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DISGUSTING… WI Progressives Blame Scott Walker For Teacher’s Suicide
Gateway Pundit-Right Network ^ | 3-19-2011 | Jim Hoft

Posted on 03/19/2011 1:19:33 PM PDT by smoothsailing

DISGUSTING… WI Progressives Blame Scott Walker For Teacher’s Suicide

by Jim Hoft

Saturday, March 19, 2011, 1:35 PM

These People Are Disgusting…

The far left is using a woman’s suicide to attack Governor Scott Walker.

The Progressive, a liberal website in Wisconsin, reported this week that a Wisconsin teacher committed suicide because of Governor Scott Walker’s union bill. The website says she was “distraught” to learn that she was going to have to pay 12.6% instead of 6% of her insurance premium...

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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Philosophy; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: suicide
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To: Dilbert San Diego

I’m thinking Zoloft, Chantix, Lunesta, et al.

Or, in the alternative, liberalism is a mental disorder and we needn’t go any further.


101 posted on 03/19/2011 5:29:33 PM PDT by Ouderkirk (Democrats...the party of Slavery, Segregation, Sodomy, and Sedition)
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To: Soothesayer

I know. I was married to one. There were some days ya just wanted ta ....


102 posted on 03/19/2011 5:40:55 PM PDT by ReverendJames (Only A Painter Or A Liberal Can Change Black To White.)
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To: mazda77
Not 12% of gross salary, 12% of the PREMIUMS for her insurance.

Almost 90% of the school districts in WI get their insurance from THE TEACHERS UNION. It's a bloated, cadillac policy that can cost upwards of $10,000 a year more for a family plan than a comparable plan with a different carrier.

In other words, it's money laundering for the union, and due to collective bargaining, most districts have not been able to shake this very expensive cost.

So....say a top of the line insurance plan is $28K for a family. An additional 6% of that would be about $140 a month, or $1680 per year.

Now, under Walker's plan, school districts could kill the WEA Trust insurance monopoly and look for a more cost saving carrier (WITHOUT REDUCING THE UNBELIEVEABLE BENEFIT STRUCTURE THE SPOILED BABY TEACHERS ARE USED TO: no copays, no deductibles, etc.)

So, say they found a comparable plan for $20K - now we are talking an additional $100 per month.

BUT WAIT--THERE'S MORE!

Walker's plan also gives teachers the CHOICE to opt out of paying union dues. Say she's paying $80/month for that. So we're down to TWENTY dollars a month. Skip Starbucks once per week and done!

103 posted on 03/19/2011 5:43:24 PM PDT by Mygirlsmom (WI Pubs 1 : Fleebaggers ZERO!)
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To: smoothsailing

Union leader thugs or just those underpaid teachers who cannot have Care, perks except on the Public dole??? My bet is , it is the Thug Leaders though the Left always can use smears to make its point. Disgusting.


104 posted on 03/19/2011 6:08:31 PM PDT by phillyfanatic
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To: bgill
Well, I’m sure Palin also had something to do with it...

Yeah, and Jeb Bush had no business letting that tsunami get past Florida either... We know all about that secret weather machine in Dick Cheney's basement...

105 posted on 03/19/2011 6:40:35 PM PDT by Sir Francis Dashwood (Arjuna, why have you have dropped your bow???)
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To: smoothsailing

That teacher probably was nowhere near retirement.

Why not blame the union leadership and the 14 fleebag senators for playing chicken and losing? Nope libs never blame their friends when they f**k things up.

My God most private workers would love the deal teachers work under, even with the changes. They are so much better off than regular workers. The fact they think they are victims shows how detached from the real world the rest of us live in.


106 posted on 03/19/2011 7:18:19 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: smoothsailing
Whatever. One less twisted sickie skank to pervert her students.
107 posted on 03/19/2011 8:00:42 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: bigbob
Wow. That's $90,000 that Jefferson County won't have to shit-hole every year.
108 posted on 03/19/2011 8:05:01 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: bgill
Gee, we went thue bankruptcy, foreclose, laid off all my workers no heath insurance, owe back taxes, used up all our IRA, am a Realtor in this market, and that guy kills himself,

GEES!

109 posted on 03/20/2011 1:31:54 AM PDT by factmart
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To: Tony O
I guess she lost all her Union rights?
110 posted on 03/20/2011 1:34:33 AM PDT by factmart
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