Milwaukee Teachers Union Fight to Keep Viagra

Personally I consider Viagra a recreational drug. I was walking in Amsterdam last year and the local drug dealer offered me hashish, mushrooms, and Viagra.

some are following red herrings here. Here is the real deal of what is going on:

IMO, this governor is trying to usurp enormous power in this "budget bill". He brought it up last Friday and wanted a vote to bring it into law by the next Thursday. There is no budget crisis. Wisconsin is headed (without the bill) to a multi-million dollar surplus this year according to their own budget office and their budget year doesn't happen until 6/30/11 anyway, so there is plenty of time. Actually, the Republicans are trying to execute a multi-state strategy here. Union Busting is being attempted in a dozen states right now. Couple that with the Supreme Court's ruling that businesses can contribute endless amounts of campaign contributions without reporting it and we'll soon be to the "bake-sale vs. the billionaires" in American politics. The very wealthy will continue to become more wealthy and that will be life in the US... all brought to you by well meaning folks that are being manipulated by the rich and powerful to get "their boys" in office so they can get richer.

edited to add missing word (be) to make better sense of next to last sentence and correction on location thanks to ss109

SS109 wrote: Personally I consider Viagra a recreational drug. I was walking in Amsterdam last year and the local drug dealer offered me hashish, mushrooms, and Viagra.

Wow!! That's quite a cocktail!!

LJ, you ought go jump off a cliff with your guitar.

Wily Weasel wrote: some are following red herrings here. Here is the real deal of what is going on:

IMO, this governor is trying to usurp enormous power in this "budget bill". He brought it up last Friday and wanted a vote to bring it into law by the next Thursday. There is no budget crisis. Minnesota is headed (without the bill) to a multi-million dollar surplus this year according to their own budget office and their budget year doesn't happen until 6/30/11 anyway, so there is plenty of time. Actually, the Republicans are trying to execute a multi-state strategy here. Union Busting is being attempted in a dozen states right now. Couple that with the Supreme Court's ruling that businesses can contribute endless amounts of campaign contributions without reporting it and we'll soon be to the "bake-sale vs. the billionaires" in American politics. The very wealthy will continue to become more wealthy and that will be life in the US... all brought to you by well meaning folks that are being manipulated by the rich and powerful to get "their boys" in office so they can get richer.

edited to add missing word (be) to make better sense of next to last sentence

Isn't Milwaukee in Wisconsin?
I think Minnesota elected the Democratic heir of the Target fortune as their Governor. Doesn't it seem that more Democratic politicians got their personal wealth from Daddy, Dayton, Kennedy, Kohl, etc.

You're right... I wrote that without thinking... I had Garrison Keillor on the brain.. I'll go correct the original post. THANKS