Californaia and New York, the richeset states in the union, are being run into the ground by Liberal policies of tax and spend. This country has reached a tippong point where voters are crying, “Enough!”Republican governers like Scott Walker in Wisconsin and John Kasich in Ohio have been elected to get their fiscal houses in order accordng the he will of the voters.
However, the unions which represent a very small portion of the American population and are supportive of the very same Democrat politicians that have given them sweetheart deal after sweetheart deal.
They are pushing back against the will of the people.
They care nothing about the fiscal heath of their states.
They illegally stage a work stoppage and drag students to the protest.
And to top it all off, the president of the United States, Barack Obama has sided with the unions against the will of the voters as well.
I predict a huge backlash by an overwhelming percentage of the American people against the president and the unions across the country.
The day of reckoning is here and the madness of fiscal irresponsibility must end now!
The Wall Street Journal reposts that this week President Obama was roundly criticized, even by many of his allies, for submitting a federal budget that actually increases our already crushing deficit. But that didn't stop him Thursday from jumping into Wisconsin's titanic budget battle. He accused the new Republican governor, Scott Walker, of launching an "assault" on unions with his emergency legislation aimed at cutting the state budget.
The real assault this week was led by Organizing for America, the successor to President's Obama's 2008 campaign organization. It helped fill buses of protesters who flooded the state capital of Madison and ran 15 phone banks urging people to call state legislators.
Mr. Walker's proposals are hardly revolutionary. Facing a $137 million budget deficit, he has decided to try to avoid laying off 5,500 state workers by proposing that they contribute 5.8% of their income towards their pensions and 12.6% towards health insurance. That's roughly the national average for public pension payments, and it is less than half the national average of what government workers contribute to health care. Mr. Walker also wants to limit the power of public-employee unions to negotiate contracts and work rules—something that 24 states already limit or ban.
The governor's move is in reaction to a 2009 law implemented by the then-Democratic legislature that expanded public unions' collective-bargaining rights and lifted existing limits on teacher raises.
Democratic reactions to these proposals have been over the top. In addition to the thousands of protesters who descended on the Capitol building on Thursday to intimidate legislators, so many teachers called in sick on Friday that school districts in Milwaukee, Madison and Janesville had to close.
Then there's the rhetoric. "This is about the clean government Wisconsin has enjoyed over the past century versus the corrupt government that Scott Walker proposes," thundered the liberal Madison Capital Times newspaper earlier this week. Democratic State Sen. Bob Jauch called Mr. Walker's move "the end of the democratic process" during the committee debate on Wednesday night.
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