I too hope he wins. However, how many of you donated any money to Scott Walker. I gave $50.00 and I am from Texas! I urge ALL of you to put your money with your mouth is and give a few bucks to Scott. You can visit his webiste to donate! Great sign!

www.scottwalker.org

Wisconsin if you remember is where those GUTLESS democrat politicians left the state so as to not have to vote on an anti union law. Now that is a HATE crime. Please support Scott Walker!!!!!!!!!!

I just got back form a trip to SD. In the country, Walker signs are 90 plus per cent. In the city it's about 60-40.

HM

This is the biggest brain washing in modern times. It is ALL about breaking unions and taking hard fought benefits away from regular working people. As a retired public sector Firefighter/Paramedic it makes me sick that this one hand puppet can convince so many how "good" we have it. Hey I got an idea lets out source all of it to someone in China!!!!! Yep you call 911 a bell rings in Hong Kong......you get what you pay for.....Thanks to that POS Walker my amount that I pay for my family plan went from a reasonable amount to $687.65 a MONTH.....thats right a month. The best part...I cannot even opt out and come back to the plan at a later date. I drop the plan and I am done. HOW MANY of you that have posted pay this for your health Ins.???? Yes bash away at all of us that make between 60-80k after putting in 25-30 years......How dare us want the same thing for our familys that you have......Mr Walker can rot in HELL!!

GS

PS I have droped my INS. How will I be counted once I file for BK because I will not be able to pay for all of my medical bills????? Anyone????

Here are a couple of "must see" you tube videos....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sX69a45LFLI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqhtUTyqVOY

GS

Gee midilake, I really feel sorry for you, my wife and I have to pay right at $1500 for our insurance

But I guess you deserve it free because you worked so hard for what 20 maybe 30 yrs? A hell of a bunch of us put in more and are still at it

You knew what the gig was when you hired on then got some damned union in there to hose the people who you were supposed to serve, and are now blaming the people who paid your wages because the bank is broke

Hey midalake, check out www.unionfacts.com

Well midalake has one good point regarding brain washing and it appears midalake is the one brain washed. I have been self employed since 1979 and I have to pay all my health insurance and retirement. I will never figure out why these public sector union members think some one else "the tax payer" should have to pay there benefits while are taxes continue to rise and some tax payers can't afford insurance for them selves. In Wisconsin as well as many other states the unions have killed the goose that lays the golden egg and listen to the cry.

Imagine this a live stock feeder call it the tax payer. Laying next to it is a big fat pig call that the union. Sucking of the tits of that big fat pig about 14 of them call them the democrats. Take away the feed and listen to the squeal.

Last Feb. when Scott Walker spoke at the CPAC meeting I sent him a $100.00 contribution. The facts are simple the public sector unions and there bought and paid for democrats have and will put many cities in a financial crunch.

Poor Midalake. Welcome to the real world pally. We pay $600 per 6 months for our family of 4, with a $1000 deductible. We work hard and make a lot less than you. Won't hear me crying for you.

"Poor Midalake. Welcome to the real world pally. We pay $600 per 6 months for our family of 4, with a $1000 deductible. We work hard and make a lot less than you. Won't hear me crying for you."

So if you hit your deductible you pay $1,600 every 6mos? Did I get something wrong? My 6mo rate [for 2] would be $4125.90.....I don't care how hard you work, you need to check your math..........and maybe I need to call your Ins. Co.

GS

So Catpower you self employed??? I am guessing so because I here the same crap from a friend of mine that owns a business. He pulls down about 350k a year, and I get $hit from him all the time about my "benefits" Here is the same response for you...Want to trade gross income? It is amazing how easy it would be for me to write check for $1,500/mo healthcare making 350k a year.......Being "self-employed" with Parkerguy, and Whiz-bang give's you certian "freedoms" in my opinion which I give up working for someone else. I am now at a point in my life in which "I wish" I would have went into business for my own but that will have to be saved for another life. Your right Catpower I knew the gig....get a stable job, less money than I could make in other areas, and get good benefits in return for my lower pay.......well your smart......what changed????

GS

Hey Midlake, you failed to mention a couple of things. For you out of staters, realize that poor, on the verge of bankruptcy Mr. Midlake has a GUARANTEED pension. Yes, you heard me right. He has in his posession right now a schedule of EXACTLY what his pension will pay him when he retires in his early fifties. (admittidly, I don't know when he will retire, it depends on when he started his career as a slave. Many public employees in Wisconsin do retire in their early fifties)The great thing about Mr. Crybaby's pension is that up until this year, he paid exactly $0.00 in to it. We, the rich greedy taxpayers set him up with that benefit. AND, the really nice feature to a Wisconsin public indentured servant's pension is that it is immune from market forces. Yep, the stock market goes to shit, no prob Mr. Midlake, us greedy bastards have you covered. Ingratitude is a truly deplorable and despicable quality for a human being to possess. You should be ashamed of yourself. The big miscalculation you and your kind made was now we all know exactly what you get, and how much we have all paid for it over the years. If you guys had any brains in your heads, you would have kept your mouths shut. One last item to ponder, Scott Walker's reforms exempted cops and firemen. You are complaining why?

Hey Midlake, you failed to mention a couple of things. For you out of staters, realize that poor, on the verge of bankruptcy Mr. Midlake has a GUARANTEED pension. Yes, you heard me right. He has in his posession right now a schedule of EXACTLY what his pension will pay him when he retires in his early fifties. (admittidly, I don't know when he will retire, it depends on when he started his career as a slave. Many public employees in Wisconsin do retire in their early fifties)The great thing about Mr. Crybaby's pension is that up until this year, he paid exactly $0.00 in to it. We, the rich greedy taxpayers set him up with that benefit. AND, the really nice feature to a Wisconsin public indentured servant's pension is that it is immune from market forces. Yep, the stock market goes to shit, no prob Mr. Midlake, us greedy bastards have you covered. Ingratitude is a truly deplorable and despicable quality for a human being to possess. You should be ashamed of yourself. The big miscalculation you and your kind made was now we all know exactly what you get, and how much we have all paid for it over the years. If you guys had any brains in your heads, you would have kept your mouths shut.

I have to make a correction. After re reading Mr Midlakes posting, I realize he is already retired. That means he NEVER paid into his pension(unless he just retired this year). As far as the insurance issue, The system was set up for people to retire when thay were of medicare receiving age.If you are lucky enough to retire substantially earlier than that, I have two suggestions. 1- get another job that provides insurance. 2- You should have been a teacher instead, because most school districts ( us greedy bastards again) insure the retired teachers for the time from retirement in their early fifties till medicare kicks in.

I have you all beat. The monthly health insurance premium for myself and my wife is $1,072 and I pay over $8,400 per month for 17 other people plus the other people pay $3,600 per month for their portion of their insurance.

I do feel sorry for those who got sucked into jobs with contracts that are simply not sustainable but it is going to get worse because there simply are not enough tax payers to keep up the payouts.

The retirement plans for postal workers now make up over 50% of the USPO budget.

Many companies have closed their doors and declared bankruptcy because they could not meet the retirement debt.

This is going to get a lot worse before it gets better. Hunker down, pay off all debt you can and plant a garden. We in deep shit guys.

Hey Midlake, you failed to mention a couple of things. For you out of staters, realize that poor, on the verge of bankruptcy Mr. Midlake has a GUARANTEED pension. Yes, you heard me right. He has in his posession right now a schedule of EXACTLY what his pension will pay him when he retires in his early fifties. (admittidly, I don't know when he will retire, it depends on when he started his career as a slave. Many public employees in Wisconsin do retire in their early fifties)The great thing about Mr. Crybaby's pension is that up until this year, he paid exactly $0.00 in to it. We, the rich greedy taxpayers set him up with that benefit. AND, the really nice feature to a Wisconsin public indentured servant's pension is that it is immune from market forces. Yep, the stock market goes to shit, no prob Mr. Midlake, us greedy bastards have you covered. Ingratitude is a truly deplorable and despicable quality for a human being to possess. You should be ashamed of yourself. The big miscalculation you and your kind made was now we all know exactly what you get, and how much we have all paid for it over the years. If you guys had any brains in your heads, you would have kept your mouths shut.

Your a DOPE...#1 My pension has gone down the last 3 of 4 years [to the tune of about $700 a month in total and it looks like there is another decrease coming next year] #2 I NEVER had SS deducted from my checks.....thats right a pension thats it I will never have enough Qtrs to collect Social Security...EVER #3 The people who paid my pension was the taxpayers of the City I worked for [NOT anyone else in the state of WI][That goes for my health Ins. as well] #4 is it a good pension YES but where were you when I started at $22,000 a year HUMMM!!! #5 Guaranteed REALLY! Nothing is guaranteed!!.

It is amazing how much MIS INFORMATION is slung EVERYDAY!!!

If you Live in an incorporated city in the state of WI you pay for [depending on the agreements] for some or all of your citys employees benefits [they are ALL different].

If you live in an unincorporated city or township you pay ZIPPO!!!

EXCEPTION..ALL people of the state of WI pay for the benefits for ALL state employees, State patrol, lawmakers, prison workers, University system, DNR, and the list goes on.......[WHICH I GLADLEY PAY!!!]

Really Stevie.....you need to get YOUR facts straight...and if you don't like it...you can always buy your own island,,then hire security, get someone to put out a fire, ah, no teachers there so get a tudor, road matinence will be your baby too, make your own laws [stevie island] take on your enviromental and wildlife issues, supply your own water and power supply...and you can be the head trash collector.

The problem I have with YOUR KIND is you would like me to do it for free...you have options...

GS

ALL of the changes to current and retired Police, FF, and other Govt. employees who get there coverage from the "state" group of plans can be found here: http://etf.wi.gov/members/health_ins.htm.

ALL cities get there plans from the "state" group of plans. UNLESS the city is self insured.....when I left the only one I knew of was the City of Milwaukee. It may have changed......

AND YES Gov Scott Walker took my portion of my health care from $235 a month to $687.65 a MONTH.....

GS

midalake = keet

midalake has every right to be angry but he is going to have to accept the situation. Government is being required to make the cuts private industry has had to make. Some of government is going to go away at all levels. To reduce expenses we will be required to roll city, county and state governments in together.

Those people who worked hard and saved their money are going to experience worse. Inflation will sit in and your retirement nest egg will not be worth a plug nickel. Money cannot be printed like it is being printed and not have inflation.

Riots will come in the streets just like in Greece. States are going broke. Have you seen what is happening in comefornia. We are in deep s**t folks. More states will follow. The postal service will fold and be privatized. Many more people will be forced to accept cuts. You will be moving in with your kids. You will not be in a position to afford to go to the doctor. If the illness is severe you will simply crawl in the coffin and die.

Things must change. A start would be to change the laws to prevent those who serve in the presidency, vice presidency, house and senate from serving more than one term. Change them all to 6 years and force them to call it quits. Maybe we could get some people to vote for the country rather than their re-election.

Whether you are a democrap or a repuke does not matter. What matters is if we can balance the budget and start paying down the debt. That gentlemen is going to take a 50% cut across the board. Can you live with the results? Spending in 2011 was over $3.5 trillion and is increasing this year. Gross national income was about $9.8 trillion. That is 33% tax across the board at the federal level if we do not reduce the federal budget. That is tough folks.

How much will the interest on the debt increase if our debt holders increase the rate by just 1% - now try 4 or 5%.

We must start exercising fair trade. If they tariff our goods we tariff their goods. We have EPA and OSHA - they have to follow the same rules. We have honorable labor laws - they must have honorable labor laws.

Aliens in this county illegally must go home. We simply have to put our citizens to work because we can no longer afford the dole. Don't get your panties in a bunch - I did not say pensions.

No matter where you worked you are going to be in midalake’s bed with him. This will get worse. Instead of bitching about what you are losing you had better be thinking of a solution.

We do not have anyone in Congress with the balls to get it done. Things have to change.

I would like to be sympathetic to midalake, but since my total health costs(for myself and wife) far exceed his 600+ a month, I cannot. Pay attention to slowdp. Get out the old calculator and visit Google, all the information one needs is available. It's frightening.

Midlake, I finally agree with you on something. I love the island idea. I guarantee you one thing, my island would run MUCH more efficiently than any city or township anywhere. Do NOT take that as a dig on you ,or any other public worker. I believe most work their asses off to do a good job. The ones that don't were in Madison last year crying. It was a dig on the inefficiency of government in general. One last question. I am assuming that since you post here, you are a trapshooter. How do you square the fact that you vote for the very democrats that would take every gun you have from you if given the chance? Remember, without Scott Walker, we wouldn't have CCW here in Wisconsin. You don't carry, do you?

I do not follow any party lines, I vote for the person who I think can do the best job. I am glad WI got CCW...long overdue. I am not a WI resident any more, which is too bad. I would really like to vote in this one!

GS

I believe that what was done by Walker had to be done. He in fact said he was going to do this, when he was running for election. Though he never mentioned this was how he was going to do it.

It was the way it was done that caused the problems. Even though it would not have mattered as far as voting, the Democratic system was not followed before voting took place. That is why the Democrates left the chambers. The Republicans which are in control of both sectors of congress did not allow any time for discussion before voting. It was done by a dictatorship type ruling. That is what caused most of the ruckus.

Also there is never any mention of the deficit that was inherited by Doyle. Of the 3 billion dollar deficit, 1.6 billiion was from the Thompson/McCallum (Republican) governorship. The ads that are running are false leading, in the fact that Walker claims that the deficit that he inherited was 3 billion dollars from Doyle. Making it look like the total deficit was created by Doyle.

This is the new political system, that is dividing the country. There is no compromise at anything. If one party has full power, that is what goes. This alone is what will destroy this country, not the political agenda of each party. If you think that total control by your party is going to save this country for you, I think that you are in for a big suprise. This country can't survive on one parties agenda, without some compromise both ways, in my opinion. That is what the founding fathers of this country set up the two party political system for. Otherwise, it is just another dictatorship.

Midalake, I'm sorry you have to pay more for insurance, but there isn't anymore money

Yes I was self employed, and I worked my ass off for many years when there was no profit, and I didn't get paid, but my employees did, but there were years I made a hell of a profit, but I always paid my taxes, there were a few years they were over $200,000

I don't get anything from the government except from the VA that one idiot that gets on here says that I am ripping them off because I use it. Well I guess I am, after all, all that happened was I got half my right foot shot off and am almost deaf in my right ear, from being in a B52 that got hit by a surface to air missile or a SAM as the called them over Hanoi Dec 22 1972

Stl Fyn, your president thinks he is a dictator, but he is just a dick. Your commitment to the left has caused the division we have in this country. It is no longer about the people of this country, it is about control of the country. We need to clean house this election and we have already started in Indiana by ousting (Rep.) Sen. Lugar. Term limits are the only thing that will allow this country to have a sound future. 3 terms and you are out. No pension, no insurance, you just go back to work like the rest of us slobs. By the way, I pay $17k per year for health insurance for my wife and I and yes I am self employed. I can only dream of income that will allow my business to be profitable again, but it will take kicking Odumbass, Pelosi and Reid to the curb to begin that process. You free benefit people like Midalake, who have lived off the backs of hard working tax payers are only beginning to see what we have to live with. I don't feel sorry for a single one of you. Government employee unions need to go!

Steve in Indiana

Steve,

Wow!

Jon