dreamdancer 0 #1 February 21, 2011 rightwing loonies in action... QuoteWhat's happening in Wisconsin is not complicated. At the beginning of this year, the state was on course to end 2011 with a budget surplus of $120 million. As Ezra Klein explained, newly elected GOP Governor Scott Walker then " signed two business tax breaks and a conservative health-care policy experiment that lowers overall tax revenues (among other things). The new legislation was not offset, and it turned a surplus into a deficit." (Update: please see this note for more detail on the cause of the budget gap.) Walker then used the deficit he'd created as the justification for assaulting his state's public employees. He used a law cooked up by a right-wing advocacy group called the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). ALEC likes to fly beneath the radar, but I described the organization in a 2005 article as "the connective tissue that links state legislators with right-wing think tanks, leading anti-tax activists and corporate money." Similar laws are on the table in Ohio and Indiana. Walker's bill would strip public employees of the right to bargain collectively for anything but higher pay (and would cap the amount of wage hikes they might end up gaining in negotiations). His intentions are clear -- before assuming office, Walker threatened to decertify the state's employees' unions (until he discovered that the governor doesn't have that power). http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/479560/12_things_you_need_to_know_about_the_uprising_in_wisconsin/stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kennedy 0 #2 February 21, 2011 There is already a thread about this, and no one needs another link to that whackjob site. Get back under your bridge.witty subliminal message Guard your honor, let your reputation fall where it will, and outlast the bastards. 1* Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kallend 2,146 #3 February 21, 2011 QuoteThere is already a thread about this, and no one needs another link to that whackjob site. Get back under your bridge. Can you tell us what is factually incorrect in the article, or are you just attacking the messenger for want of any factual rebuttal? If the greenies want only one thread, I'm sure they'll shut this one down.... The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Amazon 7 #4 February 21, 2011 QuoteQuoteThere is already a thread about this, and no one needs another link to that whackjob site. Get back under your bridge. Can you tell us what is factually incorrect in the article, or are you just attacking the messenger for want of any factual rebuttal? If the greenies want only one thread, I'm sure they'll shut this one down. THe GBRWCJ is working overtime now that they have recived their THOGHT from the Koch Brothers to do everything they can to bust the unions to deprive the Democrats of a major political player... leaving them to throw as much money into the next election as they and the rest of the 1% wish. The Kocj Brothers and their buddies have promised a little TRICKLE for the efforts of those who will slavishly follow Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dreamdancer 0 #5 February 21, 2011 Quote There is already a thread about this, good, you can go there then stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dreamdancer 0 #6 February 21, 2011 interesting figures... QuoteWisconsin’s Governor Scott Walker is using phony budget projections to manufacture a staged “fiscal emergency” in his state so that he can whack programs and political opponents, but even his fake “emergency” pales in comparison to the cost of the Afghanistan War to his state. In fact, the U.S. would only have to bring home 151 troops from Afghanistan to save more money than Walker’s ridiculous union-busting plan. Better yet, ending the Afghanistan War altogether would save taxpayers in Wisconsin $1.7 billion this year alone, more than ten times the amount “saved” in Walker’s attack on state employee rights. http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2011/02/19/bringing-home-150-troops-from-afghanistan-would-fix-wisconsins-budget-crisis/stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
