Originally Posted by IllTestYourGirls

The FIRST modern day "tea party" was not in 2009,10 or 08 but in 2007.



As far as the protests in WI. Here is what former union leaders and FDR have to say about public unions "collective bargaining"

Former labor leader Mr. Meany

Former President of the AFL-CIO George Meany on government unions:
?It is impossible to bargain collectively with the government.?
Founders of the labor movement viewed unions as a vehicle to get workers more of the profits they help create. Government workers, however, don?t generate profits. They merely negotiate for more tax money. When government unions strike, they strike against taxpayers.

FDR:

FDR considered this ?unthinkable and intolerable.? "in terms of accepted collective bargaining procedures, government workers have no right beyond the authority to petition Congress?a right available to every... citizen."