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ShockediSay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-21-11 08:23 PM
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Wisconsin: Another Propaganda Battle We Concede To Them !
Edited on Mon Feb-21-11 08:46 PM by ShockediSay
When do we get something like their Minister of Propaganda Luntz?

At last in print today, the real 'cause' of Wisconsin's 'budget crisis,'
special tax and other treatment doled out by Governor Walker to his Republican Goombahs,
but how many Americans have heard about this? Blame our messaging deficiencies;
credit their propaganda machine; when will we learn!?! The message out there now?
It's all the greedy working stiffs' fault, like our first reponders and our teachers.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/21/opinion/21krugman.html

"WISCONSIN POWER PLAY

Mr. Walker isn’t interested in making a deal. Partly that’s because he doesn’t want to share the sacrifice: even as he proclaims that Wisconsin faces a terrible fiscal crisis, he has been pushing through tax cuts that make the deficit worse. Mainly, however, he has made it clear that rather than bargaining with workers, he wants to end workers’ ability to bargain.

The bill that has inspired the demonstrations would strip away collective bargaining rights for many of the state’s workers, in effect busting public-employee unions. Tellingly, some workers — namely, those who tend to be Republican-leaning — are exempted from the ban; it’s as if Mr. Walker were flaunting the political nature of his actions.

Why bust the unions? As I said, it has nothing to do with helping Wisconsin deal with its current fiscal crisis. Nor is it likely to help the state’s budget prospects even in the long run: contrary to what you may have heard, public-sector workers in Wisconsin and elsewhere are paid somewhat less than private-sector workers with comparable qualifications, so there’s not much room for further pay squeezes.

So it’s not about the budget; it’s about the power."



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FreakinDJ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-21-11 08:26 PM
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1. The Trolls are UnRec this thread - Time for some TeaParty Medicine
Edited on Mon Feb-21-11 08:32 PM by FreakinDJ

Here is 1 of YOUR DoucheBag TeaParty Leaders having his ASS handed to him on the Internet - Can We Say Douche Bag Kiddies



More of those Crazy Antics by our friend / TeaParty Bigot-in-Chief Mark Williams





After Mark posted his instructions to TeaFarty members for Disrupting and Discrediting the Protest in Support of the Wisconsin Workers ...

That link will take you to an SEIU page where you can sign up as an “organizer” for one of their upcoming major rallies to support the union goons in Wisconsin.

Here is what I am doing in Sacramento, where they are holding a 5:30 PM event this coming Tuesday: (1) I signed up as an organizer (2) with any luck they will contact me and I will have an “in” (3) in or not I will be there and am asking as many other people as can get there to come with, all of us in SEIU shirts (those who don’t have them we can possibly buy some from vendors likely to be there) (4) we are going to target the many TV cameras and reporters looking for comments from the members there (5) we will approach the cameras to make good pictures… signs under our shirts that say things like “screw the taxpayer!” and “you OWE me!” to be pulled out for the camera (timing is important because the signs will be taken away from us) (6) we will echo those slogans in angry sounding tones to the cameras and the reporters. (7) if I do get the ‘in’ I am going to do my darnedest to get podium access and take the mic to do that rant from there…with any luck and if I can manage the moments to build up to it, I can probably get a cheer out of the crowd for something extreme.

Union Supporters posted Mark's home address on Mark's own website which he quickly took down - (Don't bother looking for it - its down down !!) with the polite message "Gee Mark if you going to be posting such inflammatory inciting statements on your website it might be a smart idea not to have your domain name listing your home address"

And it didn't even take a "Hacktivist" to find him out - Just Google

LOL
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RKP5637 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-21-11 08:30 PM
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