Uncle Patso says:

Note the carefully phrased character assassination of master of political slash-and-burn rhetoric #3 1873 Colt when he said, in part:

“[...] And the out-of-state Union thugs? Disgraceful conduct.
The teachers? Hell! I don’t get all summer off and free medical for life!
Firefighters? Cops? I don’t get to retire at 51 at 100% of my highest salary including overtime!
Most workers slave all their careers, and survive on social security and medicare. [...]”

Notice the careful tailoring of adjectives — no actual person belongs to a union, only thugs and fat cats. No one in a union ever works, and they’re all rich! rich! rich!

He may have misstepped in specifically calling out the firefighter and law enforcement unions, as they were specifically exempted from the parts of the bill denying public unions collective bargaining power. Since they supported Governor Walker’s campaign, they are not targeted. (Yet.)

I may have missed something — just who gets to “retire at 51 at 100% of my highest salary including overtime!”? The obvious implication is that it is all union members, or at least all public sector union members.

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# 19 jbenson2 said:

“Walker’s not the one in trouble. The Wisconsin budget is the problem and giving more money hand over fist to the unions won’t do a thing to solve the problem. Cry all you want, but public unions’ days of gimme, gimme, gimme are over.”

I might put more credence in your hypothesis if the unions Walker is trying to destroy hadn’t agreed to the give-backs he demanded, but that wasn’t enough for him. His purpose is not to balance the budget, but to bust the unions.

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From
http://truthdig.com/report/item/what_gov_walker_wont_tell_you_20110220/

What Gov. Walker Won’t Tell You

Posted on Feb 21, 2011
AP / Andy Manis

By Stanley Kutler

There is a kernel of truth in Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s claim of a “budget shortfall” of $137 million. But Walker, a Republican, failed to tell the state that less than two weeks into his term as governor, he, with his swollen Republican majorities in the Wisconsin Legislature, pushed through $117 million in tax breaks for business allies of the GOP. There is your crisis.

The state Legislature’s Legislative Fiscal Bureau—Wisconsin’s equivalent of the Congressional Budget Office and a refuge for professional expertise and nonpartisanship—warned Walker and the Legislature that the measure would create a budget gap. There is your shortfall—and not one resulting from established public employee benefits. Before the tax giveaways, the fiscal agency predicted a surplus for the state.

So what says:

“Just as Democrats argue not buying health coverage is engaging in interstate commerce…so also not committing felonies, is committing felonies…

Arrest them, lets see if Holder objects!”

OK Alfie I tried to follow that statement, I really did. But, what the fuck?

pedro says:

#78 Riiight. You’re never a hypocrite. Everyone else is.

Taxed Enough Already Dude says:

You all miss an elegant point…the Democrats forced legislation down the publics throats while they screamed no.

In response to their tyranny, the public voted them out massively.

To continue their tyranny, they now stop the democratic process where winners enact the legislation they promised their voters they would…

So the public is still being tyrannized by Democrats, albeit now they are a minority.

If Republicans harp on their subversion of the democratic process, their tyranny…next election won’t be a rout, it will be a slaughter with hardly a Democrat winning, unless he is a DINO blue blood.

Taxed Enough Already Dude says:

#88 “So what’s brilliant rebuttal of the misuse of the commerce clause like what Obama did in Obamacare”

“No alfie, again your not getting it, the usual stoopid idiotic posts prove you are stoopider than there are stoopids. Alphie, youse is so stoopider, stoopidest stoopid who ever practiced stoopidity…youse so stoopid you don’t know how stoopid you is, every stoopid remark stoopider than the stoopid that went before, you out stoopid yourself, stoopid…

I really tried to see your rationale this time, stoopid, but you out stoopid yourself again.

MikeN says:

Uncle Patso, the tax cuts have nothing to do with the budget deficit, as tey are for different years’ budgets.

tcc3 says:

#90 Teadud

What a broken record. It always skips right over the part where it deals with how to solve the problems with privatization.

tcc3 says:

#94 TeaDud:

I’ve been round and round with you on this already. You’ve got nothing. Here’s what you refused to respond to last week:

1. There is typically a gap between the value of a voucher and the cost of private education. A voucher program only helps to reduce the cost for people who can almost afford or can easily afford to send their kids to private school. It still leaves a vast uneducated underclass who will never rise out of poverty, generation after generation.

2. Vouchers?!? issued by the government!??! That sounds like a government subsidy, you crazy baby eating liberal.

3. Teachers over paid? Not really http://www.epi.org/publications/entry/6785/

4. http://www.privateschoolreview.com/state_private_schools/stateid/WI

I don’t see any school on this list that charges less than $60k a year. You already think $10k per year cost is exorbitant. If private schools can do it cheaper, then why don’t they? If the market supports that price now, what happens when you increase demand by eliminating public schools?

So what says:

#96 now that’s funny.