February 18, 2011 12:38 PM
Wisconsin: More Media Spin for Obama
Truly, we are through the Looking Glass in Wisconsin. Questions:1) Why the discrepancy in coverage between media coverage of a few thousand teachers about to blow a gasket and millions of pro-Constitution demonstrators across the country?
2) Does the state-controlled media really expect us to sympathize with a bunch of union members angry because they've been asked to pay more of a share toward their benefits, which still leaves them in FAR better shape than their private sector counterparts?
3) Why the socialist language: instead of protesters, they're workers, the press feels solidarity, etc?
4) Why is our president - who promised to represent all Americans - siding with the "workers" against a state governor elected on a platform of fiscal responsibility?
5) Why has the Egyptian uprising - whose end we do not know - become the Holy Grail by which we measure American dissent? And could any reasonable person actually believe that Governor Walker is Mubarak or Hitler?
6) What happened to "the new civility" or does constraint and responsibility only apply to conservatives? My prediction is that this will only increase the resentment of private-sector "workers" who can't afford their own pension plans, etc. We may be sitting by helplessly while these "public servants" act like greedy pigs and our president sells everyone but the unions and Muslim leaders down the river, but as I heard someone say today:
Oh, btw, the answer to every question about what is going on anywhere right now is simple:Lessons From Wisconsin: Big Government Handouts Promote Big Dependence
by AWR HawkinsAs school teachers and other publicly employed members of unions in Wisconsin continue their march on that state's capital, protesters frequently compare Republican Governor Scott Walker to Hitler or some other megalomaniac bent on destroying the hopes and dreams of the middle class. Some Wisconsin politicians, like state senator Fred Risser (D-Madison), paint the governor a despot by claiming that "[Walker] comes across more like a dictator and less like a leader." And President Obama has asserted himself in the mix to assure union leaders he stands with them and believes the legislation Governor Walker supports will "just [make] it harder for public employees to collectively bargain generally," and that it is "an assault on unions."
Missing in all this name-calling and finger-pointing is the honest truth about what's happening in states like Wisconsin where unions have run budgets into the ground: and that truth is that public employees have grown so accustomed to pensions, health insurance, and other benefits coming to them via taxpayer expense that they can't handle the thought of paying their own way like regular "volk" (a little joke for the "Hitler" chanters in the crowd.)
That's right: Many of the marchers/protesters in Wisconsin are simply outraged that they may actually have to pay for the goods and services they're used to forcing others to purchase for them. And they're so blinded by their learned dependency on big government handouts that they can't understand that Governor Walker is simply asking all employees in the state to carry their own weight for a change, because taxpayers in Wisconsin can't do it any more: it's financially untenable.
As Rush Limbaugh put it: "Average, ordinary Americans who are paying the salaries and the health benefits and the pensions [of union members] are losing their jobs and losing their homes. [So] there isn't any money anymore!" And this means average Americans, like those in Wisconsin, can't afford to foot an extravagant bill for others any longer.
We must keep in mind that Governor Walker's proposals don't end collective bargaining altogether, which is the charge being leveled by union members and media outlets throughout the country. This is just a smoke screen thrown up by union bosses and the people obligated to those bosses (like Wisconsin Democrats and President Obama), as part of a greater effort to make it seem like Governor Walker is after unions per se. But in truth, the governor's actions are aimed at saving the state of Wisconsin from the bankruptcy it faces if someone doesn't step up and pull these unionized masses off the taxpayer's teet.
Read more at Breitbart.
The media don't care what's good for the country or the world - only what will get their guy re-elected whether he deserves it or not.
I frankly don't think this will work. Do you?
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Comments
I couldn't agree with you more. My husband employs a part-time worker whose full time job is with the city fire department. He thinks that he should be able to retire now (at age 45), never pay health insurance, and get his pension for the rest of his life. It is so sad to see the way he has been brainwashed into thinking that he earned this and it is his right. We need to be on our knees for our country, for revival to turn the hearts of the people.
Posted by: Susan | February 18, 2011 9:36 PM
