Title: Max Keiser on Revolts: Americans Joining Middle East Uprising Trend Source:
RT URL Source:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7Usl1v7u40&feature=related Published:Feb 21, 2011 Author:Max Keiser Post Date:2011-02-24 16:47:47 by Godwinson Keywords:None Views:11370 Comments:22
Max Keiser on Revolts: Americans Joining Middle East Uprising Trend
RussiaToday | Feb 21, 2011
Dozens of people have been reported killed in the Libyan capital Tripoli overnight as violence continues to spread across the country. Key administrative buildings have been set on fire, with thousands of anti- government activists still on the streets calling for an end to the 41-year rule of Colonel Gaddafi. To find out more about how the Middle East upheaval is impacting global economic patterns, we're joined live now by RT's financial guru Max Keiser...
Nope, we're seeing what happens when a majority wakes up.
ROTFLMAO!!!!!!
No, this is what happens when Democrat sacred cows are skewered.
70% of Wisconsin residents agree with the governor's proposal to make teachers pay more of their benefits. They also agree with the governor that the government shouldn't automatically withhold union dues from teacher's paychecks. Even Lawrence O'Donnell on MSNBC understands this.
The vast majority of Americans also want to be able to fire bad teachers, pay great teachers more, and have a choice on where to send their kids to school. The NEA blocks all of this.
This ENTIRE uproar is about withholding union dues, which amount to $1,000 a year per teacher in Wisconsin. The unions are afraid that if the dues are not automatically withheld, that many teachers will refuse to pay.
Union force versus teacher freedom -- that's the issue.
Only 6% of private sector employees are unionized. The last stronghold of the unions are in monopolistic government bureaucracies. Those monopolies are about to fall. Good riddance.
A poll purporting to show broad support in Wisconsin for Gov. Scott Walker's (R) budget proposal made the rounds today, popping up on at least one Wisconsin news site and getting a mention on MSNBC.
"BREAKING: Poll Shows 71% of Wisconsinites Think Walker's Budget Changes are 'Fair'," screamed the release from the poll's sponsor, the conservative-leaning Franklin Center For Government and Public Integrity, based in Alexandria, VA. More on all that from TPM's Eric Lach here.
The poll was quickly picked up, making an appearance on the WisPolitics.com news site and getting a shoutout on MSNBC dayside.
There's only one problem: the poll actually shows more Wisconsin voters are on the side of the pro- union protesters and their Democratic allies than back Walker and the Republicans.
Should Wisconsin’s state employees and public employee unions have collective bargaining powers?
A.) The vast majority of people support making teachers pay more for their benefits.
B.) A slight majority has bought into the Union's and Democrat's distortion about this ending collective bargaining. Once people figure out the real truth, people will line up behind the governor has well. The real truth is that unions will still be able to collectively bargain for their salaries, but not bargain over work rules that have made the bureaucrats very unproductive. Indian has already done this as have the auto companies.
Everyone with half a brain across the political spectrum knows that there is something terribly wrong with America's schools. The only people who don't care are the NEA leaders, lazy tenured teachers, and the Democrat politicians who get billions of dollars of campaign contributions from these people.
This is the beginning of the end of the NEA monopoly over (and destruction of) our kid's education. It's about time.
A.) The vast majority of people support making teachers pay more for their benefits.
So do the teachers unions, which accepted that concession a long time ago.
B.) A slight majority has bought into the Union's and Democrat's distortion about this ending collective bargaining. Once people figure out the real truth, people will line up behind the governor has well. The real truth is that unions will still be able to collectively bargain for their salaries, but not bargain over work rules that have made the bureaucrats very unproductive. Indian has already done this as have the auto companies.
Poll after poll, even those conducted by Republicans, shows support for collective bargaining. The gop couldn't get a poll result they liked, so they invented one.
Do you not realize that Walker is doing to Wisconsin what Bush did to the United States?
Do you not realize that Bush accelerated domestic spending with the 2002 highway bill, Medicare Part D, No Child Left Behind, etc. plus two foreign wars, while Walker is cutting spending?
Increasing spending and cutting spending are not the same.
I like you, but you appear to be completely clueless sometimes. Are you not aware that back in January Walker pushed through a package of tax cuts and spending increases totaling over $120 million?
And then he blames the unions for the budget mess.
