[talaniman]

Have you slaughtered any sacred cows lately? It seems someone is trying to drag a sacred cow to the altar and the faithful true believers of the union movement are objecting.

Inevietably you can keep your sacred cows only at the cost of food for the faithful

Unions are not sacred cows. They are the difference to being dictated to, and talked with.

[paraclete]

Unions are not sacred cows. They are the difference to being dictated to, and talked with.

You obviously misunderstood the analogy, the Unions are the faithful, the sacred cows are their cherished conditions. What the Governor is trying to do is to slaughter the sacred cows, the conditions the workers have won through barganing. The Governor is using a different form of barganing where he denies conditions formerly agreed and seeks to establish a new norm by decree. I don't suggest he is right to do this, far from it. Such tactics are Union busting

[talaniman]

You obviously misunderstood the analogy, the Unions are the faithful, the sacred cows are their cherished conditions. What the Governor is trying to do is to slaughter the sacred cows, the conditions the workers have won through barganing. The Governor is using a different form of barganing where he denies conditions formerly agreed and seeks to establish a new norm by decree. I don't suggest he is right to do this, far from it. Such tactics are Union busting

Sorry I did indeed misunderstand. We should have negotiated the meaning of sacred cows.

[smoothy]

All due respect, but when Walmart, Nike, Chevy, and Catapillar can manufacture goods overseas and send them back to you for our comsumption, thats slavery.

When public servants are dictated to, thats slavery. And a lot of slavery, without the whips and chains, has always gone on in the USA, until the workers formed unions that changed dictating terms with no choices, into negotiating those choices. Ask any blue collar worker about the conditions BEFORE the unions were formed. Oh I forgot, those factories, and mills have left for the cheap slave labor in other less developed countries. My bad!!!



Wonder where a dirt farmer hides his money, (what money? He has none to hide!).

FACT-Big business is not making jobs, or investing in America for ONE reason, he wants the work rules changed in his favor to go along with all those tax cuts, shelters, and Tax breaks he wants.

FACT- Unions didn't cause this recesion, or the deficits that followed. The guys with the money did, and guess what, workers are footing their bill.

FACT-There was no deficit in Wisconsin until the govenormade one, with his tax breaks.

Forget the feelings, deal with the facts!!

Ready to negotiate yet???

I deal with the facts... but the left doesn't.

If a unionized public servant being dictated to is slavery... then what is the taxpayer that's being told how much they WILL hand over to them? Extortion?

What is a non-union employee that's told what he will and won't do by their boss... or they are fired is that slavery too?

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FACT - Walmart negotiates its discounts in huge volumes... THey don't buy things by the case, or even a shipping container... they buy entire production runs. So of course... they get the lowest price. Does anyone HAVE to sell to Walmart at the prices Walmart wants to pay... nope. I challeng you to prove any instances of strongarm tactics of "you will sell it to us for this price or we break some kneecaps" by Walmart.

FACT - Dirt farmers aren't going to work in factories because they would be shot if they didn't. They do it because it pays better money. They do it by choice. Its not slavery if you can come by choice and can leave by choice.

FACT - Unions had a BIG part of the mess states are in... because previous democrat administrations gave the unions whatever they wanted and in turn the Unions gave the democrats large ammounts of money that was exterorted from their rank and file... many of whom did not agree with WHO was getting it. State empoyee Pension funding is a HUGE financial burdern for most states... this includes Teachers.

FACT -... the housing bubble and crisis was a result of Democrat policies that everyone is entitled to get a house if they can actually pay for it or not... it wasn't rich people who could.

FACT - Welfare recipients, Illegals and the Lazy people don't create jobs... the wealthy do. Poor peole don't found and run most businesses, much less most businesses that hire people.

FACT - Wisconsins debt is VERY real... Just like Californias... New Yorks, and a number of other states. The people the argue there is no debt are the same people that ignore the proven fact Obama quadrupled the national debt in just 2 years, and fixate on the much smaller debt of a previous administration over 8 years.

FACT - Every State gives tax breaks to get or keep employers. Business taxes are always passed on via higher product costs.

How about taxing Hollywood, How about taxing major league sports the same way the left wants to punish Businesses.

How about not allowing Unions to contribute to political campaigns.

How about making Congress, the Senate and the Executive branch subject to every one of the same laws they impose on the rest of us.

[excon]

I deal with the facts.....but the left doesn't.

..then what is the taxpayer thats being told how much they WILL hand over to them? Extortion?

Hello smoothy:

Let me ask you about THIS fact.. When you negotiated your salary, does your boss think you extorted him?? Is he HANDING over his money to you, or do you earn it?

I don't know why the right wing has so much trouble with English.

excon

[smoothy]

Hello smoothy:

Lemme ask you about THIS fact.. When you negotiated your salary, does your boss think you extorted him??? Is he HANDING over his money to you, or do you earn it?

I dunno why the right wing has so much trouble with English.

excon

Hey... it was the left that brought up having to negotiate wages as being equal to slavery.

When I negotiated my salary when I first got this job... there were over 800 other applicants (yes they gave me an exact number after I was hired) they could have chosen any of them if they didn't like what I wanted. I wasn't the only applicant. The fact they picked me and what I asked for indicated it was a good deal for them. And there were no threats and intimidation involved.

[talaniman]

FACT - Wilmart negotiates its discounts in huge volumes... THey don't buy things by the case, or even a shipping container... they buy entire production runs. So of course... they get the lowest price. Does anyone HAVE to sell to Walmart at the prices Walmart wants to pay... nope. I challenge you to prove any instances of strong arm tactics of "you will sell it to us for this price or we break some kneecaps" by Walmart.

And who makes or produces those runs? Yeah some underpaid and overworked third world non educated worker in a sweatshop, who just wants a bowl of rice.a day, and twice if they are lucky. How does 20 cents a day rise you above slavery? Workers don't negotiate, they do or they go hungry. How is that a choice?

FACT - Dirt farmers aren't going to work in factories because they would be shot if they didn't. They do it because it pays better money. They do it by choice. Its not slavery if you can come by choice and can leave by choice.

Survival and wanting better for you and yours is a natural human condition, and like you,they want a choice to be better than dirt farmers.Like you negotiated YOUR contract and they accepter, that's what unions want to. To negotiate, and yes unions have options, when the boss doesn't agree, as does the boss when he doesn't agree.

FACT - Unions had a BIG part of the mess states are in... because previous democrat administrations gave the unions whatever they wanted and in turn the Unions gave the democrats large amounts of money that was extorted from their rank and file... many of whom did not agree with WHO was getting it. State employee Pension funding is a HUGE financial burden for most states... this includes Teachers.

That's not a fact, and be they democratic or republican, the states problems were caused by wall street, not main street. You just think that main street should pay, because wall street says SCREW YOU! In case you haven't noticed, all the unions have negotiated, or will to negotiate all the finances that have been put to them, ALL!! From the Auto industry, to the teachers union. Now that's a fact!!

FACT -... the housing bubble and crisis was a result of Democrat policies that everyone is entitled to get a house if they can actually pay for it or not... it wasn't rich people who could.

Untrue, the bubble was greed induced starting at wall street, and that's a fact. They took the easiest route, and lied about value as they LET anyone sign up and things were great until the banking crisis hit the fan, which was about wall street, not main street. They screwed every bank in the world and got off Scott free for now, but rest assured, every dog will have its day.

FACT - Welfare recipients, Illegals and the Lazy people don't create jobs... the wealthy do. Poor Pele don't found and run most businesses, much less most businesses that hire people.

So haven't you noticed the recession the wealthy have caused is making more poor people? What have the wealthy done to correct that problem?

FACT - Wisconsin's debt is VERY real... Just like Californias... New Yorks, and a number of other states. The people the argue there is no debt are the same people that ignore the proven fact Obama quadrupled the national debt in just 2 years, and fixate on the much smaller debt of a previous administration over 8 years.

This president saved the world economy, and the wealthy people sat on their money.

FACT - Every State gives tax breaks to get or keep employers. Business taxes are always passed on via higher product costs.

Mo money, mo money, how rich can you get? How much more should workers give after the rich so called job creators have gotten richer, without getting off their big rich asses? That's why there is a deficit. Just look at the tax cuts and who gets them. There is your deficit. Trickle down economics has never worked, and has always lead to a recession, or depression, that's history, and those are facts, and that's the goal of the right wing.

How about taxing Hollywood, How about taxing major league sports the same way the left wants to punish Businesses.
Check your tax code, they already do.
How about not allowing Unions to contribute to political campaigns.
How about not allowing corporations and right wing supply side fat cats not to contribute to campaigns either?

How about making Congress, the Senate and the Executive branch subject to every one of the same laws they impose on the rest of us.
We agree, right down to health care like they have.

[tomder55]

This president saved the world economy, and the wealthy people sat on their money.

Thanks for the laugh of the day. He could've saved the economy if he reversed TARP after he was sworn in and let the zombies die.

Instead he prolonged the agony... and then ,like a good community organizer ,he and his cohorts in Congress stole even more of our tax money to give to zombie states to
Shell out to his buddies in the public service unions .

You and others here are quick to condemn the rich at the same time you defend the actions of a President who has gone along with the crony merchantilism he claims to oppose. Why is it that all he knows to do is get advice from Goldman Sach operatives (or more recently from JP Morgan's William Daley) ?

It's your President who perpetuates the system that allows banks to operate with no sense of moral hazard. Had they been allowed to crash and burn we would've been no worse off ,and most likely much better than we are today.

[smoothy]

thanks for the laugh of the day. He could've saved the economy if he reversed TARP after he was sworn in and let the zombies die.

Instead he prolonged the agony....and then ,like a good community organizer ,he and his cohorts in Congress stole even more of our tax money to give to zombie states to
shell out to his buddies in the public service unions .

You and others here are quick to condemn the rich at the same time you defend the actions of a President who has gone along with the crony merchantilism he claims to oppose. Why is it that all he knows to do is get advice from Goldman Sach operatives (or more recently from JP Morgan's William Daley) ?

It's your President who perpetuates the system that allows banks to operate with no sense of moral hazard. Had they been allowed to crash and burn we would've been no worse off ,and most likely much better than we are today.

Plus they fail to recognise... Obama IS one of the rich. Want to bet he isn't handing over HIS money for the greater good of the socilist movement, and has plans to protect it? I don't know how much he actually has but I know it exceedes $5 million dollars in savings alone, not counting all the oil stocks he's pushing higher so he can cash in before he or someone else wakes up and lets us tap our own oil.



Oooooooo the Mesiah is one of those he pretends to hate so much.

[smoothy]

And who makes or produces those runs? Yeah some underpaid and overworked third world non educated worker in a sweatshop, who just wants a bowl of rice.a day, and twice if they are lucky. How does 20 cents a day rise you above slavery? Workers don't negotiate, they do or they go hungry. How is that a choice?



Survival and wanting better for you and yours is a natural human condition, and like you,they want a choice to be better than dirt farmers.Like you negotiated YOUR contract and they accepter, thats what unions want to. To negotiate, and yes unions have options, when the boss doesn't agree, as does the boss when he doesn't agree.


Thats not a fact, and be they democratic or republican, the states problems were caused by wall street, not main street. You just think that main street should pay, because wall street says SCREW YOU!! In case you haven't noticed, all the unions have negotiated, or will to negotiate all the finances that have been put to them, ALL!!! From the Auto industry, to the teachers union. Now thats a fact!!!


Untrue, the bubble was greed induced starting at wall street, and thats a fact. They took the easiest route, and lied about value as they LET anyone sign up and things were great until the banking crisis hit the fan, which was about wall street, not main street. They screwed every bank in the world and got off Scott free for now, but rest assured, every dog will have its day.

Underpaid by WHAT standards...

Silicon Valley, Manhattan, Washington DC? Or are we talking about Calcutta, Louisiana, or Sudan.


Before you toss around that number... I am underpaid by the standards of certain locations... but I don't live or work there... nor do the places that produce these goods.

Wall street was the cash cow of the Democrats... not the republicans. Look at campaign donations to prove it... those are public record.

So are Lawyers... in most lawsuits it's the lawyers that get the most money... not the people who deserve the awards.

You don't NEED unions to negotiat... in fact when a union is involved... the individual doesn't negotiate AT ALL... a union thug does it under a pay up or else threat, you take whatever you get. In some cases LIKE teachers Unions... once you have Tenure... you can do almost anything and you can't be fired... like THAT is really good for anyone. And incidentally... Union negotiated pay increases don't keep pace with private industry in many cases. I've been on both sides... I got far higher annual raises as a non-union worker than I did as a Union worker. And at least as a non-union worker... I wasn't handing over around $100+ a month for someone else to bribe officials of the party I detest with MY money.

The Real Estate Bubble contrary to Democrat propaganda started under Clinton when there was a lawsuit forcing banks to give mortgages to people with poor credit histories... because it was unfair a high credit risk individual should be denied his right to screw a bank out of huge sums of money when they don't pay their mortgage.

Fanni mae , and Freddie Mac had both ands and feet in that and OBAMA was they gave the most money to Obama. Chris Dodd was in it up to his nose.

But then... CBS, NPR, CNN and MSNBC have never been guilty of telling the whole truth. They regurgitate what the DNC tells them to say, word for word.

[talaniman]

Thanks for making my point fellas. If you are stuck on the right, and I am stuck on the left, why not meet in the middle and honestly negotiate so we both can benefit? Or else neither of us makes progress.

So it is in Wisconsin, and everywhere else. Ready to negotiate yet??

[Synnen]

Anyone notice that Ohio just pushed it through and let WI deal with the publicity?

The more I read about this, the more I'm realizing that our entire economic system is inherently flawed--mostly because of a distinct lack of ethics on the part of big business.

And before ANY of you argue against that, please be aware that I can name at least 10 companies that have acted in a horrible manner to society in the last 30 years, and probably more. The lack of social responsibility and screwing the public to continue to get richer is what makes most people completely against big business.

I've been trying for over a year to figure out a way to boycott GE. You know what? It's pretty much impossible. They own too much to get away from them.

[excon]

Anyone notice that Ohio just pushed it through and let WI deal with the publicity?

Morning, Synn:

I notice everything...

If leaving the state would have stopped the legislature in Ohio from ramming this piece of crap through, the Democrats WOULD have done it. Unfortunately, even WITHOUT the Democrats, the Republicans HAVE a quorum in Ohio, and would have voted it through anyway.

But, the Wisconsin Democrats can still win... If they don't, they'll be snatching DEFEAT from the jaws of victory. The public is with them, overwhelmingly. The wind is at their back. All they have to do is open their mouth... They'll go down in history as the Wisconsin 14 who SAVED America. There will be schools named after them.

But, they won't. One of 'em will cave. Personally, I don't know what's wrong with a hotel in Chicago.. They allow conjugal visits in Chicago, aren't they?

excon

[tomder55]

Thanks for making my point fellas. If you are stuck on the right, and I am stuck on the left, why not meet in the middle and honestly negotiate so we both can benefit?? or else neither of us makes progress.

So it is in Wisconsin, and everywhere else. Ready to negotiate yet??

There is no room for negotiation. For the states this is an existential issue. Walker has given fair warning.Pink slips go out today.

[talaniman]

There is so much other crap in the Wisconsin bill, that it seems that the delay gave us all a chance to really start reading it, and the people there are seeing that they are about to get screwed all together. Like paying for kids in private schools, with already rich parents and taking 900 million of the public schools?

Add that to the Ohio house shenanigans, boy what's going on in this country?

The one to watch though, is Bully boy Christie in NJ, the cops are demonstrating in Trenton over his bill.

[tomder55]

I've been trying for over a year to figure out a way to boycott GE. You know what? It's pretty much impossible. They own too much to get away from them.

You can start by not watching the pin heads at MSNBC... and opposing Obamacare ;a proposition largely the idea of GE and their 'healthymagination'campaign.

It was no surprise that when Immelt left GE he went through that revolving door into the White House .

Obama names GE's Immelt head of new jobs council - The Oval: Tracking the Obama presidency

[tomder55]

There is so much other crap in the Wisconsin bill, that it seems that the delay gave us all a chance to really start reading it, and the people there are seeing that they are about to get screwed all together. Like paying for kids in private schools, with already rich parents and taking 900 million of of the public schools?

Add that to the Ohio house shenanigans, boy whats going on in this country?

The one to watch though, is Bully boy Christie in NJ, the cops are demonstrating in Trenton over his bill.

Christe can't do much until the good people of NJ dump the Dems in the Legislature.

[Synnen]

You can start by not watching the pin heads at MSNBC ... and opposing Obamacare ;a proposition largely the idea of GE and their 'healthymagination'campaign.

It was no suprise that when Immelt left GE he went through that revolving door into the White House .

Obama names GE's Immelt head of new jobs council - The Oval: Tracking the Obama presidency

I've been against Obamacare from the first. You think I'm a democrat a lot, when I'm not. I'm closer to a Centrist than anything. In fact, I'd like to see political parties banned entirely. And I absolutely did NOT vote for Obama.

[tomder55]

Hello again, tom:

Are these the same jobs the super wealthy are going to create because we gave them their needed tax cut??? Or are these other jobs??? We're gonna be in job heaven pretty soon aren't we??? That was what you promised, isn't it??? Ok. We GAVE the richest amongst us a HUGE tax break.. Didn't we do that because they can't create jobs with "uncertainty" in the air.. So, we removed the "uncertainty", and the jobs are coming, aren't they??? AREN'T THEY???

Or, is this "job" crap, like the last "job" crap?

excon

http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/201...9-percent.html

[excon]

Hello again, tom:

Somehow, I think if the job numbers wouldn't have been positive, it would have been Obamas fault. But, since they're rosy, you guys take the credit..

Besides, curbing a woman's right to choose does NOT increase jobs, and that's the only thing the right wing congress has done.

excon