AFL-CIO Says Virgina Stands By Wisconsin
By Shaun Kenney | Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011 | PolicyIn the ongoing battle with teachers unions and the state of public education, does anyone see something… wrong here?
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Shaun Kenney is the Chairman of the Fluvanna County Board of Supervisors, former Communications Director for the Republican Party of Virginia, and an active blogger since 2002. Shaun lives in Thomas Jefferson's backyard with his wife, six children, and a modest attempt at a farm in Kents Store, Virginia.
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22 Responses to "AFL-CIO Says Virgina Stands By Wisconsin"
The final line of the Communist Manifesto comes to mind.
Well, all Virginians who believe workers have the right to voice their concerns about their working conditions, their pay, their benefits, and their pension ought to stand with the workers in Wisconsin. Fact is, they stand ready to make the financial sacrifices requested, but they want the continuing right to sit down with their employer to discuss the matter. What the heck is wrong with that?
Well, this certainly explains why Brian Moran swept the Democratic primary in 2009 and won the Governorship in a landslide.
What color is the sky in the alternate universe that these people live in?
P. S.
Mike, I understand that you don’t pay defined benefit pensions to your employees, right? Doesn’t that exclude you from your definition of “all Virginians” or is it okay for you to just talk about it with them while not delivering the cash?
Money talks; bullshit walks, Mike.
Shame they can’t spell…
Well, looks like it is a good thing you got a screen snap, since the AFL-CIO wasted no time in pulling it.
In any event, Wisconsin can have Virgina, because they’ll never get Virginia.
@Brian, maybe they meant Virgina Davis, Jeff’s wife…
Apparently all that public education isn’t serving the AFL-CIO very well, either…
While you all seem to enjoy the basic spelling error, you seem to miss that fact that Virginia’s public education system failed the author of the tweet…
If you all truely cared about spelling and education, you would support greater spending and resources for Virginia’s schools. Instead you belittle a big fingered tweeter..
BTW: I support the workers fighting for their lives, families and futures in Wisconsin!
William,
“truely”?
Oops.
BTW: I support the taxpayers fighting for their lives, families and futures in Wisconsin!
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My biggest complaint is against the Wisconsin Senators who are pouting and running away with their ball because they don’t like that they are getting beat.
Elections have consequences.
It should get really interesting if the Gov. calls out the National Guard. During a Wisconsin firefighters strike back in the 80s, the poor guardsmen couldn’t get any sleep because there was a sudden massive increase in dumpster fires. Several guardsmen didn’t show up at all because they were firefighters first.
Now can you imagine a NG standing in front of a class of middle schoolers?
Isn’t it interesting that the afl/cio (they are shrinking before our eyes hence the smallcase) and the leftists here never ask for any return on the expenditures to their public sector union buddies. Wisconsin kids are never mentioned as a priority. Public school teachers in WI don’t seem to teach too much to them according to their own govt even on the days that they show up. But oh a collective bargaining sweetheart deal I mean “right” that FDR railed against and Federal workers don’t enjoy. Now that’s important. And also the right to grab all the government workers paychecks for the union dues. Can’t forget that. This is exactly what I call gangster socialism.
“If you all truely cared about spelling and education, you would support greater spending and resources for Virginia’s schools.”
Mr Bailey perhaps you should look up the per capita expenditures the US makes on students and education and their relative test scores internationally. There is rather an inverse relationship if you know what I mean. US public school education prior to the unions and the leftists was second to none; now its second to about 15 or 16. More and more education dollars go to overhead not to student instruction. But Dems are interested in the kids only as props for their agenda.
Do you think this is all about unions and teachers? After all, it was community organizers “Organizing for America” that organized this protest. Who would be better advocates or activist then a bunch of teachers who feel their jobs are in jeopardy.
Even if the contracts don’t go through, the Dems are in a win-win situation. If the contracts didn’t go through, you don’t think these teachers would be back home advocating their cause to oust Governor Walker.
I wish to congratulated Rahm Emanuel for his victory in Chicago, Illinois. …where exactly did Axelrod go? Was it Chicago? Hell Chicago’s just 3 hours away from Madison, just a weekend project for a professional community organizer.
Why else would another community organizer like the Virginia AFL-CIO not support Wisconsin? Don’t exactly know how he thinks he’s speaking for Virginia. Well, I guess if I was a union leader, I’d feel that way too.
BTW: My spelling/education comments were tongue in cheek humor…
Don’t think this whole Wisconsin issue is clean as they are not changing he public safety union rights. The fire and police unions supported the Gov in his race to office so he has deemed those unions to be worthy of retaining their rights. Pay back??? Yes…
BTW: That fact seems to me to leave a lot of elected officials and public safety union officials looking like bums. JMO
Ah,yes! The greater spending theory on government education. It has worked out so well the past 40 years or so.
Yeah, see… My theory is correct. William Bailey use to be part of the Wisconsin teachers union. Reason is thrown out the door for emotional base decisions, taught by the community organizer master, Saul Alinsky.
Mike Barrett was part of ACORN.
Margaret Sanger shoes is tough to fill.
I, too, stand with the workers fighting for their lives, families and futures in Wisconsin: The Taxpayers.
So public sector workers don’t pay taxes?
The articles and the comment streams on this site are always very interesting. Politics is discussed in isolation; that is the reason the nation is in the state it is in.
Politics and economics are inseparable. Economics is about how things get made; politics is about who gets to keep them.
Sadly, though, politics is reduced to a mere bidding war for a share of the productive output of the producer class. This is why the legal monopoly on the use of force is so sought after; rent-seekers use state force to enrich themselves via the state at the expense of everyone else.
Libertarians recognize this and are unwilling to separate economics and politics. We see that most of our interactions with the other humans here on planet earth are economic interactions. This means the major way we express our liberty is economic. Thus, the ability to “manage” economic interactions through “regulations” is anti-liberty. Besides that, history has proven that managed economies don’t work. Lastly, politics takes advantage of humans’ short attention span, while economics, being grounded in mathematical reality, doesn’t tolerate short-sightedness.
My point is that economics is truly misunderstood, or not understood at all, and that is plainly evident on political sites.
Public employees: the simple fact is, we can’t afford you anymore. There is no money. The federal government is hiding a Depression by borrowing and spending 11% of GDP, and has been for the past three years. This is unsustainable and will end badly. Government’s financial promises to everyone are going to be broken; don’t take it personally. You can yell and scream and demonstrate and whine and organize and do whatever else you want to. But, we still can’t afford you anymore.
Brian: Sorry, It was not my intention to imply that public sector workers do not pay taxes. My point was that the number of public sector employees relative to the private sector employees in Wisconsin means that a lot of people are bearing the burden for a comparatively small number of individuals. As we can both agree, private-sector workers are finding it difficult to makes ends meet in today’s economy. When you add to that the possibility that they could be forced to pay higher taxes to subsidize generous benefits packages of which the average private-sector worker can only dream, we are only compounding the difficulty for private-sector Wisconsinites.
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