Wisconson Governor Walker irked by Obama's meddling

White House and DNC Deploy to Wisconsin is not a headline we should be seeing. The President is interfering with the State of Wisconsin and their right to balance the budget. Sending in more union thugs from around the Country flies in the face of the 10th amendment. Who died and made Obama King?

Public union members have been getting a free ride for years and it is time it stopped. We applaud the Governor of Wisconson and the legislature for taking this stand and his statement about state employees:

“I've said repeatedly [that] good, decent people work for the government,” Walker said. “But they shouldn't be excluded from what everybody else in society is going through in these tough economic times -- we've all got to be in it together.”

Why shouldn't union members have to anti-up when there are so many people out of work and state budgets are busted in part by high unemployment numbers, pension funds, and all the union benefits that the Democrats have given them over the years on the backs of taxpayers. Lack of tort reform due to trial attorneys is also hurting a lot of states.

Why do we have public service unions who have collective bargaining? Are they getting paid while they are demonstrating in Wisconsin? The chicken Democrats legislators fled Wisconsin to prohibit a vote at the request of the unions. You can tell who the Democrats favor starting at the top with Obama -- union members over tax payers. He doesn't care that public unions are bankrupting governments all across the Country because he owes them for his election so he puts them first.

Don't understand public service unions like teachers going on strike when their job is educate children -- you cannot do that while striking. The Democrats love to talk about education and what is wrong but never want to admit the union teachers play a huge part in poor education for our young people as they make sure bad teachers are kept employed, not fired.

Know what it is like to be involved in trying to oust someone who is a member of a public service union like the federal ones. We had a clerk-typist who came to work maybe two days a week -- always an excuse but the union backed her 100% and took two years to get her off the Federal rolls. Union went all out and claimed discrimination because she was black. Her race made no difference because she was lazy. She was hired under one of the minority programs -- couldn't spell or type worth anything and they gave her a GS-4 even though she failed every test.

Then we had a white secretary who claimed she fell on the steps and became too disabled to work. She do didn't do much work before -- they gave her a disability based on a fraudulent statement by a doctor and the union backed her 100%. The Government finally proved she was lying after several years and had to pay back the disability payments.

Finally came to the conclusion that the federal employees who were eligible to join the union and didn't were the best employees. They were not looking to scam the system. The Federal Unions I thought were the worst until I learned about the SEIU and their thugs at the state and local level. SEIU is nothing but a thug union as witnessed in the last election.

Public service unions should not have collective bargaining so they can threaten to strike. If they strike, fire them like President Reagan did the Air Traffic Controllers. They are getting paid by the taxpayers and we should have some say. No one who works deserves free health benefits and pensions where they get paid more AFTER they retire.

Time to tighten the belts in states starting with the unions and their benefits. Also time for Obama to mind his own business and stay out of the state's business when it comes to how they budget for their state. He should be worried about the Federal Government deficit not the unions and their state benefits.

It is going to backfire on Obama as most Americans are tired of union thugs and their demands.

Walker irked by Obama's meddling
By MJ LEE | 02/18/11 8:28 AM Updated: 02/18/11 9:27 AM


Gov. Scott Walker is confronted with thousands of protesters outside of the state capitol.

 Republican Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin, confronted with thousands of protesters outside of the state capitol in Madison, says “it would be wise for the president” to stay out of his state’s business.

“I think we’re focused on balancing our budget,” Walker said on Fox News Friday morning. “It would be wise for the president and others in Washington to focus on balancing their budget, which they are a long ways from doing.”

The governor – just a mere six weeks into his job – added that he is not threatened by the agenda of Washington politicians. “We're not going to be intimidated by people coming in from outside of Wisconsin trying to tell us what we need to do to balance our budget,” Walker said. “The bottom line is, we got elected to do a job.”

For days, Wisconsin’s union members have been demonstrating against legislation proposed by Walker last week that aims to reduce the power of public sector unions and cut into members’ paychecks. But Walker continued to insist that his decision is not about “degrading public employees.”

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Source: Politico44

Then we have the absentee Democrats from the Wisconsin legislature so there is no quorum. Are they still getting paid and have benefits when they walked out on their jobs? Reminds me of the Texas Democrats they found in Ardmore, OK. Where are they headed next as there is an 'all points bulletin' out for the jerks. Guess they don't like being the minority party because they cannot take care of their union buddies and bankrupt Wisconsin even more.

Texas Governor Rick Perry highlighted the 10th Amendment and State's Rights during his CPAC speech -- this is a prime example of Obama and the DNC ignoring the 10th Amendment. Do these people even care we have a Constitution? Doesn't look like it to us.

Hope Governor Walker docks the pay for every Democrat member of the legislature who decided to leave WI so there wouldn't be a vote. Democrats are showing less and less class by the day. Republicans in Congress for two years were very outmanned by the Democrats but they didn't abdicate their duties and run away -- they stood up and kept fighting. Seems when Democrats lose control like they have in Wisconsin, they cut and run just like the idiot Democrats did the other year when they left Texas for Ardmore, OK. There seems to be a lack of ethics and integrity in the Democrat Party as witnessed by Obama, the DNC, and others sending union thugs from other states into Wisconsin to demonstrate.

Governor Walker is standing tall -- we should be very proud of the people we elected as Governors across the Country who understand that the state budgets have to be brought under control and that means every last person involved in state government has to do their part including union members.