{"id":2708,"date":"2011-02-23T12:53:46","date_gmt":"2011-02-23T12:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2708"},"modified":"2011-02-23T12:53:46","modified_gmt":"2011-02-23T12:53:46","slug":"remember_the_call_for_civility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2708","title":{"rendered":"Remember The Call For Civility ?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Hill<\/a>‘s Blog Briefing Room reported today that Democrat Congressman Michael Capuano (from Massachusetts, of course) told a group of people protesting in Boston in support of union workers in Wisconsin to “get a little bloody.”  <\/p>\n

The article quotes Representative Capuano:<\/p>\n

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“”I’m proud to be here with people who understand that it’s more than just sending an email to get you going,” Capuano said, <\/em>according to the Dorchester Reporter<\/em><\/b><\/a>. “Every once and awhile you need to get out on the streets and get a little bloody when necessary.””<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I know enough history to know that when unions were originally formed, they were desperately needed.   We didn’t have labor laws, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), or the many other federal agencies that control working conditions, and other aspects of the workplace.  Today, because workers are generally protected by laws, unions have lost a lot of their power.  What we are seeing in Wisconsin and Indiana is the unions attempting to take back that power before anyone figures out what the unions are costing the average American family because of their wage and benefit demands in the public sector.  The average state and federal worker is paid 150% of what their counterparts in the private sector make, and their benefits are such that private sector workers can only dream of receiving that kind of benefit package. <\/p>\n

The battle in Wisconsin and Indiana is about preventing those states (and others) from going broke.  States (unlike the federal government) do not have the right to print money, and many states have laws requiring that they balance the budget every year.  Unless we want to see a bunch of the states run out of money and ask for bailouts from the federal government (which I hope will not be granted), the government employee unions need to rethink their demands–not call for bloodshed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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