SHAME is on Democrats that left state.

SHAME is on unions with ties to socialist (look at AFLCIO logo vs ISO logo)

SHAME is on greed of unions

Unemployment teeters in double digits. Half the country is under flood waters or otherwise being ripped apart by storms. Oil prices continue to skyrocket. The national deficit is sunk in the trillions. Congress can’t agree on budget cuts. Illegal immigrants are pouring over the southern border, where people are getting shot every day. The debate over Muslim extremism rages on. Pro-union protestors are storming state capitols, threatening the lives of elected representatives. Other elected representatives have fled into hiding. Thousands are in danger of never existing due to lack of funds for cowboy poetry.

And that’s just on the homefront. Overseas, Middle East regimes are toppling one after another, and no one knows who or what will replace them. France—France!—is taking the lead on how to address the Libyan situation. (I can’t begin to describe what typing that sentence did to the left side of my brain.) Oh, let me say it again: FRANCE!

The world is going up in smoke at one end, and down the toilet at the other.

So while civilization as we know it is going straight to hell and never mind the handbasket, where is the Leader of the Free World, The One We’ve All Been Waiting For, the guy on the poster that says HOPE?

The unions made their own bed! Greed kills and they continue to want everything handed to them, like they are owed the job. What happened to working for it? What happened to the work ethic that made this country great? The AFLCIO started the deterioration of the American worker's expectations and continues to force it's own self interest above all other things. They are getting what they deserve and I hope more is to come!

As tot he Democrats that vacated the state. They are fine as long as things go there way. When they can't get what they want, they run away and hide like children. That should be the "Shame."

Why don't the polical figures that are making over a $100,000 or even 80,000 take a pay cut to help out the budget? While they are at it why not have them pay in for their own medical? Hey and how about that free retirement? In an effort to reduce the deficit why not start in their own backyard and not the backs of the middle class. I am a 6 year high school teacher with a master's degree earning just over $35, 000. Let them live on my pay.

How can you say the Greed of the unions. All I have witnessed all my life is non union folk are to greedy to pay the fee to join the union and scared the monthly dues are going to break their pocketbooks. The unions are fighting and have always fought to keep workers safe professional and able to live decent productive lives for themselves and their families. Good clothes for their children nice homes to live in and nice vehicles to stay productive and food and good Medical ,pensions and vacation funds as well as unemployment insurance for hard times fair workers comp in the event a injury does claim one of us. GREED WHERE DO YOU SEE GREED? RAYMOND UNION IRONWORKER AND PROUD OF IT

some of these comments are spoken like a true republican if its not thier idea they vote nooooooooo

with all the things that are going on in the world today you are still protesting. get over yourselves. you heard me get over yourselves and go back to work. you now look like spoiled selfish brats. you are nowon a time out. or maybe you could take all the energy and go to japan and actually do something with yourselves. put your big girl panties on and deal with it. after all when the democrats shoved obama care down our throats we just had to deal with it.

I think it is interesting reading about all the "greed" from unions. What are these union workers thinking, being able to negotiate their own pay and working conditions?! Why aren't the people who are calling union workers greedy also calling out the Wall Street execs that bankrupted our country, did not go to jail, are getting bonuses, and are not paying taxes? Where is your anger at them. Union workers are asking for basic needs while the top 2% are taking money from everyone and just sitting by as uneducated, hate filled people fight the fight for them. Are you holding out hope that one day you will be one of the people at the top, and you can't take away the easy life because you would want it for yourself? That's greedy and just plain stupid. The top 2% are looking out for themselves, are padding their pocket books, and paying off commentators and Congress to convince you to vote against your own self-interest so they can keep getting richer while the middle class disappears. That is what is shameful, that you would cut the throats of hard working people who want the rights that were given to them 50 years ago, for people who have more wealth than they can ever spend in three lifetimes.

Nancy, with all the things going in the world today, reasonable, rational people realize this is the time to join the protests. Around the globe, ordinary people like you and I (unless you are among the idle and/or undeserving rich) are wiggling out from under the boot-heel of Reaganomics and the dictators, not unlike the Teabag Junta that has usurped basic human rights in America washed the American Dream out to sea like a tsunami.

Govenor (term used loosely) Walker took a managable economic situation and turned it into a phony crisis by giving millions of tax breaks to companies who hadn't proven their need for them. Like the Iraq war, this act of cronyism was all planned out before he was elected. Union wage standards influence the level of compensation in non-union jobs as well. Be very afraid of 7, 6 or even 4-dollar-an-hour wages on the horizon. Good luck with that McMansion haha.

Now comes the time for us to fight the rising tide of useful idiots in state after state who would return hard-working people to third-world wages. How little are YOU willing to work for? The end of American life as we know it is nearer than you think. Be careful what you Teabag for, someone you care about may have it destroy their economic well-being.

I work for schools and 60% of our school funding goes to PERS, Public Employee Retirement System, then we take out wages and medical and there is nothing left to give our children an education, proper buildings, food, books. Unions are self serving and offer no consideration of how they effect the rest of us. In our school district union teachers and staff are loosing jobs and hours, yet retired teachers and admin return to work while on retirement and make twice as much. They were asked to give up a couple days of pay to protect the jobs of other union members and they said NO. The ones keeping there jobs have no problem caring only about there own survival. Where is the union loyality? It all comes down to we only care about our own welfair and we dont care how it effects everyone else. The Union Motto. Detroit is a great example of this.You may create a nice life for yourselves at our expence but your burden on the economy is reflected in higher prices for everything in our lives. Maybe it is time for Unions to help everyone in our country by giving back to all of us. Pay your own retirement and medical and help us all get through these times. All I see in these postings are union members that want for themselves. Unions have cost more jobs then they have created, you have created a labor cost that forces companies to move to cheaper countries for labor. Your officials are the ones making billions off of you why dont they cut there profit margin and return some of your money to you. On TV last night there was a Union President that makes 10 million and another making 5 million. The unions bought the presidential election by donating 1 billion to Barry Mohamabama. Money that could be used to help the people of the country. If you dont like the cost of your medical and retirement plans go after the medical industry to lower prices for all of us and if you want to pay less for your retirement funds get someone to make proper investments for you and make them accountable for there investments. You are fools if you beleave your unions really care about you, your just a wallet to take money from. If you truly want the general public support do something to help the people and force the government to quit wasting tax money. We need to address our problems and become one people in this country. We need to bring jobs back to our country and make America strong again. Unions should be watchdoging our government and not sleeping with our corrupt officials. Life would be much better for everyone if we were not supporting every other country in the world, most that dont like us. Reinvest into our own businesses and people. What ever happened to Made In America meaning top quality and pride. Unions and our government are going to have to change there spending practices before things get better in this country and the American worker will have to do a hard days work to make a living and not expect to be given a life of lesure for just showing up to there place of employment. Wages should be based on overall profits and savings and not just the fact that they show up for work. Would be good for our elected officials to be paid the same way. Of course they would actually have to show up for work and do something. I always thought elected officials should make what the average American makes and receive a bonus based on how much they improve life for all of us. If the average wage goes up then they get the percent of improvement. Make them earn a living by making our lives better. Isnt that why we elect them? Unions should operate the same way by improving profit for businesses and returning a percentage of the profit to the employees. It creates a vested interest. Try being part of the answer for the American Worker and not the one creating the problem, and yes you might have to give like all the rest of us.

Last time I looked, unions have disappeared from the private sector, corporate profit is way up, nothing is made in America. How can you buy "made in America" when corporations have moved all production overseas? The only thing unions did was insist Americans not be paid $3.00 a day or less, like in developing countries. Corporate America has turned its back on America, shoves "unions" under the bus, and for some reason continues to blame unions in the public sector.

What bewilders me is how so many people can be so misdirected. Who is profiting from this? Not the middle class. Unions are already mostly gone, now who are you going to blame?

That whooshing sound is the wealth continuing to be concentrated in the hands of a very few, and they aren't union.

aka "earthrick"..........the computer I use is a HP, made by a (big) american company who prbly has a few republicans on the board. yes, they had this computer assembled in china by underpaid nonunion employees so they (the board) could up their creedy profits yet I fell for it because of the price. I stand b4 you and I plead guilty of my own greed. I can (or can't) understand this because I've been a union man in the past and I know what the unions have done for the working stiff of this country(America). They got us the 40 hr week, stopped child labor, got us overtime and many more benies for the benifit of all. To take away collective bargining is like (to me) takeing away our right to free assembly, our right to free speech. Are we going back to the days of Henry Ford who treated the working man as "just part of the line" who could beaten into submission? .............every day is earth day

What are unions? Better still who are unions? They are teachers, janitors, firefighters, police officers, iron workers, tv writers, producers, actors, bus drivers, auto workers, farm workers, postal workers, steel workers, journaists, mechanics, printers, professors, retail workers, and your neighbours, fellow Americans, and citizens who have collectively bargained for safe workplaces, better wages and benefits for all the rest of us. Greed and ignorance are found ingrained in the rebulican party and their followers

Sounds like Ronald Regan all over again, maybe we can have more trickle down economics.

I think a lot of anti-union comments are rooted in jealousy. It is a fact that non-unionized workers have lower wages, fewer benefits and poorer working conditions that those of us who are organized. I say get into a union or start a union; the weekly dues won't break your wallets and you'll have even footing at the bargaining table. Case in point: at a hospital in a major U.S. city, one of the leading hospitals who RNs are organized entered into a contract where the nurses received raises over a two year period to keep pace the pay scales of other similar hospitals in the same city. Across town, another hospital, also well-regarded and internationally known, had give their staff substantital raises in order to attract and retain nurses. Within a year, this hospital unilaterally withdrew those raises, leaving the nurses to earn approximately 25% less than their colleagues. Had these nurses been organized, this could not have happened for the life of the agreement. To this day, their salaries lag behind; they do not get overtime pay and do not get the "comp. time" they are supposed to earn for working extra hours when staffing is low. Because they have no union, they have no recourse and cannot grieve the conditions under which they work or the wages and benefits they earn. Does that sound very fair?

I think that we need to step back and think for a minute. Nowhere in the private sector are workers guaranteed a job with all of the benefits unless they perform. Not showing up, or showing up late, or drunk can get you fired. Union workers can file grievances so that the company can't fire them. When something needs to be done in a private company the people just do it. They don't need to be worried that the wrong union workers did it. Were unions need at one time? YES! Are they needed now? Hardly. The people that are working determine how they will be treated. When you don't like how you are being treated go to a different company that will treat you better. Take control of your own life, don't cry about how bad you have it. Pay attention to what is going on around you. Pay attention to the politicos. How much are they costing all of us. How much tax money is going to countries overseas to "welfare" nations. Why should those nations improve themselves if they can just collect welfare? Read your history, find out how the great people that settled this country did it, then try to imitate them. Stop crying and start doing!

The generalized economic system of society, in which the "Educators" are trying to obtain footing to gather, maintain, and protect a reward given for their investment, is steeped in a social history of the world where each group looks out for itself to the exclusion of others. What didn't work historically, to resolve the general woes and conditions of the only cognitive thinking species on the face of the planet, won't work now; and the "Educators" of society should know it. There is no place to go, from a society which has built-in failure concepts which undermine attempts to move society as a whole forward. You know what is coming. Better to step up, get it over and done with, rather than to prolong the misery you inflict upon one another.