Governor Thompson Stands Up To Public Employee Unions

This week there has been wide-spread reporting of the teacher's strike in Wisconsin in response to the actions undertaken by the Wisconsin State Governor in order to address the out of control public employee unions, particularly the teacher's union.

Under the federal and state Constitutions, of course, which is used by union organizers and their organizations, it is the "right to assemble" and petition that is used as the basis for this supposed "right" of public and government employees to form unions and then "elect" a representative (their union) to represent them at the collective bargaining table for their "contract" negotiations.

Only problem is, those who are paying their salaries are not at all a part of those negotiating sessions.

The taxpayers.

The right to assemble and petition was given to the private citizens in this country clearly under our Constitution in order to bring their grievances to the attention of their representatives.

Not government employees.

Would that it be that teacher, firemen and police salaries were determined as they should be, by the voters of their respective districts. Their benefactors and true employers.

If the salaries are not what they should be, then "free association" and fundraising efforts should be undertaken collectively in order to fund their members in their retirement years, as with any private sector "special interest" or benevolent group. Nonprofits could be then formed in order to also give a boost to those underprivileged schools through local churches and other civic organizations.

Not guaranteed employment with tenure, but base voter approved salaries with incentives based on length of service to the community, supplemented and guided by the local school boards within those communities and district elected personnel.

Public employee unions are nothing more than government employees organizing in order to lobby for more American tax dollars, without any real accountability to those paying many of those lofty salaries, which exceed many of the salaries and benefits of those whom they serve.

Here's a quote, the "liberal" element will not at all like, but was made by Franklin D. Roosevelt regarding public employee unions:


Please Read the Following Paragraph Carefully and Guess Who Said It

All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service. It has its distinct and insurmountable limitations when applied to public personnel management.

The very nature and purposes of Government make it impossible for administrative officials to represent fully or to bind the employer in mutual discussions with Government employee organizations. The employer is the whole people, who speak by means of laws enacted by their representatives in Congress. Accordingly, administrative officials and employees alike are governed and guided, and in many instances restricted, by laws which establish policies, procedures, or rules in personnel matters.

Particularly, I want to emphasize my conviction that militant tactics have no place in the functions of any organization of Government employees. Upon employees in the Federal service rests the obligation to serve the whole people, whose interests and welfare require orderliness and continuity in the conduct of Government activities. This obligation is paramount. Since their own services have to do with the functioning of the Government, a strike of public employees manifests nothing less than an intent on their part to prevent or obstruct the operations of Government until their demands are satisfied. Such action, looking toward the paralysis of Government by those who have sworn to support it, is unthinkable and intolerable. It is, therefore, with a feeling of gratification that I have noted in the constitution of the National Federation of Federal Employees the provision that "under no circumstances shall this Federation engage in or support strikes against the United States Government."

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In my former home state of Arizona, a right to work state mind you, public employee teacher can "double dip" retiring after a mere 20 years service with full pension benefits, and then obtain employment in another district earning a full salary. Police and fire officials also make sums which afford them to invest in high price real estate, and retire with full benefits - although granted those government employees are putting their very lives on the line for the citizenry each and every day due to the increases in violent personal and property crimes in most metro cities.

Instead of providing pension, retirement and all those other perks of public employment which are now breaking the parents of those children, maybe recognizing once again that public employees work for the people whom they serve, and should clearly be accountable not only for their performance, but for the salaries and benefits they earn for doing a job that was never supposed to be a high paying job to begin with. The one room school room and school marm of years ago appears turned out more leaders than we are today, and without 10(K) plans.

Just what are our children learning with over 40% of the teachers in Wisconsin now calling in sick, a job that actually has more days off also than many in the private sector to begin with?

Twenty year retirement plans? In what other occupation can you retire in a mere 20 years, with full pension benefits?

Seems the increasing number of homeschoolers may be right.

Public or private, the school room is the new war zone.

Reading, writing and arithmetic will have to wait for the bureaucrats and union foremen to settle their differences at their parents and their own ultimate expense.

States Raising College Tuitions Post Stimulus?

Incredible though it may seem, even after the massive amounts of "stimulus" monies that were supposedly earmarked for higher education at state and public universities throughout the nation, a great many are now announcing that they will be raising the costs of tuition (which was one of those "hooks" designed to manipulate the public pulse once again in order to further devalue our dollar and encourage more and more foreign ownership of American assets at this point).

I don't believe there was any "payback" or "loan" terms attached to those monies, if I am not mistaken. So the colleges which are already receiving funds from the state citizens through both property taxes and sales taxes apparently are going to hit up the state citizens once again for more and more bite of their hard earned cash.

The costs now for most four year public universities rivals that of most privately supported ones at this point in our history. In fact, the costs have almost exceeded those bogus CPI figures compiled by the U.S. Department of Labor by about 10 times their actual reporting figures and the true costs.

Of course, those figures are about as accurate as the bookkeeping and sums that were missing and have been unaccounted for by AIG, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

They bear no true relevance to the cost of living in this country whatsoever, and as one who worked within the corporate law area for many years also know that they are kept artificially low because most union contracts (and divorce decrees also) are based upon those figures for annual "salary" or child support costs.

Which explains also why there are so many single women on welfare when their increases for the costs for the care and education of even one child exceeds those support checks (even at public schools which now surprise parents with the costs for $200 calculators and computers once they reach high school).

Hit a mom with a $200 bill who is receiving $500 per month for child support and over a third is gone to your local Comp USA store.

The quality of our education now is more directed in most areas due to also federal agendas in turning out "science based technology" majors, and it appears even a Harvard education isn't worth the sheepskin it is printed on since it is clear that most of the law schools also are teaching "foreign" and international law as binding in this country.

Such as that which is "regulated" by the American Bar Association, a British carryover actually that only came into power over the legal education in America at the start of last century.

And have "regressively" started reinstituting "global" primarily British and "government as sovereign" law now through the graduates in their curriculum and then issued court decisions ever since all the way up to many recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions.

Many of whom's undergraduate educations were either at Cambridge in Great Britain for their undergraduate course study, or graduated from East Coast "Ivy League" schools that have switched from teaching our Constitution and true Constitutional law based on res ipsa loquitor (the Constitution as it is written and was "intended" by those founders absent lawful and legal amendments per the 9th and 10th) to British based "monarchial" type law with the federal government somehow "sovereign" over both the states, and the citizens rather than merely a "shell" with enumerated powers and duties.

It would appear those Moms that are now home schooling certainly know what they are doing, and have seen that the best education actually is one in which a child's natural interests are pursued rather than governmental agendas.

And quite unbelievable, actually, the nerve of some of these state legislatures and universities with such announcements.

The President of Arizona State University, for instance, now earns over $700,000 per year PLUS benefits that are quite generous in their provision given the state of Arizona's economic situation due to our open borders and "outsourcing "global" and regional employers - which even though the perks aren't quite as good, and our President and Congressional members clearly way overpaid for what they are actually worth at this point, is more than the salary of the President of the United States and exceeds that CPI by about 500 percent or more, actually.

With the recuiting that most of these publicly funded unversities do out of the country actually to foreigners for those extra "out of state" tuition rates (really, out of the States), it would seem that the costs for state residents would be going down and they would at the very least be getting a break in their child's further education as the ones bearing the burden really of its existence.

In fact, Arizona has a Constitutional provision that any and all higher education would remain as "free as possible."

And at over now $7,000 per semester for just tuition alone, $14,000 per year is quite a chunk even for those Joe the Plumbers making less than $50,000 per year - which is actually more than the median wage in this country.

Not having to take a second mortgage out on their now depressed homes in order to afford to send their child for his four year bachelor's degree.

Those banks and European bankers are sure bankrupt with all this American debt they are creating for the "global" market and their own wealth and prosperity, it would appear - now quite blatantly at the American people's expense both in lives, and livelihoods.

And then after that expensive graduation party, watch him wait tables for the global visitors that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce agendas in their "See America" programs have also made sure they have a steady and cheap labor force continuing for generations to come to entertain them, including some of those potential terrorists, because all those "science based" technology jobs are going to the foreigners.

Oh, this little blurb had to do with the University of California and was actually reported by the AP underneath an article about the two year old in Mississippi that helped her mother give birth. Under the REALLY big news.

The AP it appears, is now hiring many of either those foreign British based journalists, or has been bought out by the National Enquirer (I believe which is also owned by the British media consortium now buying up much of the U.S. media and internet based news sources).