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What did Hitler do? First he busted the unions.
Right? First you take away the unions
and then you take away the jews and then you take away ... you know, that's where it starts.
[Voiceover from protest] We must remain vigilant
to have our voices heard. We must remain strong
We must retain the energy
that I have felt since Monday
when the students came with their Valentines to the Capitol.
What he wants to do is not have unions. He's busting the unions
And so what he's trying to do is take away the right
of our unions to negotiate our contracts
by saying he will tell us what we're going to get.
This debate has gone beyond just Wisconsin
and as you see people
bussed in from all over the country now, even President Obama has weighed in on this issue.
They have made Wisconsin
Ground Zero.
This has nothing to do with budget shortage
Governor Walker has cooked up the books.
We've already said that. It's not about the money. It's about rights.
To call this a
budget bill, a budget-fix bill
is nonsense. It's a union-busting bill. It's not about balancing the budget. Governor Walker keeps saying it's about the budget, it's not.
It's about taking away people's rights to bargain for
their contracts. [Vukmir] From their persepctive it is about collective bargaining. From our perspective it is about the money.
The state of Wisconsin is broke.
You can't
just keep growing
your budget when you don't have money
People during this recession
and down turn are tightening their belts and their asking us to do the same.
Yeah people need to tighten their belts
but the working
people of Wisconsin
especially public workers, state workers,
have all been tightening their belt.
This is not at all about ...
this has nothing to do
with money. We've been taking cuts forever.
We're on an unsustainable path as a state.
And we don't want to become California. California's biggest problem was the public employee benefits
I think we're willing to make concessions and do what we need to do. We understand the situation.
But we also want to do it in a way that's going to be fair
and in a way that can give everybody a voice.
And then come to the table and talk to us
and work together.
We've always been willing to talk to and work together.
We have tried to negotiate in the past.
The problem is we're out of that negotiating ability. We don't have anything more to give.
Just to give you an example how difficult it is, even last session with a Democratically-controlled
Assembly,
Senate, and the Democrat Governor it took
18 months to go through the collectively bargaining process
for public employee unions
If the union is busted here
it's going to be like a house of cards, and all unions
across the United States
are going to be
broken.
If it happens here it's going to happen in other places.
It's really scary. It really is like pre-Nazi Germany.
And personally I do not
want Wal-Mart Corporation or Disney Corporation teaching the children of the United States.