oh look. it's mr. political nonsense again.
The New Civility: Blogger Ann Althouse’s ‘Madison Privileges Have Been Revoked’
Ann Althouse, a blogger and University of Wisconsin law professor, has provided extensive firsthand accounts and photos — along with her husband Meade — of the Wisconsin protests and related matters.
Althouse has criticized the actions of the Democratic lawmakers who left the state as well as the behavior of some of the protesters.
Amid the numerous death threats against GOP state lawmakers, the ripping up of Democratic recall petitions and university professors musing about justifications for “political violence,” it was only a matter of time before the union/left rabble would turn their ire toward Althouse.
In an unsigned “Operation: Countertroll” screed, they declare, “Your city of Madison privileges have been revoked.”.....
Cops better get on this...yesterday. Was this delivered via the website? IP address. This is a real threat. Those responsible need to be cuffed and stuffed. The letter sent to her is creepy. It names favorite hangouts.....
Operation: Countertroll
Her "crime"? Documenting what they do.
State officials estimate that dozens of local governments and school districts will soon be unable to pay their bills and the Treasury dept. is on record supporting a bill — passed by the House last week — which would recast Emergency Financial Managers as Emergency Managers and give them unprecedented new power to fire elected officials, dissolve labor contracts and reorganize or dissolve cities and school districts.[\quote]
I have posted that before, but it is by far a breech of democracy more than the stripping of collective rights that WI is doing. It's actually removing elected officials at the whim of one person heading up the state. If that isn't tyranny, I don't know what is.
Democracy certainly doesn't look like what Michigan is doing.
http://michiganmessenger.com/47013/bill-offers-no-guidelines-for-use-of-emergency-managers-powers
State officials estimate that dozens of local governments and school districts will soon be unable to pay their bills and the Treasury dept. is on record supporting a bill — passed by the House last week — which would recast Emergency Financial Managers as Emergency Managers and give them unprecedented new power to fire elected officials, dissolve labor contracts and reorganize or dissolve cities and school districts.[\quote]
I have posted that before, but it is by far a breech of democracy more than the stripping of collective rights that WI is doing. It's actually removing elected officials at the whim of one person heading up the state. If that isn't tyranny, I don't know what is.
So the Public Unions have killed the Golden Goose and now have to pay piper.
Democracy certainly doesn't look like what Michigan is doing.
http://michiganmessenger.com/47013/bill-offers-no-guidelines-for-use-of-emergency-managers-powers
So the Public Unions have killed the Golden Goose and now have to pay piper.
None of this was about money! The unions were not costing the states anything. They made any concessions requested of them. But they were still abolished anyway. And the money that saved (which wasn't much of anything) went to pointless corporation tax breaks which won't have the effect of keeping corporation money in the state like politicians wanted it to do.
And what is this Golden Goose you keep talking of? Seriously find me a public employee that is earning more than a unionized private counterpart.
And unions have nothing to do with the tax changes that MI put into place that tax people earning below $25K 26% MORE than they were getting taxed before, but those making over six figures are not getting any tax raised. All of this amidst cutting corporation taxes. How are unions at all at fault with this? Even if you think a union is a cess pool were money just magically vanishes from the state treasury (which it isn't) what does that have to do with the MI bill to dissolve collective bargaining AND put in martial law at the whim of the governor? Wouldn't just vanquishing the unions be enough for those misguided leaders to put money back into people's pockets and keep jobs around? Why would you need the ability to dissolve any elected official's office, ignore any treaty or procedure or any state ordinance and give that power to a corporate official?
good article about the npr BS.
http://www.politicususa.com/en/republicans-npr