Gov. Walker Threatens To Deploy National Gaurd Against Workers' Unions

I realize the people in Wisconsin are doing a great job on the recall at this time.
How much longer before recall can start on Walker?
Go Wisconsin!!!!! So proud of all of you fighters-keep up the good work!!!!!!!!!!!!

So what happens if he deploys the National Guard, and Obama guard blocks him?

Do it walker, your career in politics will immediately implode.

I just signed up then sent the link to ALL of my friends! The time is now to take action...real action! We are with you, WI!

NOTE: congress is trying to pass a bill that gets rid of your right to council

think of what it would be like if they passed this ruling(in the name of saving money)
..."you have the right to remain silent anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law you have the right to an attorney if you cannot afford an attorney tough shit!!!"
then you get carted off to some privately owned prison and your kids have to pay(taxes) to keep you behind bars...what brilliant diabolical plan to rule the world ...where is the little martian?

Sometimes I wish I was as powerful as superman and I could round up all these no goodders and deposit them on another planet.

Sadly a whole lot of liberal areas that used to have progressive influence in local politics are being overwhelmed by the appearance of a swing to the right. I'm up near Woodstock, NY, a damn fierce liberal area - I love it. It's also home to some terrific trout fishing as is Wisconsin. We're currently fighting hydro-fracking in our watersheds and it doesn't look too promising.

I'm not so sure this appearance of a swing to the right is a real demographic shift in all cases. I think it has a whole lot to do with corporate coup of government on all levels from local to national. We tried to halt a development in an environmentally sensitive area a while back, collected a petition with signatures from the majority of the electorate and still couldn't stop it. So I know our elected officials had other interests in mind.

I'm holding out hope for some kind of outside the political system type of solution, perhaps a non-violent uprising against corporatist rule. I understand that unions have been demonized, but don't you think it looks a more than a little extreme going after teachers, and firefighters?

Do it, please do it. This is not 1880 and people have cameras in their cell phones.

What has happened to the people of Wisconsin. This used to be a fiercely liberal state. Madison was known as the Berkeley of the Midwest in the '60s and '70s. Did everyone here drink the Rethug/Teabagger KoolAid? What happened?

The Wisconsin story is barely being covered in the MSM. Other than the ousted Feingold, I haven’t heard anything from the Dems about this. My sister is a middle school teacher in Massachusetts, if this type of legislation sweeps the country, as it appears it will; do I have to fear for her safety if she joins a protest?

It is becoming clear that the GOP is pushing for conflict with American citizens they plan to win with a heavy hand. Their union busting and Social Security grab, to name just two, will surely create unrest and protest. Evidently this is the type of unholy compromise that appears to sit just fine with the Dems in the holy name of budget reduction.

So much for centrist politics… For speaking out against this shift to the right we’ve been derogatorily called the ‘professional left” and the “cultural left” by the Dems and far worse by the right for a few years now. I think the GOP will accomplish what we have failed to do so far, unite all of us in the cross hairs of these policies, similar to where we all were when we elected Obama. Only this time we’ll be united against the whole bureaucratic catastrophe.

If the powers that be don’t understand what happened in Egypt and why, they’ll find out soon enough right here at home. From upstate NY and New England - we’re standing with you Wisconsin!

Walker lies Wisconsin has a budget surplus.Today on DemocracyNow!

As a resident of Wisconsin and strong supporter of workers rights I can say that I am disgusted by Walker's narrow minded and short sighted approach to things. He has already halted all plans for a high speed rail and denied the federal stimulus money for that, despite the fact that Milwaukee county had secured a major manufacturing operation for the trains in a part of the city that could truly use the jobs. He chose a leieutenant governer that compared gay marraige to marraige between a person and a table or clock. His entire platform was one of the most conservative ones I have ever seen in Wisconsin and he is surely at least partly responsible for Feingold's tragic ousting.
Essentially this is not shocking, he is consistent in his diregard for all non-christian, non-whites that do not fall into the top income brackets. His entire campaign was targeted at those people and he is fulfilling his promises to disregard all those he disapproves of.

Should this issue find it's way to the $5 vs 4 SCOTUS their is no doubt which way the $5 will rule. Seems we are right back to the depression era fights between F.D.R. and the SCOTUS of that time. The only hope that the working person has is that POTUS has the brass balls that F.D.R. had and wasn't afraid to use.

Does this Govenor think that his state, a member of the United States of America, is a foriegn country like Iran who will send out the military to squash public disent? I truly never thought that I would see this happen in my lifetime.

This is what the people all across this country voted into office and I now fear that more things like this will happen.

What is truly wrong with these politicians?

handout? what blue- collar state worker do you know that drives a mercades, lives in a 3,000sq ft home and buys $1000 suits? not teachers, construction workers, capital police, UW police oficers, social workers, student counselors, equal rights employees, public defenders, court clerks, irs accountants, dmv workers, and dpw workers? why dont you stop for one minute on your hate mongering and realize the very people affected by the over$4800 pay cuts are the people that work keeping the state running. its not about ideaologies anymore- what he is proposing to do it take away any rights for collective barganing, no more ability to have conditions, salaries or job concerns answered. he wants his state workers to have no voice. and that effects us all.

To All--
Sadly, WI can't recall Walker until he's been in office for a year. Yesterday there were protests in his neighborhood of Wauwatosa. (where he lived before moving to the Governor's mansion) Some Rep bitch with money came right on camera on our local news and said "I want those protestors out of here. They lost. They need to "buck up." We all have to sacrifice." My husband and I yelled "F**k you" at the TV. Why don't this woman "buck up" and sacrifice some of her wealth?! I miss Keith Olbermann so much but I have to settle for big Ed right now. At least he is passionate about this and he talked to a couple from WI last night and it was pointed out that just because they are state employees (they are both teachers) they don't make mega bucks. As Ed said, they each make $50,000 a year. WI has become a nutcase state. We are seriously thinking of leaving here. Just for the record, WI never used to be like this. We were always a blue state. Even Obama took WI in 2008. My husband and I think what happened in WI is this: something got into the air when Bush got into the White House. After 8 years of Bush, WI was one of those states that thought he was just so funny and his "can't you take a joke" attitude rubbed off and ever since the people here have gotten so hateful. Just mean spirited and stupid. WI was once known for it's Unions, Planned Parenthood Centers (which are currently under attack of defunding), public transportation and our parks. Walker was County Executive (before being governor) and ruined all these things. Look at who the idiots are who represent WI...Scott Walker, Ron Johnson(who replaced Feingold :(---I'm still stinging from that one) and Paul Ryan who is a Ayn Rand disciple just to name a few. Don't forget, Scott Walker is a precher's son and was a boy scout. Everything WI Reps ever wanted.

Yes, WI is the tip of the ice berg.

Will history repeat itself Cripple creek, Hay market, homestead, Pullman, Ludlow, Bay view tragedy etc. Think, think, think what you do to one you will eventually do to me

so, it is ok for protessts in the Middle East, but not here in AMERICA...recall this freak
it is pretty obvious that the education in WI need an overhaul...at least in the SOCIAL STUDIES!

The gov should be immediately removed from office. Would the national guard really turn against fellow Americans? I hope not. Police state tactics would not work if the people were not stupid enough to turn on themselves.

It's hard for me too sympathize with the people of Wisconsin since they voted for Walker, decided to retire Russ Feingold and people stayed home and didn't vote.

This is what you end up with - a person who could care less about the workers rights.

Oh this should be hilarious! A bunch of hapless liberals screaming and crying the moment their precious bennie's are about to be cut. Since most liberals can 't survive without union gotten handouts from the state, expect a mass extinction.

This same sort of Republican crap is starting to happen in the State of Maine with their Teabagger Governor who won with only 35% of the vote in a three way race. The Teabaggers wanted a revolution....well...they just might get one, but not in the direction they thought. Excuse me...Teabaggers don't think. Thinking, like facts, are evil things to them!

My God! Calling the National Guard out on your own citizens! What more to you need to see that the Republicans have declared war on the middle class!?
Republicans need to be put in the trash bin of American History and emptied ASAP!

I think this is a good thing, and Im about to be a public employee myself. The industry I've been training in pays too much for the work that is done. Its not the reason I choose it but a somewhat welcome surprise. Who doesn't want more money right ? even if it means i rip off my own State ?
So I can graduate HS, work for one year, take a test (it was easy too) and make $50,000 a year for three to five years, then I'll be 25 making $100,000 a year to watch water meters, push buttons and read charts an maps. Sure its technical stuff and I get paid for those skills but come on, Id retire at 30 and get checks the rest of my life, ripping off my own State. And when I compare that work for the money it makes to something like welding or electrical, it just isn't fair. I make too much, for too long. Like the 20 year old in the California Highway Patrol who makes $100,000 a year, WTF ? (Imo, CHP is a 50k a year job) more dangerous sure but 3 years to make 100k, retire at 30 and have a pension, retirement, health coverage for the rest of your life (40 years) again, total rip off of the state by its people. Who is paying for this ? They took it all out of my paychecks plus compounded interest is going to cover me for 40 years, I only worked for 10, It doesnt add up.
I could have done this, but I decided to work in Iron an welding shops for 10 years, 3 times as hard of work and more dangerous air pollution for half the money @ $30/35k a year. What im saying is actual physical labor does not get paid enough and button an pencil pushers get paid too much. Then there's pensions medical and such with state an county jobs, they have the best benefits I usually see. Who wouldnt want to work for the state or county, $20 an hour to walk trails an pick up empty soda cans, maybe the occasional skinned knee.

Too, headline is a false, "against" just is not true, "In place of should current employees strike" is true.

If middle-class Americans, and the working-poor are in doubt about, how the GOP fells about them, they need to have their heads examined..They are doing everything in their power to destroy the working-class and those who represent them..Republicans are forcing Americans to turn this Country out "pull an Egypt" due to their lack of concern for the very people who made this Country great...

Unions are about the only thing working people have to rely on. The right to associate freely with others is a guaranteed right. How dare any government interfere with that right. If it weren't for workers most of the billionaires would be plain folks like the rest of us, seeing as how they've made their money underpaying workers, denying workers rights, sending jobs overseas, speculating, and otherwise getting in the way of a job well done. Honestly, repubs should be ashamed of themselves, and calling the national guard out. We saw how that worked in Ohio during a protest. Seriously, it is despicable to foist any type of military on one's own people. If people are protesting, maybe someone should be listening.

Does WI. have large number of private prisons like AZ. and CA. If so who are the major investors?

I was totally devastated when Russ Feingold lost. I spent a lot of time trying to figure out why. Someone said that large megachurches had sprung up in the suburbs and that christian developers built large neighborhoods around them - thus changing how districts were represented. Who knows, but a republican governor and legislature is now fast on the road of demolishing the middle class and totally rolling over the poor. Ed did have a couple who were Wisconsin teachers on today. They were upset about what their governor wants to do and I guess more and more people will be too. A lot of people should be upset with cuts to education, health, and safety. Ed said this is union busting 101. If people allow this to happen without resistance - then that's the end of the unions. Katrina Vanden Heuval was on Cenk's show talking about progressives going outside the White House and having an independent movement - our own Pro-Democracy movement. All I can say is good luck to you in Wisconsin. I live in California. Funny, yesterday on Fareed Zakaria's show, Jaime Dimon of JP Morgan said that CA's deficit was 1% of our GDP and that by raising taxes by only 1% would take care of the whole thing. Just think about that.

I managed County government in Wisconsin for over 24 years. I found the collective bargaining process to be a model for the nation. It is fair and promotes respect and peace. Walker is a neocon who doesn't know what he doesn't know.
John Krizek Hudson, WI

To All--
Thank you for standing up and caring about this story with such passion. It sure makes this WI resident feel good. The show of support here at Current is beyond words. Thank you! WI will fight this all the way!

Welcome to corporate America. I still can't believe it's illegal to form a union in some states. Unions are democracy for workers.

Well, sometimes you have to learn the hard way! If they don't get now and get that crazy man outta there..well, they'll get what they got!

"ready to call in national guard" - that is exactly what he wants to do. he is demonizing state workers and using the media to help back his cause. he believe the raping the state employees to fis the budget is his best option. i think he wants to privatize most of wi government. pull the money, hurt the employees, hurt the system, then he will be "forced" to contract work out to big business.

This story is # one on the Ed show tonight. Ed is going to be all over this govenor! He's detailing he whole thing.....Walker is not going to enjoy being on the Ed list. This guy Walker is what happens when Republicans take over most of the states governors mansions.