT bastards back in handcuffs. I don't care if the bastards sit there gagged or in mute silence. Let the voting proceed...

223 posted on 02/17/2011 12:11:06 PM PST by rcrngroup
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To: kcvl; melancholy

I just emailed him:

Dear Gov. Walker,

You have my and many other citizen’s full and enthusiastic support. The country is heading off a cliff, and public unions are like greedy, fat and lazy pigs feeding at a trough paid for by private citizens who are increasingly tightening their belts, losing their jobs, their homes, and their freedoms.

Good for you and stay the course! Makes me wish I lived in your state.

Kind regards and may God give you (and all of us) strength and wisdom,

(my name)


224 posted on 02/17/2011 12:11:48 PM PST by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: Lazamataz
You come by my house for a protest, and I'll be putting all the sprinklers up at full power at the property boundaries, and turning them on when you put a foot on my property.

Works great on taking care of geese, which are about equal in annoyance.

225 posted on 02/17/2011 12:13:41 PM PST by Darren McCarty (We should lead ourselves instead of looking for leaders)
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To: Darren McCarty

“You come by my house for a protest, and I’ll be putting all the sprinklers up at full power”

ROFLOL!


226 posted on 02/17/2011 12:16:37 PM PST by kcvl
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To: kcvl
“We crunched the numbers. I will no longer be able to afford to teach.”

So it's definitely a win for the kids then.

227 posted on 02/17/2011 12:17:18 PM PST by RabidBartender
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To: napscoordinator

They are public government public school indoctrinators living like hogs at a trough while private sector people are losing their jobs and their freedoms.


228 posted on 02/17/2011 12:18:54 PM PST by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: Lazamataz
How conservatives protest …

How liberals protest …


229 posted on 02/17/2011 12:18:54 PM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free!)
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To: kcvl

“We crunched the numbers. I will no longer be able to afford to teach.”

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Better try harder, hog tough denizen, because outside the safe, protected featherbed of academia, the rigor of the free market would eat you alive.


230 posted on 02/17/2011 12:23:54 PM PST by EyeGuy (Gimme Shelter)
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To: kcvl

This happened in another state a couple years ago. TX? NM? TX, I think.

Was the possibility of this not forseeable? Didn’t anybody think to follow them?


231 posted on 02/17/2011 12:25:58 PM PST by ratsreek
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To: napscoordinator

Re your #186: “Why not cut welfare payments by 100 percent “...

As soon as those welfare checks stop coming and millions of recipients who depend on them to support their various addictions or “religion of piece” start to go into withdrawal and/or become outraged by the stoppage of American Dhimie Jizya (Muslim extortion “protection money”) to which they feel entitled, we WILL see our cities burn and blood running down the streets in streams!

If you think these union thugs are dangerous, you ain’t seen nuthin’ yet!


232 posted on 02/17/2011 12:29:56 PM PST by George Varnum (Liberty, like our Forefather's Flintlock Musket, must be kept clean, oiled, and READY!)
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To: Lazamataz

Hypocrisy drags on.

Just another day in Obamaland.


233 posted on 02/17/2011 12:35:21 PM PST by Tzimisce (Never forget that the American Revolution began when the British tried to disarm the colonists.)
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To: George Varnum

let’s hope, like the British, they keep wearing red


234 posted on 02/17/2011 12:35:59 PM PST by 1000 silverlings (everything that deceives, also enchants: Plato)
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To: BrewingFrog
forces Unions to collect dues by making workers write a check

Brilliant!
235 posted on 02/17/2011 12:43:47 PM PST by presently no screen name
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To: traditional1
“When will we hear from The Messiah; asking for the Unions to “tone down the rhetoric”...”

HA! That's a hoot!

Obama today: This seems like an ASSAULT on unions...

Whips up the mob.

236 posted on 02/17/2011 12:46:49 PM PST by Gabrial (The Whitehouse Nightmare will continue as long as the Nightmare is in the Whitehouse)
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To: listenhillary

Re: 30 million people refusing to pay their taxes.

That would mean Obozo would have to hire 30 million new IRS thugs (SEIU Members all of course) to round us all up into rectification camps or kill us if we dare to resist.

Don’t think he has that many? Think again.

The People’s Liberation Army would probably be glad to loan them to him for a while.... to protect their investment, don’t you see?

They’ll probably only have to exterminate or torture about a couple million of us before the survivors fold and pay up though.


237 posted on 02/17/2011 12:47:58 PM PST by George Varnum (Liberty, like our Forefather's Flintlock Musket, must be kept clean, oiled, and READY!)
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To: Lazamataz
I emailed the Gov Walker, and the phone number is busy. Will keep trying.

God bless Gov Walker...courageous and WILLING to fight for what is right, for the Constitution and We The People.

Courage is fear that has said its prayers. Start sayin’ those prayers, folks. May we be as determined and brave as our soldiers are today, as our Forefathers were many years ago.

238 posted on 02/17/2011 12:48:41 PM PST by itssme
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To: Lazamataz

Thanks.
No I do not know how to do that but it seems like a good skill to learn.


239 posted on 02/17/2011 12:48:53 PM PST by Lorianne (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. ___ George Orwell)
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To: George Varnum
As soon as those welfare checks stop coming and millions of recipients who depend on them to support their various addictions

Can you even imagine?!

We had a 'snow day' a couple of weeks ago where all the schools were out. The isles of Walmart were overrun by the children of welfare addicts because they didn't want them at 'home' where they were busy making more of them so the taxpayer's can pay for those too! I couldn't get the hell out of there fast enough!

240 posted on 02/17/2011 12:50:32 PM PST by kcvl
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