Wisconsin or Egypt?

By now everyone has seen the reports. An angry mob crowding into the government center. Demanding a change! The rage, and outrage has spilled into the streets. No I'm not talking Egypt, that was last week. This week it is Madison, Wisconsin. Yes a violent uprising in the Midwest. I personally think that after a long winter, those folks have just gone stir crazy!

Fortunately we still live in a Democracy(Technically a Constitutional Republic). I know that our president called the riots in Egypt democracy, but we don't work that way in America! The VOTES in November speak a WHOLE lot louder than the protests in February! There might be 10 or 20 thousand people, bussed in, now marching in the streets, but 1.2 MILLION voters chose Governor Scott Walker to get the state out of financial ruin, at the ballot box!

How Did Wisconsin End Up Here?


In 1959 The Wisconsin Education Association gained the right to Collective Bargaining. This was the first such law in the United States.

Taken from the Wisconsin Education Association Council's website...

Early activists and organizers turned WEA into the Wisconsin Education Association Council...[which] would represent teachers in contract negotiations and could legally collect and contribute money to political candidates.

What followed was an unholy alliance of big union money, confiscated from members, given to Democrat politicians who pushed through sweetheart deals for the union, all paid for on the backs of the hardworking taxpayer's backs. Isn't it ironic that the first powerful union is now shutting down the democratic process in the state it holds hostage?

I wonder in President Obama is going to stand and declare that what we are seeing in Madison is democracy in action?

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