WISCONSIN BATTLE WITH UNIONS: The re-calls failed...

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I had to write something about the great re-call battle in Wisconsin.

After the Republican governor of Wisconsin and the Republican controlled legislature passed laws drastically reducing public union’s bargaining rights, the unions swore revenge.

Hundreds protested in the capital and democratic members of the legislature ran away to Chicago to deny a quorum to the legislature which in essence blocked the passage of the bill which eventually passed anyway.

Unions nationwide contributed $30 million to re-call Republican legislators in Wisconsin and take over the state legislature and kill or reverse any perceived anti-union bill. I will have to add that the bills passed were bills designed to curtail the unsustainable benefits given to public unions by Democratic legislators in exchange for union endorsement and votes; something I consider illegal and unethical since the Democratic politicians were paying the unions with taxpayer dollars.

Well, the screaming union supporters and the millions in union money could not take over the Wisconsin legislature and give unions their way once again; their intimidation and coercion did not work and they were stunned!!!

I hope this sends a signal to the nation that unions do not run this country and do not control state governments. They are a dying institution which has grown fat and greedy as well as corrupt and tax payers everywhere will not put up with their threats anymore; they will be treated as all workers are treated, no special deals for them and only them.

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