re: #239 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

To paraphrase, “Shut your asses up and get to work. We’ll pay you what we feel like paying you”

I’m pretty much as liberal as they come, but renegotiating pensions and health care costs isn’t what bugs me about all this. It’s the fact that they aren’t renegotiating at all, they’re issuing cuts to these unions previously agreed upon benefits by decree. They’re trying to take away the rights of the unions to negotiate. That’s unacceptable.

Now, if Walker were to say “okay, we’re going to have to do something about your pensions and health care why don’t you come to the table and we’ll talk about it.” That would be one thing…….but that’s not what’s happening.

Let me also say, as a Democrat I am embarrassed by some of what I’ve seen down there. The upside down American flags, the comparisons of Walker to Hitler or Hosni…..this is unacceptable and it needs to stop. I also think if Walker drops his insistence that public unions aren’t allowed to collectively bargain then the protests need to stop and they need to get back to work. Elections have consequences and my hunch is the majority -less than 50%- voted in the last election. They need to spend the next two years working phones, knocking doors, etc etc and they need to hammer the GOP in the next election.

I’m on the side of the unions here but only for their right to collectively bargain. I would encourage them to go on strike if that demand isn’t met but if it is then they need to get back to work