Originally Posted by
iceman49
[LEFT]The overriding theme echoed by the protesters and speakers in Madison is the protection of worker’s rights in both the public and private sectors.
Jeff Skiles, the co-pilot who helped crash land the airliner in the Hudson in January of 2009, was one of the speakers. The crowd cheered when he said, “we didn’t abandon those passengers to save themselves; we all worked together to save everybody. That’s a lesson that people in this Capitol building need to learn.”
Skiles continued, “this budget bill will strip Wisconsin public workers of the protections and rights enjoyed by other Americans. This bill will regulate public workers to second-class status in America. Are we going to let that happen?”
In unison, the crowd chanted “No!”
Skiles concluded his speech by stating, “Let’s not forget how this budget crisis came about, and let’s not let this governor and this Republican legislature shift the blame for what’s wrong with America from corporate profiteers and instead demonize our teachers, our nurses and our public-sector employees.”
He'd been better off not associating with that train wreck out there. We're not the same type of unions even though we're all members of the AFL-CIO and Richard Trumka was screaming his head off on their behalf.
Public union financially supports a governor, governor then negotiates a contract with the union, the union is paid with tax payer money that is not earned but confiscated, a portion of that money is paid to the union which is then paid to the governor. That's money laundering and we don't have that option at Delta. I'm no fan of FDR but he was right about government unions.
Also to say
“this budget bill will strip Wisconsin public workers of the protections and rights enjoyed by other Americans. This bill will regulate public workers to second-class status in America. Are we going to let that happen?”
Even after the cuts if Wisconsin gets a better deal than Federal unions and Federal unions do better than us than we're what? Third class? Fourth? Fifth?