For wasting $80 million on a frivolous, special-interest group recall for nothing! What a waste of money to get bitch slapped.
Posted from Rivals Mobile
Posted from Rivals Mobile
Thank You Wisconsin
- Thread starter SPK145
- Start date
I hope this gets the unions to start thinking with their head instead of their ass. For American companies and taxpayers to be competitive, you need to make reasonable deals something most unions have not figured out. The current state is not sustainable and is the #1 reason why so many private jobs have gone overseas. In Wisconsin's case it shows how state worker union deals and pension deals are not sustainable and the people of Wisconsin actually get it which is a major breakthrough. Good for them!
A pretty major blow to unions in general in my opinion. I am not a big fan of unions though I don't think getting rid of collective bargaining rights is a great thing either.
The only problem I had with Walker is that it seemed the unions agreed to all of his demands, and he went a step further. His goal wasn't to fix Wisconsin, it was to make a statement which is even louder now.
Hard to call this a special interest "loss" though. Look at all of the money that came in to support Walker from other states. This was a special interest win.
The only problem I had with Walker is that it seemed the unions agreed to all of his demands, and he went a step further. His goal wasn't to fix Wisconsin, it was to make a statement which is even louder now.
Hard to call this a special interest "loss" though. Look at all of the money that came in to support Walker from other states. This was a special interest win.
People should be allowed to collectively bargain if they want and people should be allowed to NOT collectively bargain if they want. Employers should be allowed to bargain with unions if they want and employers should be allowed to NOT bargain with unions if they want.
This was clearly more of a loss for the unions special interest (look at all they did nationally in this) than a special interest win for fiscal discipline.
The funny thing I always hear from unions is when they call anything against unions an attack on the middle class. They are right but for the opposite reason than they'd have you believe. The middle class is the one that pays most of their salaries and benefits, whether it be in the public or private sector!
What?
The election was not "government's" fault, but rather the unhappy democrats and their union buddies who they answer to. Attack the teacher's union and you attack all unions [even though the firefighters& cops were exempted in Wisc.) We'll show those bad republicans whose boss. {Cowardly hiding in Ill. for weeks went well for the Dem. senators trying to stall the legislation].
They tried to oust a supreme court judge and FAILED. Next they tried ousting/recalling republican state senators and FAILED. What gave them the bright idea the recall of the governor would succeed? They couldn't even get their union hand picked candidate to win the primary to face the governor. Oh yeah, forgot that the head of the firefighter's union [whose union was exempted in this legislation] lost in his bid t be Lt. Governor.
Trifecta for the unions, whose power has been on the decline since they couldn't locate Jimmy Hoffa in Giants Stadium's end zone years ago.
PS. Union pensions took a major hit in two big California cities yesterday. In California? Yep, even there the're limits to deficit spending.
