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Monday, February 21,2011
Photos from Madison
Feb. 18 & 19, 2011 @ the Capital
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Great pictures!
Good thing I'm not governor. I would stop the riots with water hoses and tear gas. These are union anti-American terrorists extremists. This is an assult on Capitalism and wealth producing taxpayers. Gov. Walker needs to crack down on these nutballs and crackdown hard. Really I don't think I'd be screwing around with this Walker fellow.
Oh yeah, next as governor lets eliminate 40 hour work weeks, workplace safety laws and child labor laws. Why have kids in those expensive schools when they could be working in a factory with hazardous chemicals. That will allow them to die off at an early age to be replaced with fresh workers, old experienced people aren't needed, just kill them off. Pay them? Why, lets repeal the emancipation proclamation and they can work for free and eat the table scraps of the corporate managers. Tear down that American flag and replace it with a corporate logo. Who's the nutball now?
It's inevitable, Wisconsin's many "hick" people will end up being paid like the hicks they really are.
A friend who lived in western Wisconsin, along the Mississippi river, remembers knocking on farm doors to ask for permission to hunt on their lands. The farms in Iowa were neat and clean, had satellite TV and internet, the farmers carried themselves with some well-spoken class and education. But when he walked up to farms on the Wisconsin side, he thought he was walking onto the set of "Deliverance", missing teeth and all. Says something about Wisconsin people don't it? "Squeal like a pig, boy!"
Teachers, institution doctors and pharmacists, public university professors and chancellors, and all publicly funded, publicly mandated workers are nothing more than service workers, no matter how much education some of them may have.
What makes life great is knowing beyond a shadow of a doubt that as a privatized middle class worker, you still make lots more money than any of your service providers. Nothing better than barmaids and pizza delivery boys, right?
Walker is using this to bring back jobs to Wisconsin, but at what price? Since we lost our $25/hour manufacturing jobs to $12/ hour hillbilly states, the only way to bring those jobs back is to knock them down to $8/hour. And we all know that education and innovation is not the way to do it, especially since a "Muslim, colored, squatter in the Whitehouse" has proposed it.
More realisticly, the money we Middle Class people lost to the wealthy is not ever coming back (their lawyers, acountants and lobbyists are too smart for us "hicks" to beat, right DJ?), so we need to scrap it out among ourselves, pick on those "lower" than us.
Mark my words, it will only end when those wealthy Wall Street dollars on paper become worthless, and then those of us squatting occupants on the wealthy people's real estate will be free to use it for ourselves, well-armed and unencumbered by unenforcable mortgage notes. Maybe it won't end in the next year (2012?) but it will crash before the teachers' students reach retirement age.
Oh, Madison is quite familiar with water hoses and tear gas, just ask the old Mifflin Street people!
Not sure what farmers have to do with the discussion.
What governor Walker is trying to do is save the teachers jobs. If they don't accept his plan, he is going to have to fire them. First for not accepting a reasonable wage cut and second for unprofessional behavior by rioting and not working. I think teachers in this state do pretty well compared to other states like Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Mississippi. Which is where they will be going if they don't wise up soon. I agree with WaukeshaGuy we need to get wages knocked down if we want to grow jobs. My friends who own businesses tell me their biggest threat to their bottom lines is increased payroll expenses. I suppose the biggest threat to the state budget is payroll expenses too. Maybe we need to rethink how we hire teachers. First in order to be a teacher we need to get them to agree to never join a union and promise never to riot. Second perhaps we should have all teachers be outside contractors. Perhaps pay them a little more but provide no benefits, they would all be self employed. Thats the way I run my business. Its really boosted the bottom line and the unemployed people I hire are grateful for the scraps I throw them.
Pictures are great but do not portray the energy and spirit of the people when you are really there. Someone commented that lowering teacher wages will save jobs and help the economy. First, if you make less money you spend less and that hurts the economy. Second, there is a balance in the desireability of a job between pay, benefits, retirement future and the bullshit you have to put up with on the job. Cut pay and benefits and you will see both a shortage of teachers and a drop in quality. Is that what we want for our children?