On Huffington's AOL this morning appeared a story from the (also) liberal AP about the bill passed in the Wisconsin Assembly. Take a look at this leaqd paragraph and see how you process it.
"MADISON, Wis. - Republicans in the Wisconsin Assembly took the first significant action on their plan to strip collective bargaining rights from most public workers, abruptly passing the measure early Friday morning before sleep-deprived Democrats realized what was happening."
Folks who are not prepared or able to think for themselves will read that and say, "Oh, those terrible, sneaky Republicans. How could they be so dishonest."
But people who don't swallow spin so easily would ask questions. Questions like, "How 'abrupt' can it be when everyone in the world knew this was going on, and was advertised heavily?" And, "How is it the Democrats were "sleep-deprived" and Republicans were not - what were the Democrats doing all night that Republicans were not?" And, Why did the Democrats not 'realize what was happening' when they knew exactly what they were in session for - they could not possibly have missed it."
In other words, any thinking person, regardless of which side you are on, would realize that HuffPost, AOL and AP have no intention of being objective or telling you the truth.
And just for the record - the bill does not eliminate collective bargaining. It simply limits it to things like wages. What they would NOT be able to bargain for is absurd freebies like getting free Viagra which costs taxpayers $700 million. If they want to screw us, they will have to do it without Viagra - or at least without taxpayers paying for it. That just adds insult to injury.
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