Tomorrow, Wisconsin voters decide whether to recall Gov. Scott Walker. Before they do, they should consider what has happened to California.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/06/04/republicans-democrats-make-final-push-in-telltale-wisconsin-recall-vote/
California is the template Wisconsin voters must consider. Here in the once-Golden State, the unions have tight control over the governor, Jerry Brown, and the Democrat-controlled legislature in Sacramento. It was Brown, in his earlier stint as governor in the 70s and 80s, who gave the unions the power to organize state government workers. The results have been catastrophic. The state is broke and burdened with salaries, pensions and benefits for state workers that cannot be sustained. The only ones feeling the pinch are those in the private sector. Rather than fix the problem, Brown merely tries to get more taxes (which must be approved by the voters). As a result, tax-payers and business owners are leaving the state in droves, taking their money and their jobs with them. We are rapidly approaching the point when the government workers and tax beneficiaries will outnumber those who have to foot the bill.
Is that the way you want to go, Wisconsin? Walker's reforms are bearing fruit. Are you instead going to go with the mayor of a struggling city, Milwaukee, where unions are strong? Are you going to support those who have engaged in thuggish practices against Walker and his supporters?
It's your vote, not mine. Just consider these words from the Peoples Republic of California before you pull that lever.
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I swear, I believe I would wager $10.00 against a week-old Krispy Kreme that Siarlys will be as sorely disappointed if Walker is not successfully recalled as he says Gary will be if George Zimmerman is convicted.
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Elwood,
If Zimmerman is convicted on solid evidence that he started the fight with Martin, I will not be disappointed. I just want truth and justice to prevail.
Gary is modifying his previous strident rhetoric. Mature reconsideration, Gary. Good move.
elwood, from thousands of miles away, this must look like another round in the endless Wagnerian struggle between good and evil, with the leading roles played by liberals, or conservatives, one way or the other around, whatever is your pleasure.
But here in Wisconsin, I would say that Scott Walker is fundamentally dishonest, not a worthy torchbearer of the counter- revolution.
During his eight years as Milwaukee County executive, he "held the line on taxes" by deferring essential maintenance into the future, throwing upon some future successor the burder of having to raise taxes. We called him the fiscal phantom. He's as crooked as Richard Nixon.
I'm not happy with Tom Barrett. He couldn't turn out voters to defeat Walker in 2010. I knocked on a few doors, and heard a lot of "How can I choose between two people I can't trust?" (I tried to answer, sometimes you have to choose between the psychopathic and the merely incompetent).
Yeah, I'll be disappointed if Walker pulls through, because he'll have a swelled head. But it might be good for the Democrats. They still have a lot of dead wood to clear out. Most of the Democrats who lost in 2010 deserved to lose. We didn't deserve the Republicans who replaced them, but the Dems deserved to lose. They haven't learned that yet.
But then, John Boehner didn't learn zip from his losses in 2006 either. He came back with the same old same old too.
Read more about it here:
http://recallingscottwalker.wordpress.com
I won't be available to comment tomorrow night. I'm working at the polls from 6:30am to 9:00pm. I'll be dead tired and won't be on line until the next day. There is a lot of paperwork that has to be perfectly reconciled, and it is expected to be a huge turnout.
I told you so:
http://recallingscottwalker.wordpress.com/2012/06/06/blame-barrett-or-snatching-defeat-from-the-jaws-of-victory/
Gary--just for the record, in case you misunderstood me, I was not the one who said you would be disappointed, I was merely quoting a previous post by Siarlys.
And I totally agree with you that Zimmerman should be convicted of whatever there is to convict him of, if there is anything to convict him of.
And Siarlys, just so you know, I caught one little wuss of a Barrett supporter on both CNN and Fox who, I believe after the concession, in a trembling voice and to paraphrase, complained that "Democracy died in Wisconsin tonight".
Shows you how some people think. Looks to me like it was "democracy", or at least a representative republican (small "r")
system (or whatever you want to call it) at work as it was designed and as it is supposed to.
Dems/libs/progressives/lefties/, et al, had not one but two chances to have someone other than Walker as governor. As to the recall, there was certainly no shortage of media coverage, or of money and ads, and what happened happened. Twice, in fact. The people, I guess, may not always be right, but at least they are always the people.
elwood, you are correct that nobody who loses an election has the right to announce that "Democracy died" because their side lost. Besides, in America, losers can always take heart by remembering, e.g., Goldwater in 1964, when the Republican Party was given up for dead, or Carter in 1980, when the Reagan cabal assumed they were laying the foundations for a thousand year reich, or at least a century of domination.
Anyway, as I said, what restored Walker to office was not his own principles (he has none), but the blind cupidity of the Democratic Party running Barrett again. Some of us would vote for Rin-tin-tin over Scott Walker, but many voters wanted a better alternative. They weren't offered one.
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