13,000 protest Governor's plan to change collective bargaining for public employees

This liberal was busy being pissed about property damage.

And publicizing idiotic acts like this to get ratings just encourages this kind of behavior.

government of the people, by the people, for the people

The only basic rights I consider are those afforded under the Bill of Rights. Your confusing what you think should be rights vs what are. If the will of the people wish to amend rights they will be added.

This isn't a monarchy. Ridiculous...it's not a basic right simply because you think it is.

30ashopper, you realize you are nothing but a rabblerouser and troublemaker. Government workers have a basic right to collectively bargain and it should not be infringed upon. I am a former public servant and had an absolute right to collective bargain...oh, wait, we didn't have collective bargaining in Oklahoma. We had an Oklahoma Public Employee's Association instead. Oh, and we had a merit system for hiring as well. Funny how those ignorant Okies seem to function much better than some of those elite cheeseheads in Wisconsin, isn't it? And I don't see any riots in the streets, either. I hope Florida follows Oklahoma's example and not Wisconsin's.

Justice Department investigating death threats against Sens. Fitzgerald, Kapanke - JSOnline

"We will hunt you down. We will slit your throats. We will drink your blood. I will have your decapitated head on a pike in the Madison town square. This is your last warning."

I blame Sarah Palin's map.

State Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald set everyone straight last night:

If we win this battle, and the money is not there under the auspices of the unions, certainly what you?re going to find is President Obama is going to have a much difficult, much more difficult time getting elected and winning the state of Wisconsin.

The worst that government employees will endure is a requirement that they pay 12.6 percent of their own health-insurance premiums and 5.6 percent of their own pension contributions. And they all will receive something of value: a regularly scheduled vote about whether to be represented by their unions, which often serve no one?s interests but those of the union bosses themselves.

And that is the real source of the rage on the left: Mandatory union representation, empowered by mandatory collective bargaining and mandatory dues deductions enforced by the state, creates an enormous flow of cash for Democratic political candidates and their pet causes. From 1989 to the present, five of the ten biggest donors to American political campaigns have been labor unions, including public-sector unions such as the National Education Association and the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees. The overwhelming majority of those donations go to Democrats. The union bosses and their Democratic patrons know that giving workers more of a choice about union representation will diminish that power and reduce that cash flow. That is what this is about, for all of the cheap talk about ?civil rights? ? as though federal employees in Washington were being treated like second-class citizens because their unions do not enjoy the same princely powers until now wielded by Wisconsin?s.

government of the people, by the people, for the people

The only basic rights I consider are those afforded under the Bill of Rights. Your confusing what you think should be rights vs what are. If the will of the people wish to amend rights they will be added.

This isn't a monarchy. Ridiculous...it's not a basic right simply because you think it is.

Gov. Scott Walker signed the bill Friday that repeals most collective bargaining by public employee unions.

He signed the bill privately in the morning and will hold a news conference later in the day to tout the signing and talk about the tumultuous past few weeks. Also Friday, Walker directed the Office of State Employment Relations to rescind layoff notices because the Legislature had passed the bill.

"The Legislature helped us save 1,500 middle-class jobs by moving forward this week with the budget repair," Walker said in a statement. "The state will now be able to realize $30 million in savings to balance the budget and allow 1,500 state employees to keep their jobs. The reforms contained in this legislation, which require modest health care and pension contributions from all public employees, will help put Wisconsin on a path to fiscal sustainability."

I thought the firefighters were big contributors to Walker and one of the few groups exempted from the recent bill. :idontno:

I thought the firefighters were big contributors to Walker and one of the few groups exempted from the recent bill. :idontno:

Walker signs budget-repair bill, rescinds layoffs - JSOnline

On the road to fiscal responsibility.

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I just read where the Wisconsin Firefighters came up with a peaceful way to inflict some damage on a bank whose executives and board members were among the highest donors to Gov Walker's campaign. This bank, Madison's M&I, also received almost $2 billion in bailout monies from troubled assets relief program.

They created a sort of tsunami of people taking $$ out of the bank - which closed early yesterday to stop it. Something close to $800,000 got moved out and no blood shed. ...:cool:
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