Northwest Indiana Discussion

to be honest ARC, those numbers are just a wee bit inflated.

the estimates were based on using UNION labor to clean up the mess left by the UNION.

actual damages are more in the 10-20k range.

BTW, while the board was down yesterday, the WI dems lost, and the bill was passed.

Wisconsin GOP bypasses Dems, cuts collective bargaining

I could be wrong chuckmo and we all know it ain't like you to steer a topic off course...but...I think we are talking about Wisconsin. USA in 2011, on the verge of bankruptcy. Thanks chuckmo.

Except those weren't government workers in Poland who were already overpaid with ridiculous benefits at the expense of other wage earners. Yesterday was a great day for America!

"I'd almost be willing to get a job in order to participate in a national general strike" - Democratunderground.com denizen

DEATH THREATS
By Charlie Sykes

Story Created: Mar 10, 2011

Story Updated: Mar 10, 2011

Since the MSM appears intent on downplaying the growing intimidation and escalating threats of violence around the union power issue, I am reprinting verbatim an email that was sent to Republican senators. The email was signed, but I have deleted the name pending what I hope will be a thorough police investigation.

From: XXXX
Sent: Wed 3/9/2011 9:18 PM
To: Sen.Kapanke; Sen.Darling; Sen.Cowles; Sen.Ellis; Sen.Fitzgerald; Sen.Galloway; Sen.Grothman; Sen.Harsdorf; Sen.Hopper; Sen.Kedzie; Sen.Lasee; Sen.Lazich; Sen.Leibham; Sen.Moulton; Sen.Olsen
Subject: Atten: Death threat!!!! Bomb!!!!

Please put your things in order because you will be killed and your familes
will also be killed due to your actions in the last 8 weeks. Please explain
to them that this is because if we get rid of you and your families then it
will save the rights of 300,000 people and also be able to close the deficit
that you have created. I hope you have a good time in hell. Read below for
more information on possible scenarios in which you will die.

WE want to make this perfectly clear. Because of your actions today and in
the past couple of weeks I and the group of people that are working with me
have decided that we've had enough. We feel that you and the people that
support the dictator have to die. We have tried many other ways of dealing
with your corruption but you have taken things too far and we will not stand
for it any longer. So, this is how it's going to happen: I as well as many
others know where you and your family live, it's a matter of public records.
We have all planned to assult you by arriving at your house and putting a
nice little bullet in your head. However, we decided that we wouldn't leave
it there. We also have decided that this may not be enough to send the
message to you since you are so "high" on Koch and have decided that you are
now going to single handedly make this a dictatorship instead of a
demorcratic process. So we have also built several bombs that we have placed
in various locations around the areas in which we know that you frequent.
This includes, your house, your car, the state capitol, and well I won't
tell you all of them because that's just no fun. Since we know that you are
not smart enough to figure out why this is happening to you we have decided
to make it perfectly clear to you. If you and your goonies feel that it's
necessary to strip the rights of 300,000 people and ruin their lives, making
them unable to feed, clothe, and provide the necessities to their families
and themselves then We Will "get rid of" (in which I mean kill) you. Please
understand that this does not include the heroic Rep. Senator that risked
everything to go aganist what you and your goonies wanted him to do. We feel
that it's worth our lives to do this, because we would be saving the lives
of 300,000 people. Please make your peace with God as soon as possible and
say goodbye to your loved ones we will not wait any longer. YOU WILL DIE!!!!

Yeah. In chuckmo mind, he thinks he's pointing out hypocrisy when he posts a quote about another country, in another situation, 30 years ago. Even if it was more relevant, he assumes that just because it Ronald Reagan, everyone here must have agreed with the quote at the time it was made. Anyway, a few years later, RR correctly busted PATCO and started unions down their well-deserved path toward obscurity, and hopefully, eventual extinction in this country.
I think we can all agree, chuckmo is just ridiculous.

Wisconsin Governor Rescinds Layoff Notices
By MONICA DAVEY and A. G. SULZBERGER
Published: March 11, 2011

MADISON, Wis. — Gov. Scott Walker announced on Friday that he was rescinding layoff notices for 1,500 state workers after Wisconsin lawmakers approved his plan to cut collective bargaining rights and benefits for public employees. The approval, after nearly a month of angry demonstrations and procedural maneuvering, will create enough budget savings, Mr. Walker said, that layoffs will not be needed now.

Well duh chuckmo...of course it does. It just happened in Wisconsin.