It's Friday so let's focus on Wisconsin, which is surprisingly giving me the warm and fuzzies.
The video below shows firefighters - LEAD BY BAGPIPERS!!! - walking into the state capital building to join their fellow public workers, who have taken over the retunda. Why is this so important? The voice explains:
If you didn't catch that, it's important because the Governor exempted these unions. These unions, however, protested in solidarity nonetheless."The bagpipers and the uniformed men you are seeing coming into the rotunda right now are firefighters, they are getting huge applause because in this bill they are technically exempt from [Gov.] Walker's proposals. But there has been a huge showing of firefighters in this area."
If you are confused about the bill, here's one quick article. But to understand what's actually going, this may help 1) a month ago Wisconsin was set to have a $120 million budget surplus for the year and 2) watch this (after the jump)
It's one thing to ask public workers when your state is broke to negotiate salary and benefit cuts, this Wisconsinites said they would be willing to do. It's quite another to gin up a budget crisis so you can bust unions and then threaten to unleash your national guard on them. Happy Friday.
It's one thing to ask public workers when your state is broke to negotiate salary and benefit cuts, this Wisconsinites said they would be willing to do. It's quite another to gin up a budget crisis so you can bust unions and then threaten to unleash your national guard on them. Happy Friday.
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