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Wisconsin voters get their reward; Lonzie Cox, Jr.; Beaver County Times; March 6, 2011. I am not related to Mr. Cox.
Most of Mr. Cox’s at least 63 letters since 2004 are tinged with race, and all take leftist positions.
Below is a detailed critique of the subject letter.
“All I know about Wisconsin involves either football or cheese.”
[RWC] That doesn’t stop Mr. Cox from giving his two cents, however. One of those things Mr. Cox apparently doesn’t know is the new governor inherited a $3.6 billion budget deficit.
“But I assume that in their daily lives their people are just like Americans everywhere else. Some of them are smarter than others or richer or more politically connected.
“It is, however, obvious that a majority of them were not paying attention during the mid-term elections last year. Wisconsin voters elected Scott Walker, a right-wing, corporate-bought Republican, to be their governor, millionaire Ron Johnson, another Republican, to be their U.S. senator and gave the Republicans a large majority in their legislature.”
[RWC] Wow, Mr. Cox didn’t get into name-calling until the third paragraph!
I don’t know if Sen. Johnson is a millionaire or not, but I don’t recall Mr. Cox referring to millionaire Barack Obama (D-IL), millionaire Edward Kennedy (D-MA), millionaire Jay Rockefeller (D-WV), millionaire Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), et cetera. You see, lefties like to ignore their own millionaires. I get a kick out of folks who would like us to believe Democrats are poor and Republicans are rich. Of the top 10 wealthiest members of the House, five are Democrats [including former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (CA) at #6] and five are Republicans. Of the top 10 wealthiest members of the Senate, the top six are Democrats and the remaining four are Republicans. Democrats were seven of the top 10 until Edward Kennedy (MA) died in 2009. Perhaps being wealthy is bad only if you’re a Republican.
“Now, the public service workers of the state are out in the streets protesting the action of Walker to destroy the public employee unions and make deep concessions for their benefits.
“That’s what Republicans always have done, so why the workers’ surprise? That’s the reward Wisconsin voters get for being stupid and making Walker governor and not re-electing a pro-labor Democrat like former U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold to another term. Saving voters from themselves is impossible.”
[RWC] Something else Mr. Cox may not know is FDR (patron saint of lefties) opposed public sector labor unions. In a 1937 letter to Luther C. Steward (President of the National Federation of Federal Employees), FDR wrote, “… meticulous attention should be paid to the special relationships and obligations of public servants to the public itself and to the Government. All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service. It has its distinct and insurmountable limitations when applied to public personnel management.” Likewise, George Meany (first president of the AFL-CIO, 1955-1979) opposed collective bargaining for public sector employees. I’m surprised lefties haven’t tried to convince us Messrs. Meany and Roosevelt weren’t “pro-labor Democrat[s]” but were really conservatives.
When politicians negotiate with labor union management, they negotiate with people who will return part of what they win to the politicians via taxpayer-funded campaign contributions. It’s called a conflict of interest. There’s a reason 93% of labor union management PAC contributions to federal candidates (over $62 million) went to Democrat candidates in 2010.
“President Truman once said: ‘Bumping ones head against a brick wall (politically) really does feel good once you stop.’”
[RWC] Mr. Cox has an ongoing problem with quotes. Some examples are here, here, here, here, and here. As has been the case with Mr. Cox’s quotes over the years, a few minutes of Google searches found no reference to the alleged quote (and some variations) by anyone, let alone Mr. Truman.
In any case, didn’t Wisconsin voters stop bumping their heads against a brick wall when they chose not to re-elect some Democrats?
“P.S.: Feingold might run for president. Good.”
[RWC] Mr. Cox and I finally agree on something.
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