The new governor of Wisconsin, Scott Walker, has hit the ground running, pushing through legislation that he promised during his campaign at lightning speed.

Wouldn't it be nice to see something like this in Washington, CD, in January 2013. (That is if you are not Stumbles or Kimi)




http://lacrossetribune.com/news/loc...cle_09f0bdf4-24a7-11e0-8c2f-001cc4c03286.html

MADISON — On Wisconsin’s highways, work crews are still changing the road signs that feature his predecessor’s name. But in the state Capitol, Scott Walker is already breaking the speed limit.
In the last few days, the new Republican governor has been ramming through the state Legislature an agenda that changes the state’s tax structure, provides new legal protections for businesses and reorganizes a major state agency. In rapid-fire fashion, complicated issues that normally occupy months of debate are going from bill to hearing to law.
“Everything’s coming out in a breakneck pace,” said Robert Kraig, a lobbyist since 1999. “I’ve never seen anything like it.”

 

Business,business,business,,,makes a healthy state.

 

Looks like the Wisconsin legislature has picked up the gauntlet thrown by the governor.

This is happening in more that a few states and IMO is about time. Unions for public employees are facing the end, of what they thought was a bottomless money pit that they have mined for decades. Time to get real and to end the public/private wage and benefit gap.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=12946800

 

Sure, tenguy. The solution to this country's problems is for working people to make less money, have fewer benefits, and lost collective bargaining rights. Right?

 

Nope, the solution for many of the problems of this country is to reduce the waste in government, all government.

The end is nigh Kimi, the hog trough where the greedy have fed is being removed.

 

Workers of Wisconsin, accept your lot in life! You're days of making a decent living, with decent benefits, are over! Join the race to the bottom, because only when you're reduced to poverty will Tenguy and his greedy friends be happy.

 

Workers in Wisconsin (and California) get ready to be paid what you are worth and not what your union has blackmailed from the government.:excited:

Yes, when the end comes to the wasteful spending on ridiculous public employee union contracts, I will rejoice in song.

 

Strong unions anywhere raise wages everywhere, because non union shops have to pay more to compete with the higher wage levels of union shops.

 

....And of course, unions are benevolent organizations that only have the best interests of their members at heart.......they don''t see a dime of the money, or expect anything in return for their efforts, cause they are the real saviors and good guys in the three ring circus called union shop employment.

 

Union Workers Earn More Than Nonunion

American workers who are members of unions earn significantly more per hour than their nonunion counterparts, according to a report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).

Data from the BLS National Compensation Survey shows that in July 2002, average hourly earnings among all union workers were $20.65, compared with $16.42 for nonunion workers.
In 2002, full-time wage and salary workers who were union members had median usual weekly earnings of $740, compared with a median of $587 for wage and salary workers who were not represented by unions.

http://usgovinfo.about.com/cs/jobsemployment/a/unionwages.htm

 

I think this conservative/Republican/Tea Bagger attempt at union busting, which is actually a national effort that surfaced first in Wisconsin, is going to backfire, and Governor Walker will be exposed as the crook and liar he really is.

Especially once it becomes better known that Wisconsin had a budget surplus that Gov. Walker squandered on special interests for the sole purpose of trying to bust the teacher's union.

That's what made the Wisconsin democratic senator walkout not only so courageous but also important because it gives the protesters more time to make their case known.

You can read all about it right here.

http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/republican-governor-deliberately-spen#comment-1779791

 

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All the promises made by the government in the past cannot be kept the money is just not there.

The American people are taxed to the hilt and are not going to stand for it anymore.

Would the unions rather the states go belly up and then they get nothing at all??

 

Taxes are higher, and unions are stronger in countries that have been less effected by the Great Recession, and that are recovering faster.

http://www.forbes.com/2009/04/09/tea-party-taxes-opinions-columnists-bartlett.html

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/lab_tra_uni_mem-labor-trade-union-membership

http://www.bls.gov/ilc/intl_unemployment_rates_monthly.htm

 

Wisconsin

The binding arbitration rules in Wisconsin allowed the union for public workers to use private wages to argue for their wages and so were set based on what the private sector go. The pension and health care was given instead of higher wages. Now that the economy has slumped wages in the private sector have gone down. The state can go to the unions and negotiate the same as the industry did with those unions.
To just unilaterally take away rights and not even offer to negotiate is simple being a bully. That is what some want and so that is why we have the current government.
There are still some good people left, well not right now as they are in Illinois, that do not think this is the proper way to govern.
Before you say more about the pension fund you best check it out. Wisconsin has one of the best and it is fully invested in the market. When the market was really good both parties benefited. In Wisconsin many state employees have had wages frozen for the past several years.
No matter what I am sure there are those that will cheer for the union busting.
It is all a matter of GREED, the attitude of “I got mine and you can go to hell” is the current force driving this country and I see it here. In America the true golden rule is “he with the gold rules” and not the so called Christian one.
I keep hearing the little voice in the back of my head about the meek inheriting the earth, ya right a poisoned burned out chunk of rock covered in bodies and blood.
Oh well have to go and march in Madison.

 

i will join you, i heard on the radio last night that one of the governors is requesting that govt employees contribute to their own retirement like the private sector, the govt employees held protests and such. this just goes to show just how greedy govt employees are.

 

Stick it to em Wisconsin, boycott as long as needed

Anyone who disagrees is not a real American, so FUCK YOU

 

Man are you out of touch. Union membership is falling faster than Kimis panties and the private sector jobs have non-union making more than union wages. Plus in those cases where the higher wages were cut by foreign factories, the union jobs simply vanished.

In the public sector there is no competition, therefore the higher wages simply make for waste and redundancy.

 

Another person who is out of touch with reality.

Wisconsin was the most liberal state in the union. They pioneered the onrush of organized labor, they also pioneered the welfare state.

Now guess what, the liberals took a beating there for the last several elections, a solidly Democratic state has turned the corner to the right.

You have lost the fight, you just haven't realized it yet.

 

The government employees can work for comparable wages and benefits their counterparts in the private sector receive or they can find themselves without wages as the till runs dry. Does no good to be in a union if you bankrupt your state's coffers. It's going to be interesting to see states across the country follow suit while the federal government remains mired in unsubstainable spending. Something is going to give, which way we shall see.