Pass the popcorn! Wisconsin Dems running away!

[JC5123]

Been following this and laughing my butt off! I keep hoping for the slow speed chase when the state troopers locate the stolen school bus with 14 dim senators in it!   


http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/02/17/teachers-march-wisconsin-capitol-senate-moves-curtail-union-rights/

[twyacht]

I posted the same on the politics thread....

Let the cops find them, let the Dems show their true side. Seems the protesters didn't get the memo on "civility" either, as Gov. Walker is "targeted" in crosshairs, and Hitler.

Gee, they'll have to contribute 12% towards their own healthcare, and 5.8% toward their OWN retirement.....

and the unions in essence go on strike.... OBTW, FWIW, Police and Fireman are exempt.

Nice.

[Timothy]

Gee, they'll have to contribute 12% towards their own healthcare...

Nice.

I pay about 50% of my premiums (550 a month) with another $5000.00 in deductibles for the family.  I'll be out nearly 8 grand before they pay for more than my wifes medications (which run me another 300 a month in co-pays.)

AND I STILL DON'T WANT SOCIALIZED MEDICINE!

boo, hoo unions....pay up or STFU!  Try living in the real world.

[tombogan03884]

Isn't it funny that all the ones who demanded socialist medicine for you want themselves exempted ?

[TAB]

WE pay more then 12% of our medical coverage...  F them,

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[tombogan03884]

For years the private sector has been hearing about how they have to "do more with less" as our bennies are eaten away.
Time for these f*ckers to share some of the pain.

[usmcdadx2]

For years we've had a dim governor and a dim controlled legislature who were happy to play the "we'll steamroller your objections on the way to passing our bills" game. Now the tide has turned and the pantywaists pick up their ball and run away rather than play in the sandbox they built.

They were already feeling really put out because their guy Doyle was all for Obama's high speed rail package, the new guy said "we'll take your money if we can use it for infrastructure instead of a money wasting boondoggle" When the feds said no he said shove it.

Now Walker says “hey our economy is hurting and it is time for our state workers to share the pain and the only way I see to make that happen is reduce the power of the unions”. The response from state workers(especially the teachers union members)... “Oh dear lord how dare he take our rights from us, let’s protest”. I didn’t see any of these clowns out protesting when the rest of us were told to make due with less and pay more for it.

Last but not least- my favorite bit from the news coverage of the protests was on last night. Some reporter was interviewing a UW Madison student that was out protesting and she was saying how she is out there to show solidarity with her teachers and to make sure they get what they deserve. The part the makes this so great is that I remember seeing this same “politically active” rocket scientist interviewed within the last year protesting the tuition increase in the UW system. If those are the critical thinking skills her teachers had given her over the years, I hope they do get what they deserve...zip, nadda, nothing.

[JC5123]

While the politics of this whole situation have me fuming. This is the most entertaining thing I have seen in a long time. I was laughing all night talking with friends about this.

You can't make this stuff up! 14 Dem senators hijack a (short) bus and flee the state. Then show up at a hotel in IL calling CNN with their "list of demands"! So what, they are holding themselves hostage now?

I read a post on Fox news this morning that I thought was a great idea, one of the Rep. Senators should change his party affiliation for the day so that they can vote this budget through and move it on. Getting something accomplished and making the Dems even more irrelevant.  I don't know for sure if it could be done, but would be a master stroke if it could.

[mkm]

I read a post on Fox news this morning that I thought was a great idea, one of the Rep. Senators should change his party affiliation for the day so that they can vote this budget through and move it on. Getting something accomplished and making the Dems even more irrelevant.  I don't know for sure if it could be done, but would be a master stroke if it could.

Good idea in theory, but I don't think that would work.  It's my understanding that the lack of 20 senators is the problem, not the lack of a Dem.

How is it that elected officials can willingly and openly not do there job without getting fired?

[Solus]

When I worked in the IT dept. of a local school district, we were exempt from SS but paid the same percentage to a privately run but state regulated retirement company.  The school district matched our contribution, just like an employer would under SS.

The big difference was that no one could touch the contributions.  The organization handling the funds would invest them keeping to the state rules about such investments.

Our department would visit their IT dept. on occasion as a tech exchange experience.  We immediately noticed that everything was state of the art.  When we asked about it, it was explained that the investment folks were doing such a good job that the income was above what was allowed by state law so they had to increase expenses.  Modern furniture, fixtures, new computers ever six months or more, they has to spill money just to stay legal.  And the retirement benefits were still better than what would be paid by SS.

Sickens me to think how the general populace has been robbed by SS.