Archive for February 20th, 2011
12K government employees in Wisconsin may lose their job because of the budget deficit
Riots in Wisconsin
Fox news is reporting that up to 12,000 government employees in Wisconsin may lose their jobs due to the budget shortfall.
Here’s what Fox had to say…
If changes aren’t made to the benefit contributions paid by Wisconsin’s nearly 300,000 public sector employees, about 10,000-12,000 workers will lose their jobs, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker warned Sunday.
The Republican governor has been targeted by protesters for nearly a week for negotiating a bill now in the state Senate that would require workers to increase their contributions to pensions and health care coverage, would limit collective bargaining rules and tie raises to inflation.
But Walker said while the state enjoys a lower-than-average unemployment rate — about 7.5 percent compared to 9 percent nationally — about 5,000-6,000 state workers and 5,000-6,000 local government workers could lose their jobs if they don’t accept changes to their benefits plan.
“I don’t want a single person laid off in the public nor in the private sector and that’s why this is a much better alternative than losing jobs,” Walker told “Fox News Sunday.”
The budget vote was supposed to take place last week, but was delayed when state Senate Democrats fled to Illinois to avoid having to vote on the plan, which would cost public sector employees about $300 million over two years, or less than 10 percent of the deficit total.
“If we’re going to be in this together, (cut) our $3.6 billion budget deficit, it’s going to take a whole lot more than just employee contributions when it comes to pensions and health care,” Walker said. “But it’s got to be a piece of the puzzle because as I saw at the local level, it’s like a virus that eats up more and more of the budget if you don’t get it under control.”
President Obama, whose group Organizing for America, has bused in some of the nearly 70,000 protesters outside the state capitol on Saturday, last week called the bill “an assault on unions.”
Walker said the president should stay focused on fixing the federal budget, which is $1.5 trillion in deficit this year. The president’s plan, rolled out last week, proposes $1.65 trillion in deficits next year.
So…that means that because those idiotic senators fled the state instead of doing their job and voting on a reasonable budget…those state employees that have been rioting…uh, I mean protesting…may lose their jobs. You can’t pay someone with NO MONEY.
Way to go senators.
Good job.
ACTION ITEM: Study the similarities in character between Baroness Margaret Thatcher and Governor Sarah Palin
Dear HillBuzz,
In the spring of 2010, during my sophomore year of high school, I wrote a biography of Baroness Margaret Thatcher for my world history class. In writing my report, what surprised me the most about Margaret Thatcher was how human she seemed. When I think of politicians, particularly congressmen and presidents, what immediately comes to mind is the stark contrast between my life and theirs. To me, the idea of seeing a politician anywhere but on a television screen or the internet is strange, and the idea of having a conversation with one is stranger still.
However, in reading biographies about Margaret Thatcher for my research, not only did I get the impression that others found her very easy to interact with, but I remembered thinking that even I would probably be able to relate to her without (much) uneasiness or awkwardness if I ever met her. She struck me as a very down-to-earth person. And , so she was.
The daughter of a grocery store owner in Lincolnshire, Thatcher’s childhood was not particularly different than that of any other British girl. If someone who had never heard of her were to read all about her childhood, I imagine they last path they would expect her to have taken in her adulthood would be that of politics. Indeed, her main area of studies in college was chemistry, and she entered politics not of her own initiative, but at the urging of a friend.
These days, it seems as though many people are specifically bred to be politicians: they come from famous political families, they’re taught the inner workings of the political system from birth, and by the time they are of legal age to enter the world of politics, they have been flawlessly trained by their peers, and are ready to fill whichever political office was most recently vacated, likely by someone they grew up knowing. But Margaret Thatcher was something entirely different from the all too common career politician. She was a nobody who came out of nowhere, and she brought to the British government what it was lacking and what it so desperately needed: common sense.
Already, I suspect the similarities between Margaret Thatcher and Sarah Palin are becoming quite obvious: both were viewed as political outsiders, both were portrayed by the media as somewhat simple and uneducated, and both were (and, in the case of Palin, still are) supporters of smaller and more efficient government. In fact, the more one reads about these two intriguing women, the more startling and uncanny their similarities become.
Please encourage your readership to study more on Baroness Thatcher and Governor Palin and find these commonalities on their own.
Thank you,
Dr. Watson
(a Junior in High School)
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HillBuzz Note: What books have you read on Margaret Thatcher that you think are important to gain a good picture of her…as well as to draw those similarities between Thatcher and Governor Palin?
Let’s make March “Baroness Margaret Thatcher Month” here at HB and do the hard study work on Thatcher that will allow us to create a solid body of material on her…which we will then have as a resource for the 2012 campaign.
I bet the Left will recycle a lot of the dusty old attacks on Thatcher and try to use them against the Governor too.
Let’s get ahead of that game, shall we?
Let’s stand behind America’s emerging “Iron Lady” of our own.
SEIU orders its thugs to astroturf tomorrow (President’s Day) to bully Americans in the name of unions
When will Americans have enough of union greed and thuggery?
Tammy over at IOwntheWorld is ringing the clarion call: the SEIU is mobilizing its thug army tomorrow, to bully Americans coast to coast in an attempt to tamp down the nationwide revolt against union greed and corruption that began in Wisconsin last week and sure seems to be spreading.
The union thugs are paid and bused in for these astroturfed protests.
Here’s what needs to happen, and we sure as heck can’t count on the meek and timid Cocktail Party GOP establishment to do it, because those clowns are so afraid of their own shadows to ever stand up to the unions: nationwide, anyone reading this needs to get in contact with every friend and family member they have and ask them if they have had enough of union thuggery.
You need to take the risk that you will be rebuffed or chided for speaking out against the unions. You have to risk alienating people who are Leftist brainwashed and you need to openly question why Americans allow union thugs and the Left to control this country. They are looting the treasury and stealing from your children and grandchildren’s futures because for 30 years the Republican party has been too meek to say boo about it.
We cannot as a nation afford to keep quiet about this any more.
Though it is uncomfortable to do so, you MUST start speaking out about the unions.
I guarantee you that if you are brave enough to stand up and find your voice on this subject that you will be stunned to see that 90% of the people around you AGREE WITH YOU, but they are too scared to say anything themselves.
For the last 30 years, the union-controlled public school system in this country has indoctrinated children with PC-meekness…and in particular, it has emasculated men. The Left did this deliberately, to control Americans, and to make them afraid to ever speak out.
Currently, I am in a personally strange situation where I am dating a guy who is meek and mousy like this and it boggles my mind constantly. I love Justin, and I think he is one of the nicest people I have ever met, but he is TERRIFIED of standing up to bullies. Last week, when he was driving his car, an unmarked police vehicle ran a stop sign at an intersection and almost hit him. Not knowing it was a police car, Justin yelled out the window at the driver to watch what he was doing (which shocks me, because even almost being hit by another car I’m stunned Justin yelled at anyone). The cop turned on his hidden lights, pulled Justin over, and then intimidated Justin with his authority. Essentially, the cop pulled a “I know where you live, so you better not say anything about this” on Justin. Though Justin knew the cop was wrong, and felt that the officer abused his authority, and the whole episode was creepy like the movie where Samuel L. Jackson is a cop who terrorizes his neighbors, Justin didn’t want to do anything about it. Justin asked me what I would do, and I told him I would report that cop to the Mayor’s office, the independent police commission here in Chicago, and the local Alderman. Then, I would have written a big story about it on HillBuzz and would have asked everyone I knew coast to coast to help find out who that cop was to shame him and the police department here in Chicago into answering why he behaved the way he did. Justin is too scared to do that, because he thinks the cop will find him and retaliate. I told Justin that if the cop did that, he would be fired, and the police department and City of Chicago would have one Hell of a lawsuit on their hands. Honestly, this has kept Justin up at night, though I have not pushed him to do anything about it because I know it’s not his nature to stand up for himself…and I realize the way I handle things is not typical (unfortunately). Justin is so scared of bullies coming back at him if he speaks out against them that he can’t fathom writing so much as a letter of complaint to the city against an unmarked police car that was clearly in the wrong. This mousiness is engrained in him, and it had to come from somewhere. I think it came from the public education system, which Justin attended, because it does not sound like Justin’s parents are like this (and, in fact, his parents get on Justin’s case for being so wimpy themselves).
I went to Catholic school and I don’t take garbage from anyone. The nuns taught me that. I spent 13 years in classrooms with gruesome depictions of all the saints on the walls: people with their eyes gouged out, nailed to crosses, set afire, and pulled to pieces because they refused to bow and scrape before anyone or renounce what they believed in because they were bullied.
So, I just don’t understand Justin’s terror at the thought of calling bullies out for the bad things they do, because I have never in my life walked away from a fight, and have never been too scared to speak what needed to be said.
What is seriously the worst that someone could do to me for exercising my constitutional rights of free speech and my God-given right to challenge secular authority when needed?
HOWEVER, dating Justin has given me new insight into just how bad the Cocktail Party GOP establishment is, because I swear I’ve figured out that 99% of these establishment Republicans are JUST LIKE JUSTIN (though much less snuggly on a Sunday morning, I imagine). These wussies have always been too scared of the Media saying anything bad about them for standing up to the unions that they’ve allowed the unions to get away with too much for too long. We are suffering the consequences now because people have been bullied into silence.
Well, if you are reading this right now then you are the Resistance.
You need to find your voice.
Those of us who did not grow up indoctrinated with PC-garbage and taught meekness need to help you find that voice.
Justin was too scared to report a bullying, bad cop. Just like he’s too scared to confront the bullies in his workplace that create a hostile work environment for him. Or he’s too scared to tell loudmouths in a movie theater to pipe down. Or he’s too scared to point out someone’s cut in front of him at a grocery store. Justin is a wonderful man who lives his life too scared to ever speak out about anything…and then he pouts and mumbles to himself about how bad things are…but he never does a damn thing to make them better.
If you live your life like this too, I would love for you to chime in about why you do that. Because I really don’t understand it but want to. I am not scolding you and I do not want to embarrass you, but I want you to stop being a meek little mouse that suffers bullies silently.
Justin told me once that I “walk around with those little nuns with rulers on one shoulder, telling (you) to fight bad guys, and on the other shoulder (you) have ninjas just kicking ass”…but on Justin’s shoulders he has the Cocktail Party GOP establishment constantly telling him to eat his soggy cucumber sandwiches and drink his skim milk without complaint, and let the entire world run roughshod over him.
I will keep my nuns and ninjas, thank you very much…with the utmost gratitude for a childhood spent in the Thunderdome of Cleveland where I was never subjected to the indoctrination of meekness.
Do you understand where I am coming from with this?
Do you have a Justin in your life as well?
Are you a Justin?
If you aren’t comfortable posting in the thread, write us at HillBuzz@gmail.com and speak honestly about this. Your anonymity will be protected, but for us to make any progress we really do need to understand WHY people are so afraid of union thugs and other Democrat bullies that the conservative majority in this country never speaks out against them.
Let’s get to the bottom of this right here and now, and do what we can to fix this.
The SEIU purple shirts are on the march again…and YOU are needed to spread the word that this time they cannot astroturf unchallenged.
Why won’t the Media report on union thugs who tried to destroy the sound system at yesterday’s anti-union, pro-taxpayer rally in support of Governor Scott Walker in Madison, Wisconsin
The Media and the Left (redundancy alert!) might not realize it, but they are destroying themselves currently.
It’s like what happens here in Boystown on a Saturday night, where I’ve seen groups of amateur drinkers get lost in a moment, and then are obnoxiously carried away, straight off the charts, into levels of intoxication I personally can’t even fathom. ”It’s our moment!”, “The night belongs to us!”, “F*** you for telling me to cut it out!”. Everyone around these fools knows they should not be doing Jagger shots, then chasing those down with whiskey. Wild turkey American honey sure does taste smooth going down…but that stuff’s just on loan to your stomach and will be coming right back up in a hour or so. All over the sidewalks of Boystown in technicolor yawn as the amateur drinkers get what’s coming to them for going so overboard.
The Left has been at this since 2008, because they were finally able to takeover the country, to enact all the insane and intensely stupid schemes they have debated for thirty years in academia. Electing a confirmed Leftist who hates America and wants to make it into the failed states of Europe was the greatest coup the Left could ever imagine, and the champagne flowed like rivers in the circles of the media elite because not only is our current president anti-American, but he’s black too, so these products of Leftist journalism schools get to feel historic and important themselves, as they are the first to report on the doings of the historic and unprecedented first black president.
Who just happens to be an unmitigated disaster, incompetent in everything he does, because Obama is the ultimate Affirmative Action hire.
The Left will never admit that, but it’s as clear as the fact that people vomiting on the streets of Chicago on a Saturday night just can’t hold their liquor and really need to slow down and leave the hardcore partying to the professionals.
Here is something I believe is happening that not enough people are talking about currently: and that’s the waking up of independents in this country, because the Democrats are forcing an immense reappraisal of their party that’s permanently alienating people who used to culturally identify as Democrats.
I know this because I am one of these people.
I grew up a Democrat in Cleveland, Ohio and always voted Democrat until 2008 because I was seriously taught as a child that “Democrats are good and Republicans are evil”. My father and grandfather were in unions, as were the fathers and grandfathers of just about everyone I went to school with. But, back then the unions hadn’t yet killed the steel, auto, and other manufacturing jobs in Cleveland…and other cities ultimately killed by unions, such as Detroit, hadn’t imploded yet. They were just “terrible” back then, and not “Thunderdome”.
When I see naked video like the one above, of union thugs openly trying to sabotage the sound system at the Madison, Wisconsin rally against the unions yesterday, I think back to the Iowa Caucus in early January of 2008…when Obama supporters very nakedly, and openly, imported non-Iowa voters to game the caucus for Obama, with Obama supporters working the caucus site to allow this to happen. No one even tried to hide what they were doing. The bullying was open and out front and the Obama team knew the Media would not report on any of it, so they would get away with it.
For three years now, I have done everything I could to tell Americans what the Obama campaign did to commit massive widespread voter fraud throughout the Democrat primaries in 2008…and CONSTANTLY I still hear people say “We never knew about any of this”. Well, watch the Gigi Gaston documentary on it at www.WeWillNotBeSilenced2008.com and see for yourself how badly Obama supporters behaved, gaming the system, breaking laws, and engaging in widespread thuggery to claim the White House.
I will never support the Democrat Party in anything ever again, as long as I live, because of what I witnessed the Obama campaign do in 2008…which was rubber stamped by the DNC…and then covered up by the Media.
I think what the unions are doing in Wisconsin right now is having a similar effect on a great many Americans, particularly independents.
It’s just so nakedly terrible that people who have never wanted to see the truth for themselves are now being forced to stare hard at the fact that unions are indeed destroying this country.
The teachers’ unions in particular.
It is stunning these fools really believe they are helping their cause by abandoning the schools last week and marching on Madison because these people — who make over $100,000 a year on average — refuse to contribute ANYTHING AT ALL to their pensions or healthcare costs.
I know people in the private sector who used to make $100,000 a year but who were downsized and laid off at various points in the Obama presidency…and they are now living hardscrabble to piece together $20,000 or $30,000 to live on by working piecemeal odd jobs and part time employment just to survive.
There is no sympathy for teachers — who get three months VACATION a year — and receive generous compensation to abandon their posts, neglect the children in their care, and demand exemption from the privations the rest of us now face in the Obamaconomy.
I am sure independent voters are watching all of this. They see the DNC revving up these union protests. They are making the connection that the union thuggery is being orchestrated at the DNC. They see that Obama and other prominent Democrats are encouraging the looting of state treasuries by the unions.
People are now paying attention and noticing that unions protect Democrats because Democrats protect unions and union treasury raids end up back in the pockets of Democrats to keep them all symbiotically in power.
The DNC really believes the Media will continue to embargo negative reports on the unions…and that the union thuggery will not be exposed. But, honestly, I really do believe that the Media and the Left (redundancy alert!) used up all the magic cards they had in their deck back in 2008. They went all-in to elect Obama, and they indeed kept all the vile things his campaign did from hitting the public consciousness on a widespread basis. But, they’ve spent the three years since Obama’s election operating under the assumption that they could continue committing thuggery and no one would notice.
It’s like those Saturday night, amateur hour drunks here in Boystown who think they can just keep downing shots endlessly and there won’t be a price to pay kneeling before porcelain thrones or holding back their hair on puddled streets late at night, revisiting all those shots all over their expensive and now-ruined shoes.
The hangover that’s coming for all these people will be epic.
I can see it coming.
Can you?
Nevada Ground Report: How are the teachers’ unions ruining that state?
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Dear HillBuzz,
I am currently training to become a teacher here in Southern Nevada and I feel I must make some points. I don’t have problems with school teachers who do their job and have respect for their students. I’ve met many of them and I believe they are working for the right reasons. If I ultimately become a teacher, I won’t be like the idiots in Wisconsin.
Being that it’s sponsored by the local school district, politics inevitably becomes a part of the training. I have heard professors/instructors directly and indirectly bash Sharron Angle, Jim Gibbons and Brian Sandoval throughout the last year in the middle of a few lectures. The professors complain about funding and pay cuts, despite being given gobs of money for vain green projects, identity politics studies, bad sports teams and barely teaching at all (*cough* Dina Titus *cough*). One of the professors in my college moaned about budget cuts towards public employee pay in Nevada as ”being taxes on 10% of Nevadans” and that every Nevadan should have their taxes raised instead. I’m sure there will be protests here. The Dems still have legislative majorities, but no longer the 2/3′s needed to override the Republican Governor.
Aside from trying to get rid of Harry Reid, our state is failing at other things. I believe Nevada is behind in education, because the university system is focusing on training teachers how to be social engineers. The administrators are mostly teachers who didn’t want to do all of the paperwork and planning that teachers must do, but get more pay. We have taxpayer funded lobbyists and a diversity department which are both useless leeches in our educational cesspool. Also, the new superintendent is some crook from Colorado.
As for the big issues in education, some professors can’t come up with any opinion on No Child Left Behind. They hate it (probably because of Bush), yet love it and talk about the transparency and accountability it provides (cliche, I know). They support total inclusion all the way for special ed students and are big on multiculturalism/pc. There is a consensus among the academic elite here that educational power standards should be left to the feds instead of the states. The expensive and non-refundable textbooks are pretty biased. The book, “Behavior Management: Applications for Teachers” cites socialist shrink BF Skinner as one of the greats in behavior science. The book even pushes for increased government funding for social welfare programs in one of it’s later chapters.
This seems pretty relevant to the issue of public education and what’s going on in Wisconsin. There’s something for everyone here and I hope people get involved in their own ways, in their home states, however they can to do something about this.
-Adam R., Las Vegas, NV
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Whining Muslim Alert: The movie Mooz-Lum
This is a movie that features Danny Glover….need I say more? Remember he did the movie about Islamaphobia just after 9/11 (New York’Ta Beş Minare ). I happen to think Danny Glover is one of the wackiest loons in Hollywood. Here’s a little review of the above movie trailer( from Jihad Watch)…
In the long theatrical trailer, you get the full quote of the blond girl rejecting the Muslim protagonist: “I’m Catholic. I’m not supposed to talk to you.”
Catholic-phobes! Catholic-phobes! I’m feeling…. “alienated!” And… “radicalized”!
Kidding aside, though, both the short and long trailers give the appearance of a feature-film version of a Very Special Episode on the small screen, with a formulaic plot about Muslims’ persevering in the face of intolerant Americans, complete with a scene featuring small Muslim girls who refuse to take off their hijabs despite their fear of a mob of big, thuggish American boys. White boys, at that, as is easier seen in the long trailer.
Profiling! Profiling! Racists!!! Danny Glover’s character is brought on, though, perhaps to show supposed American bigotry coming from all skin colors.
So often throughout the history of film, propaganda movies have added insult to injury by being just plain awful (see also: North Korea’s riveting Nation and Destiny series). This doesn’t appear to be an exception.
But there is one more scene in the long trailer worth noting (again, linked above), where our protagonist surveys the diversity at a dinner put on by the Muslim Student Association, an arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in America.
The Muslim Brotherhood angle could offer material for a sequel, but not likely of the sort we’d get out of Hollywood. One can’t be too optimistic on the prospects for a musical, either.
Poor little misunderstood CAIR Bears of Islam.
Be careful what you wish for Mr. Glover.
Allen West speaks out… so listen up
Simply Awesome
Congressman Allen West (R-FL) has weighed in on the fiscal debacle of this country including what’s happening in Wisconsin. Here’s what he has to say…
“Over this past week I have watched and listened to members of the House of Representatives from across the aisle.
“I am appalled at their ignorance, belligerence, and dishonest rhetoric filled with empty emotional platitudes. Have they no shame in realizing that their inept, incompetent failures are the reason why we are debating this continuing resolution. They failed to pass a budget during the 111th Congress.
“Have they no honor in realizing that their fiscal irresponsibility over the past four years has resulted in our standing on the precipice of a fiscal canyon from which we may not recover.
“Also troubling are the events in the state of Wisconsin which mirror those that happened in Greece several months ago. We are witnessing the abject hostility of a unionized entitlement class that is being lauded by the liberal left, seemingly to include our President.
“It is such a critical time for our Republic, yet there seems no visionary leadership — it is as if America stopped producing adults. I have never seen a greater assembly of petulance and sophomoric behavior as what I have witnessed this week on the floor of the House of Representatives.
“To those across the aisle, please explain to the American people how your economic policies have created a better environment for long-term sustainable growth.
“This debate is about jobs and the economy.
“It begins with remedying the spending problem on Capitol Hill. It includes tackling the burdensome taxation and regulation policies strangling our country. It is the understanding that Keynesian tax and spend policies did not grow America’s economy, but the indomitable, entrepreneurial spirit of the American people.
“Government sets the conditions for job and economic growth, it does not create jobs.
“I am pleased that we are having open debate in the peoples’ house. However, there is clearly something lacking in this discourse — the recognition of the failure of the bureaucratic nanny-state liberal policies.
“Rest assured that I will do everything in my ability to stand firm and lead on the principles that make America exceptional.”
Can we clone this man?
