Democratic lawmakers and unions in Wisconsin are rejecting the notion that civility is important in politics.
From WISN.com:
State Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald has ordered the Wisconsin State Patrol to round up Democratic state senators who did not show up when the Senate was called to session Thursday morning to vote on a bill stripping public employees of collective bargaining rights.
Republicans are pushing the bill proposed by Gov. Scott Walker. Thousands of people clogged the halls of the Statehouse for a third straight day in opposition.
Observers in the balcony shouted “Freedom! Democracy! Unions!” as Republicans tried to start debate.
Freedom, Democracy….Unions???
Governor Walker says “Bottom line, the state’s broke.”
But…they don’t care if the state goes broke, you see. That’s the problem here.
From Discover the Networks:
Because government workers get their money not from a free marketplace but from taxes, their unions have a large incentive to advocate on behalf of political leaders who support higher taxes and bigger government, which can, in turn, produce an ever-greater number of public-sector union jobs. As pollster Scott Rasmussen explained in the Wall Street Journal, “Public-sector workers want government to grow first, and the overall health of the economy isn’t as relevant to them.” This mindset translates into overwhelming public-sector union support for Democratic politicians who will block efforts to reduce government and to lower taxes. Indeed, public-sector union money constitutes the lifeblood of the Democratic Party.
And because union money is so important…Democrats in Wisconsin are going where the money is by not showing up for work.
Here they (the unions) are, in the video below, demanding basically, when it boils down, that the system go broke instead of their having to pay a 5.8% contribution to the pension fund…and most of them are paying nothing already….whereas most people who work pay more than 5.8%.
Here they (the unions) are, in the video below, demanding basically, when it boils down, that the system go broke instead of their having to pay a 5.8% contribution to the pension fund…and most of them are paying nothing already….whereas most people who work pay more than 5.8%.
So its class warfare you GOP are playing at? Because the UNION workers get better benefits than the unionized wage slaves that means the Union workers should also take a pay cut?
FIGHT THE POWER!
The first thing tyrants do when taking power is not ban guns but rather ban independent labor unions.
Independent Labor unions are what brought down the Warsaw Pact.
Here they (the unions) are, in the video below, demanding basically, when it boils down, that the system go broke instead of their having to pay a 5.8% contribution to the pension fund…and most of them are paying nothing already….whereas most people who work pay more than 5.8%.
What's the problem with these Union assholes contributing their fair share? They are government asshole sucking on the taxpayer teat.
Unions have a right to organize under freedom of speech and assembly and they can negotiate as a collective with their employers.
They can protest all they want. They also need to take pay cuts. There is no reason that people who are struggling should be forced to pay for their benefits. We simply cannot afford it anymore. If they don't like it fire them all. I'm sure other qualified people would happily take their places.
If they did keep the right to collective bargaining. Any deals should be put to the voters to approve. The voters are their employers.
