Wisconsin

[Dog Wonder]

I was right then.......

If "you are narrow minded nnyou pin no' reflect thot" means what you think it does.

 

[delldude]

If "you are narrow minded nnyou pin no' reflect thot" means what you think it does.

You prove it every time you post.

 

[delldude]

State says damage to marble at Capitol could hit $7.5 million

State officials said Thursday that damage to the marble inside and out the State Capitol would cost an estimated $7.5 million.

Cari Anne Renlund, chief legal counsel for the state Department of Administration, said in Dane County court that estimates of damage to marble includes $6 million to repair damaged marble inside the Capitol, $1 million for damage outside and $500,000 for costs to supervise the damage.

Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2011/03/03/overnight-engine-starter-guess-estimated-damage-wisconsins-state-capitol#ixzz1FdYUCbuK

 

[dapoes]

BOMB THREAT At Scott Walker News Conference – Leftist Protester Arrested!

Another day another unhinged lefty...​

An investigation continues into a bomb threat made this week at an aviation business in Eau Claire, just hours after Governor Scott Walker held a news conference there.

Authorities said a 43-year-old Eau Claire man allegedly called in a threat to Heartland Aviation on Wednesday evening. The facility is next to the Chippewa Valley Regional Airport in Eau Claire. The man is free on a signature bond. No charges have been filed yet, but the man is due back in Chippewa County Circuit Court on April 19th.

Investigators said the man took part in public demonstrations at the airport on Monday and Wednesday. His home was searched yesterday, and police are checking phone records and interviewing people. Eau Claire Police have asked for tips with more information.

 

[dapoes]

Indeed I stand by my statement as Governor Walker is a public figure.

You may want to rethink that before insulting a public figure again.

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2011/03/02/Judge-tells-media-to-identify-commenters/UPI-66231299102158/

 

[dapoes]

Libtard to Conservative: “Why Do You Have a Right to Your Money?” :blink:

 

[dapoes]

Im personally coming pretty much close to this...

I Don’t Owe Unions A Goddamned Thing

Lemme get this out: while I more than appreciate the work performed by teachers, police, and firefighters, I don’t appreciate them throwing the fact they do that job in my face.

We don’t live in a communist country where jobs are assigned according to intellect or bulk. Police officers and firefighters weren’t drafted. If you chose to be one, I applaud you but that being said, that doesn’t mean you get to tell us how much you get paid because you chose a job that potentially puts your life in peril. If it’s not worth the risk, I wouldn’t blame you at all if you walked, but this job safety-guilt trip #### is starting to fall on deaf ears.

As for you teachers, I’m tired of hearing how long you studied and how much it cost to get your degree so you could be a teacher. If that’s the case, it’s not all about the kids (as you constantly say before you walk out on them to go protest wages) but the career you wanted to get out of it. Granted, taking care of someone else’s brats can’t be all that rewarding, but you still get the summer off paid, almost all extended holidays paid, “professional” or “development” days paid, health, dental, tenure, and even a retirement package paid for.

Yet when you feel you haven’t been paid enough, you just demand more money from taxpayers, some of whom don’t even have kids (but have to deal with the defective product teachers leave us with).

It’s at the point where I really don’t care if you’re a cop, firefighter, teacher, or professional athlete. YOU chose that profession. YOU chose to accept the risks and perils that come with those professions, and YOU knew what the job paid when you applied and for all the ads the unions will put out over the next few months, complete with smiling union workers, I’ll tell you what footage was never shot and will never be in one of the upcoming ads: union workers saying “thank you” to the community after the latest property tax override and/or tax increase.

Anyone here remember a policeman knocking on your door and saying “thank you” for paying a higher property tax and saving his job, or a firetruck driving down the street with sirens blazing and firefighters waving to our neighbors, or teachers sending home one more note with kids saying “thank you” to the community for the raise?

I don’t, but they’ll be the first to leave flyers in your mailbox telling us how hellacious things will get if we don’t give them more of our money.

While their jobs are noble, they seem to feel entitled to not only our tax dollars, but our adoration.

When union members start acting like a part of the community instead of above it, then maybe we’ll feel more generous, but if you don’t want to do the work, someone more grateful for the opportunity will. But none of us could go into a union household and tell that family to spend more than it has for me. It’s about time well-paid union members understand they’ve been doing that to us for decades and we just can’t afford it any more.

 

[SparrowHawk]

Im personally coming pretty much close to this...

I Don’t Owe Unions A Goddamned Thing

I too find the sense of entitlement both amusing and amazing! Often at the same time!

Government Employee: I do a great job Teaching, Fire Fighting, Policing you should thank me!!

Citizen: OK, did your paycheck bounce?

Government Employee: Um No!

Citizen: Ok, then you were thanked by every citizen who paid taxes, so your problem is?

Where I part company with the quote in the prior post is that this attitude and approach is, IMO not limited to neither union nor government workers. It's like the Bubonic plague of the modern workplace. This is a capitalist society (At least for now) and the flaw in this particular system is there are winners and losers, haves and have nots because that's how the system works. Organized Labor can and IMO should be one of the great checks and balances of capitalism in our society. Capitalism run amok is no better than the alternatives out there. Flawed though it may be it is the best system that we've come up with to date.

 

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Its looking now that the Democrats may be willing to come back, not to try and reduce state expenditures but with the hope of making the GOP look bad for the next election.

What's wrong with this country?

 

[Kev3188]

According to whom? They've been meeting with R's trying to work something out for awhile, but no go.

Meanwhile, a poll released shows over 1M willing to sign for Walker's recall. Take that for what it's worth, since nothing can start 'til the fall.

 

[dapoes]

According to whom? They've been meeting with R's trying to work something out for awhile, but no go.

Meanwhile, a poll released shows over 1M willing to sign for Walker's recall. Take that for what it's worth, since nothing can start 'til the fall.

WSJ article: Democrats to End Union Standoff

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703362804576184892548853056.html?mod=djemalertNEWS

BTW Kev, dont you think that the WI Dems fleeing out of state sets a very bad precedent? Anytime that elected officials dislike a certain bill they are to debate/vote on they just pack up and leave to avoid the subject all together.

 

[Kev3188]

Miller's comments were taken out of context, according to quotes from Erpenbach, Larson, and a couple of others. The intent was they're coming back... eventually.

As for them hitting the bricks, they're not setting a precedent at all. This wasn't the first time it's occurred in the US.

 

[delldude]

According to whom? They've been meeting with R's trying to work something out for awhile, but no go.

Meanwhile, a poll released shows over 1M willing to sign for Walker's recall. Take that for what it's worth, since nothing can start 'til the fall.

See what polls say after the vote goes down. That will be the real deal.

 

[dapoes]

What wrong with unions in 30 seconds...

 

[dapoes]

Government Union Collective Bargaining 101