The Wisconsin 14 are winning another battle

Some of you might not know that I blogged over the weekend. Good stuff if you missed even if I do say so!

Greatest 3:53 Political Speech ever

The New Public Enemies (Elweed decides to vote) **

Scary

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Madison is front page in the USA Today and a half page article on page two!  They have a poll saying that 61% of the public favors what is happening in Madison!

Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research conducted their own poll which favors us even more! 

Obviously this poll confused me for obvious reason!  If you really look at it you will notice somethign very strange.  It seems Scott Walker only agrees with himself 43% of the time!!  

But then I actually read what the poll was (as opposed to just looking at the pretty colors) and it is how people view certain people.  For instance 67% of the respondents view Public Employees favorably.  53% view Scott Walker favorably which is not surprising, after all he did win the election, however 62% view the Protesters at the State Capitol favorably.
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Before I get into MY night vs. the Tea Party I want to bring up something Mr. Sneaky Pants is doing.

Let's look past the Bill for a second!  What about the Budget.  Remember the Budget which was going to announced from Vita Plus yesterday (which I'm sure Vita Plus is very thankful that went belly up) and then it was move back to March 1st?

Here is the deal - Walker can not announced his new Budget until The Bill passes. He can not announce what the cuts are until he busts the unions!  I don't know about other contracts but for State employees they accrue sick hours and once they retire the State will "basically" double those hours which can be used to buy health care.  Walker budget, from hard rumors does away with that doubling.  Can't do that when the is a union!  

What else is in that budget that can't move forward with those nasty unions!


The Wisconsin 14 fled the State in order to have parts of the Bill exposed - Power Plants.  In the Bill the State can sell it's Power plants to ANYBODY for ANY amount, no bidding needed!  The Koch (pronounced Coke) are worth 45 BILLION dollars in Oil and they financed Walker and now have an office near the Capitol! They buy Power Plants!  What a coincidence!   Channel 13 exposed this little tid bit!

Speaking of the Tea Party - a friend of mine is anotehr Art Fair artist and on an Art Fair email list asked a question about how this bill will hurt us Art Fair people.  Simple, innocent question!

A couple of fair responses and they!  But then - WOW!!  a guy that I always felt was a little  . . on edge" piped in about how Wisconsin is ruining America!  Of course I could not keep my mouth shut but was VERY polite as I corrected him.

Last night I received a personal email - a couple of juicy quotes "My sympathy is very limited for people like you.  I really think you people are completely ignorant of the vast majority of Americans."   . . ."And BTW I am an active member of the Tea Party. Who are uniformly civilized and polite" . . . . "All you have to do is look at the behavior of your side this week---death threats, Hitler signs"  . . . . "I defy you to show any examples of Tea Party members acting in mass like this. America has had with you socialists." . . ." You are violent--collectively."


My response to him?


Yea - whatever!

I would like to hire my little bee friend and send him on a mission to my new Tea Party buddy!

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HOPE

I'm thinking about making this into a poster size print. Maybe I will and have it for sale at the March 26th Art Fair at the Alliant Energy Center! 

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   Wood Stock Wisconsin Style

Well, come on all of you, woman & men,
Wisconsin needs our help again.
We got ourselves in a terrible jam
Got some Senators “Living on the lamb”
......So teachers put down your books and support your union;
we’re going to have a whole lotta fun.

And it's one, two, three,
What are we fighting for?
Don't ask me, I don't give a damn,
Let’s stop the Governor scam;
And it's five, six, seven,
Open up the pearly gates,
Well there ain't no time to wonder why,
Whoopee! we're all gonna cry

Come on rich people, don't be slow,
Why man, this Governor is au-go-go
There's plenty good money to be made
By supplying Scott Walker with the tools of its trade.

And it's one, two, three,
what are we fighting for?
Don't ask me, I don't give a damn,
Let stop the Governor scam;
And it's five, six, seven,
Open up the pearly gates,
Well there ain't no time to wonder why,
Whoopee! we're all gonna cry.

Come on mothers throughout the land,
let’s support our teachers and get this Governor canned
Come on Republicans, and don’t hesitate
And support our unions before it's too late.
And you can be the first ones in your block
Too admit that you made a mistake at the ballot box


BTW - how do General Strikes work?  How will you know?

OH - you will know!  Generally how these things work is you will have very short notice, phone calls, emails or even coming to work and see - it's happening!

BTW - a LOT of people are retiring in the next 2 month.  

Peace - see you on the line!
Rod