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   dtroutma said, 12 months ago

   It’s more about rights than wages. And it’s the corporate world that wants them shot down, so that even fewer than 8% of workers will be covered, or protected.
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   rightisright said, 12 months ago

   Fancy that, the people of Wisconsin prefer government unions not be allowed to buy politicians who return the favor with more perks paid for by taxpayers.
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   zoidknight said, 12 months ago

   @rightisright

   No the people prefer the opposite so they voted against you and your way of thinking.
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   Ennui_rudy Rutherford said, 12 months ago

   Because of the Supreme’s idiocy, the Right was allowed to pour in uncontrolled amounts of money from all over the country into one small mid-western state. More money was spent here than was spent on the Bush-Gore election with the vast majority on the efforts for Walker by out of state super-pacs. I don’t think that was a “voice of the people” anymore than Trump’s hair is indicative of natural hair styling.
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   Jase99 said, 12 months ago

   “Fancy that, the people of Wisconsin prefer government unions not be allowed to buy politicians who return the favor with more perks paid for by taxpayers.”
   
   Walker’s campaign spent $31 million with much of it coming from groups outside Wisconsin. By contrast, his opponent spent $4 million. Which one was more likely purchased?
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   mikefive said, 12 months ago

   @Ennui_rudy Rutherford

   Out of state union organizations also poured uncontrolled amounts of money into Wisconsin. It’s a big hole in the Wisconsin campaign finance laws.
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   Bruce4671 said, 12 months ago

   @Jase99

   yeah, that IS a question isn’t it. With the union giving 14.5 million why is it that the guy only spent 3?
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   spyderred said, 12 months ago

   @rightisright

   So Wisconsin prefers a government owned by a super-wealthy duo?
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   ahab said, 12 months ago

   @ScottPM

   The majority of that monetary support came from INDIVIDUAL CITIZENS, not corporations.
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    pirate227 said, 12 months ago

    If you want to live in a banana republic, vote Republican.
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    yohannbiimu said, 12 months ago

    @dtroutma

    Again, you are arguing against Democrat icon Franklin D. Roosevelt, who said that public sector unions were “impossible.” When are you going to start calling this huge Democrat hero a tyrannical despot?
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    yohannbiimu said, 12 months ago

    All of your arguments against Wisconsin are WAY off course, simply because “huge corporations” have nothing to do with the public sector unions. When they collectively “bargain,” they are not demanding wage raises and other gratuities with corporations, but rather with the TAXPAYERS. The folks paying their wages are schlubs who have to work for a living, whether they’re employed or not. Their EMPLOYERS may be suffering from economic downturn, but these unions can demand that they suffer NONE of it. Moreover, when they demand more money, the dues are used to enrich only ONE PARTY. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was right about public sector unions: allowing them to collectively bargain is “impossible.”
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    dtroutma said, 12 months ago

    One example: Drug testing without probable cause. This invasion of civil rights, once granted by the Constitution, was an abuse of power we stopped, until a “new and improved RIGHT WING SCOTUS” changed the rules, and the Constitution, again.

    
    It is the RIGHT, not the left, that has attacked individual rights of real substance in the last 30 years. If you REALLY want to get frightened of something, check out some of the proposed laws coming out of Mr. Boehner’s House Committees controlled by Republicans, then think about filibuster abuse by Republicans in the Senate.

    
    “WE the PEOPLE”, have never faced so great an accumulated threat to our freedoms, and the “conservatives” pushing that threat, are in NO WAY “conservative”.(nor “liberal”) Look again at the “Patriot Act” and “Military Commissions Act”, pushed through with overbearing propaganda from the “right”.

    
    The funeral dirge for “rights” is being played WAY beyond Wisconsin.
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    Wabbit said, 12 months ago

    This is so true. There are a lot of us that are feeling that soon no people will have any input in what the make or how the working conditions are.
    It’s a known fact that states with strong unions have hirer wages overall than states that don’t. In other words, unions keep wages higher for almost everyone in those states.
    WHy can’t the cons see this??
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    mahoneygardens said, 12 months ago

    So, what would happen if no out-of-state money were allowed to fund referendums?
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