Below is an article I wrote during the cowardly walkout of the Democrats during the Wisconsin public union reform battle and the aftermath which is sorely under reported. I am doing this because some people seem to have a short memory span and wish to move on to new protests as they realize the utter failure of past protest. They do not like this type of failure to remain in the public view, for others may want to adopt these programs which would sound the death knell for all unconstitutional public sector unions. The story below .s from lets run http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=4295012
. This got real quiet as to how it came out. Well, here are the results. Remember the violent and disgusting demonstrations over Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker doing away with collective bargaining for Teacher's unions? The results are in. Some school districts went from a $400,000 deficit to a $1,500,000 surplus as a result. They are even hiring new teachers, not firing like the Liberals said would happen.
Why? It seems that the insurance company that provided all the "so-called" benefits to the teachers was an insurance company owned and operated by the teacher's union. Since the outfit was guaranteed to get the insurance business from the teachers, and the State had to pay for it (not the teachers) the insurance company was increasing annual costs every single year to become the most expensive insurance company in the state. Then the company was donating millions and millions of dollars to its favorite democrat politicians who, when they got elected, guaranteed to keep funding the union's outrageous costs. In other words, the insurance company was a "pass through" for Wisconsin taxpayer money directly to the democrat politicians. Nice racket, and this is the racket that is going on in every single State that allows collective bargaining. No wonder the States are taking it away.
Now the State of Wisconsin is free to put the insurance contract out for bids and, lo and behold, they have saved so much money it has turned deficits into surplus amounts. As a result, none of the teachers had to be laid off, everyone got a raise, etc., etc., and the taxpayers of Wisconsin don't have to pay more taxes to fund the union's political ambitions. If you weren't aware of the reasons Gov. Walker was fighting to take away collective bargaining, it gives you an idea of the problem conservatives have:
Why? It seems that the insurance company that provided all the "so-called" benefits to the teachers was an insurance company owned and operated by the teacher's union. Since the outfit was guaranteed to get the insurance business from the teachers, and the State had to pay for it (not the teachers) the insurance company was increasing annual costs every single year to become the most expensive insurance company in the state. Then the company was donating millions and millions of dollars to its favorite democrat politicians who, when they got elected, guaranteed to keep funding the union's outrageous costs. In other words, the insurance company was a "pass through" for Wisconsin taxpayer money directly to the democrat politicians. Nice racket, and this is the racket that is going on in every single State that allows collective bargaining. No wonder the States are taking it away.
Now the State of Wisconsin is free to put the insurance contract out for bids and, lo and behold, they have saved so much money it has turned deficits into surplus amounts. As a result, none of the teachers had to be laid off, everyone got a raise, etc., etc., and the taxpayers of Wisconsin don't have to pay more taxes to fund the union's political ambitions. If you weren't aware of the reasons Gov. Walker was fighting to take away collective bargaining, it gives you an idea of the problem conservatives have:
Here is just one example of the money laundering scheme where through Unconstitutional collective bargaining agreements the unions steal our money and clean it up to give to politicians overwhelmingly Democrats. Though the collective beginning system the tiny school district of Hartland Wisconsin-Lakeside was forced to deal with an insurance company called WEA Trust it was the sole creation of the Wisconsin Education Association to steal money from the tax payer and funnel it back to the Democrats as campaign donations. Superintendent Glenn Schilling asked WEA Trust why the rates were so high. "I could never get a definitive answer on that," says Schilling. You see they have nonunion workers and didn’t have to deal with the WEA which was charging a whopping 35% more than the other company.
The collective bargaining agreement ran out on June 30th and now under the new rules the district went shopping and instead of paying 2.5 million in taxpayer dollars they now pay 1.8 million dollars for the same coverage (Which I still think is insane) saving this one tiny little district $700,000. They are talking about hiring new teachers and everything under the sun. Here is a novel idea give it back to the taxpayers that have been screwed for god only knows how long. How bad are the American people getting screwed by unconstitutional public sector unions if this one tiny little district is saving $700,000 I wish I had an answer but I don’t. I also don’t have an answer why someone isn’t in jail. It is time to start throwing these crooked union heads and crooked politicians in jail and taking their property and position to pay the people of the United States of America back.
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A Letter to the People,
The unions from all across the nation are starting to revive their past in Wisconsin in what I think is a futile effort to maintain their strangle hold on the public sector workers and the radical far left leaning Democrats they put in office. The problem they have now compared to 60 or 70 years ago is the technology and type of media that operates on a 24 hour news cycle. In the past unions would threaten the small newspaper guy and his family to shut down a story. Whereas today you have wall to wall coverage of this public sector union’s illegal strike in Wisconsin. Because the stakes are so high in this battle hundreds of news media personnel are here. Then you have President Obama making a public statement for the unions and sending in the people that were on his election team with the DNC. The left is pulling out all the stops in their bid to try and hold onto their golden goose, “We the People”.
Once the left arrives it goes from a group of people holding signs to a larger group hurling vicious verbal assaults at the Republican politicians and anyone that opposed their viewpoint. Then with all the imported radical left personnel they turn it into a media circus. Guest speakers and union bosses from around the country show up to fan the flames of hatred hoping for the worst. All this as the cowardly Democrats hide out with their heads in the sand and allow the DNC and other Union support group’s to ship in thugs still versed in the old ways to commit acts of terror against the innocent. Every day that those cowards kept their heads in the sand it increased the likely hood that something bad would happen to the Republicans. Death threats for everybody, the passing out of the phone numbers and addresses, protest at the homes of the politicians, scaring women and little children in Wisconsin.
There were hundreds and possibly thousands of threats to the Republicans in Wisconsin during the union rally. Unlike the past it is much harder to get away with crime as proven here by the arrest of Katherine Windels on four counts: two relating to “threatening injury or harm” and two for “bomb scares” related to the latest round of protests. There should be more. The A.P. still carrying the Dems water tried to down play the story by posting it as a local story to hide it from National scrutiny. This one incident in alone in Wisconsin is reason enough for all freedom loving group to come together, unite and encourage all the Politicians to break the stranglehold that the Public Sector Unions have been given over the State and Local budgets by previous Administrations, Republican and Democrat alike.Please tell the politicians every chance you get that they must reform the Public Sector Unions not only because average Americans cannot keep up with the soaring wages and benefits but they are also destroying our country.
Thank You
Mark A Joppa
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