I don't know if anyone posted this already, I've been away for at least a week.
However, Scotty Walker's A$$ is grass!!
Wisconsin recall petition gets over 1 million signatures; Democratic challenger Falk steps forward - The Washington Post
I know that Scotty and many or even most on the RW didn't expect such a LOUD denouncement of his radical hard-RW policies.
There is sure to be a re-election now, and none of their Big Corporate money could stop the juggernaut of the Will of the People!!
YES!!!!
Democrats have REPEATEDLY insisted they have the best interests of public unions foremost -and I absolutely believe them. Everyone should believe them. Along with immediately realizing it also means they do NOT have the best interests of taxpayers foremost as those who PAY for every cent involved. Democrats have repeatedly said THEY represent the best interests of those public unions (after all, they must since they exist as Democrat money laundering operations.)
Democrats CAN'T represent the best interests of both because that is a clear conflict of interest and have already said which they put first -and it ain't us. Democrats do NOT have MY best interests foremost -because they have repeatedly said they have the best interests of those who get paid with MY money first! Public unions support Democrats because they have created a mutually masturbatory relationship using TAXPAYER money which is then funneled back and forth between them for their mutual benefit. The group entirely fucked over every step of the way - is all taxpayers who get stuck paying for all that corruption and nothing to show for it except a quality of service that is inversely correlated to the power of the public union involved!
You are truly nuts. Apparently you think this is actually a fight between public unions and the governor -as if they work for HIM. Sorry -the governor is just somebody who took an oath to represent the best interests of the PEOPLE of Wisconsin. You know, the people these public unions actually work for. They work for the people of Wisconsin -not the governor, not ANY governor. When they go on strike, they are striking against US -the PEOPLE. They are holding a service WE paid for hostage as if they own it -not WE THE PEOPLE who actually paid for it. They work for the people who pay their salaries, pay for their extremely generous benefits and pay for their overblown pension the average taxpayer will never have -and they even pay for their union dues which are then used for entirely POLITICAL purposes. Something I have NO doubt Democrats would SUDDENLY want all sorts of legislation to ban if it were Republicans involved in this disgustingly corrupt relationship using taxpayer funds to do it.
Public employees are NOT slaves, there is no gun to their head forcing them into a cushy government job, they are NOT "down trodden" severely exploited slaves being mistreated by some rich, fat jet setting dude. WE are the employers! And the average taxpayer makes LESS and has far fewer benefits and cushy pension than the average government employee. WE are the exploited -and it is Democrats and public union thugs doing it.
So the people of Wisconsin are being told by public union thugs to make a decision about who REALLY owns the Wisconsin state government including the public school system. This is ENTIRELY about WHO OWNS IT. That is the REAL question facing the people of Wisconsin with this recall. Public union thugs, with the help of their Democrat lackeys they bought and paid for -are claiming it belongs to public unions. NOT the people who actually pay for it. Scott Walker, by stripping any privilege to strike when it comes to public unions in Wisconsin - said it belongs to those who paid for those services and public unions should NEVER be able to deny any government service to the people of Wisconsin who PAY FOR IT. From your own post I guess you think it belongs to public unions too. How ...extremely un-American of you.
I pay taxes for my child's public school -so who REALLY owns his education? Public unions are claiming THEY own the public school system I paid for and therefore they own my child's education and are claiming THEY have a right to deny him that education in spite of the fact taxpayers paid for it ALL. And they claim they have a right to deny him that education unless I cave to ANY of their extortionist demands because they HAPPENED to get HIRED. THEY are claiming because they managed to get hired, it means THEY now own it. Not those who foot all the bills for it.
What is REALLY going on in Wisconsin is this: Public union thugs and their Democrat lackeys are insisting that in Wisconsin, it is those being paid with taxpayer dollars who own government and own all government services and NOT the people who actually paid for it. That those who live off the public trough actually own it all and even have a "right" to deny all taxpayers that service unless THEIR demands to get even MORE benefits and money the average private sector employee does NOT get - are met. And apparently you are such a useful idiot, you think this is the "WILL OF THE PEOPLE"? You SERIOUSLY think people believe government employees own our government and should be able to hold us all hostage and deny us that service at THEIR whim?
Then why aren't federal public unions allowed to strike? Or public unions in most states? If you think government employees in Wisconsin own state government and should have the power to deny us a service WE paid for -then shouldn't federal public union members also be able to do the same? Doesn't that mean THEY actually own our federal government too and NOT we the people who pay for it?
Things are out of whack when a public service job pays better than the comparable job in the private sector -it should ALWAYS pay a little less and anyone with any critical thinking skills should be able to immediately explain WHY that is! I think there should be a formula set in stone that only allows any public sector job to be paid a set percentage of what a comparable job in the private sector would pay to insure it never gets turned on its head. WE OWN OUR OWN GOVERNMENT!
Anyone who doesn't like what a government job pays -should ******* QUIT, join the REAL world and get a job in the private sector and help share the burden of paying for these services. There has NEVER been and never will be a shortage of people waiting in line to take their place no matter the government job.
BTW -getting the signatures was the easy part. Seriously -which is why a bunch of politicians were recalled but only 2 Republicans lost their seat -one in a heavily Democrat district where it was unusual he even won the first time out, and the other only lost because of his own personal peccadilloes that came out right before the recall election that was cited as the reason people voted against him in the recall -but NOT because of his stand with regard to public unions. Getting people to actually AGREE with you that they wish Walker had balanced the budget by raising taxes on them and had not kept their best interests foremost instead of the best interests of the bloated, filthy rich, greedy public unions who NEVER have the best interests of the state first no matter what -will be a totally different story.