I didn't agree with any of the bailouts, but you're obviously unaware: most of the bank bailout money has been paid back in full + interest. Yet all you do is criticize the bank bailouts on "Wall Street scum" yet don't level the same, much less greater crticism of the true scum because they have only paid back a fraction of their bailout $ and likely will never reinburse the taxpayers in close to full: those at Fannie, Freddie, AIG, Govt motors and Chrysler (both management and the UAW).houndawg wrote:JohnStOnge wrote:Polling data show that the Wisconsin governor has been losing the PR battle and that amazes me. I can't relate to how anyone can see how the union/public worker side has been conducting itself and not find it disgusting. It's been clear that their strategy has been to employ shrill rhetoric and intimidation. And teachers: If you want to be perceived as professionals, act like professionals. The teachers clogging up the Wisconsin capital facilities and participating in those protests haven't been doing that.
Just amazing to me that ANYBODY who isn't a long time fanatic union sympahtizer would take the union side in this case. But it's apparently been happening if the polling data are to be believed.Jesus, John, where have you been for the past couple of years, Mars?
Wisconsin in such dire financial straits that the governor cuts a couple hundred million in corporate taxes, and then says that teachers are the problem, and folk like you just wipe off your chin and nod?
When billions of taxpayer dollars were being showered on Wall Street scum rewarding their colossal incompetence, contracts were sacrosanct, and we got stuck paying obscene bonuses to the worst fockups on the planet; now we need to change the rules because it turns out that a bunch of gray-haired schoolteachers are the real problem?
Pretty obvious why the Koch's getting it handed to them.
Gray haired schoolteachers.
You see many gray haired school teachers amongst all those protesters? All those ones breaking into the capital bldg look like a bunch of 20 something punks. Gray haired school teachers and "wall street scum"
Nice attempt to divert from the fact that these are generously paid (esp considering the teachers) as its not a year round job, with cadillac penison and health care plans that they were paying litlle to nothing for, and to keep that up the tapped out taxpayers would have seen their taxes continue to go up (esp property taxes), and that collective bargaining for public employees is an inherent conflict of interest. This a victory for the taxpayers of Wisconsin and a victory against forced unionization.
