I have never seen a bigger tantrum in my life. Walker was not guilty of anything other than bringing prosperity back to Wisconsin, but the liberals couldnt stand that. He interfered with their sweetheart packages. They were getting paid more to do less with cadalac healthcare plans and sweet pensions- all on the public dime. It was unsustainable, so Walker did something.
His actions werent even that drastic. He let people make their own decisions about union membership. Since then people have been leaving the unions in droves- willingly. Sounds me like the libs need to stop crying and actually work for their salary, which is still higher than their private sector counterparts.
Almost 44 million was spent on the Wisconsin recall election. Should unions be proud or hang their head in shame?
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Here's the story..
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/21/us-wisconsin-idUSTR...
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/21/us-wisconsin-idUSTR...
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Izariel 2012/06/06 13:25:16
The re-election of Walker has been the only thing that has shown that sanity is not dead in WI. Congratulations to the gov and to the taxpayers and the voters of WI.
There are 339,000 union workers in Wisconsin paying about $1000 membership dues.
That's $339,000,000 (339 million dollars) collected EVERY YEAR.
Even if union dues was half that much, that's about $170 million.
The unions hire full time political activists and lobbyists which are not considered 'campaign contributions'.
So, where's that 339 million going each year?
Wouldn't that be considered excessive profits by Liberals/Socialists /Progressives?
Shouldn't unions be taxed with all that profit?
Very little.
How much of that money came from wealthy donors who'd like to remain nameless? Why, if they can afford to throw around tens of millions of dollars out of state to help a good friend, why can't they afford a tax hike?
Oh, it hurts, I know. The rich can't afford taxes, because they're too busy with their croni---I mean, their job creation strategies.
The fact that more money was contributed to Walker's cause than the Union's was because America sided with fiscal responsibility and stopping the plundering of state treasuries through poor representation of the taxpayers in collective bargaining.
America spoke not only with their vote but with their political contributions.
Like every true American, you should honor the democratic process . . . unless you are one of those people who disrespect the Democratic process and think voters are too stupid to decide the issues and that you have some special power that enables you to decide all matters . . . which would make you a Liberal.
This kind of thing wasn't a part of the democratic process until someone like Walker opened the floodgate up for it when he was in a similar circumstance. Votes should decide elections, not how much money you flood into the campaign.
30-plus million dollars in a state-wide campaign election is just sickening.
To think you can just throw money around and control issues is obviously a decent GOP strategy now. Thanks.
The voters had nothing to do with the vote?
They were all just stupid pawns brainwashed by TV and radio commercials.
But not you. You have 'special' powers.
LOL
If anyone really believed that voters weren't stupid, they wouldn't have spent so much money on their campaign.
The Dems had faith in the voting public that they wouldn't fall for the heavily financed ad campaign, but... they did. Oh well.
Good job, there.
Peace.
He's also got at least 100k in a legal defense fund, now. That was also paid for with campaign dollars. LOL.
Enjoy.
The reason Walker could exceed the state's legal limit on donations of $10,000 per donor is due to a 1987 loophole (pushed by a former state legislator who later ran afoul of the law) providing an exception for any incumbent targeted by a recall.
The American worker is dead.
If you want to know what I'm talking about, instead of saying "money has nothing to do with it," you can look at the California Cigarette Tax proposal and how 68 percent approval for it in MAY OF THIS YEAR turned into 48 % by this month due to almost 50 million dollars spent by cigarette companies on ad campaigns. It's shameful.
And, you think THE PEOPLE voted on the issues? Of course not... that's what the millions of dollars spent made sure they didn't do. Great job.
At least they have a Democratic Senate in place now, so that moron can't do any more damage.
PS: YOU MIGHT WANT TO CHECK AP.
the COWARD obama did not look like a fool when the Voters laughed in the unions face and Reelected Walker
Only coward here is you and you're afraid of facts that don't agree with you.