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A Sneak Attack By Militant Labor (WI Dem tells GOP rep. "you're F'n dead")
Boston Herald ^ | March 1, 2011 | Michael Graham

Posted on 03/01/2011 10:24:24 AM PST by suspects

Even the traditionally liberal Washington Post has figured it out. Yesterday’s headline read: “Ohio, Wisconsin shine spotlight on new union battle: Government workers vs. taxpayers.”

Not “middle-class vs. wealthy” or “struggling school teachers vs. billionaire Koch brothers.” No, the real fight is between public servants and the public they allegedly serve. The sentimental story line that unions are “friends of the workin’ man” is unraveling.

Typical Americans, including the blue-collar brand, aren’t fans of threats and violence coming from government union mobs. In Wisconsin, it’s Democratic state Rep. Gordon Hintz telling GOP Rep. Michelle Litjens, “You are [expletive] dead” after she voted for Gov. Scott Walker’s budget.

Here in Massachusetts, it’s Gov. Deval Patrick’s director of the Department of Labor: “Make no mistake about it,” George Noel said Saturday, “we are at war!”

And if the tax-getters are at war, who are they at war with? Tax-payers, obviously.

Liberals trying to play the “class warfare” card in Wisconsin have always been wrong on the facts. Public sector employees in Milwaukee are like their counterparts across America — they get paid more than most of their neighbors. Their average teacher’s salary is $56,500, while the average household income — the entire household — is $42,950.

It’s the same here in Massachusetts, where the median household income is $65,000, while the average Boston teacher makes $80,000 — plus benefits. Those benefits bring the total to well more than $100,000 in compensation a year, including great health care and a “defined benefit” pension that the average Bay State family can only dream about.

Six-figure salaries and benefits...and these government union workers are declaring war on us? They should be buying us drinks and offering back rubs.

I believe it’s because they just don’t get it. Protected, unionized government workers still don’t grasp...

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: democrats; hateful; rancor; rhetoric; threats; unions; wisconsin; wisconsinshowdown

1 posted on 03/01/2011 10:24:29 AM PST by suspects
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To: suspects
I believe it’s because they just don’t get it. Protected, unionized government workers still don’t grasp how tough the economy is for the 85 percent of Massachusetts workers who aren’t union. Instead, they live in a parallel economic universe.

I first realized this when the people in Washington called themselves "public SERVANTS" and said we should be grateful for their "service" , because they could make more in the private sector..

It has been a long time since any of them looked for a REAL, NON POLITICAL job

I would like to see the Senate take a pay cut to bring them more in line with what the average American lives on

2 posted on 03/01/2011 10:35:36 AM PST by RnMomof7
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Remember when Dick Cheney told Chris Dodd to go eff himself? It was like the end of the world. But its OK for the lefties to threaten death.


3 posted on 03/01/2011 11:12:14 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Leahy not Dodd I beleive.


4 posted on 03/01/2011 12:00:47 PM PST by Jonah Johansen ("Coming soon to a neighborhood near you")
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Leahy not Dodd I beleive.


5 posted on 03/01/2011 12:00:47 PM PST by Jonah Johansen ("Coming soon to a neighborhood near you")
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