Michigan - eh, jump on that liberal choo choo train and trug along the choo choo tracks of liberalism and right out of business.

Senate Proposals in the bill:

State workers

    * Eliminates collective bargaining for state workers, including higher education employees.
    * Requires the Department of Administrative Services to develop a merit-based system of pay.

Local workers

    * Removes the requirement that deadlocked safety forces go to binding arbitration, instead extending the prior union contract for one year.
    * Requires mediators to consider wages of employees who are not members of the union and does not allow them to consider future tax increases as part of an entity's ability to pay.
    * Allows employers to hire permanent replacement workers during a strike.
    * Removes health insurance from collective bargaining. Management will pick insurance policies, and employees must cover at least 20 percent of the cost.
    * No longer requires that once a subject is included in a contract that it becomes a mandatory subject of future bargaining.
    * Defines an "impasse" as a lack of agreement after 90 days. After that point, it requires each side to make public its last, best offer.
    * Prohibits public employers from picking up extra employee pension contributions.
    * Eliminates from state law automatic pay increases for experience and education.
    * Eliminates from state law leave policies and automatic 15 sick days for teachers.
    * Prohibits school districts from bargaining away certain management powers, such as the ability to deploy teachers to certain buildings.
    * No longer makes longevity a deciding factor when management is deciding to make layoffs.
    * Requires a public employer to publish on its website any changes in the union contract that impacts compensation of workers, including wages, length of service payments, and insurance coverage.
    * Requires the employer and the State Employment Relations Board to publish the parties' offers on their websites before and after fact-finding is complete.
    * Allows schools or local governments in fiscal emergency to terminate or modify a collective bargaining agreement.

So, who showed?

The AstroTurf...

Zombieland, a video feed from the Ruskies...

America's indoctrinated yewts...

...and, the Global Commies promoting "Revolution".

Yes, it's true... yesterdays flower children are today's blooming idiots.

Police are out searching for the no-show Democrats.  Only one Democrat needs to be present for a vote to be held.

Meanwhile, the Teacher's Union, Firefighters, and other Unions are out in force to protest the VOTE!

State Senator Mark Miller, a member of the missing band of Wisconsin Democratic lawmakers who fled Madison Thursday to avoid a vote on a budget bill, called into CNN with the group's list of demands for Republican Gov. Scott Walker.

Miller, a state senator since 2004, would not disclose where he and his colleagues were hiding out, saying only "we are in what we consider a secure location outside the capital. We are not all in one place at this time."

WTF kind of bizarro cowardly sh!t is that?  I sure as hell hope that TEA Partiers are watching for those 14 hostage takers of the function of government and turn their rat bastard commie asses whereabouts in to state police.

"We demand that the provisions that completely eliminate the ability of workers... to negotiate on a fair basis with their employers be removed from the budget repair bill and any other future budget," Miller said.

He also demanded legislative oversight on changes to the state's medical programs, which are targeted for changes in the bill. The bill would also require union members to contribute to their health care and pensions.

Their justification for being Service Dodgers?

"The economy's recovering and the governor is completely ignoring the fact that we have a... recovery going," Miller said. "The only thing that hasn't recovered has been the rate of unemployment."

Ah yes, those pesky little details like unemployment...

Miller maintained that, by leaving Madison to evade a vote on the budget-repair bill, the lawmakers are "trying to allow an opportunity for democracy to work."

The number of teachers protesting in Wisconsin, according to union representatives, in the name of better serving the students of the state, has also shut down many public schools this week.

"If anything, I think it's made the Republicans in the Assembly and the Senate stronger," he told Fox News's Greta Van Susteren in an interview Thursday night. "They're not going to be bullied. They're not going to be intimidated."

Walker also fired back at President Obama, who sided with the public employees, saying on Fox News Friday, "We are focused on balancing our budget. It would be wise for the government and others in Washington to focus on balancing their budgets, which they are a long way off from doing."

BWAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA!  I really, really am loving this.  I cannot even begin to express my contempt for any president that'd support the actions of public sector union employees hiding behind the use of sick days to effectuate a strike at a states capitol and at their lawmakers homes.

Oh, how I wish for 30 years ago to repeat...

THAT is what a President looks like.

Stand fast Governor Walker, this nation is rooting for you!

On Thursday, legislators were advised to return to their offices and lock their doors. Mobs roamed the halls, banging on the glass of the doors, pounding on the walls. No one could move in the halls or enter or leave the building. The glass of the Supreme Court's entrance was broken. Legislators were genuinely afraid. Our elected representatives were afraid. In our Capitol.

A young female reporter trying to get into the Senate chamber struggled to get through the crowd. She arrived disheveled and upset because she had been roughed up as she tried to get through "Bitch-slapped" the mob told her. A senior senator was spat on. A senator and his female staffer struggled to get into the capitol. He was worried about his staffer because the crowd was grabbing at her and pushing her. University Police were two arms lengths away and did nothing. They, of course, are union.

Everyone has heard the story of the Democrats fleeing the state (Our slogan: Wisconsin; Illinois is beneath us). Everywhere are signs comparing Walker to Hosni Mubarak.  What is their end game? Overturning an election and seizing our government?

Protesters spent the night on the floor of the Capitol. A friend of mine said the entire place smelled when she walked in on Friday morning. There was garbage everywhere. This is one of the most beautiful Capitol buildings in the country. The mob had no respect for the place, for what happens there, or for the citizens whose freedoms it represents.

Fuggin' disgusting.  Prolly a good thing that Governor Walker hasn't deployed the NG yet.  But there is a silver lining to the piggy little children union running wild.

On the other hand, one of the freshmen (Republican) members of the assembly tells me that the leggies are united and have bonded in a way that would never have been possible in other circumstances. On Thursday night, behind locked doors she said, they wept, held hands, and prayed, vowing unity. Another Senator says she thinks the tide has turned. Another (Repub) answered in response to my question; "This is kinda fun!"

The Governor stands firm. I understand that there are strategies in place for next steps which will shake up the stalemate....I have known him for at least 15 years, but he is different now. He is a man who has met his time and his place, and he seems to know it.

A rather charming idiot, isn't he?

Now, here is where Fred is supposed to be.

If that was a "sick day" used in capturing Fred's national TV debut... Fred LIED, Fred LIED, Fred LIED....

Fred Levenhagen
Position: 8th Grade Teacher
E-Mail Address: fred.levenhagen@lcs.k12.wi.us
Phone Number: (262) 367-3606 ext. 283