Wisconsin Union Protest: Myth vs. Fact

http://blog.heritage.org/2011/02/21/morning-bell-gov-scott-walker-answers-the... The Heritage Foundation sent a team to Madison, WI, to cover the union-backed protest against Gov. Scott Walker's budget proposal.

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News & Politics

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• Wisconsin
• protest
• Gov. Scott Walker
• union
• budget
• spending
• collective bargaining

[GruntTGH]

In typical fashion the Unions and their Democratic allies are trying to subvert the political system. Walking out of the legislature when they do not get their way. When conservative principles are actually put into practice then they work. That is what scares them the most. Liberal policies are being proven to be a failure every day as they begin running out of other peoples money. Walker's policies are working. Saving the citizens money and not effecting services. The truth will shine through.

[zoomustard]

NEWS FLASH: 5 states have banned collective barganing for teachers. North & South Carolina, Georgia, Texas and Virginia. In SAT & ACT scores, SC ranks 50th in the nation, NC is 49th, GA is 48th, TX is 47 and VA is a success story at 44th. Anyone in America that works for a paycheck, saves for retirement , their children's education who vote Republican on the state and national level is a fool or has a hobby horse issue like guns or abortion which the GOP doesn't give two shits about.

[MenwithHill]

@GruntTGH At the beginning of 2011, Wisconsin had a surplus. Then Mr Walker passed tax cuts for about 120m dollar, about the size of the shortfall later declared and used this to justify stripping union, when the state had originally no reason to do it.

[1p6t1gms]

More cowbell!

[colleenloveskevin]

I live in Madison and have attended the protests time and time again......PROTESTORS WERE NOT BUSSED IN!!! There were busses and carpools coming in from area malls and other Wisconsin communities because parking near our state Capitol building is extremely limited. Aside from the random supporter from out of state here and there,  the protestors were the local people of Wisconsin whose lives and working conditions were and are so very negatively affected by Walkers actions as well as by peopl

[TheZazose]

@amazingliberal Reagen didnt praise the Taliban him and Bush did one better and created Osama Bin Ladin ...think about it and the Iran Contra affair what was that ???? I love revisionist history Newts coming in 4th place in Iowa only confirms that Reaganomics is dead ... now its the rapture crowd driving the bus ...

[needarb]

We want a voice, then cover him up with the %. what a joke

[zoomustard]

@sincity147 Anyone who would use Union/ Socialist/ Comunists Mafia in the same sentence is a johnny-come-lately to politics, learned no civics or history in school and is pissed of about something Faux News said that wasn't true to begin with. But you have no historical education to fall back on, so you just call people names.....like Faux News.....which proves my point.

TRUTH is what won here and truth isn't a lost cause It's a shame you've believed the all lies of the last 30 years.

[nabuco00]

Americans will have to learn to not organise protest like fancy fairs.

[TheMILVET]

To sum up what zoomustard is saying, to get a union teacher to care more about the students you have to pay them more. Otherwise, they don't care. News flash, you either care or you don't, money has nothing to do wit it. Yeah, gotta love those union thugs.