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Obama: Wis. Budget Measures Are an ‘Assault on Unions’

Early this morning we brought you a brief clip from of a local Wisconsin reporter’s interview with President Obama. In the previous clip, Obama admits that he’s not really been following the Wisconsin unrest closely. But that didn’t stop him from weighing in anyway. After Obama said he wasn‘t really paying attention he went on to say the Wisconsin governor’s emergency budget proposal is an “assault on unions”:

In part that might be true. The governor is targeting public unions, but not without cause. The state faces a $137 million budget shortfall in the fiscal year that ends June 30. Forcing state workers to contribute 5.8 percent of their salaries to their pensions starting April 1, and at least 12.6 percent toward their health care, would generate $30 million by July 1 and roughly $300 million over the next two years when combined with the other concessions.

The measure would also remove the ability for public unions to collectively bargain over those measures.

Historically Obama has a close relationship with unions. One union alone, the SEIU, donated $27.8 million to Obama’s 2008 campaign. In turn, three local chapters of that union have received Obamacare waivers.

The full, local interview can be seen here.

(H/T: Stephen Gutowski at Eyeblast.tv)

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  • hauschild
    Posted on February 17, 2011 at 11:44am

    Remember when the most unqualified president in US history held that sham of a roundtable with Republican leaders before the health care debacle passed? Hmmmm……what did he say again??? Oh, yeah, I remember…..”Elections have consequences.”

    There’s nothing more unproductive than a progressive. There’s nothing more unproductive and annoying than a sniveling progressive.

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  • inexiletill2012
    Posted on February 17, 2011 at 11:44am

    What other type of comment WOULD you expect from a community organizer ?

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    • Thatsitivehadenough
      Posted on February 18, 2011 at 3:20am

      More and more, lately, I have to wonder if the label ‘community organizer’ isn‘t just code for ’communist organizer’.

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  • Its Gonna Getcha
    Posted on February 17, 2011 at 11:44am

    Is it legal for citizens to view the records of our US President’s psychological evaluations while they are in office?

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 11:56am

      Good luck, you can‘t even see this guy’s scholastic records.

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    • LikesToFightGuy
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 1:37pm

      or a birth certificate or his golf scorecard

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  • Gonzo
    Posted on February 17, 2011 at 11:44am

    “Let me make this clear” Barry, the unions have bees assaulting America for decades. This is a counter assault. As commander in chief of the armed forces, maybe you could learn a little of the lingo?

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  • GdavidH
    Posted on February 17, 2011 at 11:44am

    “Obama admits that he’s not really been following the Wisconsin unrest closely. But that didn’t stop him from weighing in anyway.”

    Doesn’t this sound familiar from the divider in chief? Is he saying the governor “acted stupidly”?

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    • royalstar
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 11:59am

      That’s exactly what he is saying, and he isn’t kidding anyone about not paying attention. He and his minions are who is organizing the revolt. I guess he thinks we are stupid. He states that he doesn’t have all of the facts and then he weighs in. That is when you realize his real feelings about an issue regardless of the facts.

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  • Philo Beddoe
    Posted on February 17, 2011 at 11:44am

    5.2 million Wisconsin citizens, who contribute to their own retirement, healthcare and are taking pay-cuts are to accommodate 175,000 union members who receive paid healthcare along with a obamacare exemption, a retirement and pay increases?

    People of Wisconsin MUST defeat these anarchists

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  • goldmind
    Posted on February 17, 2011 at 11:44am

    I think, we’ve all lost our way in issues of considerably more importance. As this documentary shows
    in beautiful detail, why the entire human race is bankrupt. Watch it if you dare, and if the Beck watchdogs will allow you.

    http://www.zeitgeistmovingforward.com/

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    • thachosin1
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 3:30pm

      i always love videos where they talk about the problems…which i believe are there…but really offer no real way as to go about changing…the same are of videos i watch about ancient history dragging you along as if they have answers when they leave you with nothing but questions…kind of like government bringing issues to light only to ignore looking for real solutions…or pharmaceutical companies instead of finding cures which are definately out there to be had…just create drugs that may or may not curb the problems they are designed to pacify…yet leave you with other problems or side-effects…all this just leaves are questions and no real answers as to how to make things really happen.

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  • bcarron4
    Posted on February 17, 2011 at 11:41am

    Sounds a lot like the situation with the Harvard professor. He did’t know what was going on but he still thought the police acted stupidly. It’s time for him to get his facts straight before he gets in front of a microphone.

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  • BigBouy
    Posted on February 17, 2011 at 11:40am

    Public employees must pay their share-we are tired of them living off the our backs.

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  • Arminianism
    Posted on February 17, 2011 at 11:40am

    And how many tax dollars will go to these unions that will then turn around and give Obama another $30 million for his 2012 campaign??

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  • heavllyarmed
    Posted on February 17, 2011 at 11:40am

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6_1Pw1xm9U

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  • IAMMADDOG
    Posted on February 17, 2011 at 11:39am

    Its about time the unions are assaulted. They’ve been assaulting us for a looong time.

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  • MichiganPatriot
    Posted on February 17, 2011 at 11:39am

    Doesn’t Obama know that he has no business sticking it into state affairs, a States economy is no business of the fed’s The president answers to the states not the other way around.

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    • getperks
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 12:41pm

      AMEN fellow Michigan Patriot!! We have enough problems and need to help ourselves!

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  • macwedge
    Posted on February 17, 2011 at 11:38am

    Hack the Unions. They’ve outlived their purpose.

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  • Boojer56
    Posted on February 17, 2011 at 11:38am

    The unions are why China has all of our manufacturing base. We should send Trumpka and Stern to China to organize unions. China will be broke in five years

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    • IAMMADDOG
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 11:42am

      No China would execute him. They wouldn’t stand for people organizing.

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    • Non-sequitur
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 11:42am

      Well, China lets people work for less than a dollar per hour. That should be pretty hard to sell in America.

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    • fertlmind
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 11:45am

      Or Trumpka and Stern would get the opportunity to organize the inside of a Chinese Gulag in Mongolia!
      I really like the thought of that!

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    • RightUnite
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 12:19pm

      @IAMMADDOG… And would that be a bad thing??

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    • IAMMADDOG
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 12:26pm

      @ RIGHTUNITE

      Not necessarily. I was just saying.

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    • daguru
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 2:13pm

      The teacher’s unions have destroyed the education system in this country and at the same time are getting ridiculous, unsustainable pensions. In WI, they aren’t even threatening to lower pay, they are just saying you have to contribute more to the plans the union negotiated if you want them. That is exactly what every other private sector employee in the country has to do. However, we also get to subsidize the public sector plans as well. If anyone has a right to be pissed off, its the people footing the bill, not the people at the state house in Madison.

      Public employees should never have been, nor ever should be, allowed to unionize. It’s an absolute scam on the tax payer.

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  • fertlmind
    Posted on February 17, 2011 at 11:37am

    I thought he was too busy to pay attention to this?

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 12:42pm

      He had a few minutes to kill between speeches…to the unions.

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    • AZpatriotmama
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 1:15pm

      Gonzo:

      You mean the speechs to the unions that start like this:

      The time for revolution is now! Get out in the streets! Break a few windows! Crush a few heads! Do it like the Egyptians!

      The buses leave at 8 am tomorrow – we’ll pass out your signs as you get off the bus. The pay is $50 and a paid day off from work. Refreshments will be served.

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  • My Two Cents
    Posted on February 17, 2011 at 11:37am

    Obama’s words are an assault on our intelligence.

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    • Nietsretto
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 12:48pm

      As I was reading through these comments, this was my thought exactly. One additional thought came to mind, some of the commenters have no clue how damaging public sector unions have been to state budgets all over this great nation. Most states have pension deficits because of the unions.

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  • Showtime
    Posted on February 17, 2011 at 11:36am

    Unions are an assault on America!

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    • HairRazor
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 1:46pm

      Bust the com^unions. Enough already. No more free ride.

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  • NC
    Posted on February 17, 2011 at 11:36am

    Since I’m not from Wisconsin nor have I ever been in a union, does my opinion really matter?

    NC (let’s see more of the feds staying out of the states problems)

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    • Tracy McBurney
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 12:45pm

      @NC every ones opinion is to count. as far as the Unions they are not the only problem as far as money is concerned. They just have more backing than most by other groups they may be smaller but when you get them all on one page then you have lots of people in the streets protesting and I don’t think most of them have a clue that what they are protesting is freedom not money.

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  • dallenh
    Posted on February 17, 2011 at 11:36am

    Um… Yes Mr. President…. IT IS!!!

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  • Teapartywoman
    Posted on February 17, 2011 at 11:35am

    OMG, this guy is clueless.

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  • Azmodious
    Posted on February 17, 2011 at 11:35am

    We must save the unions! Fight with me! Fight with me my friends!

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    • drattastic
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 11:47am

      No we must save our country and the unions are bleeding it to death.

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    • tinydd
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 12:07pm

      Oh we’ll be fighting the Unions some day when they try to steal our food.

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    • RightUnite
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 12:16pm

      Unions have outgrown their usefulness. Their time is done. Get rid of unions, we’ll get our country back.

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 12:17pm

      These unions anymore have become giant style crime rings that have been hiding under legitimate organization rights; they need to be dismantled, and anyone of the leaders who have comminted any and all crimes prosecuted to the fullest limits of the law.

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    • Warphead
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 12:28pm

      Screw the blood sucking unions. Azmodious you are not my friend, you are my enemy. Matter of fact I don’t think your going to find too many friends here.

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    • Highland
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 1:05pm

      There’s no reason government workers should be unionized. We must support the governors of Wisconsin and Ohio in their efforts to try to bring even a little sanity into the equation of collective bargaining with taxpayer-funded employees.

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    • KenInIL
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 1:50pm

      The unions are passe’ in WI. Unionism has achieved its pinnacle and can be dissolved. That is the true goal of a socialist govt. WI is there, the governor recognizes it and that is why he says WI can dispense with union management. All that is needed is the guiding hand of a benevolent govt.

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    • TEXPATRIOT
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 10:26pm

      No, we must do away with unions especially all public sector unions. Andy Stern said when he was still president of the SEIU that “workers of the world unite” is not just a slogan. That sure sounds like Karl Marx to me.

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  • RightUnite
    Posted on February 17, 2011 at 11:35am

    Obama needs to shut his pie-hole. He has screwed this country up so much, now he wants to get his nasty hands in Wisconsin’s business. He knows where he can go.

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    • Lantern
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 11:46am

      Duh, Captain Obvious, the WS budget IS an assault on unions, because the unions won’t budge.I don’t like to see layoff either, but if it’s a matter of taking a pay cut or being laid off, take the pay cut.
      I don’t think police and firefighters should retire at 50 with a salary of $400,000 either. Pay should be based on merit, not seniority, nor bargaining.

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 11:51am

      Unfortunately Obama knows exactly where HE WANTS to go; and he is determined to use the unions members to achieve those aims. There is a darkness reaching across the land, yet the people of america are fighting back, making the stand against the dark and with the providence from the Almighty we shall win in the end.

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    • RightUnite
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 12:13pm

      Duh Captain Lantern…I could care less for unions. Government employees shouldn’t be allowed to have unions. It’s a conflict of interest. Same goes for Teachers. Teachers are paid by taxes, therefore, they shouldn’t be allowed to be unionized. I say lay them off. If they don’t like what the Governor has to offer, lay them off, and don’t rehire.

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    • Lantern
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 12:50pm

      @RightUnite
      My reply was to Obama, not you. You and I are saying the same thing as far as I can tell. I am not pro-union.

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    • ccr
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 1:25pm

      Wisconsin is home to progressivism, Joel Rogers, left/radical academia. War is on……….hold strong, support the right, stand firm! Obama…….flattering lies……….thank goodness PEOPLE are AWAKE. Don’t fall for ……..pretty much anything that comes out of his mouth! He is INTENTIONAL, not inept or inexperienced……..INTENTIONAL manipulation and lies!

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  • Danglinbags
    Posted on February 17, 2011 at 11:30am

    I love how intelligent our president is. He is pointing out the true facts and anyone who disagrees is jealous of him.

    Snowleotard {gallery of cat folks}  
    • Danglinbags
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 11:41am

      His grooming is impeccable and I’d venture to bet he smells of sandalwood.

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    • TERMLIMITSNOW
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 11:42am

      how would anyone ever know how intelligent he is……we’ve never seen the details of his education, grades, transcripts, papers, etc… We surely can’t tell from his policy and agenda….how would anyone know?

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 11:45am

      Got a tingle up your leg there Danglinbags?

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    • smithclar3nc3
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 11:51am

      Termlimitsnow, The ability to gauge Obama’s intellect is in his irrational actions and responses. His stead fast refusal to see the path his ideology will lead to points out one thing. That yes while the man might be educated he is far from intelligent.

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    • HillBillySam1
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 12:20pm

      Translation to our Community Organizer-In-Chief’s statement: It is an “assault on my voting base”…..oh, the horror!!!!!

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    • CyberPro
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 1:10pm

      @Dangling

      I have not seen any posts by you in a while, did they finally let you out? Take it easy for a while dude, the sun can hurt your eyes after you have been locked up in the dark for a while.

      As to what Dear leader smells like… I don’t use that kind of language in mixed company.

      I will admit, as did Joe Biden, that he is clean… not sure about articulate though, I would have to hear him speak a full sentence that was not on the TPOTUS.

      As an aside, I heard about an episode of Mythbusters where they proved it IS possible to polish a turd… just sayin’

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    • HUGGINGMYBABIES
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 2:22pm

      I keep wondering who does his nails….they are so smooth and even and shiny! I’d argue he smells more like patchouli than sandalwood though. Maybe even with a hint of cinnamon and cloves… I hope he keeps using the Grecian Formula too! He’s far more intelligent looking when the grey is gone, doncha think?

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    • doublee
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 2:58pm

      @cyberpro
      That dark place dinglebags was held up in wouldn‘t be up obambi’s…………….. Oh never mind.

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    • beachmaster
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 3:14pm

      Yes the president is smart .. or .. at least he is smarter than you .. which isn’t the accomplishment you might think!

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    • orkydorky
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 4:08pm

      The thing that makes the most sense is to break the unions and let each individual bargain and negotiate on the merits of the job they are doing. My guess is there would be a lot better employees and a lot less tax burden on the public. Collective bargaining is never good for the individual, but nearly always is good for union leaders and politicians. Unions are a cancer that continually grows on our society.

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    • SLAPTHELEFT
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 4:19pm

      Keep it up Governors. Break the backs of these unions once and for all.

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    • getalong
      Posted on February 18, 2011 at 10:27am

      DANGLINGBAGS

      Perhaps you could answer the questions in my previous blog entry.

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  • Robert-CA
    Posted on February 17, 2011 at 11:30am

    It’s a Union assault when Unions defends sex offenders .

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    • mattsanz
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 11:35am

      Three questions a free people need to ask themselves. 1) Is Govt evil ? “Government is force; like fire.” George Washington 2) Can… evil do good ? “Power always thinks… that it is doing God’s service when it is violating all his laws.” …John Adams
      3) If evil attempts to do good, do you support it ? “United States of America does more good in the world than any other Nation” Republlicans

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    • 13thGenerationAmerican
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 11:39am

      Really, what’s it called when the church does it tax free?

      13thGenerationAmerican  
    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 11:42am

      So it’s an assault on public sector unions. Big deal. They need to be taken down a few notches.

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    • MareeClaire
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 11:42am

      Wisconsin’s top Catholic backs unions http://dlvr.it/GrRQB

      “The Church is well aware that difficult economic times call for hard choices and financial responsibility to further the common good. Our own dioceses and parishes have not been immune to the effects of the current economic difficulties. But hard times do not nullify the moral obligation each of us has to respect the legitimate rights of workers.

      “As Pope Benedict wrote in his 2009 encyclical, Caritas in veritate: http://dlvr.it/GrRQB

       
    • NickDeringer
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 11:44am

      Glenn Beck is right again. Yes!! Again!!!!!

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    • A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 11:47am

      A lot of public employees are our friends, it’s true. And we appreciate them for the work they do.

      But in their capacity as public workers, their job is to serve the people, not the other way around. Government is a necessary evil, and in our Constitutional Republic, the people get to decide how necessary certain public jobs are.

      And when the public sector crowds out the private sector, especially with Union assistance, then the public sector is destroying the people’s ability to shape the economy – which ability it is the government’s job to protect.

      The people shape the economy, not government.

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    • nothingbuthetruth
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 11:48am

      Wis. Gov. Walker PLEASE DONT BACK DOWN. YOU HAVE THE SUPPORT OF THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE!!

       
    • exdem
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 11:48am

      And now the Muslim in Cheif has weighed in!
      I used to have respect for Presidents but he gets under my skin. (black skin- in case you were going to call me a racist)

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 11:49am

      Obama is now paying back the favors he needed from the unions to get elected to the position of the POTUS; however the fact still remains that the Obama agenda is using the unions to further their own progressive agendas, the union leaders agree to the agenda, while the normal members are being used as ‘useful idiots’ who have no true idea of the madness being wrought.

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    • Lantern
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 11:50am

      @13thGenerationAmerican
      What do taxes have to do with the (I’m assuming Catholic) church protecting sex offenders? I don’t like what happens there either, but to bring a tax exemption question into it is asinine.

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    • jakartaman
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 11:51am

      The Governor should do a ‘Gipper”
      You Teachers are not sick – You are fired!
      Unionism = Communism!
      The protect only the weak and stupid

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    • Islesfordian
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 11:52am

      Cathollc bishops are generally unqualified to speak on economic issues. And American catholic bishops are liberal to boot. I would never listen to anything they had to say outside the domain of theology and morality.

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    • teachermitch32
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 11:52am

      13thGenerationAmerican,

      The difference is that churches do not force you to be involved with charity, or to involve yourself in humanitarian causes. It remains your right to involve yourself in whatever cause you choose, if any. Not so with the forced, humanitarian church of the state (US government entitlement projects).

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    • tower7femacamp
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 11:54am

      YESTERDAY there were 60 comments and today there are 25 ?
      funny how the Blaze works. Beck is a Straw man.
      http://www.theblaze.com/stories/on-second-try-house-approves-patriot-act-extension/

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    • Copenloaf
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 11:58am

      Most of my life, Gov Union members have always bragged to me about how working for the Gov is so great, the best benefits, pensions, yearly raises…. Now that they are asked to cut back, like the rest of us have, they flip out…. I have no sympathy for them… People are waiting for their jobs, with half the benefits and salaries….. They should feel lucky to have a job

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    • pajamash
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 11:58am

      Well, eh, ah, eh, eh, eh, ah, etc.

      If you haven’t followed what is going on then HOW THE HELL CAN YOU COMMENT!!!!

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    • proudconservative
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 12:13pm

      No it is facing reality and doing what it takes to keep Wisconsin going. Obama is an assault on America and the constitution.

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 12:15pm

      @Lantern

      The Governor of Wis. needs to fire these union folks who will try to tear things down; we need to keep supporting him and others who stand for what is right and true, and to save the nation from those who seek to destroy her, from within and from without.

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    • forestnomad
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 12:20pm

      God you beckbots make everything apocalyptic. So, only 9% of United States workers are Unionized. Or to put it another way:

      NINETY ONE PERCENT of United States workers ARE NOT Unionized.

      Can we just rename all y‘all the ’Get Off My Lawn!’ gang?

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    • drkmagneto
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 12:25pm

      I heard that the purple thugs at SEIU donated something like $60 million towards the Dear Leader’s immaculation

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    • Melvin Spittle
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 12:29pm

      @mattsanz actually the people of the United States are the most generous people on earth. There is a distinction between gov humanitarian aid and private charitable aid. Normally gov aid comes with strings attached.

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    • leftiesaredangerous
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 12:30pm

      He isn’t paying attention to Wis. because he has budget problems there in Washington…Well, first off he is a liar of the worst variety.

      Second, he could learn a little something from the Gov. of Wisconsin. Oh wait, not Obama. He already knows it all and of course, he’s a Marxist.

      Nevermind.

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    • TSUNAMI-22
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 12:39pm

      @ jakartaman

      Exactly. This is economic terrorism conducted by unions and union activists. Fire them for conducting a concerted work slowdown and see how fast they fall into line.

      Fire everyone who called in sick and put THEM on the defense.

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    • Miguelito
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 12:43pm

      Obama is making it nation wide. 1100 teachers being used, I know 1100 teachers are not evil but I do know union bosses are.

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    • Lantern
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 12:48pm

      @SNOW
      No disagreement here!

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    • leftiesaredangerous
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 12:56pm

      This is one reason why Obama doesn’t want unemployment to go down. It allows for people to go out and protest and eventually riot.
      People with jobs can’t do the ongoing protests such as in Egypt. Obama wants these protests and he wants them to escalate.

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    • CatB
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 12:57pm

      To Obama … good ! We are sick of UNION THUGS running the country into the ground!

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    • tobywil2
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 12:59pm

      A union is a free association of individuals; individuals have the right to form organizations for any lawful purpose. The assault on freedom occurs when the union is given a monopoly, enforced by the government, with a license to initiate the use of force against the employer. http://commonsense21c.com/

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    • dabbo
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 1:00pm

      I have no sympathy for these people….I was a schoolboard member and president for several years…it was a real eye opener.

      These teachers are totally out of touch with the real world, most of them suck at their job, a majority are lazy, many are more adolescent that the students they supervise, and not one will do one extra thing unless they get paid. They won’t even mentor new teachers without a stipend…..pathetic!

      Contribute to your retirement and healthcare like everybody else…..grow the hell up!

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    • waggie
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 1:01pm

      He’s right, it‘s an assault on the unions and it’s about damn time!

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    • arx
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 1:01pm

      Excellent work WI Governor! Finally someone besides NJ doing what has to be done. Now if only the other 48 states would do the same.

      Shame once again on the Aho in Chief. Didn’t he just talk about the need for fiscal responsibility? I am so SICK of these politicians talking out of both sides of their mouth.

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    • watchtheotherhand
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 1:06pm

      I am thoroughly ticked off !!!!! I am a physician and I have to take whatever medicare pays. It is illegal for me as a physician to enter into collective bargaining and go on “strike” . These people make me sick. Unions have raped the tax payer for far too long !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    • stifroc
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 1:06pm

      All I want is for this man to shut up! I would to have ONE day, JUST ONE DAY that I don’t have to hear spew out of the mouth of this jackass. I mean does he not even see that nobody in this world really takes him seriously or even give a flippin rip about what he says or thinks? Dude, just STFU and sit down, you’re drowning in a pool of your own self importance.

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    • henryKnox
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 1:12pm

      It is moronic to have “public sector union” to begin with. Public sector means they work for the people of this nation. If they want a union then they should join the private sector. Working for the public is at the public’s discretion. If we need to reduce their pay or their benefits or their numbers it is up to us, the public, and not up to a union. Get real….

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    • watchtheotherhand
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 1:14pm

      Every year medicare cuts and lowers their reimbursement, barely enough to cover my cost to treat those patients. The their bureaucratic red tape and threats of fines and audits is enough to make you want to go “postal”. Yet Obama is speaking for my right to collectively bargain. I would simply be threatened with jail time. Errrrrrrrrr…….I‘m just a little bit jaded and bitter if you can’t tell…..

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    • HippoNips
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 1:15pm

      “assault on unions”
      Hmm, I guess Obama is uncapable of toning things down

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    • A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 1:19pm

      @drkmagneto,

      “I heard that the purple thugs at SEIU donated something like $60 million towards the Dear Leader’s immaculation”

      Yes, you heard right. They paid $60.7 million to elect Barack Obama.

      Unplugged: The SEIU chief on the labor movement and the card check
      http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2009/may/10/stern-unplugged-seiu-chief-labor-movement-and-card/

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    • nothingbuthetruth
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 1:20pm

      I just had to cash in my retirement funds to pay my taxes. I am going backwards and these jerks cant give a little.

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    • nothingbuthetruth
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 1:21pm

      Martha Stewart said to “”“suck it up””"

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    • nothingbuthetruth
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 1:21pm

      VP Biden said it is your patriotic duty

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    • timeisnow
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 1:30pm

      The unions/democrats have been in bed with one another for years, one lies and the other swears to it…Dems are bribed by unions to gain their vote…That used to work, but the private sector is sick and tired of paying their benefits when they dont even have a job or benefits themselves….

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    • bullcrapbuster
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 1:32pm

      Public service unions are at the heart of the progressive agenda. So it is time to hit them where it hurts

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    • boringolme
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 1:39pm

      Many people live in the land of denial. They don’t get it! Make consessions now to prevent disaster later. Don’t most people do this in their personal finances? We do. The other choice, the Gov. said if not he’d have to let many people go. So, which is worse? Contribute to your OWN retirement and your OWN healthcare and have a job. (Or lose it all.) Guess this gravy train is coming to an end. Big mistake years ago when they allowed PUBLIC employees to unionize. Jeez.

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    • GODSAMERICA
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 1:41pm

      That works for me. We need to have an “assault on unions” until unions go right out of existence. # 1 assault on our freedoms and our country – Obama. # 2 assault on our freedoms and our country – unions. # 3 assault on our freedoms and our country – radical islam.

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    • MOVETERAN
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 1:55pm

      There is really only one response to this. Barry keep out of state politics, you can’t seem to get federal politics right so butt out. This is an AB conversation so C your way out.

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    • HUGGINGMYBABIES
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 2:01pm

      What does this President know about budgeting?!? PUH-LEEZ! Get your own check book in order you bloated sugar daddy, then you can tell us in WI what we can and can NOT do. We voted Walker in by a nice MAJORITY….but its always the loud obnoxious MINORITY that gets on the news. It will be a battle but Scott Walker stands by his words….so if the Lilly Livered Dems show up and vote and it doesn’t pass, he will take a chain saw to the rank and file of government employees. WOOT! Governor Walker = REAL FREEDOM at last!

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    • chazman
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 2:53pm

      There is nothing more important than taking our country back from these evil, Liberal Marxist’s!!

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    • jmanuola
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 3:00pm

      I have only a few questions…why are public employees even allowed to unionize? Seriously. If they go on strike…who suffers? If they demand more money…from whom are they demanding it? If they was a cushy retirement..who pays for it? If they want tenure…who loses their ability to fire them if they don’t do their job well? Who do you think is their boss? The irony of seeing union members protesting like this is the fact that these very people help pay for their own salaries and benefits…yes…that’s right…through their own taxes. They are essentially doing nothing but fighting against the very people who make their jobs possible and the only people who benefit are the union bosses and the politicians supported by those union bosses.

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    • Cemoto78
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 3:07pm

      “I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.” – Thomas Jefferson

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    • 1911a1
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 3:28pm

      all those damn Unions should be Assaulted till they are all defunded and freakin gone !

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    • AnnMarie
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 3:53pm

      And so are the “Rich”. It cannot be OK for him to demonize the people who work and make money and not OK for States to do what they have to do to survive because of his policies and then say the State are demonizing the unions… What about his thoughts are the non-union population in this country?? Never here too much from him on this…

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    • Bluebonnet
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 4:08pm

      My anger at what’s happening in Wis. is beyond the pale. Now to have Obama come on and tell us how hard all these union teachers, etc. work ===what does he think the rest of of do? Most of us who aren’t drawing welfare work pretty darn hard on jobs that require a lot of our efforts as well. I’ve known many teachers and some are excellent, some are good enough, and some are the scum of the pond just drawing their pay waiting for retirement, so don‘t give me your teleprompter’s speech about how hard anyone works. My beef is the unfairness and unwillingness of these spoiled teachers
      to share some of the painful cuts that are necessary. They must be saying, let all those non-union jerks pay my share, I‘m too important and they don’t work as hard as I do, says our Prez.

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    • mcfinch
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 4:14pm

      Assault on Unions who are they kidding?

      storage wars

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    • DirectlyUnPCman
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 5:38pm

      They lie and lie and lie on the left, trying to confuse you or mislead you, or create doubt in your mind. But so many now have them pegged. To do what they want to do requires them to stick to the plan that has now been exposed. Nowhere to run now. You are finished.

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    • gramma b
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 5:49pm

      Unions are parasites, which primarily benefit parasitic employees. Good, productive employees don’t need unions. They will always be in demand.

      And, unions are bad enough in the private sector, where the realities of the market place some limits on what unions can extort from the employer. They have no place in the public sector, where governments simply confiscate more money from taxpayers to pay their employees.

      More and more, we have government of the parasites, by the parasites, and for the parasites.

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    • avenger
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 6:05pm

      long overdue…crush the parasites…

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    • GEETAR
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 6:41pm

      If we didnt have Unions we wouldnt have to pay $30,000.00 for a car and the price of everything would be lower. They make it so companies have to give so much to employees that its way cheaper to send the work to other countries.Do you think the Chinese have great healthcare plans and pensions?
      I went through general motors when i was in grade school and they had people that just do one quick little job to each car. I dont think these people really should make $30.00 per hour.

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    • waggie
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 7:34pm

      Obama is an “assault” on my intelligence.

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    • Enuff Zenuff
      Posted on February 17, 2011 at 10:51pm

      .
      There he goes again attmpting to shanghai the language…

      What Wisconsin Republicans are doing isn’t “assault” – it is SELF DEFENSE against the real assault by the Democrats and their union voting blocs on the taxpayers.

      This is all about rising up against the core corruption of the Democrat party throughout the nation & their abuse of taxpayers’s money to buy union votes for the Democrats – to keep them endlessly in power despite their wretched lack of any useful ideas. The only idea the Democrats keep coming up with is ways to SELL their votes to union voting blocks and identity politics using our money. It’s no wonder why we are broke!

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    • Thatsitivehadenough
      Posted on February 18, 2011 at 3:19am

      Good. The unions are way too powerful and need to be reeled in. Fast.

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    • stormcrow53
      Posted on February 18, 2011 at 7:20am

      It is time to impeach the most deceitful, divisive and destructive demogogue in American history. Now!
      Impeach Obama now!

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    • futureatstake
      Posted on February 18, 2011 at 9:28am

      Watch the video from the beginning. Does he NOT look like a bobblehead?

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    • Indie
      Posted on February 18, 2011 at 10:20am

      Obama is a union thug.
      Bought and paid for.
      And a community/protest organizer.

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    • getalong
      Posted on February 18, 2011 at 10:22am

      Can anyone tell me what great things public service employees do that private business employees don’t do. Besides firefighters and police officers who put their lives on the line everyday, other public service jobs are no different than private business jobs. Maybe one of the progressive trolls who frequent The Blaze would like to spell out what the difference is, I would love to hear it. In fact, I would argue that private business employees work harder, and do more than public service employees. So public service employees, guess what?, it is time to pay your fair share. Oh, and are all those “bleeding heart” teachers who bused in their props (students) being paid by taxpayers to protest and what about the other public service employees protesting – are WI taxpayers flipping the bill for them???? THERE IS NO MONEY TO PAY YOU WITH….GET IT!

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    • hud
      Posted on February 18, 2011 at 12:26pm

      To: 13Th It’s called the law of the land, as it is standing tax law.

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    • Miguelito
      Posted on February 18, 2011 at 2:25pm

      It’s leadership which Obama does not have a clue?

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    • ireport uderide
      Posted on February 19, 2011 at 11:38am

      President Obama giving advice about Wisconsin’s budget is like asking Jeffrey Dahmer to give a seminar to students at Johns Hopkins University on performing surgery.

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