Monday, June 04, 2012

What are the impacts when Gov. Walker wins in Wisconsin tomorrow?

So, when Walker cleans house tomorrow, what's it all going to mean?

First a few words from a democrat we all may have heard from in the past:
"All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service. It has its distinct and insurmountable limitations when applied to public personnel management. The very nature and purposes of Government make it impossible for administrative officials to represent fully or to bind the employer in mutual discussions with Government employee organizations. The employer is the whole people, who speak by means of laws enacted by their representatives in Congress."

Franklin D. RooseveltFranklin
112 - Letter on the Resolution of Federation of Federal Employees Against Strikes in Federal Service - August 16, 1937
Second, it makes my opposition to the GOP establishment candidate, Rob McKenna, all the stronger.

McKenna has sold out Walker on more then one occasion:
Tough day for McKenna

Actually, he's not fit to carry Walker's luggage.

Just one of the reasons I can't vote for Rob McKenna is spelled out here:
Politics
Rob McKenna's 'I Am Not Scott Walker' Tape Leaked By Dems to Embarrass GOP (Video)

By Rick Anderson Wed., Apr. 18 2012 at 7:30 AM  
Here's where Rob McKenna lost me: "Collective bargaining (for state workers) is a right."

 No, Rob... it isn't. And if you win, it won't be with my support... as if that mattered anyway.

On Other Blogs Today Seattle Times: Republican McKenna Says Collective Bargaining is a Right

By Josh Feit Thursday, March 24, 2011 at 2:21 PM 18 Comments and 0 Reactions

Democrats have linked Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna to the anti-union reign of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker with murky lines such as: “His friends in the Legislature have introduced bills to eliminate collective bargaining rights for state workers.”

But Seattle Times reporter Jim Brunner interviewed McKenna last night and got this:
In an interview before the King County GOP’s Lincoln Day dinner in Bellevue Wednesday night, McKenna said he would not replicate Walker’s attempt to undo collective bargaining rights.
“Collective bargaining is a right. It’s not the problem. The problem is politicians who give away too much at the bargaining table,” McKenna said.
Collective bargaining, or "collective extortion" as the taxpayers call it, is, of course, NOT a "right."

Public employee unions are not a right, so, of course, anything connected to those unions is not a "right."

Clearly, McKenna will sell us all out to get elected. Public employee unions and their democrat puppets have buried us in debt, with unfunded retirements, pay and benefit increases in the midst of a horrific recession, law suits to keep screwing us, and a failure to even pay a fair amount for health care premiums. Our income goes down, and our taxes go up. And Rob seems OK with that.
McKenna has focused too much on being a King County Republican (That is to say, a moderate democrat) instead of on cleaning up state government. Every state that doesn't have a Walker needs one. And we need one... desperately. Unfortunately, it seems we're going to be stuck with a liberal who won't give us one, and instead of getting rid of the cancer of collective bargaining, we're all just going to be stuck with small amounts of chemo-therapy to keep us alive.
For awhile.

Walker has shown the way.  Courage would be to follow in his footsteps.

Unfortunately, we neither have that... nor are we likely to get it any time real soon.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

RCW. 41.56.040 would seem to disagree.

Martin Hash said...

Counting chickens is a dangerous pasttime but I do agree that if Walker wins, that will encourage other Republican governors. (There are some Dem governors who feel the same way but they have to keep peace in their party. It's up to Republicans to make things right.)

K.J. Hinton said...

Forgive me if I disagree.

"Rights" are civil in nature. A "right" cannot be taken away by legislation, you see... and calling a criminal act a "right" doesn't make it so.

Since there is no legal right to even HAVE public employee unions, there are no rights associated with public employee unions... only privileges provided in this instance by those the unions bought through election... elections they paid for.

My freedom of speech is a right. The ability for unions to stick a rhetorical gun in our ribs by this union nonsense?

Well, obviously, the "right" to have public employee unions has disappeared in Wisconsin, hasn't it? And if it were a right... then the courts would have gotten rid of the laws doing away with them.

"That is what democracy looks like."