New Hampshire Democrats, who benefit from taxpayer money laundered through public employee union dues into their campaign, are spending taxpayer dollars in the legislature to make sure they have sound bites and talking points to give to their union buddies to ensure the Aztec gold continues to flow moving forward.
The only way it could ever be equal, is if we all paid the same taxes, and taxpayers paid nothing extra for benefits and retirement; you would have to fund pay all of your share of both at the same rates as the average private citizen.
(Can these numbers be correct? Would someone confirm them? And add them up? I haven’t…cause I’m afraid of exactly how BIG the figures are going to be…on one side only.)
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If we ignore the change in national perception based on weeks of evidence that public union employees (and democrats) are selfish, angry, violent, children what actually changed when the Wisconsin legislature and Governor Walker succeeded in passing changes to collective bargaining?
NPR is dodging bullets at a time when it was already facing an uphill battle to justify continued taxpayer funding. So having an executive expose the network culture on hidden video is the last thing they needed.
Is there a lesson here for the GOP super-majority in New Hampshire? Well yeah….
Yesterday the super-majority Republicans in the Wisconsin State Senate voted 18-1 to strip government employee unions of all collective bargaining rights. The unions now are essentially…not unions. For all intensive purposes, they have been outlawed. Good. The "Demorat" members of the Wisconsin Senate weren’t there to help their government union friends. They’re hiding somewhere in Illinois, denying the Republicans a quorum to conduct financial affairs. That’s why the vote was so lopsided: No Demorats present.
In the meantime, some say "It’s About Time." The GOP needs to man up and realize they’re in a war. A political and cultural war. They need to admit it, understand it, and act accordingly. Here’s a comment about the Wisconsin events from a RedState.com member:
I was just thinking back to all the loose talk from the left about ending the gun ban in the New Hampshire State House. How they imagined someone just unloading over testimony supporting same sex marriage–to use one example–kids getting cut down in the cross-fire. And how they fell over themselves trying to scare parents into keeping their children from ever visiting the place because it was now just too dangerous.
Then I look at the way the union run leftists in Wisconsin are acting. How they are storming the state house, climbing in through windows, and forcing people to flee for fear of their well being. These pro-union forces are pushing against state troopers trying to get past them. Maybe being let in by union cops. Just because they demand the ability to collectively bargain for benefits (not wages–they still have that privilege as far as I know.)
What is perhaps more instructive is that the left in New Hampshire supports them. I’d bet money you will not hear a peep in opposition to any of this from the state leadership of the democrat party. Nothing about State Senators running away like spoiled children. Nothing about the hate speech, the Hitler signs, the threats or the aggressive mob tactics and intimidation. They support that–and by their own rules support it through their silence.
Given you gentle spleens when it comes to matters of incivility, we on the right would like you to comment on this email, sent by pro union left wing forces, to elected Republican legislators in Wisconsin.
On Wednesday night, Republican senators convened and removed fiscal items from the bill so that they could vote on other issues, including the collective bargaining rights of public employee unions. The vote to pass the remaining bill was 18-1.
Own the politicians, own the power. Own the power, own the money. Spend the money on politicians. Watch that loop cycle over and over again. After all, it is your tax dollars that allow this nonsense to continue over and over and over again. (H/T: RedState)
Many of the people protesting on Saturday don’t even understand what they are doing. They talk about “Worker’s Rights” (which I support). But they have been duped into protesting for public sector “Union rights”, the right of unions to conspire with politicians against the interests of the American people.
President Franklin Roosevelt said it was wrong to unionize government workers because they are supposed to serve the public. He was right. The public sector was unionized about 50 years ago. Unionization has led to union leaders and politicians creating an increasing number of safe, easy and often low value, well paid unionized employees whose union dues are funneled back to the politicians. It is a vicious cycle. Politicians are supposed to represent the people, but they ignore the good of the people to reward their union supporters. This is corruption pure and simple.
I can tell you from long discussions about the various pathways to “graduation” that the goal is more geared toward getting kids through school on paper to make the numbers look good. Any reasonable path to that end is considered a win, but by any traditional standard it is anything but a public school success story.
As I pointed out here, there seems to be a side of teachers to believe that they are of more importance to a child’s well being and success than their parents. Yes, I know about how some parents are doing the best they could (according to teachers) to help their kids through school and the like; I get that. Having run a daycare center, I saw it first hand and gently shook my head at some parents. But that was a minority, a real small minority of parents.
Sidenote: Sometimes, parents give up trying to help. I’ll admit – I’m not a math major as I only got through multi-variate calculus and I do computers instead of my major, biology (where I concentrated on energy transfers within sub-cellular mechanisms). I figured that SURE, I can help my kids with their math and science homework. But I’ll tell you, all I ever got was “THAT’s not how my teacher teaches me!”. And when I finally figured out the cockamamie way it was being done, I finally learned why Johnnie and Janie can’t read and make change in the 7-11; I admit, I stopped trying to “help” my kids – it caused more problems than it solved. It brought back memories of trying to teach a Education student what Y=MX+b was.
But I would never, not even in my wildest dreams of megalomania or delusions of being “Emperor for the World for a Week”, would presuppose to believe that I was better for their kids than they were – my staff were paid to watch over and teach age appropriate lessons. Never did I think that we were that important to believe that we should or could supplant parents.
Unfortunately, like the teachers in that post, there are others that need to relearn that lesson – like these words uttered by teachers in Moultonborough, NH back in October, whose words were similar to that of the WI teachers:
…students are WAY ahead of the times, way ahead of parents on multiple issues especially when it comes to openness and sexuality…I disagree with having parent being allowed in. I think that students are willing to talk about this because they have different views than their parents…a huge disservice to the community and the school.
And I wonder why they have different views…as another teacher admitted (also speaking against letting parents into that workshop:
President Obama says he is focusing on jobs. Is that good or bad? In 2009 and 2010 he said he would “focus like a laser” on jobs. Yet we suffer from the longest high unemployment since the great depression with no end in sight.
Failure. The rapacious, greedy, plundering unions failed. Good. From the excellent Legal Insurrection blog, a few words about the national protests that were supposed to occur in support of the public employee unions in Wisconsin: The 50-state protest was a failure, plain and simple, although the images from Madison may create the false impression of massive … Read more
Something quite unusual is happening in New Hampshire. To coin a phrase, you could say that "a spectre is haunting New Hampshire—the spectre of freedom from the rapacious political classes." In politics, the conventional wisdom says that "the most organized group wins." That is, the group that can turn out the most warm bodies "on the street" will ultimately prevail. This is false: The ability to put bodies on the street…
During yesterday’s GrokTALK! show, we discussed the Right To Work bill (HB 474) making its way through the NH Legislature. After the show, I received this from GrokTALK! listener, Barbara: "…why does the public sector think they deserve a pension when pensions have largely been eliminated for the private sector?" Here were my 10 quick … Read more
In just a few days the unions and democrats gathering in Wisconsin have provided us with a treasure trove. They have bussed in AstroTurf with connections to the White House, backing the big business unions, bearing more Hitler signs in a few miles than since Hilter was alive.
I was just thinking back to all the loose talk from the left about ending the gun ban in the New Hampshire State House. How they imagined someone just unloading over testimony supporting same sex marriage–to use one example–kids getting cut down in the cross-fire. And how they fell over themselves trying to scare parents into keeping their children from ever visiting the place because it was now just too dangerous.