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What would you call it?
robbery involves the taking of property through the threat or use of violence
What would you call it?
One was from 2005, two were from 2009. They all show Wisconsin is rated higher than the national average. Let's see your "more updated" rankings that show differently?
do you realize this could be over TODAY if the governor would drop the union busting tactics, and negotiate in good faith? he has already been told the unions are willing to make the concessions he seeks....this is a 'crisis' of his own making, all he is seeking to do is break the unions/hurt the democratic party....the whole 'more debt' is a smokescreen to hide his true intentions.
The new census data backs that up -
"The gap between the wealthiest Americans and middle- and working-class Americans has more than tripled in the past three decades, according to a June 25 report by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
New data show that the gaps in after-tax income between the richest 1 percent of Americans and the middle and poorest parts of the population in 2007 was the highest it's been in 80 years, while the share of income going to the middle one-fifth of Americans shrank to its lowest level ever.
The CBPP report attributes the widening of this gap partly to Bush Administration tax cuts, which primarily benefited the wealthy. Of the $1.7 trillion in tax cuts taxpayers received through 2008, high-income households received by far the largest -- not only in amount but also as a percentage of income -- which shifted the concentration of after-tax income toward the top of the spectrum."
Income Gap Between Rich and Poor Is Highest in Decades, Data Show
That was Dick Cheney's pat answer as well.
By tax and economic policies that favor the rich and penalize the middle class such as what is happening in Wisconsin today.
A return to the progressive taxes that served the country so well during the 50 year period when we had the best economy with the least debt for the most Americans.
Yeah, that's probably why most of the big corporate money went to the GOP candidates in 2010, right?
I have read the history, and I lived through it. Where is the causation, or even a correlation, that shows tax cuts to the wealthy have improved our economy since they were slashed 30 years ago?
Why not replace Obama with Grayson as President? Get rid of Obama he is doing nothing for working people.
Just read these two articles on the economy and you'll see how he is just another Republican who is practicing Reaganomics!
"Second-lowest US wage gain in three decades"
"The Obama administration is spearheading the attack on wages and benefits. It gave the initial impetus by imposing a 50 percent cut in the wages of newly hired auto workers as part of its rescue of General Motors and Chrysler in 2009. It continues to foster high unemployment by rejecting any government hiring programs and refusing to provide aid to state and local governments that are responding to huge budget deficits by slashing jobs and cutting public employee wages, benefits and pensions."
Second-lowest US wage gain in three decades
"Obama’s jobs fraud"
"The attempt to portray an unabashedly pro-corporate agenda as a “jobs program” is also designed to obscure the fact that the Obama administration has pursued a deliberate policy of maintaining high unemployment as a means of forcing workers to accept wage cuts and other concessions. From the beginning of his term in office, Obama has rejected any government hiring program and the administration has now put an end to even the limited “stimulus” measures adopted early on."
Obama?s jobs fraud
Don't you work in the state house?
But luckily enough for me, my typo reveals a trait of ignorance on your part. I meant to say, "you should really read the Road to Serfdom." Unfortunately, you've never heard (and therefore never read or anything about) the Road to Serfdom, one of the most famous works by one of the most famous (and Nobel laureate) economists, Friedrich Hayek.
What does that have to do with your insulting and offensive comment?
Well, don't you?
What does what I do for a living have to do with your offensive and insulting comment?
You had better check your stats out ...its a pay freeze and doesn't effect collective bargaining.
do you realize this could be over TODAY if the governor would drop the union busting tactics, and negotiate in good faith? he has already been told the unions are willing to make the concessions he seeks....this is a 'crisis' of his own making, all he is seeking to do is break the unions/hurt the democratic party....the whole 'more debt' is a smokescreen to hide his true intentions.
The democrats are putting the state at risk and may force the Governor to layoff teachers. This shows me the democrats cosider their cash cow the unions more important than taxpayers or voters.
Where have you posted National achievement rankings by state that show Wisconsin is not above the national average?
Go look up socio-economic conditions.
Even if you are right - and I strongly can say you are not right - look at the strategy now. Destroy the unions. So what are we left with? Corporate America taking us on the Road to Serfdom.
There is no doubt about it. If the right wing corporatists combine with the anti-government crowd - its going to be very very bad for America unless we an stop this and stop it now.
The dems don't put taxpayers or the good of the nation first.
that's why they created legions of dependent bots to vote dem while their manufacture of teat sucklers degrades the nation
Do you even understand what trickle down economics is?
I'm in the trucking business. When I needed a tire replaced, or fixed, I would call a guy that has his own tire service business and pay him $80 a wheel to take care of it, for me. Since The Messiah killed the oilfield, I have to do my own tire work, because I can't afford to pay that tire man to do it for me. That's $80 he doesn't have in his pocket, anymore.
One of my trailers blew an airbag last week. A few years ago, I would have sent my driver to the shop and paid $200 in labor to get it fixed; that's trickle down economics. Now, I have to keep that $200 in my pocket and fix it myself.
Before The Messiah killed the oilfield, the oil companies had to call on me to haul their equipment, because they're in the oil business, not the trucking business. When they called me, I got paid. I had to pay drivers to drive the trucks and I paid them. That's trickle down economics.
Top All-Time Donors, 1989-2010 | OpenSecrets
Let me try one more time. YOU'RE WRONG. Read the link. The top ten donors or "heavy hitters" supplied billions to both parties, but tilted democrat in ALL the top ten entities except TWO, which tilted evenly to both sides. The majority of the top ten were not just tilting a little bit towards the democrats, they were tilting A LOT. It figures. The moral and political agenda of a democrat uses far more governmental interventionist powers than the republican. And big business or a big union LOVES an interventionist central government.