Thank you govenors/congressmen on attempt at delivering on promises--
Only been 3 months since "the people" voted in biggest party replacement since 1938--
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The Democratic Debacle -- and What It Means
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Nov 3, 2010 ... With the Democrats suffering the worst off-year drubbing since (yikes!) 1938, in 2012 Barack Obama will face an electorate that has already made a sharp ... 2010 Elections. House Balance of Power. 193. Democratic Seats ...
<CITE>www.politicsdaily.com/2010/.../the-democratic-debacle-and-what-it-means/</CITE> -
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--those voted in have wasted no time in attacking big gov/spending/deficits--
http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/02/25/governors.political.power/index.html
Ambitious governors shift political power, focus to states
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Washington (CNN) -- The battle over union rights in Wisconsin, Ohio and Indiana has dramatically shifted the budget debate from Capitol Hill to the states, almost overshadowing the threat of a government shutdown in Washington next week--
--In Ohio, thousands of labor-backed demonstrators have descended on Columbus to protest another bill curtailing union rights, this one backed by another new GOP governor, John Kasich
-- Florida, Gov. Rick Scott rejected $2.4 billion in federal funding last week for a high-speed rail project between Tampa and Orlando, arguing that the state could not afford the long-term maintenance costs-
--Then there is New Jersey. Gov. Chris Christie's blunt style and camera-ready confrontations with unionized teachers have made him a media darling and GOP celebrity.
--Even in South Carolina, a "right to work" state where union membership is not necessarily required to get most jobs, Gov. Nikki Haley has clashed with organized labor, though not public employee unions.
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Found this article interesting also --not all teachers think alike--
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/260659/teachers-and-others-victor-davis-hanson
Victor Davis Hanson
February 25, 2011 4:00 A.M.
On Teachers and Others
In judging teachers? claims, we might compare their lives with the lives of, say, farmers or welders or interstate truckers.
So far the angry teachers of Wisconsin have not yet won over the public. They have not convinced the majority that, in an age of staggering budget deficits, they ? or, indeed, public employees in general ? must as a veritable birthright enjoy salary, benefits, and pensions on average far more generous than those of their private-sector counterparts, who make up the majority of taxpayers.
Teachers are right that the crisis transcends compensation. Yet why, others might ask, would teachers? unions oppose merit pay? Why should someone who did not join the union still have to pay its dues? Why should the state have to collect the dues from employee paychecks on behalf of the union? Moreover, when these questions are posed amid a landscape of teachers skipping classes to protest, urging students to join them, and soliciting fraudulent doctors? notes to cover their cancellations of classes ? while their supporters in the legislature hide out to prevent a quorum and thereby subvert the democratic process reaffirmed last November ? the public becomes further estranged from their cause.
--much more on issue in link
Only been 3 months since "the people" voted in biggest party replacement since 1938--
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The Democratic Debacle -- and What It Means
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Nov 3, 2010 ... With the Democrats suffering the worst off-year drubbing since (yikes!) 1938, in 2012 Barack Obama will face an electorate that has already made a sharp ... 2010 Elections. House Balance of Power. 193. Democratic Seats ...
<CITE>www.politicsdaily.com/2010/.../the-democratic-debacle-and-what-it-means/</CITE> -
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--those voted in have wasted no time in attacking big gov/spending/deficits--
http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/02/25/governors.political.power/index.html
Ambitious governors shift political power, focus to states
<!--endclickprintinclude--><!--startclickprintexclude-->By Peter Hamby, CNN political producer<SCRIPT type=text/javascript>cnnAuthor = "By Peter Hamby, CNN political producer ";</SCRIPT>
<SCRIPT type=text/javascript>if(location.hostname.indexOf( 'edition.' ) > -1) {document.write('February 25, 2011 -- Updated 1829 GMT (0229 HKT)');} else {document.write('February 25, 2011 1:29 p.m. EST');}</SCRIPT>February 25, 2011 1:29 p.m. EST
Washington (CNN) -- The battle over union rights in Wisconsin, Ohio and Indiana has dramatically shifted the budget debate from Capitol Hill to the states, almost overshadowing the threat of a government shutdown in Washington next week--
--In Ohio, thousands of labor-backed demonstrators have descended on Columbus to protest another bill curtailing union rights, this one backed by another new GOP governor, John Kasich
-- Florida, Gov. Rick Scott rejected $2.4 billion in federal funding last week for a high-speed rail project between Tampa and Orlando, arguing that the state could not afford the long-term maintenance costs-
--Then there is New Jersey. Gov. Chris Christie's blunt style and camera-ready confrontations with unionized teachers have made him a media darling and GOP celebrity.
--Even in South Carolina, a "right to work" state where union membership is not necessarily required to get most jobs, Gov. Nikki Haley has clashed with organized labor, though not public employee unions.
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Found this article interesting also --not all teachers think alike--
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/260659/teachers-and-others-victor-davis-hanson
Victor Davis Hanson
February 25, 2011 4:00 A.M.
On Teachers and Others
In judging teachers? claims, we might compare their lives with the lives of, say, farmers or welders or interstate truckers.
So far the angry teachers of Wisconsin have not yet won over the public. They have not convinced the majority that, in an age of staggering budget deficits, they ? or, indeed, public employees in general ? must as a veritable birthright enjoy salary, benefits, and pensions on average far more generous than those of their private-sector counterparts, who make up the majority of taxpayers.
Teachers are right that the crisis transcends compensation. Yet why, others might ask, would teachers? unions oppose merit pay? Why should someone who did not join the union still have to pay its dues? Why should the state have to collect the dues from employee paychecks on behalf of the union? Moreover, when these questions are posed amid a landscape of teachers skipping classes to protest, urging students to join them, and soliciting fraudulent doctors? notes to cover their cancellations of classes ? while their supporters in the legislature hide out to prevent a quorum and thereby subvert the democratic process reaffirmed last November ? the public becomes further estranged from their cause.
--much more on issue in link
