Posted on 02/18/2011 12:52:24 PM PST by Gopher Broke
Public employees are teachers, police officers, sanitation workers, firefighters, snow plow drivers ... they are our friends, family and neighbors ... most are not rich, but they work hard and earn their benefits. I oppose attempts by politicians to gut their benefits and take away their rights, all to satisfy a partisan, political agenda.
I stand in support of Wisconsin's public employees, the Wisconsinites across the state protesting on their behalf and the state senators who have left the state in order to prevent Gov. Walker's draconian proposal from passing in the legislature.
Dear xxxxx,
Wisconsin's Tea Party Governor, Scott Walker, is leading a brazen assault on state employees and workers' rights, using a budget deficit -- created by his own corporate tax cuts -- as the excuse.
We must fight this! Tens of thousands of Wisconsinites have been protesting at the state capitol. We stand in solidarity with them and the working people who are under attack. We also stand in solidarity with Wisconsin's Democratic state senators, who have left the state in order to prevent the Republican majority in the legislature from ramming the governor's proposal through.
Please show your solidarity by signing our statement of support for Wisconsin's Democratic senators and its public employees.
We'll also be sending a care package to the state senators who have left Wisconsin so that they can't be compelled by state law enforcement to show up in the Capitol and allow the bill to pass. After you sign the statement, you can chip in $5 toward the care package if you'd like.
In addition to attacking state employees' benefits, Gov. Walker's proposal is aimed at stripping their rights to organize and bargain collectively -- a clear example of right-wing union busting. It's a blatant effort by Republicans to destroy institutions that benefit their political opponents ... but the casualties will be real people and families.
All across the country, the Right Wing is waging a campaign to demonize public employees and blame them for budget shortfalls. The lies they are telling are appalling. It's an easy enough strategy to understand -- Republicans are exploiting concern about budget deficits and vilifying public employees and their bargaining rights so they can check off one more item long a part of their political to-do list: destroying unions.
Please join PFAW in speaking out right now.
We're all Wisconsinites today.
-- Ben Betz, Online Communications Manager
P.S. Other states are now considering similar proposals to Gov. Walker's. If this union-busting, benefit-gutting plan succeeds in Wisconsin, it is sure to succeed in others. We need to send the message now, in Wisconsin, that Americans won't stand for these attacks. Sign our statement.
The commie libs are coming unglued. Their dream of a communist world is starting to collapse now that the great unwashed masses have awoken. They were so close.
Don't tell me I have to explain who Norman Lear is.
When you use the power of the state to ensure gold plated benefits, it is theft, not negociations. Get a job with a private company if they dislike it.
They want fat pay and pension packages, so the state can go broke and then they’ll have nothing.
Makes perfect sense.
This is why we must all remain vigilant.
If they see another decades-long delay ahead of them,
they’re likely to go scorched earth on us.
They’ve been building up for this “victory” for SO long,
only to “trip the trap” just a bit too soon,
and have awakened Americans to their plans.
Click my name for an important documentary link.
Sorry....should have added BARF ALERT to the title...
Sorry....should have added BARF ALERT to the title...
Who/what is PFAW?
People For the American Way
“We must fight this! Tens of thousands of Wisconsinites have been protesting at the state capitol.”
Well, here’s the whole thing about union leftists, according to my experience.
First, they’re chickin-shit cowards.
Second, when you invite them to step outside, in a dark parking lot, they piss in their pants.
Third, the ones that howl the loudist have no idea what they’re defending.
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