Conservatives Push Back Against ‘Infectuous’ Wisconsin Public Unions
Oh, how sunny and bright and positively limitless the future must have seemed.
For American liberals, Barack Obama’s inauguration signaled far, far more than a new administration. In their new president they had a man who not only shared their disdain for America’s history but who traveled the world apologizing for it, a man who knew how to stiff America’s allies and kowtow to her enemies. And what was wrong with that? Any country that had remained on friendly terms with America through the wretchedness of the Bush-Cheney years was surely just as worthy of contempt as America itself. But all of that was about to change: Guantanamo would be closed, perhaps to be offered to Fidel Castro in a show of contrition for all the trouble we’ve caused him. Iraq (the Bad War) and Afghanistan (the Good War that somehow became another Bad War) would be abandoned to the care of their rightful masters, again with our apologies. The whole strategic map of the Good Guys and the Bad Guys was about to be inverted, and how the former Bad Guys would love us now.
And here at home, free health care for all! Never mind that a majority of Americans said they didn’t want it. What did they know? We, the coastal elites, the graduates of the finest schools, the guests on Meet the Press, the anointed ones, we had to pass the bill so they could see what was in it, and then the ignorant proles would all dutifully fall into line. And who cares that not a single Republican voted for it in the Senate or the House. Soon there wouldn’t even be any Republicans, so discredited, so retrograde, so completely unhip and unworthy of their New Leader were they. Barack Obama was president, Nancy Pelosi was speaker of the House, and Harry Reid was Senate majority leader. The country, as they warned, was about to be fundamentally transformed, and your choice was between allowing yourself to be transformed along with it or else be trampled and forgotten.
So who could blame liberals if in the early days of 2009 they pranced giddily about strewing roses out of their hats?
How different things look today, how short-lived was the liberal hegemony. The proles, as it turned out, were not so eager to see their country or themselves transformed, and they registered that reluctance with blistering clarity in the midterm elections, prying the gavel from Mrs. Pelosi’s fingers and demoting her to the post of minority leader. Guantanamo remains open for business, American troops remain in a relatively stable Iraq and are succeeding in Afghanistan.
And now, insult upon insults, the foot soldiers of the once almighty liberal dynamo, public sector labor unions, who only months ago were fat and happy and looking forward to a long, comfortable ride with all their friends firmly in position to help them, now they find themselves battling on the ramparts and trying to fend off a sneak attack in, of all places, Madison, Wisconsin. Yes, the very Eden of progressive politics is in the control of budget-cutting Republicans. It couldn’t have been more surprising if it had happened in Berkeley.
But they would not go quietly. The spirit of old Madison, the one in place before all those nasty Republicans showed up, that spirit was revived, and soon the capitol building was the site of a 24-hour carnival, complete with rousing speeches, lively chants, and a variety of what we might charitably call music, produced mostly on an assortment of improvised percussion instruments. And of course there is no carnival so vulgar that it cannot be made more so by the presence of Jesse Jackson, who found the spirit of the assembled protesters “infectuous.”
Indeed. And with all those people, some of whom appeared to be hygienically challenged to begin with, parading around cheek by jowl and occupying the place all day and night with little access to the normal daily amenities, the spirit probably wasn’t the only thing that was “infectuous.”
But let us for the moment put aside concerns for aesthetics and concentrate on that spirit Jesse Jackson found so appealing. “It was wonderful!” said one Wisconsin school teacher to another. “You should have been there! It’s just like the Sixties!” Yes, how they long for Woodstock.
“Infectuous” sounds like it was made up from incestuous and infectious. So appropriate.
I like refudiate better.
“Misunderestimate” and “strategery” were pretty good….
I like “insinuendo”. This was one the father of a friend of mine came up with. English was VERY MUCH his second language. :-{)}
Well, the Tigers did win the 1968 World Series, and for me that was the high point of the time. But the reference to Woodstock does raise an interesting point, one having to do with narrative and the control of memory.
I have occasionally remarked that there was an event in the summer of 1969 which which has been estimated as at least three times the number of those at Woodstock, quite possibly more. In addition, hundreds of millions of people watched in on tv. Yet Woodstock somehow symbolizes those times and this event seems to have been almost forgotten; certainly it’s rarely brandished as symbolic of the hopes and aspirations of the time. I wonder why.
The event, of course, was the lift off of Apollo 11. Of course, that was back when NASA’s job was to launch spacecraft and not make Muslims feel good about their contributions to science.
“certainly it’s rarely brandished as symbolic of the hopes and aspirations of the time. I wonder why.”
Because the space program was the triumph of guys in crew cuts and uniforms, and guys in crew cuts and neckties and slide rules. The distance between Haight-Ashbury can’t be measured in miles.
Light-years seem appropriate…
The High Point of 1968 came towards the end…when I was born
Get their clocks fixed before they get their clocks cleaned . . .
Whatever happened to Jesse’s girlfriend and the baby that he was giving money to from his “stash?” So, did Jesse’s wife bail on the marriage or what?
And where’s Al Sharpton when you need him? Set Jesse straight. And all.
“And here at home, free health care for all! Never mind that a majority of Americans said they didn’t want it. What did they know? We, the coastal elites, the graduates of the finest schools, the guests on Meet the Press, the anointed ones, we had to pass the bill so they could see what was in it, and then the ignorant proles would all dutifully fall into line.”
That, in a nutshell, is what liberalism is all about. A handful of elites who know, just know, what is best for everyone else. And if you have the temerity to disagree with them, you are either a racist, a bigot, “un-American,” a “Brown Shirt,” “Nazi,” or just plain “stupid.” And then they wonder why we hate them so much. Hopefully, this whole Obama/Reid/Pelosi experience will sour this country on liberals for a few generations to come. One can only hope.
Ship46, two items. The operative after “Nazis,” should be ‘and’ not ‘or.’ Every tirade I heard included all of the slurs listed and usually others, expletive in nature. You seem to have a higher opinion of the average voter than the evidence would support. To wit; there was no mystery as to the abilities and intent of BH Obama, before the election.
SHIP 46, no, according to one person, we are the “white-middle class, gun toting, racist”— I think I got it right-LOL!
Pelosi, called us “right wing nut cases”
THAT STILL ONE CHANGE A THING- WE ARE STILL BROKE
Wonderfully put. Thank you!
Wait a minute, Im confused: Do you call your fellow policemen and the firefighters who are demonstrating for socialist traitors, or just idiots? Have fun at the christmas party…
When the Unions get out of line, the simple answer is to privatize the department, out source the work and shrink the department to “management only”. This gets rid of all the pensions, healthcare, whining etc. Let these thugs apply to get their jobs back from new employer. With the exception of police and fire, virtually all can be privatized.
I say privatize Fire while were at it.
90+ % of their calls are for B S.
In between the nonsensical responses (whereas most can be responded by EMT’s), these guys lie around on their own bark lounger chair letting their big screen t.v.(s) wash over them. Or working out when on the clock, washing the department’s and their own vehicles, panhandling at stop lights to ‘give’ to their next barby or mixer.
A LOT of fire workers received equal and many more their annual paycheck in OVERTIME alone!
Get rid ‘em, too.
Agree entirely, Paul. Local FD’s cook the books by responding en masse to an incident that actually requires minimal equipment and personnel. Out here in rural/small town America, five fire trucks and four ambulances (from 4 different fire halls) respond to a two-car, minor injury traffic accident. Then most FD personnel sit and BS while citizens like me direct traffic.
By-and-by come the levies begging and pleading for more money for 24-hour staffing, more fire trucks/aid cars and gold-plated fire halls, using corrupted response data as justification. After 20 years, unionized, 45-year old firemen/EMT’s retire and suck 40 years of pensions and benefits from foolish taxpayers. Smarten up, America.
It sounds like Jesse had infected incest on his mind when he made that one up.
All but three states in the US are running deficits and the federal leviathan is running deficits that exceed 200 billion per month. The Keynseians had a good long run, but their economic theory has been proven to be a recipe for unsustainability and millions of people who don’t know about Keynse know that the government spending at all levels has to be reined in. There is no truer example of this than Governor Cuomo of that bastion of conservatism New York state. Even he recognizes the math.
The unions and the 60′s radicals who are now reaching retirement age may be fueling the protests that we see in Madison and they may feel a sense of nostalgia in the effort, but their ramparts are going to be overrun; it is inevitable. It is a matter of arithmetic. Even the voters in Wisconsin have acknowledged the imposibility of the situation.
It will take time and a few more elections, but the progressives will have far less power 8 years from now than they do today. It is inevitable.
Sat what you want about the sixties, they produced excellent music.
Hey Ben, music-OK. But they also produced lots of babies that are more than likely part of the abstract academia marching around with the unions in Wisconsin.
Hey Ben – correction. I meant to say lots of “Woodstock babies” that are marching around with unions in Wisconsin.
You wanna see a carnival? You wanna see vulgar? Try standing up to the police unions.
#10 – Ben…so did Nero.
The last I read, the cost to clean and restore WI’s State House was $7 Million. That must have been some party or Vandals inside the gates. What a great teachable moment! Unions and Liberals are soooo civil and civic minded!
I wonder what the bill from the DC Tea Party rally clean-up was for comparison?
Where was law enforcement to protect public property? Oh that`s right in obama world our king, czars, and dukes get to pick what laws they will enforce that day. If it is to their benefits. Welcome to totalitarian government, ah brings back the good old days in Europe, now get to work surf!
I’d forgotten to mention many First Responders work for a private sector already.
I recommend meeting, comparing the hospital provided first responders (who are more times than not union) and their private sector counterparts. The cleanliness of their rig, motivation, professionalism etc.,
“The cleanliness of their rig, motivation, professionalism etc.,”
…not to mention the aggregate cost of response to similar incidents (heart attack, house fire, auto accidents). I’d bet anyone private sector accomplishes the same results with at far less cost, particularly in the long term.
It’s time to get the corrupt, greedy public employee unions out of our pockets.
Jesse Jackson. Who dat?
Excellent article – truer words never penned on PJM (exception the music, which I still to this day think some of the best).
IrREV.erant Jesse is bigger scumbag than John Edwards – on full display by Rev. Jesse as the “spiritual adviser” to Slick Willy during the Lewinsky affair. Now we know Jesse wasn’t advising – he was mentoring.
Have you ever read Karl Marx?
That “music” is part and parcel of the leftist’s takeover of America, and you’ve bought it hook, line, and sinker.
Dear Mark,
Please elaborate on that statement.
Who cares what Jesse Jacko++ thinks or says; What did Roseanne Barr eat for breakfast?
Jack. You might find this article interesting re: unions. I can’t leave comments as I would be identified by what I say. Good work Jack.
‘Public Workers’ Paradise’ Unionized Public Employment in the Socialist Utopia by Robert Tracinski in TIA Daily, February 23, 2011
I was near the Capital in Madison almost every day the demonstrations have gone on.
I wish people all over the country could see just what the “protestors look like. First of all, many are not from Wisconsin. Most could be referred to piglets. Many are scrffy and stinky.
And they have trashed the inside of one of the most beautiful Capitals in the country. The state spent almost 10 years and millions refurbishing it about less than 10 years ago and these slobs have covered beautiful marble with duct tape.
They are disgusting.
I would say the Wisconsin Public Unions are better described as infectious. A nasty Infectious Diseases spread with greed and propaganda.
AIDS, Hepatitis, Herpes, malaria, bubonic plague, etc…
What did Jesse Jackson lose something in Wisconsin? Maybe his bank account is getting low. So he had to crawl out from under his rock to see what he could steal from the workingman or woman in Wisconsin!
Say there Ssquared –old buddy are those folks ( “protestors look like. First of all, many are not from Wisconsin. Most could be referred to piglets. Many are scrffy and stinky.) are not only being looked at by and supported by their unions, other folks, non governmental folks have been making lists since 2008-they be checking it more than twice and as you noted many-in fact on some days most are not you Cheese Head Land, some are definitely “Steeler Fans” Ok, Ok who knew? we did, maybe many knew, some from Detroit, or is dat Derot MI. and we can not leave out the “Blago” crowd.
OK boys round up the usual suspects, (Fox News George Bush, Rush, Palin, U.S. Military, multinational Corporations, Walmart managers and directors, people with country club memberships… etc. and put them on page one for the Gray Lady.
Certain union bosses and hot head members and socialists keep ratcheting up their rhetoric, they want a fight a “physical” fight because they have lost the ‘FISCAL;’ one in the last two years. Or to quote Admiral
Isoroku Yamamoto, “I fear all we have done is awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve. Hmm seems apropo to me. Say all SEIU, AFSCME, American Federation of Teachers etc. ad nauseum. That fight you been wanting is headed your way big time. Note to the hot heads, you are not the only folks who can purchase bats or Tasers or for that matter fire arms. Perhaps cooler head will prevail, but if not, can you count? something beside buses!
Check “6″
Ewwwww. I think I need a booster tetanus shot after reading this, and that’s after I had one in ’09.
Here’s one of the union parasites in full regalia:
http://gatewaypundit.rightnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/leftist.jpg
Evan a parasite has to take a nap.
LOL, CYBER!! YEA, that slob looks like he has missed a few meals becuase he is broke! Geezzz, GREAT PHOTO! LOVE IT!! I saw a bunch of those deadbeats being drug out of the WI Capital building- looked like a bunch of real loosers from “Bizerkly, CA”
You know Jack, this is coming no matter if the “unions like it or not”…..in the PPL’s daily recap of news articals 3 of them were related to “pension benifits” for “public employees” this one is from San Francisco—
http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_17578887?source=rss&nclick_check=1http://
In a matter of hours, The Wisconson Gov will sign this into law. NOW LOOK what took place in other states-THEY TOO ARE FOLLOWING the lead of Wisconson. The above link is about ubber libral San Francisco-now consider what is going on with CALIFORNIA and The State Budget- IF REPORTS are correct, Jerry Brown and Replublicans are close to a deal on this new budget-THAT WOULD BE A FIRST IN A LONG TIME in California.
If you look at what happened in Europe, last year and the year before-most reasonable people know WE HAVE TOO MUCH DEBIT-The US debit is 14 trillion, Los Angeles has a massive debit and even with cuts may not be able to avoid bankruptcy. We have seen the Wisconson style proetests before in other places, I expect to see them in Los Angeles before long.
When I retired in 2008, at the start of the Reccession, I was in NO WAY, ready for it-even with a MEDICAL PENSION. My pension from the LAPD would not have met my house hold needs-so I had to think “outside the box”.
I had to make HARSH, and difficult choices-but I made them. EVERY PERSON ON THE PAYROLE AT LAPD AND LAFD, needs to brace themselves and their house hold for the changes that appear to be coming.
In my case, in the long run, I am better off now than before, my “quality of life” is by far better than it ever was in Los Angeles. My house hold needs are met with a surplus-WHICH I NEVER HAD IN LOS ANGELES!
POINT BEING, change IS COMING, and people need to be ready. I am by no means a “smart man”, BUT if I can do it-so can everyone else. In a little over two weeks, I am going to cut a check to the IRS for a lump sum, it will hurt as I write it, but looking at the brite side, I HAVE IT, and I am helping share the burden of this fiscal mess we find ourselves in.
Well…as a former policeman 17649, now retired with an IOD pension with life time medical,I see all kinds of comments on the cops on the job and even future cops.
Are you aware that retirees, who had no representation what so ever, are ussually handled by third party administrators for the City, Tristar Risk Management in my case, who treat us like second class citizens doing us a favor. These desk terrorists, glorifiedd clerks, do not have any knowledge nor respect for our acquired rights. In my case,if I need approval for a medicine I hav to wait almos two years, mind you that my treatment is an approved one by the City since the late 70s, by Cabridge and even by Tristar…and I need not to request permission, only to inform. But tell that the bean counters working for the City…
NO SHIT ED!!! I love Webbers remark back In December of 2007 in the Blue line saying how much better Tri-star was gonna be over the last batch of loosers!
The day I was pensioned with fractures at T-11 and T-12 after being hit by a car chasing a Van Nuys gangster, I was handed a life time “script” for Vicoden 750 from tri-star, and a little over 4,000 in monthly pay on my medical pension-OF WHICH THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES TAKES 1,135.00 RIGHT OFF THE TOP for IOD “re-payment”! AS A SLO in NHWD, that was just about 1/2 of my monthly net take-home pay! BEFORE O/T-but you know, I managed and I survived! THEY WILL TOO!
my house payment in Agua Dulce BACK THEN was 2,358.00 per month and fuel at the time was 5.25 per gallon! I was forced to ‘DOWN SIZE” EVERYTHING AND GET MY BUDGET “REAL LEAN”. I was not “entitled” to my medical benifits for health becuase I was under 55 years of age- I am still, 5 years away from that-if it will even be around THEN, when I turn 55!! That means, I ‘BUY’ HEALTH CARE! With pre-existing conditions and IOD injuries-THAT WAS IMPOSSIBLE! But you know, I managed that also!! I have health care now, and none of it is offered by The PPL, LAPD or City! YEA, SURE the “police grief” assoc would allow me COBRA at 1,300 per month!
I put these numbers out so the “youngsters” can see the “reality” of what is coming their way when they get near the end of their “tour of duty”. WHENEVER THAT DAY COMES!
I understand what you are saying-totally! It is hard for me, being retired, dealing with EVERYTHING I HAD TO DO DURING MY PENSION PROCESS, and still feel sorry for alot of people. I did not even begin to come out of the “red ink” until I got out on my own away from The lies of the City and union leaders-NOW, I AM DOING WELL AND FEEL LUCKY- but I did it all on my own! NO HELP AT ALL FROM UNIONS OR THE CITY- I could loose my pension RIGHT NOW, and my bills would STILL BE PAID!
I am not an “Obama lover” but they made a clear statement afew moments ago, I have to agree with it, “shared sacrifice”. I am also not a fan of Jerry Brown, but I find myslef looking at some of what he is doing and saying “about damn time!”
This will surely get worse before it gets better and every member of the department needs to start planning head NOW- they should have been doing it two years ago. READ THE PAPERS, LA CITY IS ON THE ‘BRINK’ of Bankruptcy-ONLY MICHEAL MOORE THINKS OTHERWISE!
UNLESS THEY INTEND TO WORK IN “DROP” near the end of their career, THEY SHOULD NOT COUNT ON LIVING ON THEIR PENSIONS- we cannot do it noW BEING RETIRED, they won’t do it then-WHEN THEY RETIRE. That’s IF DROP is still around WHEN THEY RETIRE!
outstanding point ED!
Howdy John: Glad to hear you are doing well due to planning.
The retired police officers I was refering to, or tried, are police officer like me, who had 6 or 7 years on the job and sustained an IOD injury with life time medical. One day you are a young and happy policeman, not officer, and the next day your whole life changes.
I live in Costa Rica and have met several old timers like me, on a disability pension, in the same situation, begging for medications and most of them just give up. I wonder how many elder retired policemen had been sent to an early grave by this bean counter outfits, whose only porpose is to keep a juicy contract with the City, based on cost reduction criteria.
Obama also constantly refers to ” responsable accountability”. In my opinion that is the main issue here, besides lack of representation. No one seems to supervise these clerks. That is unfortunate not only for the patient, but for the company and City as well, as negligence and ill intended action or inaction may result in law suits against them.
Funny thing is, among some of my fellow retirees in Costa Rica, old school like me, a class action suit is not an option, yet I see how some our younger officers sue the City, even for discplinary actions that may affect their careers.
I respectfully suggest that all victims of Tristar report these habitual unlawful tactics to the City and to the DWC Medical Unit, and remind the Protective League, that retired disable policemen are human beings worthy of proper representation.
Eduardo R. Jimenez
Jack, my cousin is a CDC guard up in Bakersfield, he voted for Jerry Brown becuase “Brown will protect my job and pension” and he called Whitman a “GOP Whore”…..WHO IS LAUGHING NOW! Jerry Brown and all the other democrats are throwing him and the other like him under the “cross town bus”.
YOU NAIL IT WITH THIS “almighty liberal dynamo, public sector labor unions, who only months ago were fat and happy and looking forward to a long, comfortable ride with all their friends firmly in position to help them, now they find themselves battling on the ramparts and trying to fend off a sneak attack in, of all places, Madison, Wisconsin.” EVEN OBUMMER cannot save them because we are “broke” UNLESS you drink the same Koolaid Mike Moore is drinking and belive all his rants on MSNBC a few days ago. I THOUGHT CHARLIE SHEEN WAS WACKO-MOORE MAKES CRAZY-STRONED CHARLIE LOOK SANE!
I love the ignorant Texas Democrats who blame the Republicans for cuts in Texas- I point right out to California and say “OK explain California- a democrat stong hold???” THEY SHUT UP and sit down. In Texas, our schools, county budgets, and right on down the line are facing MASSIVE SPENDING CUTS-so, we need to warm up to the idea, this is not “libral v Conservative” or “republican v democrat”- IT IS A MATTER OF MONEY AND NOTHING MORE.
I hate to say it, but this is coming, and people need to be ready for it-they are already talking “stag-flation” WHICH WE HAD in the mid-1970′s under then President Jimmy Carter. If this is true- those in LA need to brace themselves for more “hard times”
JACK!!!! ARE YOU KIDDING!!! OMG!!! WHAT PERSON IN THE PPL SUGGESTED THIS-”made by my union, the Los Angeles Police Protective League, for its members to join in pro-union marches organized and sponsored by MoveOn.org, Media Matters, the Daily Kos, and a number of other leftist organizations whose members the typical police officer would most often choose to avoid.”
ANY MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTIORS WHO MADE THIS SUGGESTION SHOULD BE REMOVED FROM HIS/HER SEAT AT ONCE VIA RECALL! We as members of the LAPD are better than this-WAY, WAY BETTER!
These are the same dip-’sticks’ WHO THROW ROCKS AND BOTTLES AT US!
THIS IS SOMETHING FOR YOUR READERS TO PONDER when they think they have it so bad,
I CANNOT file my taxes “jointly” and per IRS law, MY PARTNER AND I must file as “single male’s” WHICH PLACES US in higher IRS TAX BRACKETS!!! ALL OUR LIVES THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON (THINK OF WHAT THE $$$ PAY OUT OVER OUR LIVES!), we ALWAYS PAY for TWO tax returns to be done-WHY BECUASE WE CANNOT file jointly. Our Gym charges us as “single males” NOT THE FAMILY RATES- becuase those rates are for “male/female” couples. THESE ARE BUT TWO examples!
WE DONT WHINE OR COMPLAIN- we pay it and march on. I would nver LOWER MY SELF to march with Moveon.org to change any of this. PLUS, we pay the same inflated rates for GAS,DWP service, and everything else. WE DON’T YELL OR PROTEST- why?? Because, compaired to most, we have it DAMN GOOD! We have been together for over 15 years and NEVER-ever CONSIDERED “JOINING FORCES” with any of these groups for any reason!
I WORKED for The City for just under 25 yearsand upon my medical retirement discover that “city pension” WAS GROSSLY short of what we REALLY NEED to live at POVERTY LEVELS! That’s a NON-tax pension! The day my pension is settled (I was off payrol for 7 months!!!) THE CITY OF LA whacks 1,124.00 PER MONTH, for re-payment OF AN OLD I.O.D settlement, AND SALES TAX, DMV FEES ALL WENT UP! We could not sell our home in Acton, and the reccession was just getting going!
HARDTIMES??? you bet!!!! But you know, I would never-EVER! IN MY LIFE, THINK OF RUBBING SHOULDERS WITH THE LIKES OF “MOVEON.ORG” FOR ANY REASON! I have too much integrity of that!
You are full of information Jack on how low PEOPLE are willing to sink THESE DAYS. What next?? City workers marching with the likes of Fred Phelps and his cult who protest at our KIA service men and womens funrals?? geezzz!!
Wow. Just when you think you have Communism licked, you take your eye off the ball for one minute and and it rears it’s head again.
We’re lucky we have you to tell us how things really are.
Looks like it’s time to bring back the House Un-American Activities Committee so we can have some hearings and get to the bottom of this.
when Michael Moore, Jessie Jackson and ilk like that rallies to your defense and STOPS THROWING ROCKS AND BOTTLES AT YOU,-we should all be really worried and asked, “are we on the correct side of this issue?”
WHEN THE LAPPL, even “jokes about” Officers joining the protests of MOVEON.ORG, THAT IS A BIG WARNING SIGN to all!
I just heard Jesse Jerk-ff speak, and he’s definitely on crack.
Cyber, compaired to this looser, Jessie is mild!
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/handcuff-wielding-michael-moore-declares-class-war-on-msnbc-oprah-george-soros-and-others-should-be-jailed-for-their-crimes/
MICHAEL MOORE was with those folks in Wisconson! READ HIS REMARKS!
Man, when we line up politically with clowns like Jessie Jackson, Michael Moore, and MOVEON.org, it doesn’t take me long to know I am on the wrong side of the dang debate!
Moore should just drive to the south side of Chicago and offer himself up to be mugged. Demonstrating his idea of ‘social justice’ would make me a believer!
John retired LAPD: I’m in Wisconsin and worried about the police siding with the protesters (unlike 1969, the protesters must be thrilled that the “pigs” are on their side!)
Most cops I’ve known are quite conservative – but they also belong to the union. When push comes to shove, the Madison cops are showing they side with those they normally despise. I fear this will be the case across the country.
Edcation News, None of it Good
Among other understandings, teachers of America’s elementary and high school students were always expected to set examples for their students.
Aside from the obvious of not seducing their students, public school teachers were expected to establish a certain sense of decorum, which mandate in my school district incorporated into the union contract the allowance: “Male teachers are permitted to remove their jackets in the classroom.”
Times have changed. Radically.
Teacher-student assignations have become almost commonplace, student behavior has gone far beyond tossing spitballs and chewing gum, and teacher dress codes have gone the way of high-buttoned shoes. Aside from teachers hitting on students, other behavioral modifications on the part of teachers are much less forgivable, especially when the example they are setting is one of extreme misbehavior and lawlessness.
Teachers and other public servants in Wisconsin have the same rights accorded to every American under the First Amendment to the Constitution’s prohibition against infringement on freedom of speech, interference with the right to peaceably assemble, and the right of petitioning governmental redress of grievances.
What teachers do not have the right or privilege to do is to disgrace themselves and their profession, to break laws, to interfere with government functions, or to shamelessly trash both their profession and themselves by allowing teacher and outside thugs to direct and dictate their criminal activities: http://tiny.cc/2j0b9
In Wisconsin, teachers protesting new Republican Governor Scott Walker’s attempts to clean up the fiscal mess he inherited have reached new lows in their efforts to resist limitations on collective bargaining rights.
Despite Walker’s offers of compromise, Wisconsin “educators” have abandoned their classroom responsibilities by calling in sick in droves, falsifying medical “sick notes,” committing outright slander against their duly-elected representatives, and resorting to the same bullying tactics they decry in their schools, all of which are condoned by the nation’s Bully-in-Chief, Barack Hussein Obama
Acting more like semi-civilized Third Worlders instead of American student role models, their protests are costing millions. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3839)
CORRECTLY STATED!! Now you have teachers ADVOCATING student walk outs IN SUPPORT OF THEIR “LABOR DISPUTES” and thats just for starters! Then you have teachers like “Ron Gochez” WHO TEACHES at LAUSD, and is an “admitted communist” AND REFERS TO THE SOUTHWEST portion of the USA as “stolen lands”. Gochez, openly calls for a “revolution” and he took his “students” to PROTEST in Arizona during pro- immigrant rallies! ALL OF THIS WAS MADE PUBLIC LAST SPRING AND SUMMER!
As a police officer I would not want to be associated with this type of ilk! Even RETIRED I wouldnt want to be seen with this type of “low life”.
Public school officals have blatantly ignored their educational duties infavor of “self serving” protests and rallies! Yes, I saw the BLATANT falsification of doctor notes being done in Wisconson RIGHT ON TV!-SOME EXAMPLES TO OUR CHILDREN!
I know most teachers mean well and do a good job, but like we see in Police work, when one person screws up-the whole “occupation” gets a black eye!
I have a ruff time supporting teachers these days give all I have seen over the years- I think it is time for serious changes. Maybe that DC school offical had the right idea-FIRE THEM ALL AND MAKE THEM ALL RE-INTERVIEW for thier jobs back under new contracts and new terms- BUT TO DO THIS, WE NEED TO DEAL WITH THEIR UNIONS FIRST!
WATCH what the socialist union thugs do now. They will try to destroy Wisconsin and Walker before they get the message. And they will begin intimidating any other governor that dares to confront their extortionist techniques. SHUT THEM DOWN NOW.
Suibne
John Texan,
I’ve seen your farm in Texas with your special male friend. Kudos to you for making the unofficial male marriage thing work. But we, who are still LAPD, need our union. We’ll stand by LAFD and the Firemen, just as we’ll stand by other unions. Because if we don’t, we’ll end up like Wal-Mart and Target employees, no power, less pay and miserable. The 1%-ers will keep on chipping away at us workers. And we’ll stand our ground and say, we are together.
So save your TX bs.
Sir,
The LA Police Union has negotiated for an insane amount for pension for people like you. With 25 years on, don’t you get like 95% of your current salary when you retired?
I get the shivers just thinking how much you make now. But I’m sure it’s six figures–for a job any high school or GED graduate can perform.
On top of your lucrative salary, there’s overtime (all kinds of overtime, one where you just sit in court, drive around, sit around, sometimes they pay you as your sitting at home waiting for court to call).
There’s a great work schedule, work 3 days a week while milking the system on your days off.
Like other unions, you and yours are parasites of society. A job where any high school grad off the street should not exceed 45K a year, yet you people are milking the system with six (6!) figure salaries.
All unions are created equal–there’s no “SOME are just MORE equal than Others.” Shame on you, Sir.
P.S.~ granted I know the times are hard and you–like other Unions–are fighting for more money, but you people are on balance positive with taxpayers money, with the scales tipping on your side.
I hope they change your pension before you retire, there’s no need for a six figure salary when you retired–it’s not like you were a CEO of a Fortune 500 company, you didn’t create anything.
YOUR UNION IS THE SAME, like the CDCR Union, Firefighters Union, Nurses Union and Teachers Unions. All the same.