it's so nice to see that this thread has degenerated just as we all knew it would. with no real leg to stand on, the advocates for public sector unions swerve all over the map, avoiding any arguments of substance. they can't seem to decide whether to minimize the argument and concentrate only on the plight of teachers or to expand their defense to include unions everywhere, so they do both and hope that something sticks.
Not really. It's actually pretty clear.
1) The unions didn't cause our financial problems, wall st bankers and the wealthy did. Yet rather than make them pay their fair share they are trying to shift the burden entirely on working class people while cutting taxes for the rich even further.
2) The unions made all the financial concessions that were asked of them and that still wasn't enough for Walker. All he was interested in was union busting.
3) The tax cuts he gave to corporations and the wealthy came out to the same amount of money he cut from the unions. That's transferring wealth, class warfare, and all that fun stuff. Not an economic crisis.
yes, we all know that private sector unions have been responsible for speeding along many reforms, but what the hell has that to do with the extravagant pensions of janitors at the capitol?
Oh yeah, that's where our economic problems come from. Janitors and their lavish feasts of top ramen and looking all smug with their fancy bus passes.
Pay no attention to the fact that the top 400 wealthiest people in America make more than the bottom 160 million Americans, it's those damn decadent janitors who want to be able to afford excesses like food and housing when they retire instead of sleeping in a refrigerator box under a bridge like they are supposed to.
Yeah, that's why we are in economic trouble.
GTFO
this isn't about handicapping labor, it's about paring down a bloated bureaucracy.
It's about cutting pay/services to working class people so we can give rich people bigger tax cuts. Anyone who can't see that is a fool.
It's nothing more than class warfare. Unless you are a member of the ultrawealthy class you are losing that war. Why you'd want to support the ultra wealthy against your own interests is beyond me. I guess PT Barnum was right, there really is a sucker born every minute.
this isn't about the destruction of our basic human rights and it certainly isn't a matter of life or death.
It's about making rich people even richer and then blaming working class people after the rich have sucked up all the countries wealth leaving the middle class out on their asses.
you may pat yourselves on the back and claim you're striking a blow for the working man, but it isn't the working man we're talking about.
Yes it is. That's exactly who we're talking about. Janitors aren't living on stock dividends or their inheritance.
Congratulations on buying into a pack of lies perpetrated by the very people who are really causing our country's financial problems. You're a good little pawn.