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Subscribe to RSSIn Wisconsin, “A group of Democratic lawmakers blocked passage of a sweeping anti-union bill yesterday, refusing to show up for a vote and then abruptly leaving the state in an effort to force Republicans to the negotiating table,” the AP writes. “Hours later, one member said that they had left Wisconsin. ‘The plan is to try and slow this down because it’s an extreme piece of legislation that’s tearing this state apart,’ Senator Jon Erpenbach said by phone. He refused to say where he was.”
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: “Democrats holed up in the Clock Tower Resort and Conference Center in Rockford, Ill., while Republicans said they wanted law enforcement to bring them to the Capitol if they were still in Wisconsin. Walker called for Democrats to call off their ‘stunt’ and ‘show up and do the job they're paid to do.’ ‘It's either a matter of making reductions and making modest requests of our government employees or making massive layoffs at a time when we don't need anyone else laid off,’ Walker said.”
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Only in America,but I love it.There is so little to amuse these days and this is certainly at least humorous
Typical liberal response bury your head in the sand and claim there is no problem.
In a later note the Democrats called on Walker to call off his 'stunt' and 'show up and do the job he is suppose to do.' Which the said "was not to jam it up the the peoples collective a$$es!
Yes, they need to "show up and do the job they're paid to do". If average Joe Blow doesn't show up to work they get fired.
Face the facts, civil service unions are sucking public funds away and the money well has dried up. Some serious cuts have to be made. Look at your own household for example, if your credit cards are maxed out and your bank account is zero you have to do without, government is no different.
Ray-402: No, It's not funny.
Wow, and I thought our CA legislators are bad, a least they show up. They don't accomplish much other than spend taxpayer revenues, but they do show up. Let's see, they were elected to perform and ran. In the private sector you could be repremanded or terminated for such a stunt, but it is aparantly acceptable for the policital sector, especially the Democrats.
Until our politicos decide to understand the spending crisis and "man up" to it as these kids say, nothing is going to happen to move the nation from this fiscal mess we are in.
This republican Gov is trying to ram this down the throats of the people ! Sound familiar ?
time to pull an Egypt! The gov wants to denie constitutional rights? What is he Hitler?
and the govenor of my state Michigan has deecided to balance his budget on the backs of senior citizens???
No one has rights but the very rich!
I can also state that if these budgets pass in Wisconsin and Michigan it will be the beginning of the end for the republican party!
The sad thing is this, there was over $100m SURPLUS in the state coffers until Walker went and gave huge tax breaks to certain corporations...to the tune of nearly exactly the amount he says will be saved by raping the Unions: some $135m. The GOP/TP is hell bent on destroying Unions and the middle class, removing ALL workplace safety and any sort of collective bargaining...the very things that have made our work places safer and helped keep many people out of poverty. The Already-Too-Rich-To-Fail crowd wants the rest of us to be their servile slaves with NO way out of it. HELL NO, WE WILL NOT GO DOWN THAT PATH, we were there once and Unions helped bring us out of it.
It is time for a recall vote on Walker, he can Walker himself right out of our State the way he is going now!
This is great, the unions in WI are doing much, much more to turn people against unions and civil service employees than could have been done Republicans and conservatives, even if they'd spent 100's of millions of dollars in anti-union campaign ads. Plus, the unions won't be able to contribute much to demonRat and other libbie, leftwing loony candidates in 2012, b/c they'll have to spend all of their money fighting in state legislatures.
Thank you, unions of WI, you're stupidity is most appreciated by conservatives. This is a great moment for America and continued demise of extornist/mafia unions. Good bye unions. Hello real world. Now you union punks will have to earn you living as do the rest of us. GAM, you phony, union punks, thanks for doing to yourself and Americans' opinion of you arse-holes what we conservatives having be trying to do to you for decades.
BTW, in college, all of the dummies major in education and the other social science/humanities studies freaks look for cushy gov't jobs, b/c they don't have a marketable skill that's worth anything to anyone or any company that has to show a profit to stay in business.
Good bye phony, dumb-a*s teachers and union punks. We conservatives hope that the State of WI fires your sorry butts.