My good friend Iron Fist has been pushing the theory of a “Cold Civil War” .I totally subscribe to this theory as the American public is divided in ways never before. Part of the public is OK with their taxes going to support public sector labor unions. Part of the American public view this as unacceptable. In Wisconsin, Gov. Walker went for the jugular of the Progressive movement which are these unions. With assistance from the 3rd World Liberation regime of Barack Hussein Obama, these teachers, who are in reality leeches, are trying to blackmail Gov. Walker. There is now talk of a general strike by these teachers unions. However, this battle is not just in one sate. It is nationwide.
Picture a hand on the wheel of the great ship of state, pushing it hard in a certain direction, say, to the left. It belongs to the president. Picture 29 smaller ones on the other side of the wheel, trying as hard as they can to wrench it back in the other direction. They belong to Govs. Chris Christie, R-N.J., Mitch Daniels, R-Ind., Scott Walker, R-Wis., and 26 other Republican governors, 12 of them elected in the 2009 and 2010 cycles. Two years and four months ago, President Obama was elected to enact his agenda; and four months ago, the Republicans were put in to dismantle it.
In the interim, the public had a big change of mind, which created the impasse. Each side has a mandate, and is hell-bent upon it, creating a situation unique in our history.
For the first time since the Civil War ended, the federal government and a large number of the states and their governors are at open and few-holds-barred war.
States and their governors defying the White House, is, of course, nothing new. In the 19th century, the United States survived three different secessionist movements, the first two involving Aaron Burr (in 1804 and 1807), and the Southern secession 60 years later, that gave us a long, bloody war.
Read the rest: Obama’s agenda faces governors’ revolt
I don’t know if violence would be the outcome of this, but clearly this is a nation divided. In many states public sector union workers make 2-1 vs. private workers. This has created an economic imbalance because for the last decade private sector pay hasn’t increased. These GOP governors need to hold firm and break the backs of these unions. If they succeed Obama’s power base will be crippled and the Progressive movement will lose part of its power.
This battle will determine the future of the nation and could very well lead to a hot civil war. These parasites will not give up without a fight and our side must stick with this. If we fail America will (God forbid) go the way of other great nations. I don’t want this outcome but 10 years of economic stagnation indicates this is the course. We need to change course now, before it is too late or 100 years from now some one will write a book called: The Decline and Fall of the United States. Our future is in the balance and I pray that Gov. Walker and other Republican governors win this battle!
Update:
Michael Barone has a great article about how the Public Sector unions force taxpayers to fund the Democratic party.
Everyone has priorities. During the past week Barack Obama has found no time to condemn the attacks that Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi has launched on the Libyan people.
But he did find time to be interviewed by a Wisconsin television station and weigh in on the dispute between Republican Gov. Scott Walker and the state’s public employee unions. Walker was staging “an assault on unions,” he said, and added that “public employee unions make enormous contributions to our states and our citizens.”
Enormous contributions, yes — to the Democratic Party and the Obama campaign. Unions, most of whose members are public employees, gave Democrats some $400 million in the 2008 election cycle. The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, the biggest public employee union, gave Democrats $90 million in the 2010 cycle.
Follow the money, Washington reporters like to say. The money in this case comes from taxpayers, present and future, who are the source of every penny of dues paid to public employee unions, who in turn spend much of that money on politics, almost all of it for Democrats. In effect, public employee unions are a mechanism by which every taxpayer is forced to fund the Democratic Party.
This battle is really about ending public funding of the Democratic party. That is why the Obama regime has intervened and the unions are going ballistic. This will hurt their scheme of using tax money to fund a political party.
(Hat Tips: Iron Fist and Pajama Media)
