ran 4.2 miles
I came across a really insightful blog recently that I’d like to recommend. It covers a broad field of politics and current events from the minds of conservative thinkers---not overwhelming and very concise. The blog is www.theabsurdreport.com. I’ve been checking it out daily since I’ve found it.
In fact, one of The Absurd Report’s posts today coincides with something I wanted to post about. A death threat was sent to Republican state senators of Wisconsin a few days ago. I’m not going to post it because it is longwinded, demented and graphic, but here it is if you are interested in reading it.
Without labeling an entire party of political thought, this is, after all, only one person’s or one small group’s collective act of threatening death upon elected officials, it is important to note that after the Tucson shootings there was a united, national call for civility, led by Barack Obama. As our president, this was obviously the right and noble statement to make. But, one month later the DNC and OFA, websites that are obviously influenced by Barack Obama and utilized for liberal causes, were helping to organize and encourage the protests in Wisconsin. While a single individual’s pebble of action, or a small group of people’s stone of action cannot represent an entire mountain of political belief, I think it can be agreed, regardless of political affiliations, that if it were Republicans promoting violent protests fueled with vandalism and slander in Wisconsin, our newspapers would have been filled with very different headlines. They would have been filled with utter condemnation of the entire Republican Party.
Since the unions and Democrats have been longtime bedfellows, however, many headlines pointed out such ideas as the speculation that GOP Governor Scott Walker hated middle class families and that he was comparable to Hitler. Governor Scott Walker, in my eyes at least, is a bold pioneer, which many others will follow, in the new frontier of politicians doing what is right for their city, state or nation. Wisconsin, like many other states, has a nearly irreconcilable deficit and something had to be done. He could have kept the façade of budget stability going as others in every state have for so long, but he chose to take this monster on and it had to start somewhere. Ultimately, teachers lost collective bargaining and they received an 8% pay cut, which will go toward their pensions and health care. Last I checked, I and most of the other people in this country have no right to collectively bargain, we pay into a 401k, we pay a hefty premium on our health care, our pay is not given to us from tax dollars, and we don’t get a summer off each year. I love teachers and I hold them as immeasurable necessities for the education and development of our young, but if they are placed in the same circumstance the rest of us are already in, I’m okay with it for the collective good it will do for Wisconsin’s budget.
The Absurd Report summed up what happened in Wisconsin with this quote:
“There is no excuse for what has happened in Madison other than to say while they protest for their rights they have trumped the rights of the people at the ballot box.”
Check out the post at www.absurdreport.com.
1,516.6 miles to go.
I came across a really insightful blog recently that I’d like to recommend. It covers a broad field of politics and current events from the minds of conservative thinkers---not overwhelming and very concise. The blog is www.theabsurdreport.com. I’ve been checking it out daily since I’ve found it.
In fact, one of The Absurd Report’s posts today coincides with something I wanted to post about. A death threat was sent to Republican state senators of Wisconsin a few days ago. I’m not going to post it because it is longwinded, demented and graphic, but here it is if you are interested in reading it.
Without labeling an entire party of political thought, this is, after all, only one person’s or one small group’s collective act of threatening death upon elected officials, it is important to note that after the Tucson shootings there was a united, national call for civility, led by Barack Obama. As our president, this was obviously the right and noble statement to make. But, one month later the DNC and OFA, websites that are obviously influenced by Barack Obama and utilized for liberal causes, were helping to organize and encourage the protests in Wisconsin. While a single individual’s pebble of action, or a small group of people’s stone of action cannot represent an entire mountain of political belief, I think it can be agreed, regardless of political affiliations, that if it were Republicans promoting violent protests fueled with vandalism and slander in Wisconsin, our newspapers would have been filled with very different headlines. They would have been filled with utter condemnation of the entire Republican Party.
Since the unions and Democrats have been longtime bedfellows, however, many headlines pointed out such ideas as the speculation that GOP Governor Scott Walker hated middle class families and that he was comparable to Hitler. Governor Scott Walker, in my eyes at least, is a bold pioneer, which many others will follow, in the new frontier of politicians doing what is right for their city, state or nation. Wisconsin, like many other states, has a nearly irreconcilable deficit and something had to be done. He could have kept the façade of budget stability going as others in every state have for so long, but he chose to take this monster on and it had to start somewhere. Ultimately, teachers lost collective bargaining and they received an 8% pay cut, which will go toward their pensions and health care. Last I checked, I and most of the other people in this country have no right to collectively bargain, we pay into a 401k, we pay a hefty premium on our health care, our pay is not given to us from tax dollars, and we don’t get a summer off each year. I love teachers and I hold them as immeasurable necessities for the education and development of our young, but if they are placed in the same circumstance the rest of us are already in, I’m okay with it for the collective good it will do for Wisconsin’s budget.
The Absurd Report summed up what happened in Wisconsin with this quote:
“There is no excuse for what has happened in Madison other than to say while they protest for their rights they have trumped the rights of the people at the ballot box.”
Check out the post at www.absurdreport.com.
1,516.6 miles to go.
