Rachel Maddow, a liberal MSNBC news personality, intends this video as an argument for the protesting teachers unions in Wisconsin. I'm finding it really hard to work up any empathy for teachers who receive $38,406 in benefits annually, whereas the average US worker receives $10,589 in benefits. Their current pension contribution is 0.2% and proposed it be raised to 5.8%. Their health care contribution of 4-6% could be raised to 12.6%. All this for no nights, no weekends, and 3 months off a year.
I haven't seen the numbers to prove or disprove if there is a state budget surplus, but what happens in 20 or 30 years when these pensions are paid out? Look what happened to the auto industry. These pampered pets with their Cadillac plans won't be cheap.
The best part is later in the clip when Rachel talks about how its the unions, such as the SEIU, who are responsible for contributing to elections in order to get democrats and Obama elected. If unions are killed, OMG! democrats may not get any support, especially since the private sector out numbers these special groups and the majority are republican leaning with their votes. These elitist union members cannot survive and live their special lifestyle without your tax dollars! Oh boohoo! Obviously, those special groups who live off the taxes of those not in their special groups want that special treatment and goddamnit, they're entitled to it!
So what do the democrat state senators do? They run away and hide, so they won't have to vote, because they know they're going to lose the vote.
Since Monday, Wisconsin teachers have "sicked out" and some have taken students with them to the protests.
Now there is evidence that the DNC has shipped in 25 bus loads of "rent a mobs" to protest. Obama is taking sides and coming out on the side of the unions, to appeal for their votes, of course.
I say, fire all those politicians and teachers who walked out and charge the ones who took students with them for kidnapping.
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I agree. They should all be fired! I grew up in a union household and I can't stand the union.
When it comes to the collapse of the Democratic Party, the loss of Big Labor’s money is only half of the story. In the Republican Party, the influence of social conservatives (right-wing Christians) is fading fast. To some degree social conservatives are literally dying off. As the social conservatives fade away, fiscal conservatives, many of whom are social liberals, will take over the Republican Party. The Republicans will attract Libertarian voters who have voted for Democrats in the past because of the Republican Party was too conservative on social issues. Over time, the Democratic Party could loose millions of social liberals to a new Libertarian Republican Party.
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