The Glade 4.0

Facism is not a school of thought, it is a racial slur.

The problem is that the private sector unions are wholly subsidized by the public sector ones. If you back out public sector union employees the number of unionized works drops to under 10% of the work force.

By Jon Byman
Story Created: Mar 10, 2011
Story Updated: Mar 10, 2011
MADISON - The State Department of Justice confirms that it is investigating several death threats against a number of lawmakers in response to the legislature's move to strip employees of many collective bargaining rights.
Among the threats the Justice Department is investigationg is one that was emailed to Republican Senators Wednesday night. Newsradio 620 WTMJ has obtained that email.The following is the unedited email:
Please put your things in order because you will be killed and your familes
will also be killed due to your actions in the last 8 weeks. Please explain
to them that this is because if we get rid of you and your families then it
will save the rights of 300,000 people and also be able to close the deficit
that you have created. I hope you have a good time in hell. Read below for
more information on possible scenarios in which you will die.

WE want to make this perfectly clear. Because of your actions today and in
the past couple of weeks I and the group of people that are working with me
have decided that we've had enough. We feel that you and the people that
support the dictator have to die. We have tried many other ways of dealing
with your corruption but you have taken things too far and we will not stand
for it any longer. So, this is how it's going to happen: I as well as many
others know where you and your family live, it's a matter of public records.
We have all planned to assult you by arriving at your house and putting a
nice little bullet in your head. However, we decided that we wouldn't leave
it there. We also have decided that this may not be enough to send the
message to you since you are so "high" on Koch and have decided that you are
now going to single handedly make this a dictatorship instead of a
demorcratic process. So we have also built several bombs that we have placed
in various locations around the areas in which we know that you frequent.
This includes, your house, your car, the state capitol, and well I won't
tell you all of them because that's just no fun. Since we know that you are
not smart enough to figure out why this is happening to you we have decided
to make it perfectly clear to you. If you and your goonies feel that it's
necessary to strip the rights of 300,000 people and ruin their lives, making
them unable to feed, clothe, and provide the necessities to their families
and themselves then We Will "get rid of" (in which I mean kill) you. Please
understand that this does not include the heroic Rep. Senator that risked
everything to go aganist what you and your goonies wanted him to do. We feel
that it's worth our lives to do this, because we would be saving the lives
of 300,000 people. Please make your peace with God as soon as possible and
say goodbye to your loved ones we will not wait any longer. YOU WILL DIE!!!!
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Do you feel the same way about a non-union government employee who negotiates his own contract and tries to get the best deal he can in the process? Should government employees just accept whatever wage & benefit package the government offers, or should they be free to ask for a raise, more vacation days, etc.?

Other than their effect (increased labor costs) what specifically what do you disagree with regarding the concept of unions? Its basically a free association thing.

Public sector unions, those that are tax paid, I lack an expletive strong enough to describe my emotion and thoughts about that parasitic group.

I am sure there are some fine bureaucrats out there and wonderful teachers, again to avoid the usual charge, being anti union does not make you anti education or teacher. But being able to elect the person who sits down and determines your pay....recepie for financial disaster. Sorry the rest of the country is hurting and you get to make sacrifices too.

Other than their effect (increased labor costs) what specifically what do you disagree with regarding the concept of unions? Its basically a free association thing.

Facism is not a school of thought, it is a racial slur.

Then we'd better mandate that everyone join a union in order to keep them strong. /facepalm

In comic strips the person on the left always speaks first. - George Carlin

Way to miss the point. I honestly don't feel strongly either way on this. On the one hand it is a blow to workers every where despite efforts to paint these people as greedy buggers, on the other hand Unions have overstepped their bounds and lost sight of their true mission. As I said, when the workers are trampled again to an intolerable the unions will return with a clear mandate, grow fat and out of control, etc. It's a never ending pendulum.

Rush this morning had a snipit from Michael Moore saying that this is a war, and if you are in driving distance form Madison go and do whatever is neccessary to get resolution for the union side.

**** Michael Moore and his nutjob mind.

So they only want democracy when its in their favor and civility when its someone against them. **** that noise.

I can only assume that your point was that without the public sector unions, the private sector unions would fail, and that is a "problem". Since the only way to stop this failure (according to your allegation that the number of unionized workers would drop below 10%) would be to legislate union membership...oh wait, there are already laws that do that.

I don't think I am the one that missed the point.

In comic strips the person on the left always speaks first. - George Carlin

Facism is not a school of thought, it is a racial slur.

Facism is not a school of thought, it is a racial slur.