Saturday, December 17, 2011

Another Republican,
promoting failed right wing policies
on his way out

bScott Walker and the Republican and Tea Party policies, backed by Koch Brothers money, have been a disaster for state of Wisconsin. People are unhappy not only with the unfair anti-middle class / pro-corporate direction of Walker and his lock-step Republicans sock puppets over union busting. The Republican policies have consistently and chronically FAILED to produce jobs or improve the economy.

This graph demonstrates just why it is so many of the voters in Wisconsin are signing up to get rid of the governor. They're also signing petitions in similar numbers to break the conservative majority in the state legislature.


This graph shows how Republican Governor Walker has performed compared to his predecessor Democratic Governor Doyle.  The longer Walker and the Republican majorities are in office, the greater the harm they are able to do to the economy and citizens.

It wasn't that long ago that there were doubts that enough signatures could be gathered in any amount of time.  It is worth noting that the number of signatures gathered and submitted is the quantity AFTER the bad signatures were checked and were not included in the totals.  In the past, petitions submit more than the required signatures to ensure there are sufficient names to meet the legal threshold for a challenge.

I have to wonder if in the photo Walker is gesturing for how high the numbers of Wisconsin unemployed are rising.


From Politico:

Scott Walker recall nears needed signatures

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is pictured. | AP Photo
Walker’s moves to restrict collective-bargaining rights spurred the recall effort. | AP Photo
A group trying to kick Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker out of office say they have gathered over half a million signatures on recall petitions — nearly enough to hold an election next year, according to a report Thursday.
The United Wisconsin coalition say they have collected 507,533 signatures as of Thursday, The Associated Press said. The group must have 540,208 by Jan. 17, and is aiming to collect more than 720,000 signatures to force a recall election of the Republican governor.
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“The people of Wisconsin have said enough is enough,” the state’s Democratic Party Chairman Mike Tate said, according to the AP.
The Government Accountability Board, which will then review the signatures, indicated Wednesday board members would consider names like Mickey Mouse and Adolf Hitler valid as long as they are properly dated and accompanied by a Wisconsin address.
Responding, the Wisconsin Republican Party announced Thursday that it had filed a lawsuit seeking to eliminate “patently false names” and duplicates from the petition.
Currently, it’s the responsibility of Scott Walker’s campaign to challenge any signatures they find suspicious within 10 days of the petition’s filing. The Wisconsin Republican Party says that means they would have the impossible task of examining and verifying more than 540,000 signatures in 10 days - averaging to over 50,000 signatures a day.
The lawsuit asks the court to direct the Government Accountability Board to “look for and eliminate facially duplicative signatures, patently fictitious names and illegible addresses during their careful examination of the petition.”
Republican Party spokesperson Ben Sparks also hit back against the signature collection itself, telling the AP in a statement, “We have no doubt the Democrats are rallying their left-wing base around their blatant power grab for the governor’s mansion.”
It is unclear when the recall election could take place if enough signatures are gathered, the AP wrote. But with potential court challenges, it is unlikely the vote could take place before May.
Walker’s moves to restrict collective-bargaining rights for public union workers in Wisconsin spurred the recall effort against the governor, and liberal activists also targeted a number of Republican state legislators. Two Republicans lost their seats in a summer recall election, but the party still controls the state Senate.

43 comments:

  1. Scott Walker's an asshole and the SKKKrotalMurKKKinPatriotiKKK Front loves him! What else do we need to know?

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  2. It's difficult to assign blame for unemployment numbers to any one politician or any one policy, especially since the former doesn't immediately respond to the latter. Would you care to show how Walker's actions are a cause of the current unemployment rate in Wisconsin?

    Whatever the case may be, Walker did move his state from no-issue to shall-issue, so he has one point in his favor.

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  3. "This graph shows how Republican Governor Walker has performed compared to his predecessor Democratic Governor Doyle. "

    Sure it does. /sarcasm off/

    In his 2003 State of the State address, then-Governor Jim Doyle said to the residents of Wisconsin, “We should not, we must not, and I will not raise taxes.”

    Eight years later, we finally have a state budget that appears to be living up to those words.

    When Doyle first ran for governor in 2002, he campaigned against a $3.2 billion structural deficit. When Doyle left office, he left a $3.3 billion structural deficit for his successor to solve.

    For the last state budget under Doyle, the state faced an even larger structural deficit. Rather than make the necessary cuts to deal with the continuing structural deficits, Doyle and the legislature actually increased spending by $3.6 billion.

    To pay for the increased spending, Doyle and the state legislature raised taxes by over $2 billion and allowed a local property tax increase of $1.5 billion. Even worse, the state budget used $3.4 billion of one-time federal “stimulus” money, including over $2 billion on existing programs.

    Want debt? There was plenty of that in the last budget. Doyle and the legislature increased borrowing to $3.58 billion. This is in addition to owing Minnesota $60 million for past due tax reciprocity payments, and owing the state medical malpractice compensation fund over $200 million because of illegal raids of that fund.

    Raiding the state’s medical malpractice compensation fund was not the only budget raid under Doyle. Doyle and the legislature raided the state transportation fund for $1.3 billion during his time in office.

    What a dramatic change in two years. The state budget that was sent to Governor Scott Walker Thursday night is a wholesale reversal of the kind of budgeting under Doyle and the previous legislature.

    Under the proposed budget, Wisconsin will actually have a budget surplus of $306 million. The current budget does it without a general tax increase, it freezes local municipal property taxes, and actually lowers taxes overall by $24 million.

    Legislators and Walker actually tackle the state’s debt by lowering it nearly $2 billion. When the legislature was told that the state expected $636 million more in revenue than previously estimated, the legislature on a bipartisan vote paid off the more than $200 million owed to the medical malpractice compensation fund.

    What the state budget does not do is raid the state transportation fund. Money for the state transportation fund was collected from the taxpayers in the form of gas taxes and registration fees with the reasonable expectation that such money would actually be used for transportation. Under the previous administration that was not the case. However, legislators and Walker again recognize not only the importance of the roads to commerce in this state, but also the importance of taxpayers trusting the state to use the money collected for the intended purpose.

    On education reform, the legislature also took steps in a new direction toward restoring Wisconsin’s position as a leader in alternative educational opportunity. School choice will now be expanded to the Racine County for the first time. The enrollment caps were lifted for choice schools and for public charter schools, including the state’s online charter schools.

    Already the impact of such responsible decisions is being felt. A recent survey by CEO Magazine has Wisconsin going from 41st in the nation in to the 24th most competitive state. A recent review of member attitudes by Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce showed 88 percent of them believed the state was headed in the right direction, while just a year ago only 10% said the state was headed in the right direction.

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  4. Greg Camp:

    You selfish fuck. You think that Walker's a hero because he letz you gunzloonz have your inanimate penis substitutes? Meanwhile he fucked the state employees--including all of the public school teachers--you are totally fucking braindead in addition to being a selfish fuck.

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  5. Actually, I don't approve of what Walker has done with unions. You're just confirming what I've known about you for while: If you don't like someone, you are incapable of seeing any good in that person.

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  6. Greg Camp:

    Your an asshole, Walker's an asshole; I'm sure you two would have a lot to talk about. Not that he'd waste his time speaking to some teacher he had laid off after gutting their union contract.

    But, no, it's all good, really. Just think how much better it is that all of those paranoid fucks up in WI can get all uparmed in case some uppity union scum or laid off teachers go all postal on their ass.

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  7. "In his 2003 State of the State address, then-Governor Jim Doyle said to the residents of Wisconsin, “We should not, we must not, and I will not raise taxes.”

    Eight years later, we finally have a state budget that appears to be living up to those words.

    When Doyle first ran for governor in 2002, he campaigned against a $3.2 billion structural deficit. When Doyle left office, he left a $3.3 billion structural deficit for his successor to solve.

    For the last state budget under Doyle, the state faced an even larger structural deficit. Rather than make the necessary cuts to deal with the continuing structural deficits, Doyle and the legislature actually increased spending by $3.6 billion.

    To pay for the increased spending, Doyle and the state legislature raised taxes by over $2 billion and allowed a local property tax increase of $1.5 billion. Even worse, the state budget used $3.4 billion of one-time federal “stimulus” money, including over $2 billion on existing programs.

    Want debt? There was plenty of that in the last budget. Doyle and the legislature increased borrowing to $3.58 billion. This is in addition to owing Minnesota $60 million for past due tax reciprocity payments, and owing the state medical malpractice compensation fund over $200 million because of illegal raids of that fund.

    Raiding the state’s medical malpractice compensation fund was not the only budget raid under Doyle. Doyle and the legislature raided the state transportation fund for $1.3 billion during his time in office.

    What a dramatic change in two years. The state budget that was sent to Governor Scott Walker Thursday night is a wholesale reversal of the kind of budgeting under Doyle and the previous legislature.

    Under the proposed budget, Wisconsin will actually have a budget surplus of $306 million. The current budget does it without a general tax increase, it freezes local municipal property taxes, and actually lowers taxes overall by $24 million.

    Legislators and Walker actually tackle the state’s debt by lowering it nearly $2 billion. When the legislature was told that the state expected $636 million more in revenue than previously estimated, the legislature on a bipartisan vote paid off the more than $200 million owed to the medical malpractice compensation fund.

    What the state budget does not do is raid the state transportation fund. Money for the state transportation fund was collected from the taxpayers in the form of gas taxes and registration fees with the reasonable expectation that such money would actually be used for transportation. Under the previous administration that was not the case. However, legislators and Walker again recognize not only the importance of the roads to commerce in this state, but also the importance of taxpayers trusting the state to use the money collected for the intended purpose.

    On education reform, the legislature also took steps in a new direction toward restoring Wisconsin’s position as a leader in alternative educational opportunity. School choice will now be expanded to the Racine County for the first time. The enrollment caps were lifted for choice schools and for public charter schools, including the state’s online charter schools.

    Already the impact of such responsible decisions is being felt. A recent survey by CEO Magazine has Wisconsin going from 41st in the nation in to the 24th most competitive state. A recent review of member attitudes by Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce showed 88 percent of them believed the state was headed in the right direction, while just a year ago only 10% said the state was headed in the right direction."

    You've got citations for all of this, I'm sure. Please furnish them.

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  8. The way I figure it, if I pay a portion of my healthcare, who gets the healthcare coverage? Me. Benefit, me.
    If I pay into my pension package, who gets that pension money when I retire, Me. Benefit me.

    Does everyone who pays into these benefits feel screwed by someone, because they are getting benefits.

    Who, exactly, did you say is selfish?

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  9. Anonymutt @11:21PM:

    What? You're saying that the monies you pay in to health insurance or pension funds are magically transformed into the sums required to pay huge medical bills or pay for some worthless old bastard to stay alive for twenty years fast his four score and ten?

    Or are you saying that you're selfish, but you got no problem with fucking everybody else who might benefit from a shared cost/shared benefit system?

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  10. In other words if you pay money into Social Security, you don't get that benefit. That's what you are saying, pendejo.

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  11. Democommie,

    You shouldn't make us think about worthless old bastards who cling to life. But if you can show me a healthcare system that will keep us all alive to the age of one hundred ten, I'll support it.

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  12. Wow that chart is straight out of "How to Lie with Statistics."

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  13. "In other words if you pay money into Social Security, you don't get that benefit. That's what you are saying, pendejo."

    pendejo? Oh, I'm wounded!

    Actually, Pinche idiota, I'm already getting the social security,
    I would say it sucks to be you, but you prolly have no problemo with that.

    Greg Camp:

    Son, if you make it to 62, get back to me about being worthless. Come to think of it, asshole, you could tell me now.

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  14. Actually, Pinche idiota, I'm already getting the social security,
    I would say it sucks to be you, but you prolly have no problemo with that.
    Tu madre, so you put money into a system and you get it back. splain it to me Lucy how this is any different than paying into a healthcare or pension plan at the state level, culo.

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  15. Democommie,

    This may be the only point of agreement that we can reach: You are not my father; I am not your son, and both of us couldn't be more pleased about that.

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  16. The gov should be kicked out on his ass.

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  17. This:

    "Anonymous said...
    In other words if you pay money into Social Security, you don't get that benefit. That's what you are saying, pendejo."

    and this:

    "Tu madre, so you put money into a system and you get it back. splain it to me Lucy how this is any different than paying into a healthcare or pension plan at the state level, culo."

    is a little confusing to me. Are you saying that the state employees were getting fucked when the state was paying into their retirement system and they were not? Cuz, if that's the premise, well, you're a fucking moron. "Non-contributory" plans of any sort are a bargainaing chip in the wage/benefit negotiations between unions and management (between non-union employees and management, there is no negotiating). When things like non-contributory retirement programs were initiated you can bet your sweet ass that management/the state agencies did a cba and found them to be doable.

    Where most employers fuck up in the negotiating process is the point where they make an assumption that the union and its members will be happy to get what they bargained for until it's no longer in the employers interest to keep them happy. Fucking contracts, don'cha just hate em! This, of course would be why a fuckbag like Scott Walker, in order to get some mouthbreathing constituency to sing his praises, would want to gut the public unions.

    Or did you have something else in mind, bub?

    I do notice that Scotty lacked the huevos to take on the police/fire unions. You can only imagine how beleaguered he'dafelt if the state house was surrounded by noisy (although not gun totin' or law breakin') crowds and the cops were all, like, singin' Kumbaya with the other unionists.

    BTW, since you're so sure you're right, you will be providing the numbers that show your argument to be correct, yes?

    Greg Camp:

    The word "son" was not meant as a term of endearment. Now, then, did you have something to say about the fact that Walker's an asshole whose only appeal to you and the other gunzloonz is that he panders to your delusional fantasies about teh armed hordes making it imperative for you to go about with a hogleg stuck in your sash? Or were you just flappin' your gumz to generate a breeze?

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  18. Democommie,

    Did I not say that I don't approve of what Walker did with regard to unions?

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  19. "Democommie,

    Did I not say that I don't approve of what Walker did with regard to unions?"

    Why, yes, Greg Camp, yes you did! the fact that it was 3 hours and 42 minutes after you made your first comment and a mere two minutes after my second comment might lead one to think that you were never going to say a fucking word about Walker's contemptible actions, so long as he was in your corner on the gunzloonery.

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  20. MAgunowner said...

    Wow that chart is straight out of "How to Lie with Statistics."


    Actually, it is not.

    While fact checking this news item before posting it here, I checked out sites like politifact.com for their analysis.

    This graph, which comes from the bureau of labor statistics, is correct, and not misleading, not a 'lie with statistics'.

    There has been no economic improvement by ANY metric that I can find under Walker's policies. But hey - if you have something factual instead of snark to add to the discussion, by all means post it here.

    I'm guessing you don't. Because none of the sources which claimed anything good under Walker and the Republicans policies that I looked at did well under the scrutiny of fact checking.

    But again - you have something I don't, fact check it yourself - because you know I will - and post it here as refutation.

    Otherwise, you have made a claim you can't back up. ie BULLSHIT.

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  21. Dog Gone,

    You do realize that the difference between the highest and the lowest number on that graph is six tenths of one percent, right? You do also realize that the numbers are between one and two percent better than the national average, right? In addition, you haven't shown how Walker's policies are responsible.

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  22. Democulo,
    Walker is simply redistributing their wealth. You either are fer that sorta thing or you aren't.
    Which is it?
    Do you oppose Obama care or are you fer it?

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  23. Actually, it is. The choice to not start the y axis at the origin exaggerates tiny differences. Deceptive.

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  24. Dog,
    Do you understand the importance of axis range now? Will you apologize for your rude response?

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  25. And can you give me the number of jobs lost that tiny difference as you call it equals?

    Or any of the other metrics which were used to measure the economic health /changes for the worse in Wisconsin?

    Otherwise I'm not persuaded that this is lying with statistics at all, but rather addressing a trend that had been going in the right direction and then started going the other way.

    Here's the thing, it is never a great idea to try to turn around unemployment by laying off or firing a bunch of government employees, either state or local.

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  26. I'm not sure you understand the issue with the y axis range...

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  27. I looked at more than this graph; I suggest you do the same before you assert lying with numbers.

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  28. "Democulo,
    Walker is simply redistributing their wealth. You either are fer that sorta thing or you aren't.
    Which is it?
    Do you oppose Obama care or are you fer it?"

    What, exactly, anonoputz is "Obama care"? Tell me what it is (I doubt that you actually know) and I'll let you know what I think of it.

    Redistributing wealth you say? well, let's see some numbers, genius. You can show them, yes?

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  29. Redistributing wealth you say? well, let's see some numbers, genius. You can show them, yes?""
    Yes, let's see what Walker redistributed from your whiney little friends. Post the numbers you senile old bat.

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  30. Anonyhole@4:46AM (another of weer'dybeardy's sockpuppets):

    As usual, you make a claim without any substance and then pretend it's on the other party to prove your contention.

    Didn't work then, won't work now.

    Scott Walker's a piece of shit and you braindead assholes are his natural constituency.

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  31. The very bitter Democulo said:
    "Redistributing wealth you say? well, let's see some numbers, genius."

    Numbers don't matter, it is the idea that either you support redistribution of wealth or you don't. Which is it?

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  32. Anonymous,

    Actually, the numbers do matter. The question of redistribution of wealth is a complex one, and there are varying degrees of redistribution. Public education, for example, when it works is a form of redistribution. So is public health care. So, in a sense, is our military, since we all share the expense of defending our nation. This isn't an all or nothing argument. It's a question of how much is effective and appropriate.

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  33. Greg,
    The redistribution of wealth by government is done by force, it is theft, it is not voluntary. The amount does not matter in the least.

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  34. So Anonymous, you must hate the Republicans for all that they have done over the past several decades or five to redistribute the wealth of the majority of us to the upper 1%, especially the uppermost fraction of 1% of the wealthiest. I guess if you're a conservative that works for you...because conservatives are really good at voting ideology even when it works against their own interests and the interests of pretty much everyone else.

    So, you WANT to see people like Walker turn us into a third world banana republic then? One of the characteristic<s of banana republics is a lack of people who form the middle class. They have a divide pretty much between a very few obscenely rich people and every body else.

    I use the word obscene to describe the wealth because that describes wealth that is largely accumulated by illegal and immoral means. If you have any doubts bout that I'd refer you to the fraud on Wall Street, insider trading and other similar dishonest behavior.

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  35. "The very bitter Democulo said:
    "Redistributing wealth you say? well, let's see some numbers, genius."

    Numbers don't matter, it is the idea that either you support redistribution of wealth or you don't. Which is it?"

    Shorter anonymutt:

    "I have no fucking idea what I'm talking about, but the puppetmaster who has his hand up my ass, whispered that in my ear.".

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  36. Anonymous,

    I think that Oliver Wendell Holmes said this, but it's a good shorthand line regardless: Taxes are the price we pay for civilization. Unless you favor total anarchy, we're really just debating percentages.

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  37. Dog Gone,
    Obama, is the one in bed with Wall Street. Who is his largest campaign contributor? Wall Street.
    The reason for this dying Middle Class is Corporatism.
    (Corporatism is a system where businesses are nominally in private hands, but are in fact controlled by the government. In a corporatist state, government officials often act in collusion with their favored business interests to design polices that give those interests a monopoly position, to the detriment of both competitors and consumers.)
    That is the definition I am using.
    No one political side has an exclusivity agreement to this, they are both guilty.

    Anonymous, I'm sorry, but I really can't take seriously a statement by a statist upholding the state.
    You can't seriously believe that if the income tax were abolished, anarchy would ensue.

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  38. The Oliver Wendell Holmes quotation comment is from me.

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  39. Ya wanna see intellectualism, "sucias sin lavar
    hippie....."


    And right back at you in advance DoC, right after you tell me how SW he fucked the state employees--including all of the public school teachers-- to make the public sector workers pay ~12% of their R,H&WF like every one else in the state of Wisconsin?

    And please don't cry about the collective bargaining strawman even the greatest president of the 20th century Writer of that great musical Executive Order 9066 Midwest vacations for you, because you do not look like me award: the musical US concentration camp for american citizens twenty-one months running, the greatest president ever FDR, said, "All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service."

    http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=15445#ixzz1h1Um51L6

    The unions were ready to throw the people under the but because when they were going to aquiese to the states demands as long as they did not take away CB.......

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  40. Tommy:

    Next time you go in for a refill of the shit that Rushbo and ilk shovel into your squash, tell 'em to back off on the torque values for the neck bolts; dude, chill!

    Scat Walker's been taped having a conversation with a person that he thought was David Koch. The Kochsuckers (and Walker soooooooooooo desperately wanted to be one) have been trying to derail unions, the EPA, the EEOC, OSHA, MSHA and any other agency or group that gets in the way of their continued and accelerating theft of the general public's resources.

    I do love the way that folks like you use FDR, Kennedy, Carter or anyone else that you can quotemine to say, "Hey, even the LIEBRALZ hate teh unions.". FDR, much like the sainted Founding Fathers (I can almost hear the harps!) was a man of his time. He was, in that instance that you quote, was replying to an inviation to speak at the 20th annual convention of the National Federation of Federal Employees. The entire text of the letter is here (http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=15445#axzz1h4t2SDDp). I doubt that Rush read the whole thing over the air--or at any other time.

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  41. Yeah he sounded really desperate......



    Transcript of prank Koch-Walker conversation.....

    http://host.madison.com/wsj/article_531276b6-3f6a-11e0-b288-001cc4c002e0.html

    And eff you you unwashed hippie.....

    I do love the way that folks like you use FDR, Kennedy, Carter or anyone else that you can quotemine to say, "Hey, even the LIEBRALZ hate teh unions.". FDR, much like the sainted Founding Fathers (I can almost hear the harps!) was a man of his time. He was, in that instance that you quote, was replying to an inviation to speak at the 20th annual convention of the National Federation of Federal Employees. The entire text of the letter is here (http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=15445#axzz1h4t2SDDp). I doubt that Rush read the whole thing over the air--or at any other time.

    You senile old effer, you obviously didn't read the same article you just accused me of quote-mining since....

    "Particularly, I want to emphasize my conviction that militant tactics have no place in the functions of any organization of Government employees. Upon employees in the Federal service rests the obligation to serve the whole people, whose interests and welfare require orderliness and continuity in the conduct of Government activities.

    Read more at the American Presidency Project: www.presidency.ucsb.edu http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=15445#ixzz1h8N8LcxE





    You don't read it and then threw my link back at me.... like you discovered somthing eff-you.....

    You are an illiterate unwashed socialist ass.....

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  42. And you do realize we are talking about government unions right grandpoo....

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  43. Tommy, tommy, tommy:

    What, "ef"
    and "effer" are supposed to be less pejorativethan "fuck" or "fucker"? You sound like another of those oh,so polite teabaggist assholes that say, "inner city criminal" instead of "nigger". Well, gee, Tom, fuck you, you blind fucking gunzloon.

    Unions are unions, you stupid son-of-a-bitch. Public or private sector, whether they are comprised of minimum wage retail/service workers, millionaire professional athletes, postmen, snowplow drivers, cops, firefighters, teachers or anyone else ALL represent the rank and file workers in labor negotiations, during contract disputes and whenever management attempts to take illegal actions against their union employees.

    You're obviously non-union, probably anti-union and yet you enjoy--unless you're self-employed--many if not most of the same benefits as those of us who are/were in unions. Those benefits include the minimum wage, paid/shared healthcare insurance costs, accomodations for all sorts of physical and other disabilities, paid vacations and holidays, pensions, protections from capricious/punitive actions by management and others.

    If it wasn't for unions, the average worker in this company would see the minimum wage as a MAXIMUM wage. Employers do not, in the main, give a flying fuck about their employees health and welfare. The actions taken by companies like Walmart, Lowe's, Home Depot, Verizon Wireless and other mega and multi-national firms (often illegally) to prevent workers in their employee from organizing is pervasive and ongoing.

    That public unions are prohibited by law, in most cases, from striking against government is a fact of life; one that the majority of them live with. Public unions are made up of private citizens, just like private sector unions. Public sector unions are organized for the benefit of their members, the same as private sector unions. When some asshole like Scat Walker decides to fuck state employees to boost his cred with the voters and the blowback hits him--it's simply political physics.

    ""Particularly, I want to emphasize my conviction that militant tactics have no place in the functions of any organization of Government employees. Upon employees in the Federal service rests the obligation to serve the whole people, whose interests and welfare require orderliness and continuity in the conduct of Government activities."

    Fuck you, tommy, you ignorant, arrogant clown. Roosevelt has been dead for 66 years. The world changes, obviously some PEOPLE don't--and the words of the dead can't change.

    "to make the public sector workers pay ~12% of their R,H&WF like every one else in the state of Wisconsin?"

    Really? Citations?

    The problem with your thinking and that of many others is that you want to have what unions bring to the workplace--but not the unions, themselves. You want state workers to be less protected than other organized workers and, considering your attitude towards the public sector employees you'd likely be perfectly happy with a mid 18th century employer/wage slave model.

    I suggest you go up to some firefighters or cops at an accident scene or other "workplace" that they're at, or perhaps a nurse at a county hospital and tell them that they don't deserve anything in the way of protections, benefits or reasonable wages for the work they perform. Better yet, wait till your house is on fire or you have some other tragedy befall you.

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