Test for Public Unions: Wisconsin - Page 2

GrayMouser · 11-08-2011, 11:55 PM

Congrats to voters in Ohio for rejecting anti-union laws 62%-38%

Gwaimir Windgem · 03-02-2011, 11:37 PM

I got this joke from a friend of mine:

Quote:

A union member, a CEO, and a member of the Tea Party are sitting at table. In the middle of the table there is a plate with a dozen cookies on it. The CEO reaches across and takes 11 cookies, looks at the Tea Partier and says, "Look out for that union guy, he wants a piece of your cookie."

***Valandil*** · 03-03-2011, 12:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gwaimir Windgem

I got this joke from a friend of mine:

Was this the CEO of the cookie factory?

Gwaimir Windgem · 03-03-2011, 01:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Valandil

Was this the CEO of the cookie factory?

One can only assume.

brownjenkins · 03-09-2011, 11:15 PM

The devil is in the details... just one of many collective bargaining points he wants to remove is the ability to debate class size. Imagine cutting costs by changing the student to teach ratio from 20 to 1 to 40 to 1.

If he had any balls he'd do what they did in Rhode Island and just lay off and rehire all the government workers at more reasonable terms. The power is in his hands, but he'd just rather take the easy route of avoiding point by point confrontation.

Insidious Rex · 03-10-2011, 03:52 PM

Well they forced through a vote by taking money language out of the bill. They ignored a statute that calls for 24-hour notice for public meetings and held a hurried quick vote among only republicans which passed 18-1. A lot of people are really ticked. Some say what they did is illegal or at best "political thuggery in its worst form." Will be interesting to see what happens next. The democrats will certainly try to find a way to block the bill if they can and support for mass recalls are developing in earnest.

inked · 03-13-2011, 08:19 PM

Oh, the pain and the agony are just beginning and not just for WI.

Insidious Rex · 03-15-2011, 01:40 PM

So now Scott "Napoleon" Fitzgerald has unilaterally decided that none of the votes of the senate democrats will count until he chooses to rescind the order declaring the democrats in contempt. This has been widely panned as extremely undemocratic (trying hard not to throw around the term "fascist" like the tea partiers like to do...) and possibly illegal. Apparently stripping democratic supporters of their ability to bargain wasnt enough of an attack on democracy. Now he alone will decide who gets to vote and who doesnt. And he has decided ONLY republicans get to vote. And the MILLIONS of Wisconsinites represented by democratic legislators will no longer have a voice so says Fitzgerald.

Honestly, can you republicans/tea partiers still really be supporting this guy and his extremist actions and then turn around and complain that Obama is a fascist and is against the Constitution? The hypocrisy is colossal...

The Gaffer · 06-12-2011, 11:54 AM

Agree 100%.

The cuts agenda is ruining the recovery.

11-08-2011, 11:55 PM	#1
GrayMouser Elf Lord Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Ilha Formosa Posts: 2,068	Congrats to voters in Ohio for rejecting anti-union laws 62%-38% __________________ Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep. Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come when you do call for them? "I like pigs. Dogs look up to us, cats look down on us, but pigs treat us as equals."- Winston Churchill

03-09-2011, 11:15 PM	#5
brownjenkins Advocatus Diaboli Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Reality Posts: 3,767	The devil is in the details... just one of many collective bargaining points he wants to remove is the ability to debate class size. Imagine cutting costs by changing the student to teach ratio from 20 to 1 to 40 to 1. If he had any balls he'd do what they did in Rhode Island and just lay off and rehire all the government workers at more reasonable terms. The power is in his hands, but he'd just rather take the easy route of avoiding point by point confrontation. __________________ Your reality, sir, is lies and balderdash and I'm delighted to say that I have no grasp of it whatsoever.

03-10-2011, 03:52 PM	#6
Insidious Rex Quasi Evil Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Maryland, US Posts: 4,634	Well they forced through a vote by taking money language out of the bill. They ignored a statute that calls for 24-hour notice for public meetings and held a hurried quick vote among only republicans which passed 18-1. A lot of people are really ticked. Some say what they did is illegal or at best "political thuggery in its worst form." Will be interesting to see what happens next. The democrats will certainly try to find a way to block the bill if they can and support for mass recalls are developing in earnest. __________________ "People's political beliefs don't stem from the factual information they've acquired. Far more the facts people choose to believe are the product of their political beliefs." "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

03-13-2011, 08:19 PM	#7
inked Elf Lord Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: sikeston, MO, usa, earth, sol Posts: 3,114	Oh, the pain and the agony are just beginning and not just for WI. __________________ Inked "Aslan is not a tame lion." CSL/LWW "The new school [acts] as if it required...courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that requires real courage to say, and that is a truism." GK Chesterton "And there is always the danger of allowing people to suppose that our modern times are so wholly unlike any other times that the fundamental facts about man's nature have wholly changed with changing circumstances." Dorothy L. Sayers, 1 Sept. 1941

03-15-2011, 01:40 PM	#8
Insidious Rex Quasi Evil Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Maryland, US Posts: 4,634	So now Scott "Napoleon" Fitzgerald has unilaterally decided that none of the votes of the senate democrats will count until he chooses to rescind the order declaring the democrats in contempt. This has been widely panned as extremely undemocratic (trying hard not to throw around the term "fascist" like the tea partiers like to do...) and possibly illegal. Apparently stripping democratic supporters of their ability to bargain wasnt enough of an attack on democracy. Now he alone will decide who gets to vote and who doesnt. And he has decided ONLY republicans get to vote. And the MILLIONS of Wisconsinites represented by democratic legislators will no longer have a voice so says Fitzgerald. Honestly, can you republicans/tea partiers still really be supporting this guy and his extremist actions and then turn around and complain that Obama is a fascist and is against the Constitution? The hypocrisy is colossal... __________________ "People's political beliefs don't stem from the factual information they've acquired. Far more the facts people choose to believe are the product of their political beliefs." "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

06-12-2011, 11:54 AM	#9
The Gaffer Elf Lord Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: In me taters Posts: 3,288	Agree 100%. The cuts agenda is ruining the recovery.

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