Political Hippo Circle Jerk - America, farg YEAH!

[smeags]

-- Wisconsin State Assembly passes bill that curtails the bargaining rights of most state workers.

[Rome]

I swear to God there's going to be blood in the streets over this.  And not just in farmland either.  Rick Scott wants to do the same thing here in Florida and he wants to cut unemployment insurance from 26 weeks to 20 and make it easier for businesses to deny claims.

Blood in the streets, boys & girls.  Mark my words.

[smeags]

meanwhile state assembly people try to sneak through pay raises in the 11th hour and think voters wont notice.

[Diomedes]

Blood in the streets, boys & girls.  Mark my words.

With the greatest gap ever between rich and poor--a gap which on top of being the greatest ever, is also growing faster than ever--and constant attacks on the middle class, it's only a matter of time.  Unions will soon be a footnote of the past and working people will have literally no one--not even the admittedly flawed unions--going to bat for them.  Corrupt, millionaire lawmakers obviously don't give a damn.   Each individual will be facing pay cuts, benefit cost increases, unemployment, year after year after year.

Even as the bankers steal more and more of their money, and write the laws to call it legal.  

Blood in the streets won't be the answer though...it'll be poor whites killing poor blacks or mexicans and so forth, when it ought to be poor people killing rich people.  That kind of blood I'm beginning to hope for, I have to admit.  

In the meantime, I hope the women--men were for the most part exempted, suprise surprise--of Wisconsin walk off their jobs.  Go ahead and run your state without Nurses or Teachers.  I am willing to donate serious money--serious for me anyway--to support a fund to help those families move to places like Maryland, where we haven't yet taken the steep of demonizing them as blood sucking elitists.

[Rome]

If Scott's shenanigans approach Walker's we're out of here.  I already told my wife to get ready because we're getting the farg out while the getting's good.  shtein, I could move to any city in the northeast and make two or three times the pittance I get paid here anyway.  I don't care if I have to live in a zesty area for a while until we get back on our feet.  This place is literally a ghost town anyway and it's only going to get worse if they keep farging with the lower & middle classes.

[Susquehanna Birder]

People seem to miss that Wisconsin elected Walker and both houses. He's following through on his campaign promises, and he can do it because the voters made it possible. Let's see if there is a viable recall effort.

[Diomedes]

He did not campaign on busting the public sector unions that didn't support his election.

[Rome]

Tea Party fanatics can eat a Washington Monument sized cock for all I care.  They're farging with peoples' basic right of association here, and not only are they being permitted to do so, they're getting cheered on by the blind motherfargers who put them there.

And by the way, according to a recent USA Today/Gallup Poll, two out of three people in this country support the principle of collective bargaining.  Why don't the other third?  Because they're either incredibly rich (Koch Brothers, Cough!) or incredibly ignorant.

[Susquehanna Birder]

He did not campaign on busting the public sector unions that didn't support his election.

Like I said...let's see how the recall effort goes.

[Susquehanna Birder]

And by the way, according to a recent USA Today/Gallup Poll, two out of three people in this country support the principle of collective bargaining.  Why don't the other third?  Because they're either incredibly rich (Koch Brothers, Cough!) or incredibly ignorant.

The problem lies in the oversimplification of the question. The whole "collective bargaining" concept is a pretty tricky minefield.

[Diomedes]

Like I said...let's see how the recall effort goes.

I can tell you right now how it will go:  fiasco.

[Diomedes]

One argument made by people who support Walker's move against the unions is this:  Union members salaries are paid by the tax payer, a part of which goes to union dues, which in turn go to support this candidate or that, who once elected give kickbacks to the union.  A cycle of theft from the taxpayer, in which the unions are so powerful they elect sugar daddys who have made them the "haves," with "luxury" health care and "generous" pensions,  is the argument.

If that's the case, why does Walker exempt any public sector unions at all?  Why do they happen to be the ones that supported his election?  And if the unions are so powerful, how did Walker and his gang of Republican friends in both houses of the state legistlature manage to get into power? 

Something doesn't add up.

Nevermind the fact that once again, middle class working people are being demonized as the cause, or at least the pocketbook to be plundered in order to pay for, the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.  A crisis workers neither caused nor benefited from, unlike the upper class. 

Corporate bonuses are up though, bankers are doing great, military contractors having good times. Yay America.

[MDS]

fox's ratings are good, too

[Munson]

One argument made by people who support Walker's move against the unions is this:  Union members salaries are paid by the tax payer, a part of which goes to union dues, which in turn go to support this candidate or that, who once elected give kickbacks to the union.  A cycle of theft from the taxpayer, in which the unions are so powerful they elect sugar daddys who have made them the "haves," with "luxury" health care and "generous" pensions,  is the argument.

If that's the case, why does Walker exempt any public sector unions at all?  Why do they happen to be the ones that supported his election?  And if the unions are so powerful, how did Walker and his gang of Republican friends in both houses of the state legistlature manage to get into power? 

Something doesn't add up.

Nevermind the fact that once again, middle class working people are being demonized as the cause, or at least the pocketbook to be plundered in order to pay for, the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.  A crisis workers neither caused nor benefited from, unlike the upper class. 

Corporate bonuses are up though, bankers are doing great, military contractors having good times. Yay America.

You will be happy to know you're being quoted on my facebook for this.

Great post.

[ice grillin you]

it has absolutely nothing to do with unions or budgets...republicans dont care about either

its all about elections and the right wing moral agenda

all fall the tea party and the pubs railed on and on about spending and out of control budgets...and since taking over the house they have do nothing except to limit/abolish womens rights and along with it abortion



two things over the last five years have happened within the right wing that go hand in hand

one is to not pass and/or roll back any campagin financing laws and the other is to abolish unions...put these two things together and you might never see a democratic majority in either side of congress for the rest of our lifetimes

and once this starts happening watch the christian right try to take over this country...i wouldnt wanna be brown or black gay or female poor or middle class a single mother or a homeless man when that happens