Union Intimidation on Ohio SB5

This video was shot on 2/17/2011 in the Rotunda of the Ohio Statehouse. It chronicles Union member intimidation tactics used in their opposition of SB5 which, if passed, will help to straighten out Ohio's ailing budget mess and also align inflated Union salaries and benefit packages with the lesser compensated private sector.

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• SB5
• tea party
• Ohio SB5
• union intimidation in ohio
• union intimidation

[toyotabedzrock]

@yzerman19wingnut

State workers are underpaid compared to nonpublic workers. Thats proven.

Second, you seem to be a freeloader and think that you magically are entitled to education and public roads and road maintenance, snow removal, police protection, fire protection etc without paying for it.

If you don't like big government Somalia is waiting for you!

[toyotabedzrock]

@yzerman19wingnut

That is completely untrue.

The first year budget deficit under Obama was less than Bushes last year. That is according to CATO btw.

[EconCat88]

What an idiot.

[nigsinovens]

@danielsullivandba They don't understand that. Lazy communists just want big daddy government to take care of them, and if anyone threatens to take that away..."OMG! THE NAZIS!!! RACIST TEA BAGGERS! OH MY GOOOOOOOOOD!!".

[danielsullivandba]

The Union Way: If you can't intelligently debate the issue then call them names.

The reason this debate is so vile is because no public worker has a rational basis for demanding higher wages when the State Treasury is bust. But go ahead and try to get it repealed via ballot. That's your right. But the consequences will be layoffs if you succeed. So either way the budget will be balanced. Think first is all I ask.

[sanch072]

you got lucky kojack

[bweazel]

Wow. This is what cracks me up about unionists. A bunch of socialists that call their government a democracy. They don't even realize (or won't admit) that they are part of the problem now. Just cracks me up.

[Gini76US]

Actually I get paid comparable to what other people across the country get paid for the type of work I do. My company was approached by a union several years ago and I had made up my mind that if we went union, I was going to quit my job of 35 years because I didn't want my union dues going to pay the salaries of fat cat union bosses who used my money to support politicians and issues that I found offensive.

[FSUSW15009]

@toyotabedzrock Wow someone who actually understands what's happening...

[FSUSW15009]

@Gini76US Instead of asking "why should they get more than me?", you should be asking "why don't I get as much as them?". In other words, you should be saying "I should be getting as much as they do", instead of "they should be getting as little as I do". I think that's one of the problems that is plaguing this debate. People are asking the wrong questions. Not to mention blaming the wrong people. Shared sacrifice? Rich folks get tax breaks while the working and middle class get screwed.

[yzerman19wingnut]

@LauseMarkA ill leave your adolescent comments alone. as for your allegations that corporate america/right wing "idiots" are causing poverty, poor education and "stupification of america" that's fundamentally flawed since by and large most public educators (who arguably have a role in it in a more direct way than corporations) are mostly liberal. that's established. perhaps their socialistic method isn't working. perhaps the union protection of bad teachers is causing these results.

[yzerman19wingnut]

@toyotabedzrock corporations that pay zero taxes? really. show me a publicly traded corporation that pays zero taxes. i will check up on their financial documents to make sure you aren't lying. take Exxon for an example. they paid in FY2009 15.1 BILLION in income tax as shown on their Income statement. Their Net Income for the same period was 19 BILLION. seems like they didn't get the tax break you're alleging. they paid 42.8% tax on their EBIT. So who is getting these breaks?