Are We Approaching The Tipping Point To Revolution?
Protesters took over the Capitol of..........Wisconsin:eek: to protest budget cuts. MSNBC "The Ed Show" has reported as many as 30,000 people were protesting outside in the Snow with more planned tomorrow. The Ed Show also reported that there are reports that the Governor has manufactured the budget crisis in order to gain concessions from the Unions. Links to the Ed Show reports are not available yet(should be later) but I did find a link to this article.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/l...,3272758.story
Because It Is So Unlikely
jmm99, that is what drew my attention to it. When you think of all the places where a Civil Disturbance was/is likely to happen, Wisconsin would not be at the top of my list. Plus if the size (all total to be 30,000 people) is true? That is a good sized protest for most of the media to be largely ignoring. Another point and again IF it is true that the Governor cooked the books in order to manufacture a budget crisis that could have some serious consequences.
I didn't even know reruns of that show were around...
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PS: The Ed Show should be watched for fun - not for news content. :D
News? I never thought it was that funny, personally. :o
Though Alan Young did have his moments. :D
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And, some perspective ....
on the scene outside of the Capitol Bldg (from jsonline):
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Complete with Teamsters semi.
Cheers
Mike
The media would love to see
this Wisconsin teapot tempest turn into this - Flint Sit Down Strike (Michigan politics), which it isn't.
But, it does have its own humor - from WTMJ (TMJ = The Milwaukee Journal):
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Budget Battle: Democrats Who Left State are Located
By The WTMJ News Team
MADISON - Democratic State Senators who protested the budget repair bill by leaving the state have been found.
The lawmakers are in the Best Western Clock Tower Resort in Rockford Illinois.
Law enforcement officials have been looking for at least one Democratic senator to bring in for a quorum required for a fiscal measure, but Democratic Senator Jon Erpenbach confirmed to Newsradio 620 WTMJ that he and all of his Democratic colleagues boarded a bus and left the state.
"We're not in Wisconsin right now," Erpenbach said. "The reason why we're doing this is because there are some jurisdictional issues that we'd be dealing with."
The Senate's Sergeant at Arms cannot compel Senators' attendance in an open session if they are outside of state lines. ...
At the very least, they could have pointed their bus north and stayed at the Watersmeet Casino and given us some tourist dollars.
Cheers
Mike