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Forum Post: Wisconsin Wipeout!

Posted 11 years ago on June 6, 2012, 8:17 p.m. EST by linker (-241)
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What happened? Most people disagree with you? How is that possible ?

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/all_that_left_unions_to_sound_the_FUOd5jKQfHAnpeu4zH7vZJ

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[-] 2 points by MattLHolck (16833) from San Diego, CA 11 years ago

meh

Can you play a dirge on a bongo drum? Can you hold a wake at an open-air protest of union activists, hippie leftovers and lefty college students?

The left’s year-and-a-half-long siege of Wisconsin has receded in failure like the Muslim invaders at the gates of Vienna in 1529. The Ottomans were never quite the same, and the public-sector unions won’t be either. With Gov. Scott Walker’s comfortable victory last night in his recall election, they have lost a momentous struggle in the progressive heartland.

From the first, the reaction to Walker’s union reforms on the left had about it the smell of impotent rage. Democratic lawmakers fled the state rather than vote on the measures; protesters flooded the state capitol in Madison, hoping to substitute the clamor of a demonstration for democratic deliberation.

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[-] 2 points by stevebol (1269) from Milwaukee, WI 11 years ago

The goal of the Tea Party is to reduce taxes on the rich. Challenging the public unions is just a pet project that the rich allows the TP to do. Public employees don't understand just how catastrophic the rise of the Tea Party will be. They will bring this country down. When Obama extended the Bush tax cuts I knew it was over. The TP isn't going to like the new America they created.

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[-] 0 points by tedscrat70 (-35) 11 years ago

The Tea Party needs to continue to stay outside the Beltway Republican circle jerk and push, push, push for more money in the hands of all citizens and less money in the vacuum of government.

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[-] 2 points by forjustice (178) from Kearney, NE 11 years ago

Too late. They are already for tax breaks on the rich while at the same time trying to eliminate the payroll tax cut. Support subsidies to big oil, while cutting social programs.

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[-] 0 points by tedscrat70 (-35) 11 years ago

What I wish would happen is to cut the Tax Code down to 1 sentence which is flat tax for every bracket.

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[-] 1 points by stevebol (1269) from Milwaukee, WI 11 years ago

You think reducing taxes on the rich and getting public employee unions all worked up will put money in our pockets? Ha Ha. Walker gets his paycheck on the public dime now. Still don't understand why OWS is leaderless? It's because OWS is what the Tea Party was SUPPOSED to be.

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[-] -2 points by tedscrat70 (-35) 11 years ago

I honestly do not see why public union employees need to get worked up. Walker was not taking away anyone's benefits. I believe he was simply requiring them to pay a little more; was it even close to the private individual's contribution? Tea Party is putting people into the halls of government and putting up a fight. Because they have leaders. OWS has no leaders and is such a polyglot of individual ideas and beliefs that they are totally impotent on a national scale

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[-] 1 points by stevebol (1269) from Milwaukee, WI 11 years ago

Tea Party "leaders", as you call them are just typical government shills. They want their seat at the table and they'll get it. Big woop.

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[-] -1 points by linker (-241) 11 years ago

the tea party is the savior of the nation. get over it and earn your keep. stop looking for a handout.

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