[ReverendJames]

If I was governor I’d say “Ok, fine. You can have all the raises you want. We don’t have the money so like California all you’ll get are warrants (IOU’s) and the rest of you are fired.”

[ReverendJames]

PS - make them open end date warrants. No effective date to cash them. They’ll sit on them until there’s money to pay them.

[knittnmom]

I have to dispute his statement that “there wasn’t any fog”. I drove through HEAVY fog to get to work in Madison.

[oprahstheantichrist]

GOV. WALKER NEEDS OUR PRAYERS.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

I have a question: Is the amount of monthly dues these idiots pay for union thugs to hold School districts hostage to their demands more than what they are being asked to pony up?

[Defend Liberty]

The Tea Party movement needs to go to the Capitol to show support for the Governor.

[Brilliant]

Notice that the Democrats are supporting the unions over the children.

[RedMDer]

Meanwhile back in the White House, Dumplin Ears the marxist is enjoying the chaos. I really believe this is just what he wants, chaos to destroy our country and the useful idiots are playing their role very well. After all, Organizing for America and BarackObama.com is fully supportive of this union thuggery.

[dragonblustar]

The democrats of that state are bunch of cowards.

[ADSUM]

The rats and union thugs are testing Gov Walker to give in a little.

He won’t. He has the votes.

Look at how all the Democrat legislature members scurried to their rat holes out of state.

[mrfixit514]

While it is true that there are SOME overpaid people in education and it is true that there are SOME lazy people in education, it is also true that there are overpaid and lazy people in every profession. Your profession included. I would like to see someone attack your livelihood, take away benefits you have been promised, and see how you respond. The bottom line is that freerepublic is a gathering place for complainers and whiners who love to beat up on public education. They are just negative voices who have nothing constructive to add to the discourse. I might also add that they are extremely ignorant, arrogant, and childish in their comments. While I disapprove of unions and the behavior in Wisconsin, it sickens me to see the response of the pack of jackals here at freerepublic who rejoice to see others lose the standard of living many of them have worked hard to earn. The next time you don't like the way things are going at your job and you try to change it or speak our against it, maybe you should just be fired. Or does that type of treament only suit all the so called evil forces conspiring against you in your little paranoid conservative world? I bet some of you are the loudest complainers at work and your bosses would love to get rid of you but you're probably dug in like a big fat tick- just like the teachers you malign.

[jmacusa]

What an insulting and ignorant bitch Lena Taylor is. She’s an insult to those who suffered under Hitler and to those brave souls who fought and died to defeat him.

[aces]

No more of our money for anyone, we are broke, it will take drastic action, why should we pay for their retirement..sorry, pitch in or go bust...no more time to play, Governor, just do it, budget is cut, thats it..If Uhbummer wnats to come in(and he probably will) it will be on the backs of the American people, time to home school, time to stop it now!!!

[preacher]

How short Liberal’s memories are. Remember how they were so against hate rhetoric after Tucson?

[ex-snook]

"It's very, very clear. In Wisconsin it's about what people can afford,"

Why does state want to op-out of agreements? Do the unions want more than they agreed to? Has tax revenues gone down? If the State can't afford what they contracted, they should lay off.

[Georgia Girl 2]

The governor needs to get the National Guard in there and clear out the statehouse, get the Dems back on the reservation and have the vote.

[baddog 219]

Obama has his thug army ready to bash heads if you disagree.

[Wuli]

The phoniness about the protests is that, contrary to all the public claims of the “protesters” the issue is NOT directly about “education” or even “teacher layoffs”.

There are solutions, within the boards of education budgets together with what changes the teachers are and are not willing to accept, whereby priorities could be adjusted to make substantial cuts outside the classroom and with teachers accepting some compromises, with the result that no “layoffs” or fewer layoffs would be necessary.

But the local school boards are not willing to overhaul the priorities of their budgets nor will the teachers compromise their demands.

In effect, it is those who are protesting who actually would prefer the end result to be “teacher layoffs” so that at least for the school boards' spending priorities and the remaining teachers they would be employing, all their perks and prerequisites would remain in place; and they could thereby help create "smaller class size" conditions that they claim are so "damaging to eduction". From the point of view of the protesters, in their logic, its a win win situation.

[El Cid]

If I were the Governor I'd privatize the schools.
The idea of Government schools may have been workable 100 years ago --- now (and for the past 40 years) they've just be breeding grounds for unionism and communism. They preach a hate-America, hate Western Civilization doctrine. Just pull the plug. American families will be better off home schooling or sending their children to the private schools of their choice.

[JoeFromSidney]

The whole idea of public employee unions is wrong. Private employees allegedly need to bargain collectively because they have no one else to stand up for them against their employer. Public employees have civil service protection. They don't need unions.

Public employee unions use union money to elect politicians who will then vote for more pay and perks for public employees. It's a racket. In effect, public employees are on both sides of the bargaining table. The end result is to loot the taxpayers, who have no one to stand up for them.