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Title: Littwin: Wisconsin risk paid off
Source: Denver Post
URL Source: http://www.denverpost.com/littwin/ci_17586864
Published: Mar 13, 2011
Author: Mike Littwin
Post Date: 2011-03-13 10:05:03 by lucysmom
Keywords: Unions, Republicans, Wisconsin
Views: 1319
Comments: 3

A strange thing happened in Wisconsin. Stranger than the 14 Democratic senators — fleebaggers, somebody called them — who left the state for weeks. Stranger than the sight of cops dragging protesters — none of them, unfortunately, wearing cheeseheads — from the state Capitol.

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Yes, this time the reviled teachers unions won. And the lazy/parasitic — your choice — state employees unions also won.

OK, they didn't technically win. In fact, if you want to be technical about it, the bill that passed in Wisconsin means the unions lost in every conceivable way. They lost on bargaining rights. They lost on automatic collection of dues. They lost so badly they now have to recertify yearly.

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They won because when they lost, people actually cared that they lost. It was, as they say in the sports world, a moral victory. And for Republicans, this was, as they say on Greek battlefields, a Pyrrhic victory.

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#1. To: A K A Stone, hondo68, Fred Mertz, Godwinson, go65, war, no gnu taxes, Skip Intro, ferret mike, jwpegler, brian s, mcgowanjm, The Blue Cat (#0)

They won because when they lost, people actually cared that they lost. It was, as they say in the sports world, a moral victory. And for Republicans, this was, as they say on Greek battlefields, a Pyrrhic victory.

This guy has it exactly right, unions and Democrats won.

You have the courage to tell the masses what no politician told them: you are inferior and all the improvements in your conditions which you simply take for granted you owe to the efforts of men who are better than you. Ludwig von Mises in a letter to Ayn Rand

lucysmom  posted on  2011-03-13   10:09:26 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: lucysmom (#0) (Edited)

A few years ago Governor Daniels of Indiana eliminated bureaucrat collective bargaining. People were outraged and his poll numbers dropped into the 30s. A couple of years later, he was overwhelmingly reelected.

If Walker's actions help Wisconsin and city governments close their budget gaps and create jobs, he'll be a hero. If not, he'll be a crap head. It's just that simple. I'm betting on the former.


"Everything that can be invented has been invented."-- Charles Duell, Commissioner of US Patent Office, 1899

jwpegler  posted on  2011-03-13   14:56:43 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: jwpegler (#2)

If Walker's actions help Wisconsin and city governments close their budget gaps and create jobs, he'll be a hero. If not, he'll be a crap head. It's just that simple. I'm betting on the former.

We'll see.

You have the courage to tell the masses what no politician told them: you are inferior and all the improvements in your conditions which you simply take for granted you owe to the efforts of men who are better than you. Ludwig von Mises in a letter to Ayn Rand

lucysmom  posted on  2011-03-13   15:30:23 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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