Now,maybe, Wisconsinites will not feel that Koch brothers money is going to keep them down, and they will really get out and vote and take back their state in full. Then Ohio and others Especially Florida and Pennsylvania. Mitt isn't helping the Republicans at all and may in fact be throwing the elections to the Democrats. The polls are showing this.

(OLIGARCHY ) you are so right!!!!!

OLI...OLI...OL...GARCHY!!! Few people know that this means few people are....... IN THE KNOW... when it comes to government...ya know?

Hopefully allot of mouthwash as well! Its great to see the big money crooks get taken down, and have nothing to show for their wasted millions, supporting their flunky Governor.

There is a name for that which you a speaking, (OLIGARCHY ) Thanks for your comment you are so right !!!!!!

Chicago Teachers....... I heard the average pay is $76,000 plus benefits. Median base and average are not the same.

Q. How many teachers are in the union and how much do Chicago teachers make?

A. The Chicago Teachers Union represents 26,000 teachers. Chicago has the nation's third-largest school system with some 35,000 students, and its teachers are among the highest paid in the country. The median base salary for teachers in the Chicago public schools in 2011 was $67,974, according to the system's annual financial report.

How Much Do Chicago Public School Teachers Make?

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2012/06/12/how-much-do-chicago-public-school-teachers-make/

Chicago teachers resisting much needed education reforms

Events in Chicago are being closely watched. The city is home to both President Obama and his education secretary, Arne Duncan; Mr. Emanuel is the president’s former chief of staff, and the teachers union plays a prominent role in presidential politics. The administration has championed reforms much like those the Chicago local is fighting. And with good reason: A scandalously low 56 percent of Chicago students graduate from high school. That is the status quo the union is fighting to preserve.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/chicago-teachers-resisting-much-needed-education-reforms/2012/09/10/3dcc422c-fb8f-11e1-8adc-499661afe377_story.html

Read before using for kitty litter box.

It's True: Corporations Are People

What else could they be? Buildings don't hire people. Buildings don't design cars that run on electricity or discover drug therapies to defeat cancer.

Here's a new party trick. Want to be accused of being a member of a satanic cult? Like to be called the kind of person who would steal candy from a child, or harm a puppy and start a forest fire—all in the same day? Do you want to be described as evil, heartless and stupid?

Then just do this: Offhandedly mention in public that you agree with Mitt Romney—and that, yeah, you think corporations are people.

Oh, how that notion sets some people right off their rockers! Take, for instance, the scene last month when senatorial candidate Elizabeth Warren introduced President Obama at a big fundraiser in Boston:

"Mitt Romney tells us, in his own words, he believes corporations are people. No, Mitt, corporations are NOT people," she pronounced. "People have hearts. They have kids. They get jobs. They get sick. They love and they cry and they dance. They live and they die. Learn the difference." The audience went wild.

What nonsense.

Of course corporations are people. What else would they be? Buildings don't hire people. Buildings don't design cars that run on electricity or discover DNA-based drug therapies that target cancer cells in ways our parents could never imagine.

Buildings don't show up at a customer's factory and say, "We won't leave until we solve your inventory problem." Buildings don't encourage their employees to mentor inner-city kids in math and science. Buildings don't fund homeless shelters in Boston or health clinics in Rwanda. People do.

Corporations are people working together toward a shared goal, just as hospitals, schools, farms, restaurants, ballparks and museums are. Yes, the people who invest in, manage and work for corporations are there to make a profit. And yes, corporations may employ some bureaucrats, jerks, cheapskates and even nefarious criminals.

But most individuals working in corporations are regular people, people just like you and your friends and neighbors. People who want to make a living and want to make a difference.

And while they're doing that, people in corporations do indeed love and cry and dance. If you don't know that, you've never been part of a team that has pulled together over coffee and late nights and shouting and laughing and created something amazing to hit a deadline. You've never been in the room when a longtime client says it's not working anymore and she's taking her business to your biggest competitor. You've never sat in the lunch room when someone runs in and says the new medical device that no one thought had a chance, the little heart valve or something like it that every engineer in the place has been working on for two years, has just passed its first human clinical trials with flying colors.

In such moments—moments that happen every single day—you can see and hear and feel that corporations are people. That's all they are.

This fact is so obvious that there can only be one conclusion drawn when we hear the pronouncement, "Corporations aren't people"—that it's doublespeak. That is, when people say that corporations aren't people, what they really want to say is, "Business is evil."

They want to say what they feel, which is that capitalism doesn't work, that it's unfair, and that America needs another system—one that, to quote the president himself, "spreads the wealth around."

Obviously, we're not in that camp. We know capitalism isn't perfect. But free markets are the best system there is to provide opportunity to those with an idea, or simply the motivation to work their butts off to make their lives better. We also know capitalism can spawn bad behavior; greed is part of the human condition and always will be. That's why regulations and controls exist, as they should.

But this movement afoot that hates on business is craziness. It will destroy America as we know it because very few jobs get created in an environment that's outright hostile to business. And without jobs, the whole thing falls down. It becomes a welfare state. We become a welfare state.

If that's what you want, we can't change your mind. But in your efforts, stop hiding behind words. Corporations are people. If you want to put an end to corporations, at least say what you mean.

Mr. Welch was the CEO of General Electric for 21 years and is the founder of the Jack Welch Management Institute at Strayer University. Mrs. Welch is a writer and a former editor of the Harvard Business Review.

A version of this article appeared July 16, 2012, on page A13 in the U.S. edition of The Wall Street Journal, with the headline: It's True: Corporations Are People.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303740704577524823306803692.html

It's really not that difficult of a concept to understand. Would you say stockholders aren't people?

Well many of us are the people of Wisconsin, and yes we will and are being heard as pre the judgement .... dumb ass...... read >>>>

Pomp and Circumstances.

Let's never forget that the righteous Governor Walker got punked last year on the phone and revealed what he and the Koch brothers intended to do for the benefit of the American people

Governor states during the Call that he will send out 5,000-6,000 layoff notices to public sector employees in an attempt to "ratchet up" pressure on the Democratic Senators. This use of threat against, and intimidation of, public sector employees for political purposes constitutes an unfair labor practice in violation of Wis. Stat. Section 111.84.

He goes on to state, that he consulted with staff members, including Cabinet officials, to consider "planting" troublemakers to incite violence in the peaceful crowds.

At the conclusion of the Call, Governor Walker is offered a trip to California, where he would be "shown a good time." He accepts by stating that it would, "be great," in violation of Wis. Stat. Section 19.45(2)

The Governor requests that "Koch" run ads in the districts of Republican incumbents in swing districts. This request to initiate independent expenditures on Respondent's behalf.

Who dare defend the actions of this vile and despicable man? We've seen your guise before, you champion Democracy and the Constitution when it's convenient to your ends. the moment it is otherwise you want to repeal, and call it unpatriotic and a negative impact on the American people which all of us are liberals, conservatives, independents, Native Americans, Whites, Hispanics, Asians, Blacks, Mormons, Muslims, Jews, Christians, Atheists ad infinitum.

"This nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." (Abe Lincoln)

check the conversation for yourself:

Beardsley...... Republicans or anyone running against Democrats never win. They always steal the elections. Didn't you know that? I for one am not interested in having your union thugs decide how much I'm going to pay them. They've just about run every business out of the country or at least out of business.

Ladyhawke - Not just all republican governors, but state reps and state senators, federal representatives and federal Senators as well. We need a Democratic filibuster proof Senate and a Democratic controlled house again to straighten out the stalemate in our government. Big business will actually improve and most people will be working at living wages again at the end of the next 4 years. After that,Hillary?