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.
If the SEIU or any other union thug protesters are out there at the state Capitol on Saturday, be careful. Read all about it HERE. There is further further information about this particular assault, and the apparent racism and anti-semitism of this particular union thug HERE. Note that a Massachusetts politician is cheering on the unions, saying it’s okay to … Read more
Why? Because President Franklin D. Roosevelt, AFL/CIO leader George Meaney, President Calvin Coolidge, and other American icons opposed them? No. Because public employee unions are seeking to destroy the state of Wisconsin? No. Because public employee unions, in the end, amount to compacts against the public interest? No. It is because of this: "Private sector unions fight … Read more
Kathy Sullivan accuses House Republicans of engaging in hypocrisy and partisanship. I painfully read her boring 800-plus words with unfettered amusement given the "Shrill Cathy’s" finger-pointing and demagoguing. She claims the hiring of Greg Moore by Speaker Bill O’Brien is somehow interwoven with the State Republican Party. She characterizes Moore’s hiring as ripe of a … Read more
Remember all the derision and visited on the Tea Party movement by the Mainstream Media talking heads and Deep Thinkers? Remember how the Mainstream Media invented and then deplored the "extreme rhetoric" and "hatred" that didn’t exist in the Tea Party movement? And then they deployed a liberal "inside sexual joke," tagging the Tea Party protesters as "tea baggers"?
Well…GraniteGrok.com is pleased to announce that the real practitioners of hatred and extreme rhetoric have been spotted, photographed, and now labeled! What’s the opposite of a "Tea Bagger"? What’s really ugly, hateful, and perverted on the political scene today?
We now give you the practitioners of real hatred and extreme rhetoric—essentially, the "real" tea baggers, mounting the barricades for the political/government/ruling classes….
These are angry, dangerous people filled with hatred for anyone who dares to tell them "WE DON’T HAVE THE MONEY ANYMORE!" Do they not understand? Or are they merely filled with a sense of unlimited entitlement to our money? Here’s a report on one of the latest acts of hatred, violence, and vandalism….
You can probably guess who voted against HB 474. Democrats. In fact not one single Democrat voted for it. But they are not beholden to the unions. Nah.
The Final Roll Call was 221 for, 131 against. My original post, with a margin of 221 to 121 was incorrect, (which means I need to find a second tweet source in the House for verification purposes.)
Of those voting no 40 were Republicans. Of those not voting, 11 were democrats and 36 were Republican. So while a veto is promised, an override is still very possible.
But is it likley?
The Republicans can’t just hope the entire caucus shows up, they need to flip a chunk of those 40 Republicans to make this happen. But can they herd cats like the left?
We’ll probably get to find out.
Until then, here are the lists of those Republicans who voted no, and those who did not vote. (on the jump.)
By a vote of 221 to 121 HB 474 passes the NH House. While this is not a veto proof majority 58 House reps did not vote leaving plenty of room for a veto override.
You can probably guess who voted against