Protests Brew Anew In Wisconsin

The thing is, it’s obvious that these politicians care more about their vendetta and their business interests than they do the people.

I would be GREATLY surprised if now that they ‘won’ this victory that they are simply going to stop there. No, it will continue with little things until the old adage of “death by a thousand paper cuts” becomes apparent.

If I was a Wisconsonite, I’d be demanding their resignation.

@KH, From what your telling us you voted for Obama and do you think he cares about what is going on in Wisconsin ??. I thought he said he would walk with the Union people, sorry he was busy and you forget it’s all about MONEY and Obama and the “Giving Party” needs to start saving money. Cut up your credit cards and look at the big picture OUR State is broke Walker can’t fix the problem without everyone giving up something. I never noticed my State to be so selfish.

GO SCOTT WALKER!!!!

Sadly, some of you people can’t see that the kids ARE the ones who are losing because the state of WI isn’t placing the education of their children as a top priority. I hope they have fun trying to sell their homes in an area where the education system has gone down the tubes. Oh, and you will also enjoy spending that extra money to insure your homes against robbery and theft from young adults who haven’t had a proper education. However, you obviously didn’t get a proper education or you would have learned how to spell the word YOU’RE correctly.

Stan – did you see Michael Moore when he was in Madison? If not, search it out and listen to his speech.

It looks like the guy who was escorted out is a college kid! Don’t they have better things to do like attend class rather then protest! I wonder how many more college kids from the U of Wisconsin are skipping class and protesting…most college kids don’t even hold a union job, much less of any kind of job!

It never ceases to amaze me that there are people who applaud the mistreatment and scapegoating of others.

What pitiful lives you must lead.

TF and Stan, I LIVE in Wisconsin, and I’d like to know how you expect MY 2 children (15 and 8yrs) to get the excellent education I/you/we had if you insist on crippling the very same system that is currently one of the top-ranked in the country? How will our kids earn enough to afford to stay around here to keep Wisconsin strong, progressive and thriving? Like I said, there will be a huge domino effect; mess around with education and you are destroying the basic building block of a solid society. Make it harder for kids to get a good education in the young, formative years and for older students to get financial support to get secondary degrees, and you might as well just hand the keys over to India or China, where education is valued above…dare we say it?…money.

And if you don’t want to spend YOUR money to help take care of the physical bodies or mental issues of people in need, well go right ahead and ignore them, too, and watch how YOUR quality of life will deteriorate, because those people are not just going to go away – you WILL pay for their care, one way or another, and it will cost a whole lot more in the long run if you eliminate medical coverage and food assistance programs now.

Guess what! The money Walker says he’s “saving” by all this hoopla is NOT coming back to YOU – it’s going straight into the pockets of big business and the uber-wealthy! How can you people not see this????

Oh my, Wisconsin has brought in the Rev Jesse Jackson, Can the camera bring anymore popular faces to the state. Poor Jesse wants the State of Wisconsin to give more, rob Peter to pay Paul, sad to say the money is gone. Sure hope the residents of Wisconsin still have a State House when this is done. I’m sad to live in a State of such confusion.

The GOP was angery that the labor unions donated to the Demacratic Party. How do you stop that? Kill the unions.

Good argument for home schooling. I wouldn’t allow any of these freaks teach my children. It’s time to stop collective bargaining and bust the unions,

@KH, I live in Wisconsin too, sorry the State is broke and I’m a Veteran and a Union Member but enough is enough. Please don’t use students as a pawn it’s not about children. You haven’t seen anything yet, and you might have to get a partime job at Menards

@Paula, Very good point….

And the next thing that needs to be done is to DEFUND U W Madison. School’s for fish and you can’t make a dolphin from a state full of carp. You can try, but you’ll only end up with a load of expensive bottom feeding carp and a smell you can taste from Minnesota.

Can’t thank you enough for all the time.

We need to get this passed to see what’s in it, sound familar Nancy said it well and we the people didn’t have a choice. Maybe we can see if Nancy has time to come to Wisconsin today, you have to love the lip service……

Unions benefit more than just there own members. They’re responsible for the 40 hr work week, vacation time, PTO. If a group of united workers lose their rights, what can the single employee expect?

I sense bitterness in the comments against unions as if people are mad that they aren’t in a union so they don’t want others to be, either. Union workers, of which I am not, are not freeloaders that get a break from paying taxes. They work, they contribute to the economy and pay taxes. Why do so many of you want to take away your neighbors rights as union workers?

I wonder how many college students in Wisconsin changed their majors today.

Obama says we must all sacrifice and we must all accept his health care plan.
Except the unions, of course.
The unions aren’t interested in equal rights. They want exclusive rights.

I think the cops need to come in and do an old fashioned Qaddafi beat down on all protesters.

Death threats, this pretty much deals the Unions fate. You Union People do not hold the Majority in the State. The Repubs were elected by the Majority to do exactly what They did!
Union Perks are NOT a Civil Right!
Union perks are NOT a Human Right!

remember about a year ago the WI teachers union was fighting because they still wanted their Viagra covered. Come on – talk about abusing the system…..The Republicans are just doing what the unions have been doing for years and now they don’t like it! I have worked for 30 years, never been in a union and never had the benefits/collective barganing that they have They have been abusing that power for years. Look at the NFLPA too – same story.

Good looking bunch. Lots of clean fingernails. Try getting those hands dirty and working for a living, GO SCOTT WALKER!

this really boils down to the average non union (public or private) working family sick and tired of ever increasing costs (taxes and health insurance) while the state and teacher union employee get raises and pay a fraction of their health insurance. This just levels the plying field. The ride is over and the taxpayers will now be paying to dig out from years and years of wasteful spending on the entitled.

Too bad the democrats could not stay at the capital and “fight” as they were elected to do. Can you imagine what would happen if republicans ever tried to do this????

WOW

NEWSFLASH! To all of those who keep saying you don’t know how the union busting is going to affect the schools? It isn’t just that, Walker is making a 1.5 BILLION budget cut to schools, medicare and local government. If you don’t think those cuts will affect the quality of education in WI, you need to go back to school. Wi is currently in the Top 10 of best quality of education for kids. I definitely see this changing with the slashes. The Union Members made concessions…I feel like a broken record. Get your facts straight. The protesters got angry when the REpubs pushed through the bill. They did not get violent. They have been very polite and respectful (even the police were thanking them for being so). The only threats and anger I have seen have been from the opposition on these boards!