Wisconsin Fight: Bill Limiting Unions Passes in Messy Process

I have a sister in PA who voted republican and watches fox news. She was taken in by their rhetoric and persuaded to hate teachers etc and guess what - she just lost her collective bargaining rights and possibly her job. She only made a little above minimum wage and they already eliminated people and the ones left were working harder, longer, and for less in a small burrough office. There are a lot of people who are going to be hurt by this that didn't think it would happen to them. And she is a hard worker and is very smart - she had a lot to offer and worked with the administration to safe money. Now it will be just like everyone else who has been walked over by the gop.

If the media is so liberal, then why is it not being covered the thousands of protestors in Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Idaho, etc not being covered. Only one show on MSNBC showed an aerial view of the thousands in Indiana and across the country and no one showed the huge rally in Wisconsin Saturday. Granted they were focused on Japan, but they covered the bus crash and gop.

The gop has used their followers to advance their agenda...hate teachers, policemen, etc, - they got rid of collective bargaining. Now it's hate government workers and they're going after them. Next it's dismantle social security and medicare. All while banks and businesses are making record profits while we're suppose to pay more taxes and work harder, longer, and for less. Something is very wrong with this picture and it's time you realize that you're the ones getting the shalacking.

Where is the criticism for the democrats who abdicated their jobs in the legislature. This is really the messy part. What about criticism for all the labor union members bussed to Wisconsin to protest???? This should have been left to the state of Wisconsin and the President shouldn't have been mouthing in his opinions either.

Democracy has won the day. Voters have regained rights to govern themselves and union bosses have taken it on the chin.

Here is why I support Scott Walker. The State of WI, just like Our Country and many other States, is broke and cuts must be made everywhere. The CBA is a very interesting situation. The Unions take dues from public employees whose salaries are paid by tax payers. The Unions dues are then used to elect politicians that will grow the size of Govt, usually Democrats, and then that will increase the amount of Union dues because there are more members. Then these Grow Govt. politicians will negotiate with the same guys who got them elected for Union contracts. That is a great situation for the Unions! No wonder they are sending death threats out to those that are trying to rob them of this cherry deal they have.

Ive been teaching in IL for 14 years. IIam forced to pay $612.00 a year for union dues and this goes up about 3% every year. However, I can recoupe $20.00 from the $612.00 if I make a request to IEA which just built a million dollar facility in Springfield, IL. So, Im a conservative and a teacher and I am forced to pay $592.00 towards a political agenda and ieadology that I do NOT believe in, and i have been doing it for 14 years. All I have to say is GOOD for WIsconsin!!

In my state the teacher's union has a retirement program in worse shape then social security because of bad investments and retirement salaries at 80% of what they were earning after just 30 years of work. Guess who will have to bail them out because of their bad choices. All of the tax payers in our state. Who bails my IRA out after I made some bad choices? No One People in the public sector have a sense of entitilement that is uncomprehendable to the rest of us. Who will pay your salaries and benefits when there is no money left?
If hard choices like this aren't made now we will be a broken country. Hooray for Wisconsin for having the onions to make the hard choices. Hopefully politicians across the country will have the courage to start making a difference knowing they are risking their political lives. That is what it is going to take to save our democracy.

TO pb185 ... I like your comment.. The Tea Party took a lot of campaign money .. jobs was just a false platform to get voted in. Their hands are as dirty as all the others.. Their pockets come first and they will really never get around to jobs - talk is cheap.. We're all expendable.
I wish someone would would wake up but I wouldn't hold my breath..

Walkers actions show they are preparing for a take over in all the states they can get away with this. They were sore losers when Obama got in and they are holding to the fact they want him to be a one time president! That is all that this is about they planned this on day one. Also if they do ever create jobs they want the unions gone to lower minimun wage, that's next. After that they will lower the age to work to make up loss income per household. They want our children stupid and powerless. We will be no better than a dictatorship to the Koch Brothers..