2-25-2011 - Shouting "Shame!" on Wisconsin Assembly floor before "union-busting" budget bill vote

This is video from the gallery of the WI Assembly past 1 AM in the morning on 2/25/2011. The Democrats have just been told by the speaker pro tempore there will be no more debate before the vote, even though there were more than a dozen Democrats in the queue to speak. They shout "Shame! Shame! Shame!"

The public citizens in the gallery were shortly told to leave by police. None of the public were allowed in the gallery at the time of the vote.

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[Wrenchbender412i]

Republicans are so used to whoring themselves out to the highest bidder, "shame" is a compliment to them.

[ShortstopGoalie]

Look, we can play ping pong with statistics all night and wind up nowhere. In all human history, a small number of high achievers have been pulling the economy of any given country forward and upward. That's just human nature. But to complain that 25% of America's income earners are paying only 85% of all taxes is bizarre by any definition.

In any case, at the core of Wisconsin's problem is the alliance of union bosses and democrat politicians. It is gov serving itself.

[1FreeWisconsin]

union takes $14 a month. yeah, bleeding me dry.

Union RULED the entire mechanized world until the gas crisis, but that was just a speed bump until the STIGMA of screwing your own citizens for a profit went away thanks to trickle down. all of a sudden loyalty meant nothing & before the 80's I didn't even hear of a thing called a CEO.

..if you walked into a bar in the 70's & said that stuff, you'd have gotten thrown out & probably missing your teeth.

[1FreeWisconsin]

if we all work for free business will never leave our shores.

Jobs began to leave after 1980, collective bargaining existed for DECADES BEFORE THAT DATE. America got screwed by trickle down sending every trade secret we ever had overseas. Our fiscal demise was created by gleeful yuppies making money hand over fist by turning our fiscal competitors into our fiscal masters by training cheap labor in our methods equipping them with our technology and advancing their know how at the expense of US

[BikerBry]

Agreed, but the union has NOTHING to do with that. In Wisconsin in particular, the Union was embezzling tax payer's funds to run their scam healthcare program. That wasn't a lie. The Unions can't stop the manufacturing companies from leaving the country and their collective bargaining got a LOT of people bargained out of a job. I'd rather be underpaid than unemployed, any day of the week!

[scottsway]

....the numbers dont lie....400 of the elite in American have as much wealth as roughly 150 million Americans...the gap between the earnings of owner and worker has grown about 400% in just the last couple of decades...and yet, we are supposed to believe that our stumbling economy is the fault of the meager benefits and earnings accrued by teacher's unions?? Illegal immigrants were scapegoated, now unions....this country is growing more sick and immoral by the second.

[scottsway]

the right wing is completely invested in attacking the middle class and create a permanent underclass. They have dumb ass working class whites, yourself, as pawns for their chess game. They are brazenly stripping the rights of hard working Americans and you laugh. They have brainwashed you to identify with the heartless elite, when those people could care less about you.

[BikerBry]

So go jump up and down yelling "Union!, Union!" all you want, then go jump in your American car that was COMPLETELY manufactured and assembled in another country while the UAW Union brothers stand around wondering what happened. A Mexican, a Canadian and a China man now have your job. How's that Union working for you now?

[BikerBry]

- Oh, and just because your reading comprehension SUCKS so bad! I NEVER bashed ANY union worker.. I bashed the UNION! Forcing these hard working people to bend over and take it in their wallet and give them nothing back. They weakened the labor force and forced many large companies to go elsewhere to manufacture goods at a reasonable cost. REALITY... CHUMP, not your "union" fantasy. Get an education over the 6th grade and you might understand how it "really" works.

[BikerBry]

OK, REALITY... NAFTA... Moved Auto manufacturers out of the states and into Mexico and Canada. That is a REAL FACT dumb ass. You can bitch about how wrong it is, but it already happened and LABOR cost is the MAIN reason. LABOR costs driven by the UNIONS. How is being unemployed working? Is it better to be union and poor? The FACT is that Unions negotiated unrealistic compensation and cost all their fellow auto workers a job which also destroyed Detroit.

[scottsway]

if you think that is why we have lost jobs then their is no hope for you. Cant reason with crazy, intellectually dishonest people like you. Just cant. Just know that you will be on the wrong side of history. Conservatives like you are signing off on the extinction of your own ideology and by proxy your party. You are siding with elite, globalists...your a traitor to your fellow americans!

[BikerBry]

Oooohhh.... So angry and such BIG words from a highly intelligent person such as you. Hahahahaha