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[3Saints]

The issue is..public sector benefits/pensions can no longer be supported by the increasingly gouged taxpayer. When your property taxes start approaching 40-50% of your actual mortgage payment....I'd say things have gone way too far.

The TAXPAYES have spoken.........

[sideeki]

Wisconsin Recall Vote: Exit Poll Shows Key To Scott Walker Victory

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/05/wisconsin-recall-vote_n_1572662.html

...............The recall was often framed by both sides as a battle between Walker and Wisconsin's labor unions, but those lines were somewhat blurred on voting day. Walker won 38 percent of the vote among members of union households, exit polling shows, roughly reflecting the partisan breakdown among union members.

Those numbers are nearly identical to 2010, when Walker won among 37 percent of union household members in his race against Barrett for governor. Walker's foes had hoped that number would shrink. "If that doesn't change, then congratulations, they will have formed their own suicide squad," former Rep. David Obey (D-Wis.) told the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel...............