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.
(Excerpt) Read more at nation.foxnews.com ...
I just read this comment (approaching 10,000 comments)
“Oh man, the Koch brothers sure have their minions out on this today, don’t they? Sure, let’s wind the clock back to 1937 in Michigan, shall we? This time, we union folk will “come heavy”...and you Tea Baggers will look like Swiss cheese!”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110216/ap_on_re_us/us_wisconsin_budget_unions_13
If only we could do this with the IRS. That is my absolutely most-wished-for change to the tax code. No more automatic withholding. Give me THAT, and within six months I'll have all the other changes I'd like as well.
Oh—You hear about it.
The inconvenient fact is that TEA Partiers don’t behave in that manner.
Useful idoits.
Instead, it forces Unions to collect dues by making workers write a check. “””
Excellent!!!!
That would be about one minute after hell freezes over...
Wisconsin Freepers contact your legislators. Find contact information here.
http://legis.wisconsin.gov/w3asp/waml/waml.aspx
“How Public Unions Took Taxpayers Hostage”
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703909904576052150177439350.html?mod=djemEditorialPage_h
I have a big problem with unions for public employees.
they were the beginning of the end of this country.
Wish we had Walker here in MN instead of Marxist Dayton.
How are they now supposed to pay for the summer home on Lake Superior? /sar
Leeches. I hope they go broke.
It also forces the union members to notice the money they are sending to the union each month, rather that have it just show up as yet another of a dozen deductions.
“Try living on a 0% income, Kim, you leeching freeloader. Plenty of private sector workers are trying to get by on that due in large part to paying for you and your useless husband exorbitant salaries and pensions.”
+1
.. and if she doesn’t like it, quit and get a new job.
Were unions profit-making corporations competing in the business of marketing skilled labor, they would seek to improve the quality of their product because of competition. The lack is of competition points to the real problem: government sanctioned union monopoly.
There is a reason for collective bargaining. It's called "free association." The problem is union exemption from the Sherman Anti-Trust Act in the National Labor Relations Act of 1933.
Good job, brother.
“Kim Hoffman, a middle school music teacher, said she and her husband, also a teacher, would lose $1,200 a month under the plan — too deep a cut to manage.”
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1) rent
2) eat beans and rice
3) drive a beater car
4) stop eating out
5) ... you understand
This is a Freep. It's a call to action. THIS IS WHAT WE'RE HERE FOR, RIGHT?
Do it now. Do not pass Go. Freep directly to the Governor. You are a proud Freeper. You know what to say.
Thanks!
Leni
tHAT SOUNDS ABOUT RIGHT. tHINK ABOUT IT. tHEY ARE BOTH 15 - 20 YEAR VETERANS WITH SALARIES OF 85k A YEAR OR 170k FOR BOTH 7% IS 11,900 YEAR OR AROUND $1,000.
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