“The Return on Investment?

Some things are known, though. Koch money helped get Scott
Walker the governor’s seat in Wisconsin. And now a major
Koch-related group is spearheading the defense of Walker’s
radical plan to kill public employees’ right to organize in Wisconsin.
The question is whether an actual majority of Wisconsin citizens
want two of the richest men in the world, who do not live here—
and who, as Lee Fang has pointed out, have eliminated jobs in
this state—to be playing such an influential role in the rights of
working people here.The Return on Investment?

Some things are known, though. Koch money helped get Scott
Walker the governor’s seat in Wisconsin. And now a major
Koch-related group is spearheading the defense of Walker’s
radical plan to kill public employees’ right to organize in Wisconsin.
The question is whether an actual majority of Wisconsin citizens
want two of the richest men in the world, who do not live here—
and who, as Lee Fang has pointed out, have eliminated jobs in
this state—to be playing such an influential role in the rights of
working people here.

The Kochs assert that they do not “direct” the activities of
Americans for Prosperity or the Tea Party. No, they just fuel them
with their riches from the oil business they inherited from their
daddy.

And they did not vote for Scott Walker in the traditional sense in
a democracy. Rather, as the Republican Governors Association
spells out, they “invested” in him.

What is the return desired for their investment? It looks like the
first dividend Walker wants to pay, through the help of the
Koch-subsidized cheerleaders from Americans for Prosperity, is a
death knell for unions and the rights of workers to organize. But
tens of thousands of Wisconsin citizens have stood up this week
to say this ROI will not be paid, that their rights will not be the
price Walker exacts from them in return for the largess the Kochs
have shown him as the anointed instrument of their agenda in
this state.”
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/02/23-5

Insuring “Confidence Without Merit” Republicans win elections is what the Conservative/Moderate Right-Wing does with all that money they squeeze and squander away from the common
populace.

“This is our moment, this is our time to change the course of history,”
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker says, talking about his fight with
the unions in a prank phone call that was secretly taped by a Buffalo
journalist Ian Murphy of the BuffaloBeast.com website who was
posing as billionaire oilman David Koch.

Transcript of Gov. Walker in Prank Call: ‘This is Our Moment’:
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/02/23-2

Koch Industries’ political action committee was one of the biggest
financial supporters of Walker’s gubernatorial campaign last fall,
giving $43,000 to his political fund.

David Koch also gave $1 million to the Republican Governors
Association last year, and Koch Industries contributed another
$50,000. The RGA spent $65,000 on ads supporting Walker and an
additional $3.4 million attacking Mayor Tom Barrett, Walker’s
Democratic opponent.

Scott Walker and his GOPer friends have sure raised a lot of controversy with their anti-union positions. But all adamant pro-union folks should consider this: Since Scotty and all his boob(R)-buddies owe their very existence to the unions of their parents,(in Scotty’s case, the union of Ms. Walker and Mr. ??????), surely you don’t support these unions, do you?

Typical GOP behavior.  Cut corporate taxes down to nothing and then howl about deficits, demanding that working people “sacrifice” to make up the difference.

$5.00 gas is just on the horizon.  How much longer are we going to put up with this crap?

diamond, February 23 at 7:16 am,

The DLC/PPI/3rd Way Conservative/Moderate Democratic Party and
Republican Party Movement IS a Hitler type Conservative Movement
to the letter with the Joseph Goebbels Media sophistry and
propaganda.

One of the first things Hitler did when he got power was attack and dismantle the unions in Germany. Some of the first people he threw into concentrations camps were unionists. They were beaten, arrested and killed that is when they weren’t just rounded up and locked up in the camps. Adolf Walker is in good company.

Walker says 1,500 employees will lose their jobs if the bill does
not pass and the same amount or more will lose
their jobs if the bill does pass.

The sad part is the unions remain quite loyal to the Democrats, so don’t expect any real radicalizing of the situation. Americans are not at the point yet where they are willing to risk having their HD TVs burn down for the cause of freedom.

Having worked both in the private sector and the public I got to hear this about pensions.  Both told me that pensions were part of the pay package and given in lieu of wages.  In other words they were just a delayed wage.  These pensions and social security insurance often require contributions by the employee.  Now you can see why employees get upset when this promise gets broken especially when the underlying cause is bankers plundering the economy.

FASCIST PIG!!

Methinks it’s time to give Gov Moammar Walker his walking papers.  We need leaders who can work with our representative democracy not Hitlerian autocrats.