Well done Gov Scott Walker of Wisconsin!

Jeez.

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"Furthermore, Republican legislators voted against restoring hundreds of thousands of dollars in funding for sexual assault victims services that they cut in the budget, and Walker himself stated that he wants to make abortion illegal ? even when the mother?s life is in danger, or for pregnancies resulting from rape or incest."

As I say, he sounds simply marvellous. What a guy!

Never heard of him so googles

"As a prime example, they repealed Wisconsin?s pay equity enforcement law, which allowed victims of discrimination access to state courts to seek less-costly redress. Due to pay discrimination against women, the repeal will allow offending employers to keep $8 billion dollars a year in their own pockets that rightfully belongs to working women and their families. What?s more, if the Equal Pay Enforcement Act was still law, and Wisconsin?s wage gap disappeared, the State of Wisconsin would collect an additional $1.1 billion in income taxes from women workers every biennium. This money could have gone a long way toward offsetting the unprecedented cuts to public education, healthcare, and worker training programs put forth by Gov. Walker and his allies.

Unfortunately, repealing Wisconsin?s pay equity law has only been the tip of the iceberg. Gov. Walker and Republican legislators also targeted women?s access to breast and cervical cancer screenings, birth control and health care access overall under Wisconsin?s successful BadgerCare program. They eliminated comprehensive sex education in our schools, restricted private insurance coverage for women?s health services and further interfered with the relationship between a woman and her doctor. Furthermore, Republican legislators voted against restoring hundreds of thousands of dollars in funding for sexual assault victims services that they cut in the budget, and Walker himself stated that he wants to make abortion illegal ? even when the mother?s life is in danger, or for pregnancies resulting from rape or incest."

Gosh yes he sounds really super

I doubt that she will froth.

She no doubt pays someone a low wage to do that for her.

Oh don't make the poor woman froth.

JosephineCD

Do you say the same for those claiming any sort of benefit?

Oh, you mean like the banks.

Yes, with you there Josephine old gal.

The public sector workers in Wisconsin have the same rights as any other worker in Wisconsin. What they don't have is special rights because they are public sector workers, while the people who pay for the public sector do not have special rights. Hopefully the same thing will happen here soon because I for one am tired of being taxed to the hilt to pay for public sector largesse.

It is not irrelevant - it would put your posts in context and make reading them much more entertaining.

Do you also celebrate setback's in women's rights too?

Is it fun cheering those who'd deprive you of your rights?

Baffles me utterly - go on, tell us what you do. Give us a laugh.

True - but from her point of view she wouldn't need to worry about what she owed the unions...

breadandbutterfly
"What job do you do, LFN? What is your salary?
i hope you run yout own business..."

God I hope not.
Paying minimum wage.
bullying the workers.
not employing women because of that pesky maternity leave.
minimal health and safety.
s/he/it would be a awful boss.

What job do you do, LFN? What is your salary?

i hope you run yout own business...

Do you have evidence of fraud in the public sector? Can you back up your assertions?

If the amount of fraud within the public sector was made fully known to the voting public, Labour would never win an election again, they'd be obliterated. It's disgusting.

"The public sector should be run for the benefit of those paying for it - private sector workers."

Yes, because all private sector agencies do so much better than the public sector, don't they?

Apart from the lovely private sector companies who are employed by the government to get people into work, but are accused of milking the system, of course.

I don't think I've ever watched Fox news in my life. If I have, it was only for a few minutes.

Been drinking the Fox News kool-aid, have we?

There, there, drink down that heady corporate brew of hate, suspicion, paranoia and ignorance, come on, it'll warm you up inside and make all those horrible grey areas, details and nuances go away.

I think the OP is absolutely right. Public sector unions are a scourge, both in this country and the US. The public sector should be run for the benefit of those paying for it - private sector workers.

He wants to Europeanise America. A far better solution would be to (partly) Americanise Europe.

Please God no.

the doctrine of American exceptionalism.

Dont you mean double standards and hypocrisy, the divide between rich and poor is a disgrace to any civilised country.

Since the collapse of the motor industry parts of Detroit resemble a third world country many other cities are going the same way.

Biggest polluters on the planet with the Chinese catching up.

Some Americans remind me of the Tories, ignorance combined with a great sense of entitlement.

BTW I agree you are no Palin, the idea of her in the White House is frightening.