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Breaking: Wisconsin's Walker to absent Democrats: 24 hours to return
Reuters ^ | Feb. 28, 2011 | David Bailey

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: Wisconsin
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To: arrogantsob

You may be correct. I hope so...the article didn’t state that it was being done to lower the debt rate..I read it as refinancing ( “rolling over”) a debt because the $$ wasn’t there to pay it off...unless he cut the state payroll...


241 posted on 03/01/2011 9:35:17 AM PST by ken5050 (Admin Moderators rule!!!!)
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To: fightinJAG

LIBERAL MADISON JUDGE ORDERS CAPITOL REOPENED FOR PROTESTORS

http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/govt-and-politics/article_b6b140fc-4425-11e0-89a1-001cc4c03286.html


242 posted on 03/01/2011 9:37:13 AM PST by Wisconsinlady (DEFUND NPR, PBS, THE TSA AND THE U.N.)
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To: Wisconsinlady
LIBERAL MADISON JUDGE ORDERS CAPITOL REOPENED FOR PROTESTORS

Let's reverse things for a minute. If the Dems were in charge there and tried to prevent republican and independent protestors from entering the capital, would that be okay with you?

Aren't we all to supposed to have access? Just asking?

243 posted on 03/01/2011 9:45:33 AM PST by Netizen
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To: Palladin

Sounds like a great idea...until China and Russia decide to attack the South.

Then its not such a great idea.

The north would join with Canada (and Canada being ruled by Communists would have them) and give us the three fingered salute.


244 posted on 03/01/2011 11:01:00 AM PST by Soothesayer9
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To: netmilsmom

The Disaster that is Detroit does not apply to Wisconsin nor would it be possible to fire and hire thousands of teachers in any reasonable length of time. In the Detroit case the school closures won’t be within the next few months but beginning next year at the earliest. In the Wisconsin case you would be talking about assembling entirely new staffs within days or weeks. Totally unrealistic.

It is a moot point in any case since the teachers are back in school.


245 posted on 03/01/2011 12:19:42 PM PST by arrogantsob
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To: Palladin

State legislatures are even worse than the federal. Many are a refuge for corrupt loons. Compared to these guys Congressmen are geniuses.


246 posted on 03/01/2011 12:23:15 PM PST by arrogantsob
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To: ratsreek

The only way she leaves is if the House votes here out and that won’t happen in a million years. Remember the Senator who had a stroke or something disabling and he was out for a year or so.

If all the RAT Congressmen were vegetables it would be a great improvement in Congress.


247 posted on 03/01/2011 12:26:04 PM PST by arrogantsob
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To: drellberg

Fifty per cent of Americans pay no federal INCOME tax (probably state as well). They do pay other taxes: sales, liquor, utility and property.


248 posted on 03/01/2011 12:30:21 PM PST by arrogantsob
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To: arrogantsob
State legislatures are even worse than the federal. Many are a refuge for corrupt loons.

Which is why I'm always suspicious of those "Repeal the 17th Amendment" arguments.

249 posted on 03/01/2011 12:40:47 PM PST by Bubba Ho-Tep ("More weight!"--Giles Corey)
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To: fightinJAG

Just checkin in. Is the 24 hours up yet?


250 posted on 03/01/2011 12:44:04 PM PST by jersey117
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep

I understand that concern but even the Illinois legislature (which must be among the worst in the nation) could not select worse Senators than those the People have routinely sent to the Senate. Seriously has there ever been a worse Senator than Carol Mosley Braun or Urkle?


251 posted on 03/01/2011 12:46:53 PM PST by arrogantsob
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To: Luke21

Nah, I rarely pay a toll and never really “have to”


252 posted on 03/01/2011 12:49:27 PM PST by arrogantsob
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To: EDINVA

What a crop of YOUNG, hardcore GOP Governors we have in place now.

The GOP has 12 under 55...

Bobby Jindal.......39
Nikki Haley........39
Scott Walker.......43
Brian Sandoval.....47
Sean Parnell.......48
Butch Otter........48
Chris Christie.....48
Matt Mead..........48
Susanna Martinez...51
Rick Snyder........52
Bill Haslam........52
Sam Brownback......54

The Rats have only three under 55...

Martin O’Malley....48
Jack Markell.......50
Andrew Coumo.......53


253 posted on 03/01/2011 12:50:50 PM PST by proudpapa
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To: proudpapa

Looks good for the future.


254 posted on 03/01/2011 12:53:38 PM PST by arrogantsob
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To: proudpapa

Looks good for the future.


255 posted on 03/01/2011 12:53:50 PM PST by arrogantsob
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To: arrogantsob

Well, there was William Clark of Nevada, of whom Mark Twain said, “”He is as rotten a human being as can be found anywhere under the flag; he is a shame to the American nation, and no one has helped to send him to the Senate who did not know that his proper place was the penitentiary, with a ball and chain on his legs. To my mind he is the most disgusting creature that the republic has produced since Tweed’s time.”


256 posted on 03/01/2011 1:04:24 PM PST by Bubba Ho-Tep ("More weight!"--Giles Corey)
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep

LoL, don’t get on Mark Twain’s bad side.


257 posted on 03/01/2011 1:15:56 PM PST by arrogantsob
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To: arrogantsob
Clark pretty notoriously bribed the Nevada legislature to secure his place in the senate. Interestingly, his daughter is still alive at 104 years old, and there has been some controversy about how her lawyer has been handling her affairs.

Huguette Clark

258 posted on 03/01/2011 1:36:53 PM PST by Bubba Ho-Tep ("More weight!"--Giles Corey)
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To: arrogantsob

>>nor would it be possible to fire and hire thousands of teachers in any reasonable length of time. <<

You’re kidding right?
Look, I’m a Homeschooling Mom. I’ve seen people who can’t think themselves out of a paper bag, watch children educate themselves by K12 Virtual School. With the internet, and on the school’s computers, those teachers would be obsolete. All they would have to do is contact K12 and they would be set up in a day.

http://www.k12.com/wiva/home

Reagan didn’t hesitate to fire Air Traffic Controllers and replace them. You think teachers can’t be replaced? They can, in a heartbeat my FRiend.


259 posted on 03/01/2011 2:30:41 PM PST by netmilsmom (Happiness is a choice.)
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To: Netizen

Look, we had the only poll that counts, at the ballot box in November. Teachers, firefighters and policemen all knew that the good times were coming to an end. They took the chance when they supported Obamacare and the stimulus bill and they lost. They bet on the wrong horse.

The ONLY real support that Obama had for Obamacare came from the government unions and the politicians they support. As Obama famously said, “Elections have consequences, we won.” Those union people had a good thing going for themselves, but they pushed too far. Obamacare is just the last straw.


260 posted on 03/01/2011 3:13:41 PM PST by Eva
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