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Jeff Danziger

Jeff Danziger

Posted: February 18, 2011 05:05 PM

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06:12 PM on 02/20/2011
Tell Scott Walker what you think at govgeneral@wisconsin.gov
(no screening questions)

http://walker.wi.gov/section.asp?linkid=1714&locid=177

This LIAR is claiming 1,000 supporting emails per hour.
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messy
artist, writer, adventurer
09:19 AM on 02/20/2011
Danziger doesn't always get it right when he's just playing for laughs.
07:50 AM on 02/20/2011
Food for thought: Did anyone force teachers to take their jobs? I would assume that most knew the rate of pay and conditions of working before making that decision. I have no sympathy for those who complain. Take some personal responsibility for your actions.

And to the Democratic state legislators who fled the state instead of participating in the vote: You have no right to call yourself a public servant. You should be recalled for not participating in the very job you chose to do.

I've heard that the benefits that are being discussed amount to around 20K per teacher. If their combined salary with those benefits are 47-50K (approx), then why shouldn't you pay some of this? How about some sensible reading: http://www.citiesonahill.org/pension_reform/
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tuliehowller
Liberal - from the Latin liberalis, "of freedom"
09:50 AM on 02/20/2011
Your food is stale.....only fit for the garbage.
11:58 AM on 02/20/2011
Food for thought: How about sticking to terms under which you were hired?
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SallySassalot
Sassin those who deserve it!
02:14 AM on 02/20/2011
KEEP AT IT WISCONSIN!

Someone in a square state is thinking good thoughts for all of you!
11:35 PM on 02/19/2011
I understand the humor of your cartoon, I really do. At the same time, I would love it if the national media took our fight for equality and workers' rights a little more seriously. We love our cheese and beer, God knows we do, but we love our rights a heck of a lot more. We're defending the future of our nation in Wisconsin!
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mrk65
wah, wah, wah...
12:28 AM on 02/20/2011
Stay in the fray, Rachael; the people of America are behind you in all the other states; because, if Wisconsin falls, other states will follow. To borrow a phrase, Wisconsin, the shot heard 'round the nation.
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tuliehowller
Liberal - from the Latin liberalis, "of freedom"
09:53 AM on 02/20/2011
"the media" will never support the people of Wisconsin....they are in cohoots with those that are trying to bust the unions.
researcher
researcher
11:19 PM on 02/19/2011
the decline of american wealth is every where.

did we really think we could have such greed and selfishness and imperialism and a profits over people mentality and not suffer the results of such a belief system????????

this is not the way the universe works. sorry but what good news, that the universe does not tolerate a nation with a selfish profits over people national imperialistic agenda without suffering the consequences.

the capitalists will not rest until those pensions are gone and worker rights are nothing and the courts all the courts are controlled by them. wake up americans the capitalists are ten times smarter than you.

look what they have accomplished. turned capitalism into a love affair and taught as a divine truth while they borrow billions from a communist nation. reagan hated unions and the middle class so he sold them the trickle down free market theory. worked like a charm while the nation went deep into debt and lost its manufacturing base to china and japan. sucker punch that worker like a charm.
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tuliehowller
Liberal - from the Latin liberalis, "of freedom"
09:55 AM on 02/20/2011
America is awake and we are trying; we are just being out foxed all the time. It dosen't help that we have a weak president.
11:16 PM on 02/19/2011
Stay United-the world is watching! We stand with the teachers - the children -all the workers in jeopardy of losing UNIONs! You will win and our hearts and thoughts are with you courageous protesters! Thank you, thank you, thank you!
10:58 PM on 02/19/2011
I don't think too highly of Huffington Post, and this cartoon doesn't help me feel differently. This week has NOT been very jocular, it's been deadly serious to Wisconsinites.
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06:48 PM on 02/19/2011
We're losing here folks. Fox and friends are out in force making the unions out to be evil and greedy.

Who do we have out in front championing the cause of unions?

Where are the national unions?
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10:03 PM on 02/19/2011
Unions are bankrupting states. California has a $500 billion in unfunded pension liabilities. California's budget is going to be somewhere between $85-95 billion. That means that they would have to spend their state budget on pensions exclusively for the next 5-6 years to pay off their unfunded pension liabilities.

If you think that's bad enough (probably not, since your a progressive), San Francisco will spend 1 in every 3 $ on public employee pensions 5 years from now.
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10:11 PM on 02/19/2011
No, unions are being *blamed* for bankrupting the states. In reality, it's governors who give huge tax breaks to multinational corporations and try to make up for that loss in revenue by cutting services and letting state employees go.

I know, it's what's happening here in the South. BMW and Toyota have plants down here, but they are strictly non-union. Plus the two car companies got massive tax breaks to entice them to build where they did. If non-union shops are supposed to be so good for business and the economy, why has the state gone broke since then?
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dwillisno1
Learning to Butt Heads Without Being Buttheads
10:40 PM on 02/19/2011
Unfunded liability, HMMM. What you mean is that the states forgot to pay into the pension fund what they owed, in essence borrowing the pension contribution to delay solving the debt problem until now. That was not the fault of the person for whom the pension contribution is owed. And just so you won't forget, those pensions are a promise, a contractual obligation. Now repubs want to say, that they don't have to keep a contract or a promise. Does that mean that they on behalf of the public don't keep their promises? Yes I think it does.
researcher
researcher
11:24 PM on 02/19/2011
it is already lost many years ago. corp control has come to america. this is just a whimper of protest. give it a week. or two.

reagan figured out a way to fire the air controllers maybe this gov will also do just the same.

fox is working hard to get them fired. many of these teachers may watch fox noise even big fans of it.

states are bankrupt the pensions are gone. get over it. a nation of imperialists that spends trillions on their wars for corp profits will suffer greatly for that ignorance. that simple that complex.

734 military bases around the world and americans dont consider themselves imperialists. how is that for the ultimate denial?
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SVPincalif
Practice random acts of kindness
04:01 PM on 02/19/2011
This is just the start, I fear. We who care are going to have to get active, and I'm loving seeing people standing up for what they believe. I think a lot of us didn't believe that the ultra-conservatives would be taken as seriously as they have been, but we don't have to let them take over. I admit, we need to trim some fat, but taking away bargaining rights is not the proper way to do this. Cutting Planned Parenthood is certainly not the way to do this!

Broadening of education is the right solution! Teach kids to ask questions and teach them the way to find answers, not just pass tests based on memorization of "facts". Encourage curiosity. The world is changing so fast and as much as I appreciate many traditional values, they must be incorporated into new and updated methods. There's no going backwards.
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03:33 PM on 02/19/2011
reading sarah palins statent email!
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03:32 PM on 02/19/2011
http://theuptake.org/2011/02/19/tea-party-rally-counter-protests-in-madison-wisconsin/

live tp rally feed. the vitriol is palable.
11:53 AM on 02/19/2011
Famous quote of the day "Elections have consequences"
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dwillisno1
Learning to Butt Heads Without Being Buttheads
10:41 PM on 02/19/2011
The actions of those who get elected also have consequences!
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tuliehowller
Liberal - from the Latin liberalis, "of freedom"
10:07 AM on 02/20/2011
I m not convinced my vote matters anymore...Obama is a turncoat and people like Sarah Palin are lorded in our meda daily.
As Javert says from Les Miserables: The law is inside out, the world is upside down! ...
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Carl Caroli
Give peace a chance
11:33 AM on 02/19/2011
The oligarchs need to understand they have gone too far. I do hope this happens in every state of the union.
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tuliehowller
Liberal - from the Latin liberalis, "of freedom"
10:10 AM on 02/20/2011
Their greed will last until they have killed the Golden Goose.
10:43 AM on 02/19/2011
I don't get it. What is the point of this?
The Packers are unionized?
Is this supposed to be funny because a cheeshead is at a political rally?
Who the heck else do you think would be there instead?
I don't think to cartoonist is from here, WI.
Weak.
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Openyermind
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12:42 PM on 02/19/2011
Yep, very very weak joke.