Hopefully this will signal the beginning of the end for public employee unions.

 Sweeeeeet!

Skippy

I wouldn't feel too good about them spending millions of dollars in union dues.  People need to buy milk and gas not elections.  I read that nearly half of union members left.

Hmmm... I wonder... Mene, Mene, Tekel u-Pharsin

Canada Bracing for Massive Influx of Wisconsin Boat People

OTTAWA (The Borowitz Report) – The Canadian coast guard was on alert today, preparing for what it fears could be a massive invasion of  boat people from Wisconsin.

Conor McGlindon, commander of the Royal Canadian Mounted Coast Guard (RCMCG), said that satellite photos had revealed a “substantial flotilla” in the making, as Wisconsinites prepared to flee their state for their neighbor to the North.

“Word has gotten around that we have policemen, firemen, and basic school lunches up here,” Mr. McGlindon said.  “You can’t blame these boat people for seeking a better life.  But we are under orders to intercept them.”

In Canada, officials fear that refugees from Wisconsin will brave the treacherous journey across Lake Superior in the hopes of giving birth to so-called “anchor babies” on Canadian soil.

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By Scott Walker

 

Two years ago, I ran for governor because Wisconsin faced a fiscal and economic crisis. From 2008 to 2010, Wisconsin lost more than 100,000 jobs. When I took office, our state faced a budget deficit of more than $3 billion.

We had to take immediate action. Wisconsin couldn't wait.

The good news is that our reforms are working. We're turning things around. We're heading in the right direction. We're moving Wisconsin forward.

Already, we've documented more than $1 billion in savings for taxpayers from our reforms. Property taxes are down on a median-valued home for the first time in 12 years. The state now has a $154 million budget surplus.

Most important, we're gaining jobs in Wisconsin.

The actual survey of nearly 160,000 employers in the state shows that Wisconsin gained jobs in 2011. Economists agree that these are the most legitimate numbers. Overall, more than 30,000 jobs have been added since I took office.

Today, the unemployment rate is down to 6.7%, the lowest it has been since 2008. In contrast, the unemployment rate is over 10% in the city of Milwaukee and, sadly, it is one of the poorest big cities in the country.

We need to do more to help our state's largest city. That's why my administration spent more than a year putting together a plan to invest $100 million into Milwaukee's most economically challenged areas through our Transform Milwaukee plan. On the other hand, the mayor wants to spend $100 million on a trolley that would travel downtown and on the east side of the city. That's the kind of wasteful spending that got Wisconsin into a budget mess in the first place.

We balanced a $3.6 billion budget deficit without raising taxes, without massive layoffs and without cuts to programs like Medicaid. In fact, I put more money into the program that funds BadgerCare and FamilyCare than any governor in Wisconsin histo ry.

Instead, we balanced the budget with long-term structural reforms that helped balanced both our state and local government budgets for years to come. We thought more about the next generation than we did about the next election. Isn't that what you elect us to do?

In contrast, the mayor was asked more than 50 days ago about what he would do to balance the budget. He will not tell the voters, so we have to look at his record to get an idea. In Milwaukee, taxes and fees have gone up 43% over the past eight years and the unemployment rate has gone up 28%.

Recently, we learned that the mayor is wrong about violent crime in his city as well. Sadly, it went up over the past year in Milwaukee. That is going backward. Instead, we want to go forward.

Our reforms are working in education, too. In the past, many school districts across the state had to buy health insurance from just one company. Now, our reforms allow them to bid out for health insurance and that saved our schools tens of millions of dollars. That's money that goes directly into the classroom.

Under the old system of collective bargaining, schools were forced to make decisions based on seniority and tenure. Our opponent wants to go back to that old system. We want to go forward.

Because of our reforms, schools can staff based on merit and pay based on performance. That means we can put the best and the brightest in the classroom, and we can keep them there, too.

We are turning things around, but there is much more work to be done. Looking ahead, we are ready to move on and move forward.

Recently, I toured a manufacturing plant in Oshkosh and an employee named Chris told me that he voted for my opponent in the last election and he was raised as a Democrat. He then told me that he was voting for me because he was impressed that someone had the courage to take on the tough issues in this state.

Sometimes it seems odd to me that politics is the only profession where you are called courageous just for keeping your word.

I see this kind of courage every day from the people of Wisconsin. I see moms and dads like Tonette and I who work hard at their jobs for the same reason we do: To ensure that our kids have a better life. I am running for governor because I want to make sure my sons, Matt and Alex, and every other kid and grandkid in this state inherits a Wisconsin at least as great as the one we did. Respectfully, I ask for your vote on June 5.

The public service union AFSCME membership dropped from about 63,000 to slightly over 28,000 after mandatory dues deductions were removed,

 http://www.thegatewaypundit.co...llowing-walkers-law/

 

Workers know when to leave something that does them do good.

 

I hope Yoda realizes his cited post is not real -- rather like the Onion.

a photo of the "raft people" as they flee to canada... some, reportedly, have cheese wheels with them!

 

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i hope you grow a sense of humor, and some class. it's obvious you haven't found either in your  travels!

Walker wins, unions lose.

I once worked for a company headquartered in Southern Wisconsin. 

I traveled one week with someone that had a 1100 square foot craftsman house (1930's) on a 45'

wide lot in Kenosha--a run down blue collar town.  Their property taxes were $5,500 per year--for a house certainly below the housing standards of middle class Alabama.  Another friend had a $180,000 townhouse in Racine, and his taxes were over $6,000--10 years ago. 

Most of the company's employees drive into Wisconsin from Illinois--where housing costs at least twice what a comparable house in Alabama would run.

And, they actually thought that 60% of a 40 person office outside Dallas, TX would be transferring to the lands of high taxes.  One guy took a transfer and retired within 6 weeks.

And, they force brats and pasta salad on you every day at lunch when you go to meetings.  No thanks!  They can keep Wisconsin, where the women are short, heavy and dark headed.

Walker improved the state in only 18 months. Even union people could see that things were better. I also doubt they wanted to go back to having union dues taken out of their pay. How valuable are unions when the members will not voluntarily pay their dues?

It is certainly a precedent, and the audacity of the media to blame this on the "Tea Party".  What they fail to realize is that the Tea Party represents the conservative movement, and people are slowing coming to term with the fact that government cuts are going to have to be made if we are to balance the books and get ourselves out of this mess. I only hope we can do the same thing on a national level.  There is no place for collective bargaining / Union shop rules in a government worker Union. Gone are the days when someone can work for 20 years in a government job and then retire to collect the same pay and benefits till they die. We cannot afford this and concessions have to be made. These people deserve to be paid for their work, and they deserve benefits, but these should be no better than the people who are footing the bill.

Walker wins-Wisconsin wins
Romney wins-America wins