Just about every headline I have read about the proposed budget changes in Wisconsin mentions Collective Bargaining "rights". I am NOT the sharpest tack in the box, and after extensive Google searches, can find no LAW that stipulates such rights. What am I missing?
The United States Constitution - The U.S. Constitution Online - USConstitution.net
Obviously this is a document you have never read -because there is NO SUCH RIGHT in there! Are you really that stupid you think the Constitution guarantees a "right" to collective bargaining? In a document written by a couple of hundred people and voted into existence by a nation who all believed in the rights of the INDIVIDUAL? Are you for real? Hate to break it to you -there is no such thing as a "right" to collective bargaining! But my, what another FINE example of what kind of education we can expect in our public schools! ROFL
Personally I think collective bargaining for government employees on ALL levels of government should be banned! Nobody is holding a gun to these people's heads telling they must take a job in government rather than the private sector. They don't like the pay at that job -do what everyone else does when faced with that situation! Government employees should NEVER be in a position to even threaten to shut down any part of government unless they get what they want -much less actually do it and still keep their jobs. Striking government employees should be fired just like Reagan fired air traffic controllers for their illegal strike. It isn't THEIR government to shut down and hold 350 million people over the barrel trying to BLACKMAIL THEM. These teachers have forced the closure of Wisconsin public schools for three days now -and they had NO RIGHT to do it. Government employees are not allowed to legally strike FOR A REASON -which is why teachers had to call in "sick" to do it. I want them ALL DOCKED for the ILLEGAL shutdown of public schools and their illegal leave of absence -and if it continues, they deserve to be fired for it. And how DARE they take kids to demonstrate there as if they OWN those kids as their little goons! It is OUR government, these are OUR schools paid for with OUR taxes and WE pay their salaries and none of them are getting paid for a phony "sick out" so they can go demonstrate what greedy little fuckers they really are. They don't like the proposed terms for continuing to work there -then go get a job in the private sector and good luck with those way out of line benefits then! It is NOT "their" government (or their schools) to shut down -or blackmail the rest of us with threats to do so. They don't own it -its OURS. THIS is why it should be illegal for government employees to unionize because they exist to try and blackmail us into footing the bill for salaries and/or benefits that are way out of line with comparable jobs in the private sector -and blackmail is exactly what these unionized government employees are trying to do now. These teachers don't give a flying **** about the KIDS -everything they do and everything their union does is for the benefit of teachers only and they will ALWAYS continue doing so even when it is at the expense of what is in the kids' best interests. And THIS is just more proof of it.
The salaries of many government employees on both the state and federal level are incredibly OUT OF LINE with the private sector and the benefits of groups like public school teachers are OUTRAGEOUSLY way out of line with the private sector as well. Wisconsin public school teacher benefits are FOUR TIMES HIGHER than the average taxpayer footing the bill for them earns. Taxpayers should NOT have to pay government employees better than they get themselves in the private sector! Let's not pretend here -government employees are NOT the "best and brightest" among us. Typically they are at the other end. (Do you really think that inefficient, slow moving individual sitting behind the desk at the license bureau got that job because they are soooo much smarter than you?) And that includes a whole lot of public school teachers - and THEY know it - which is why they so vigorously resist any effort to hold them accountable for the SHITTY JOB they do politically indoctrinating our kids -oops -"teaching" our kids. After all -they were able to so effectively teach about our own nation and its history that Ravi was left believing our Constitution somehow magically and without even saying so -guarantees a "right" to collective bargaining!! ROFLMAO! Oh sorry Ravi, that one still has me both laughing -and angry. A document written to SPECIFICALLY protect the rights of the INDIVIDUAL -and you emerged from public school believing it is a document that somehow provided for "group" rights after all. Unbelievable. (If all individuals have identical rights, then there is no need for "group" rights because every member of that group already has the same rights as the rest of us. Pretending there is even such a thing as "group rights" is just an attempt to get MORE than everyone else has
and at the expense of everyone else. That is no American value -so I would never expect to find that "right" or anything remotely like that anywhere in our Constitution. And apparently this comes as a real surprise to you -but it isn't.)
The idea that getting hired by government gives them the right to hose taxpayers for outrageously out of line salaries and/or benefits is ridiculous. Politicians are NOT contract negotiators and expecting them to do a good job of that when most leave office a few years later anyway is ridiculous -which is why government employees should NOT be able to use professional union thugs to bargain for them. NEVER is the concern about what is best for EVERYONE and when it comes to what is paid for by taxpayers, it should be. The sole concern of union negotiators is about their group only -while ******* over everyone else as much as possible and pride themselves on how much they **** over everyone else. Watching these greedy assholes demonstrating and now Obama sending in his campaign apparatus organizations to help make things even worse is stomach turning -but is proof why all unions for government employees should be dissolved and banned for good. And any government employee who objects to that should go get a job in the private sector and good luck with pulling this kind of stunt there!
Obama and the national DNC, both of which have sent operatives and related organizations to Wisconsin
to flame the fires and make things worse -have NO business interfering in Wisconsin's government affairs! The Democrats who are hiding out in order to prevent a vote are violating their oath of office in a flagrantly ANTI-DEMOCRATIC stunt. Let's you know what they REALLY believe in -and they do NOT believe in our system of government but one in which an "elite" get to blackmail and impose their will on the majority! Wisconsin voters WANT this law pass and elected the people who ran on the promise of doing this. So by refusing to show up to prevent the up or down vote, these asshole Democrats believe THEY have the greater right to deny the people of Wisconsin from getting what they voted for in November and to silence their voices and illegally impose the will of the minority and BLACKMAIL us and force us to bend to THEIR will instead. This WILL be remembered in 2012! These protesting morons are the very same poor quality citizen ILK we saw demonstrating in Greece and elsewhere -acting as if they just throw a big enough temper tantrum and try to blackmail the rest of us that they can just FORCE their will on the majority. The voters turned over control of Wisconsin state government to Republicans who RAN ON THE PROMISE of doing exactly what they are doing now -getting control of the state government's out of control spending without raising taxes. And it is Democrats both on the state and national level now trying to prevent the people of Wisconsin from enacting the very laws THEY want! I don't see this as being a winning strategy come 2012 since the majority of the people everywhere -are not with the blackmailing, temper tantrum throwing, greedy assholes here.
I am so sick of hearing these greedy whiny ass HOGS insist it will be kids who suffer unless teachers are allowed to continue raping taxpayers for a level of benefits that is 4 times higher than the average person gets in the private sector or will ever get in their lifetime to go along with teachers being able to duck being held accountable when they do a crappy job to go along with the job security that doesn't exist in the private sector. BULLSHIT. I'm sorry but exactly HOW will kids suffer unless teachers don't receive outrageously high benefits at taxpayer expense in a country where we already spend more per child in the school than anywhere else in the entire world (most to pay for the out of line pay and benefits of public school teachers in the first place) with little to show for it since US kids CONTINUE to fall behind more and more other nations every year -all of which spend a fraction of what we do? If they feel they just can't teach even at the shitty level they already are today unless taxpayers are on the hook for benefits that are 4 times greater than those who are footing the bill giving them a combined salary/benefit schedule that more than twice the average in the private sector -then they are in the wrong profession and need to find a job in the private sector and live in the real world. If I hear anyone insist public school teachers are underpaid one more time I will throw my own temper tantrum. They are THE single most OVERPAID and UNDER-PERFORMING group of government employees anywhere -and that says a lot considering I'm comparing them to even those at the license bureau and they still come up short! The adage "those who can do, and those who can't TEACH -is true FOR A REASON. Benefits, shortened work year of 9 months and salary and benefits combined means the average Wisconsin public school teacher is making more than double the average salary/benefit in this country. Yet teachers STILL whine and like to hold themselves out as "victims" insisting they are underpaid. Total bullshit -government employees USED to make slightly less than what they would have earned for the same job in the private sector -but now earn FAR MORE than the comparable job in the private sector and it has to stop.
Getting hired by government has turned into just another ENTITLEMENT PROGRAM we can't afford. In spite of these greedy asses and their enablers out demonstrating like this -the people of Wisconsin and the people of the nation are NOT on their side and are utterly REPULSED by this behavior. As we ALL should be and the majority will also remember who was behind it and who supported it come November 2012.