Flashback

How Come the teachernazies didn't put up a fuss over this? How about the Union thugs?Story #6: Flashback: WI Unions Didn't Riot Two Years Ago

RUSH: This also is an interesting story. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel from May of 2009. "Gov. Jim Doyle said Thursday..." We're coming up here basically on almost two years ago, May of 2009. Wisconsin "Gov. Jim Doyle said Thursday that the budget deficit has exploded to up to $6.5 billion -- a historic gap he wants fixed by laying off up to 1,100 employees, furloughing non-emergency workers eight days a year, rescinding 2% pay raises and making new cuts in aid to schools and local governments. Doyle said the $5 billion deficit he and lawmakers faced in March has soared because tax collections are running far below estimates." I wonder why. Could it be that recession? How's that hope and change working out for them there?

"The potential $6.5 billion gap will occur over a three-year period ending June 30, 2011." That deficit now is $3.6 billion, folks, in one year. "As many as 10,000 nonunion state workers, including University of Wisconsin faculty and academic staff, will not receive the 2% pay raise they had been scheduled to get in June... The state will ask union members to reopen contract negotiations to achieve a similar 2% in payroll savings, or about $36 million a year. If the unions don't negotiate the pay cut, about 400 workers would be laid off over the next two years." This is Wisconsin, Governor Doyle two years ago.

"A new cut of up to 5% will be made in state spending, which Doyle said will force the layoff of about 700 other workers. Deeper cuts from what Doyle proposed in February will be made in aid to public schools and local governments and on health care spending. The size of these new cuts won't be known until the Legislative Fiscal Bureau issues a report on state finances..." Now, let's get to the all important employee reaction. Well, again, this is from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel two years ago. The governor is a Democrat. It's a Democrat governor, asking for union givebacks or layoffs or firings or of what you.

"Union members realize they're not immune from bigger economic forces but would like to see private contractors who do business with the state to make similar concessions, said Bryan Kennedy, president of the American Federation of Teachers-Wisconsin. 'The state should assure that no contracting of work performed by state employees can take place while there is a hiring freeze or layoffs of state employees,' Kennedy said. Pocan, who leads the Joint Finance Committee with Sen. Mark Miller (D-Monona), called the crisis 'the economic version of a natural disaster.'"

Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Madison) "Pocan said lawmakers will look at other ways to fill the deeper budget hole." That's all you can find here on the union reaction. (paraphrased) "Okay, well, fine. We know we're not immune from these bigger economic forces. We'd like to see some similar cuts in the private sector," but that was the extent of it. So the previous Wisconsin governor Jim Doyle proposes layoffs, furloughs, and pay raise rescission to close the budget gap and all he got in return from the union was, "Union members realize they're not immune from bigger economic forces but would like to see private contractors who do business with the state to make similar concessions," and the Democrats did not get so the short bus and leave town.

Here it is: Representative Mark "Pocan, who leads the Joint Finance Committee with Sen. Mark Miller (D-Monona), called the crisis 'the economic version of a natural disaster.'" Two Democrats. So they didn't split the scene. Democrats didn't take the bus and go home. They didn't cry about it. They didn't bring a bunch of protesters into town. They didn't shut down the schools. They didn't call Obama to bring in Organizing for America. They didn't go out and get SEIU or other union rent-a-mobs. They just said, "Okay, well, yeah, we understand. We understand." So when a Democrat governor attacks public sector employees, it's not a big deal. So you see, folks, this isn't really even about the union people.

It's not about the teachers. You got a Republican governor here. This deal here in Wisconsin as far as the ramifications for 2012, you know what? We better pray for Governor Walker and we better hope this guy means it when he says he's sticking to his guns here 'cause this is the battleground for 2012. This is going to determine going forward the relationship between governments and unions, states and so forth, how much power the unions are gonna have. This is gonna determine... What happened in Wisconsin is gonna determine whether states in this country go bankrupt or not. It's gonna determine whether pensions and health care funds remain solvent or not.

Because if this union power is not checked here, if it's not stopped here -- because of the economic version of a natural disaster. This is worse now than it was in 2009 when the Democrats in Wisconsin were saying, "It's just the economic version of a natural disaster," it's worse than that now. That's why I think this is crucially important what's happening to Wisconsin. "As goes Wisconsin will go the country, so goes the nation," and Obama's election. That's why Jonathan Karl said in that sound bite, "If Obama loses this state in 2012..." That's why Organizing for America is there, that's why the union thugs are being bussed in, that's why they're teaching them how to be nonviolent. Yes, they have to teach them how to be nonviolent. They do.

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Story #7: Jackson Calls Wisconsin a MLK or Gandhi Moment

RUSH: According to the Communist Party USA and one of their publications, the Reverend Jackson called what is happening in Madison a Martin Luther King moment and a Gandhi moment. That's how the Reverend Jackson referred to what's happening in Madison, Wisconsin. What a sense of history the Reverend Jackson has.

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The Cost of Public Sector Benefits

This is why our Governor is passing this LAW. He knows the trouble that is coming but he also knows we are broke and it would be better to pass a law like this then have to lay off hundreds of public sector people because we can't afford to pay them. I had to give up ten hours a week which cost me about $5000.00 dollars a year. My husband had his wages cut by 17%, our health care ins. went up by $60.00 a month gas, food, heat etc. have all gone through the roof. If my family has to take a hit like this why not the Public Sector People who do not sell or manufacture anything and their exorbitant wages and benefits come out of my pocket. Read the link very carefully to see what you are paying them with your taxes.