was very civil. we didn t have any problems. i can t anticipate problems from people in wisconsin. what worries me is people come in from other states. you can be passionate about the issues but you don t have to be uncivil in the way that you do that. we ll continue to do that into the future. governor, before you go i m proud of the people in wisconsin. you ll be addressing the people of wisconsin at 7:00 tonight. what do you plan to say? do you plan to address the one area that perhaps is is causing the most controversy, which is the issue of shared sacrifice? and the union worker feeling like they re being asked to carry much more of a burden. will you be addressing that? well, i m going to be talking about examples that i mentioned. the fact that the factory worker who has been unemployed for two years, the single mom, the small business owner, all of those people have pointed out that over the last several years since the economy started to
our rights are not guaranteed by collective bargaining, they are gawd by civil service system in the state. civil service includes merit hiring and just cause when it comes to termination. those don t expire in collective bargaining and a lot of folks that are being motivated by the unionship don t recognize those rights are not because of the collective bargaining they are because of the civil service system. for those outside the government who overwhelmingly are paying more than double what we re asking for in this measure, they look and say where do i sign up for this? this is remarkable. every factory worker i talked who is paying 25-50% for healthcare premiums who doesn t have a pension and has to pay
in the country. civil service protections inclut merit hiring and just cause when it comes to discipline and termination. those rights don t expire when collective bargaining adjustments we proposed in this measure. those rights and a lot of folks outside weren t being motivated by the union leadership don t fully reck nigh the rights are not because of collective bargaining. for those outside of government who overwhelmingly are paying more than double what we re asking for, they say where do i sign up for this? every guy, every factory worker i talk to this last week is paying 25 to 50% for their health care premiums, who doesn t have a pension. who has to pay into a 401(k).
gawd by civil service system in the state. civil service includes merit hiring and just cause when it comes to termination. those don t expire in collective bargaining and a lot of folks that are being motivated by the unionship don t recognize those rights are not because of the collective bargaining they are because of the civil service system. for those outside the government who overwhelmingly are paying more than double what we re asking for in this measure, they look and say where do i sign up for this? this is remarkable. every factory worker i talked who is paying 25-50% for healthcare premiums who doesn t have a pension and has to pay 401-k. every one looks and say, i don t
that weren t going to come back into the economy. and unless we address things like how do we have middle class factory worker, educated in a way that he or she can have a job in this new economy? until and unless the president and the congress answer that kind of question, he s going to be facing a tough, tough election race because he s going into it with the kind of unemployment rate that traditionally just does not get an incumbent re-elected. that s what he has to figure out. how does he make people feel better about their prospect for employment? and one of the other big stories is afghanistan. here we are facing still two wars but principally what are we going to do in afghanistan? 82% say that afghanistan war has either gotten worse or stayed the same over the past three months. right. we have even a bigger, again, the structural question beneath that. how do you fight the two wars in iraq and afghanistan? how do you sustain the broader