February 19, 2011 6:26 AM
Wisconsin: Ground Zero in fight for our country
Which is why our opportunist president has inappropriately sided with greedy unions against fiscal responsibility, why he is interfering in state matters (Arizona deja vu) and why he is mobilizing his Brown Shirts (Organizing for America - MyBarackObama.com) and out-of-state union thugs to intimidate a governor doing the job he was elected to do.
It's also why the State Media is misrepresenting facts - the National Guard was not called to quell the protesters but to fill the empty places when they
It's also why race/political hucksters like Jesse Jackson are showing up to fan the flames of discontent, rather than being leaders who tell the greedy union members who think that a certain pension level is a "civil right" to get over it and go back to work. They can practice frugality like the rest of us in the private sector who have to pay much more for our share of benefits.
Pray for Governor Walker and conservatives - who were duly elected by Wisconsin voters exercising real "civil rights" - to stand firm on fiscal responsibility. Send emails to let him know that we will remember in 2012. The people - the people stand with Wisconsin!
Morning Bell: The American People Can't Afford to Lose Wisconsin Union Showdown
Posted February 18th, 2011 at 10:02am
Let no one be confused, the stakes in Wisconsin are high and the Badger state could turn into the crucial battle ground between progressivism and the new Tea Party majority in the country. Issues as important as public sector compensation, bulging state deficits, union power, federalism, education, federal entitlements as well as others are being fought over. That Wisconsin is the birthplace of American progressivism with a new conservative governor, new conservative majorities in both chambers, a new conservative U.S. senator and the bright new conservative chairman of the House Budget Committee, Paul Ryan, has made it ground zero for the left.
President Barack Obama has federalized the issue, throwing the full weight of the White House, the Democratic National Committee, and his own Organizing for America operation behind government unions, with the assistance of the SEIU and AFSCME unions. This is a major new test for the new governor, Scott Walker. If conservatives lose in Wisconsin, reform might be stifled elsewhere. If they can win, progressivism is in real trouble.
On the ground of course, it means that the Madison Metropolitan School District will not be educating any children today. For the third day in a row this week, the union members of Madison Teachers, Inc., will stage a "sick out" today to protest Governor Scott Walker's (R) new budget, which would overcome a $137 million budget deficit this year and a projected $3.6 billion deficit over the next two years. Stacy Billings, a parent of two Madison students, told the Wisconsin State Journal that she supports unions and opposes Walker's proposal but is against a teacher protest during school hours: "That's not acceptable to me. My tax dollars pay for the teachers to teach and not to protest."
What Billings does not understand, but is about to learn, is that like all government unions, Madison Teachers, Inc., does not care about teaching her children. Former American Federation of Teachers President Al Shanker put it bluntly: "When school children start paying union dues, that's when I'll start representing the interests of school children." That is what this fight in Wisconsin, and across the country, is really about: money. And not money for government employees--money for government unions. The government unions themselves are admitting this every day the fight drags on.[my emphasis]
Read more at The Heritage Foundation - a site you may want to bookmark.
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