Obama joins Wisconsin's budget battle

For the record, in the Joint Finance Committee, the Democrats offered an amendment that would have preserved the collected bargaining rights for workers, BUT maintained the new provisions for paying 1/2 of pension costs and 12% of health insurance. The motion failed on a party line vote, all the Republicans voted against it. Removing collective bargaining is not about saving money it is about destroying the unions. Until the Republicans passed about 140 million dollars in tax cuts for business, Wisconsin was on track to have a surplus this year.

One other issue that is not raised, is that public workers have already taken pay cuts in furlough days. Additionally, the teachers have not had cost of living increases for about 15 years. Most of their increases have come in the form of health insurance benefits which have been increasingly expensive over the past decade and one-half.

Public employees would do their part, but cialis they will not be railroaded by the guy who killed the train. The richest Wisconsinites have also not been asked to do their part to fix our budget woes.
-Inwisconsin.