{"id":18323,"date":"2011-02-22T07:39:23","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T13:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=18323"},"modified":"2011-02-22T07:39:23","modified_gmt":"2011-02-22T13:39:23","slug":"overreach-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=18323","title":{"rendered":"Overreach!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest Rasmussen Poll shows\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/general_politics\/february_2011\/48_back_gop_governor_in_wisconsin_spat_38_side_with_unions\"> likely voters are backing Walker<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 48% of Likely U.S. Voters agree more with the Republican governor in his dispute with union workers. Thirty-eight percent (38%) agree more with the unionized public employees, while 14% are undecided&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Thirty-eight percent (38%) of voters think teachers, firemen and policemen should be allowed to go on strike, but 49% disagree and believe they should not have that right. Thirteen percent (13%) are not sure.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Naturally there&#8217;s stark partisan divide.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Thirty-six percent (36%) of all voters say that in their state the average public employee earns more than the average private sector worker. Twenty-one percent (21%) say the government employee earns less, while 20% think their pay is about the same. Twenty-three percent (23%) are not sure.<\/p>\n<p>With states across the country finding that benefits for public workers are becoming difficult to fund in the current economic climate, support for public employee unions has fallen.\u00a0 Forty-five percent (45%) of Americans favor them, and 45% don\u2019t. These findings include 21% who Strongly Favor such unions and 30% who are Strongly Opposed to them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This can&#8217;t be good news to all the droogs in Madison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest Rasmussen Poll shows\u00a0 likely voters are backing Walker: A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 48% of Likely U.S. Voters agree more with the Republican governor in his dispute with union workers. Thirty-eight percent (38%) agree more with the unionized public employees, while 14% are undecided&#8230; &#8230;Thirty-eight percent (38%) of voters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18324,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18323\/revisions\/18324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}