Posted on 02/28/2011 9:04:47 AM PST by fightinJAG
Reuters) - Wisconsin's Republican Gov. Scott Walker said on Monday that absent senate Democrats have 24 hours to return and vote on a measure to reduce the power of public sector unions or the state will miss out on opportunity to refinance its debt.
"Now they have one day to return to work before the state loses out on the chance to refinance debt, saving taxpayers $165 million this fiscal year," Walker's spokesman Cullen Werwie said in a statement.
"Failure to return to work and cast their votes will lead to more painful and aggressive spending cuts in the very near future," the statement said.
Walker's budget proposal has sparked nationwide protests from labor unions who fear it could be a harbinger of things to come in other states. To balance the state's budget, Walker wants to require public sector employees to pay more for pensions and health care, and to strip their unions of bargaining rights except for wages up to the rate of inflation.
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Fire them all. the teachers who have been absent, the legislators who fled the state, the union thug bosses who only want more for themselves and don’t care about the state, the teachers or the children. Fire them all!
So what’s $165 million in taxpayer money compared to the marching orders of their union puppet masters? They will only return if their puppet masters allow it.
The squeeze is on. If ya can’t get ‘em by law, get ‘em by attrition.
THIS is HARDBALL, and I like it.
sounds like a great reason to PERMANENTLY lay people off (and blame the democraps)
DO IT~!!!
Hurrah! Yes, governor we, the majority, the law abiding, private section people of USA are 100% behind you. If the legislatures don’t want to work, then fire them and get some who do.
Such as: cutting off their pay, credit cards, mobile phones, et cetera?
AM, I feel this qualifies for breaking. If not, please demote.... this is a big effing deal, no matter your decision. :)
Is there such a thing as “contempt of Legislature”? There must be some legal remedy for elected officials who refuse to go to work and do their jobs......
I think you’re right.
Who is bankrolling this scofflaw escapade anyway? The unions, no doubt.
Tea Party v. Flee Party. Bring it on.
“Yes, governor we, the majority, the law abiding, private section people of USA are 100% behind you.”
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True, but the Left’s trump card has long been the liberal judges they have been allowed to put in place. Can’t some Commie in black robes simply overrule Walker’s actions?
Regarding the will of the people, see Fag Marriage.
Scott Walker is my hero.
He needs to go Reagan on the lot of them.
Get on tv and explain that since it has been over ‘x’ amount of time since people have left their jobs, he is now considering the positions to be vacant.
Unless they come back within 24 hours, the positions will be filled by competent workers. Period. Then put a call out for teachers and start the process to replace the legislators.
They’ll be back in a NY minute.
By the WI Constitution the governor can call special elections for vacant seats... Imagine if he would do so stating that “the seats *ARE* vacant because their duly elected representation have fled the state.”
Oh, the ‘controversy’ that would spark!
*insert maniacal laughter*
These legislators are not representing their American consstituents. It is obvious who they are serving, and should be fired on the spot, IMHO.
$165 million of OPM,
or your kneecaps.
Fair warning has been given (over and over). Time for the axe and the blame must be placed squarely on the shoulders of the dims AND the unions.
What a crop of hardcore GOP Governors we have in place now. Just wonderful and amazing. Imagine adults, doing the jobs they were elected to do, and the kindergarteners throwing their temper tantrums.
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