Teachers Bring Students to Protest Rally

I'm sharing most of what Rush had to say in his opening segment about the protests in Wisconsin as the state government attempts to break the Unions - which are driving Wisconsin and other states into bankruptcy.

Kids still have to go to school, apparently...but instead of being in the school room the teachers are bringing them to the protest rallies. Now, that isn't right.
Folks, I don't think the people in Wisconsin, the unions, the teachers, and some of the protesters, I don't think they got the memo on civility. Have you seen what's going on? I mean this is Greece! It's Greece. All of these people who live off the largesse of taxpayers are just marching in the streets, calling in sick. Schools have been closed in parts of Wisconsin today for fog. There isn't any. Well, there's certainly not enough in these areas where it's been canceled. We have some photos I want to show you from the protests in Wisconsin. Let me turn the Dittocam off while I zoom in here and get this. I don't want you to see the zoom-in happen.

All right, now this first one is self-explanatory for those of you watching on the Dittocam. "Hosni + Hitler = Dictator Scott Walker." Scott Walker, the dictator governor of Wisconsin. Okay, that's one of them. Here's another one. "Down with dictators, one to go." That's a picture of Hosni Mubarak on top there. Let me zoom in even tighter on this one if we can. Down with dictators, one down and one to go. Mubarak in the upper right, Scott Walker, the mayor of Wisconsin in the lower left. I don't know if Biden has weighed in on whether he's a dictator or not.

Now, this next picture for those of you watching on the Dittocam, this is people carrying the sign, "Hosni + Hitler = Dictator Scott Walker." I got a picture here, these are the union thugs, as you can see right there. These are the union thugs that are carrying the picture. This is just a sample of three pictures that we have seen out there of the protesters. We know people are being bussed in, by the way. It's not just people from Wisconsin. It's like during the Hawkeye Cauci in early 2008, Obama had a bunch of people bussed in from outside Iowa to go to the Hawkeye Cauci, and we have some sound bites on this. Obama last night in Milwaukee, correspondent Charles Benson interviewed Obama. He said, "Thousands are marching on Madison as we speak. Unions and state employees are angry at Governor Walker. Walker's talking about potentially bringing out the National Guard. They're worried that they're gonna lose their right to bargain, forced to pay more for their benefits."

OBAMA: I haven't followed exactly what's happening with the Wisconsin budget. I've got some budget problems here in Washington.

RUSH: BS.

OBAMA: I would say as a general proposition that everybody's gotta make some adjustments to new fiscal realities. I think those kinds of adjustments are the right thing to do.

RUSH: "I haven't followed exactly what's happening with the Wisconsin budget." BS. His buddies at the SEIU and the teachers unions are right in on it. But there's an interesting story. It's all about how the Democrats, a lot of them now understand here that what's going on with the unions cannot be sustained, even Democrats do, some teachers unions particularly because there's no performance here. Everybody knows the schools are not performing. The students are not performing. It was kind of an interesting story, frankly. I'll see if I can find it somewhere in the stack. Obama sounds somewhat sympathetic to Governor Walker. "I would say as a general proposition that everybody's gotta make some adjustments to new fiscal realities." He could be talking to the teachers, union guys. But realizing what he had done, Obama then continued with this.


OBAMA: Some of what I've heard coming out of Wisconsin where you're just making it harder for public employees to collectively bargain generally seems like more of an assault on unions. Public employees, they're our neighbors. They're our friends. These are folks who are teachers and they're firefighters and they're social workers and they're police officers. You know, they make a lot of sacrifices and make a big contribution, and I think it's important not to vilify them or to suggest that somehow all these budget problems are due to public employees.

RUSH: Who's vilifying 'em? We just don't have the money to pay them. Nobody's vilifying them. It's just the money isn't there to pay them. Now, Walker is threatening to call out the National Guard to do the jobs of the people who are calling in sick. The media makes it sound like he's calling out the guard to crack down on the protesters. Mr. Vilify himself, what does he call it, tea baggers? Big Oil. Big Bank. This guy vilifies everybody he considers to be one of his enemies. But it's important not to vilify these people, his friends, they're our neighbors and we don't have the money. The money simply isn't there. Scott Walker ran on this premise and he is implementing this premise, and despite the protests, you don't see the average citizens in Wisconsin joining them and saying throw the guy out. Lena Taylor is a state senator, Democrat in Wisconsin. She spoke to a reporter in Madison yesterday, said this.

TAYLOR: The history of Hitler in 1933, he abolished unions, and that's what our governor is doing today.

RUSH: Okay, so here comes the official comparison to Adolf Hitler. Apparently Lena Taylor did not get the memo on civility. The history of Hitler in 1933, he abolished unions, and that's what our governor is doing today. We'll skip number six and we'll skip number seven. Let's go back to Paul Ryan here. This is this morning on Morning Joe on MSNBC. Mika Brzezinski, the cohost, said, "Governor Scott Walker, what he's asking of state workers there, what do you make of the stand he's taking and have you been in contact with him at all?"

RYAN: It's not asking a lot. It's still about half of what private sector pensions do and health care packages do, so he's basically saying, "I want you public workers to pay half of what our private sector counterparts are," and he's getting riots. It's like Cairo has moved to Madison these days. People should be able to express their way but we've gotta get this deficit and debt under control in Madison.

RUSH: Right. And Walker is listening to the people, the people who elected him. He's doing what the people of Wisconsin want. He can't print money like Obama can. This is the thing these union people don't seem to understand. This guy is a Republican in Wisconsin, in Madison, he got elected on this agenda. He's doing what the people want. The opposite of what Mubarak did. They try to compare him to Hosni Mubarak. By the way, V. I. Lenin, Vladimir Lenin did away with unions, too. Well known communist did away with unions when he was ascending to power. The teachers got together, too, government union rally in opposition to Scott Walker. Here's a little bit of an exchange between an unidentified reporter and several unidentified students from Madison East High School.

REPORTER: No class today?

STUDENT: Nope. Our teachers brought us here today.

REPORTER: You guys protesting or are you testifying?

STUDENT: You know, I don't even really know. I guess we're protesting today.

STUDENT: Trying to stop whatever this dude is doing. (laughing)


RUSH: They don't even know! The Wisconsin teachers bringing the kids to the union protests and the kids are clueless! They don't even know what they're doing there. (imitating student) "I guess stop whatever the dude's doing." They can't even teach 'em how to protest properly, can't even inform them what they're going to protest when they take 'em. Last night on television, we had Russ Feingold, and he was asked the following question. This is all about Wisconsin. "The governor's line here is that this is about balancing the budget. What explains the distance between what he wants to do and what he's actually proposing?"

FEINGOLD: Well, the argument this is really about the budget process is phonier than a three-dollar bill. What he did last week was say basically on Thursday or Friday, "I want to take away all these rights of collective bargaining from people, and I want it done within the next five or six days." This is just a direct attack driven by corporate interests and the state in this country that they have been fantasizing about forever, which is to bust the unions, and that's what the agenda is. It is really not about the state budget. That's just simply phony.

RUSH: Russ Feingold, who wasn't reelected, was he? He wasn't reelected by the people of Wisconsin to return to Washington as their senator. They elected a corporate guy. The Wisconsin people elected a corporate guy. May be trying to bust the union; I don't know. But it is about the budget. It is most definitely about the budget. I wonder if the parents of these students gave permission for their children to attend these protests. These are ugly. You see some video, the protests are pretty ugly. I wonder if most parents want their children exposed to this. One more here from Feingold. Question: "Republican politics have become very homogenous on this issue in the way they weren't a generation ago. They're all very anti-employee, very pro-business, very, very anti-union. Are Democrats taking the other side of that fight?"

FEINGOLD: In our state we are. The Democratic Party here and the unions, both public and private, are unified. They're trying to somehow divide and conquer not only between private and public employees, they're trying to divide people within public employees. We're not gonna let Governor Walker acting as a shill, basically, for these corporations to destroy the rights of working people.

RUSH: So it's the same old traditional argument, the rights of working people are being trampled on. It's working people that are losing their jobs, real working, nonunionized people who are losing their jobs. Their unemployment benefits and tax dollars are being paid, being used to provide never ending pensions, health care benefits and so forth and so on. It is socialism on the march, it can't be sustained. We've reached the point it simply can't be sustained. This is the breaking point. And just like in Greece, you tell the freeloaders the free ride is over and they just raise hell, they just can't handle it. "What do you mean freeloaders and a free ride?" Look, when somebody else is paying for most of what you get in life, you're a freeloader. There's no other way to describe it. It may sound a little harsh, but that's why passions here are what they are. The people paying for this are losing their jobs. The people paying for all this don't make nearly the money the people they're paying make. It cannot be sustained. Anybody responsible for running a state has got to step in and reverse the trend. It's that simple.

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