Molly Posted February 22, 2011 Report Share Posted February 22, 2011 Only 5 states (SC, NC, GA, TX, VA) lack Collective Bargaining for educators. They rank No. 50, 49, 48, 47 and 44 in ACT scores. WI is No. 2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venneh Posted February 22, 2011 Report Share Posted February 22, 2011 Shiny image of corroboration! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Molly Posted February 22, 2011 Report Share Posted February 22, 2011 I hate to keep harping on this, but this article just pissed me off, so much. MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker warned Tuesday that state employees could start receiving layoff notices as early as next week if a bill eliminating most collective bargaining rights isn’t passed soon. Walker said in a statement to The Associated Press that the layoffs wouldn’t take effect immediately. He didn’t say which workers would be targeted. “Hopefully we don’t get to that point,” Walker said. Senate Democrats walked out last week rather than vote on Walker’s bill that would force public workers to pay more for their benefits. He also wants to eliminate collective bargaining for nearly all workers except concerning salary increases that aren’t greater than the Consumer Price Index. The proposal, designed to help Wisconsin plug a projected $3.6 billion budget hole, has led to eight straight days of massive protests that grew as large as 68,000 people on Saturday. Security was tight in the Capitol on Tuesday morning as both the Senate and Assembly were scheduled to be in session. The Republican-controlled Assembly planned to start debate and possibly vote on the bill later in the day, although Democrats planned to push for adoption of more than 100 amendments. The Senate has been stymied in its ability to vote on the bill after the 14 Democrats walked out on Thursday, making it impossible for the remaining Republicans to take up the measure. Walker and Republican leaders have repeatedly called on the Democrats, who escaped to Illinois, to return and get back to work. Democrats have said they won’t come back until Walker is willing to negotiate. The unions have said they’re willing to accept paying more for benefits as long as they retain their collective bargaining rights and a Republican senator has proposed allowing those rights to be restored after two years. Walker has repeatedly rejected both compromises. He planned to speak to Wisconsin residents in a live “fireside chat” at 6 p.m. Tuesday. 1.) The guy is saying "give me what I want, or I'm going to start firing people." 2.) The fact that he's outright refusing any compromise has just filled me with such a sickening rage. He wants public workers to give up benefits, and basically never be able to ask for them back. What a tool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venneh Posted February 22, 2011 Report Share Posted February 22, 2011 (edited) And this is why you never vote for the Tea Party - because they're all crazy and don't give a fuck about most folks. BTW, if you want to go protesting whenever you have off next, odds are there will still be protests going on down in Madison. And now Walker's trying to block internet access. THE FUCK. Edited February 22, 2011 by Venneh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slothian Posted February 22, 2011 Report Share Posted February 22, 2011 Damn, your new governor is truly Mr Burns... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venneh Posted February 22, 2011 Report Share Posted February 22, 2011 My solution is to drink all the things tonight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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James D. Posted February 25, 2011 Report Share Posted February 25, 2011 And this is why you never vote for the Tea Party - because they're all crazy and don't give a fuck about most folks. All Democrats are socialists who preach a victimhood mentality to get more support from low-income voters. </sarcasm--see below> Hannah, I know you're enraged (and rightfully so), but blanket statements like that are asinine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venneh Posted February 25, 2011 Report Share Posted February 25, 2011 Fair enough. Anyways, it's looking like Walker could be facing violations on the ethics, labor law, and election law front, so that's quite pleasing. Serves the bastard right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFetch Posted February 25, 2011 Report Share Posted February 25, 2011 And this is why you never vote for the Tea Party - because they're all crazy and don't give a fuck about most folks. All Democrats are socialists who preach a victimhood mentality to get more support from low-income voters. </sarcasm--see below> Hannah, I know you're enraged (and rightfully so), but blanket statements like that are asinine. You can't even compare the two since the tea party is a group of Republicans. There would have to be a separate group of Democrats that are as crazy as the tea partiers, and yes they are crazy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaxPower Posted February 25, 2011 Report Share Posted February 25, 2011 You can't even compare the two since the tea party is a group of Republicans. There would have to be a separate group of Democrats that are as crazy as the tea partiers, and yes they are crazy. Yeah, the Democrat crazys are the unions Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFetch Posted February 25, 2011 Report Share Posted February 25, 2011 You can't even compare the two since the tea party is a group of Republicans. There would have to be a separate group of Democrats that are as crazy as the tea partiers, and yes they are crazy. Yeah, the Democrat crazys are the unions I hope that was supposed to be a joke. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venneh Posted February 25, 2011 Report Share Posted February 25, 2011 Assembly Republicans rammed the bill through at one in the morning with only thirteen of thirty-eight Democrats in the chambers. Land of the free, folks. Though, if nothing else, this has ensured that the Senate Democrats aren't coming back anytime soon. EDIT: And now police have been ordered to start clearing out anyone who's been sleeping over in the Capitol, and there's questions of whether or not it'll be left open over the weekend. For our health and safety. Sure, Walker. Yours and the Republicans' at the least, after the stunt you just pulled. But now the Wisconsin police association is calling on the governor not to, and will be sleeping over at the Capitol and keeping it open this weekend. Yay sane people! And now, a relevant video: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garfield Posted February 25, 2011 Report Share Posted February 25, 2011 Outside of terrorists, communists, and nazis, I have no hatred of anything political that matches the hate I've seen here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missy Posted February 26, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 26, 2011 A toddler was raped at SeaWorld. As I said on Facebook, sometimes I feel the world needs The Punisher. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garfield Posted February 27, 2011 Report Share Posted February 27, 2011 A toddler was raped at SeaWorld. As I said on Facebook, sometimes I feel the world needs The Punisher. No. The Punisher is way too quick with his justice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dc20willsave Posted February 28, 2011 Report Share Posted February 28, 2011 Last living U.S. WWI veteran dies Frank Buckles, the last living U.S. World War I veteran, has died, a spokesman for his family said Sunday. He was 110. Buckles "died peacefully in his home of natural causes" early Sunday morning, the family said in a statement sent to CNN late Sunday by spokesman David DeJonge. Buckles marked his 110th birthday on February 1, but his family had earlier told CNN he had slowed considerably since last fall, according his daughter Susannah Buckles Flanagan, who lives at the family home near Charles Town, West Virginia. Source Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightWing Posted February 28, 2011 Report Share Posted February 28, 2011 Wow. 110. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venneh Posted March 2, 2011 Report Share Posted March 2, 2011 Walker just released his plans for the Wisconsin budget. Actual bill, with major highlights spelled out. Highlights: $834 million in funding taken away from the public school systems, reduced spending on math and science programs, UW Hospitals and Clinics completely defunded, UW System except for Madison split off from Madison and loses 50% of its funding, and Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention completely defunded! Oh, but, get this: "Even as we reduce school aids, overall we give schools across the state the tools to make up for those reductions with even greater savings through the budget-repair bill," Walker said in the address. "Overall savings for schools across the state will outweigh reductions, ultimately allowing schools to put more money in the classroom." Also, no tax or fee increases. But the deep corporate tax cuts and cuts for the richest 2% of the state stay! I'm really sorry, but I don't get, on any level, how this works, or will keep us solvent. If anyone can explain to me how this is going to work and somehow give us jobs, I will send you cookies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron Robinson Posted March 2, 2011 Report Share Posted March 2, 2011 Psssh. What has science ever brought us anyway? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron Robinson Posted March 3, 2011 Report Share Posted March 3, 2011 Take the quiz! Charlie Sheen v Muammar Gaddafi: whose line is it anyway? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron Robinson Posted March 4, 2011 Report Share Posted March 4, 2011 Hate to bump this again but: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venneh Posted March 10, 2011 Report Share Posted March 10, 2011 The Republicans have quit pretending breaking the unions was about budgeting; they're stripping the fiscal elements and making it passable by committee as of tomorrow. Because if you can't get your way, never mind that whole democracy thing! In other news, we've always been at war with Eastasia. EDIT: ....Motherfuckers. They actually passed it. GO DIE IN A FIRE, REPUBLICANS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garfield Posted March 10, 2011 Report Share Posted March 10, 2011 This is not helping the tone in politics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venneh Posted March 10, 2011 Report Share Posted March 10, 2011 I'll freely admit it's not helping. But when you have eighteen people undoing fifty years plus of civil rights and deciding to say that they don't need to follow laws that are in place to ensure bipartisanship, all that matters is that they get their way, people tend to get just a little angry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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