Veteran political analyst and best-selling author Dick Morris says he sees an end in sight to the political turmoil that has gripped Wisconsin for weeks and that his new book – published this week – predicted and supports the governors’ revolution spreading across the United States, which is curtailing public-employee unions and promoting education reform.
“Once the [Wisconsin] governor has to actually start to layoff people, because the senators won’t come back and pass the cuts that are necessary – and refinance the bonds that are necessary to be refinanced – he will be able to stand up and say: ‘These are 100 people who have lost their jobs,’ because these guys [the senators] haven’t come back,” Morris. author of "Revolt! How to Defeat Obama and Repeal His Socialist Programs," said Wednesday on Fox News.
Host Bill O’Reilly asked Morris why Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has not yet taken any such action.
“Because he doesn’t have to yet, if he starts doing it just because there is a threat, people will say: ‘You are just ratcheting this up.’ But when the numbers dictate that he has to, which will come in a few days, they are going to have to come back,” Morris said, adding that he sees the situation resolving itself next week and “he wins, they lose.”
“The important thing to understand about this, that nobody is talking about – and [Wisconsin Gov. Scott] Walker is not talking about – is he talks about ‘I only want wages on the table when I do collective bargaining,’” Morris said.
“Well, the other step he is sweeping off the table, is largely very popular education reforms, that the union is blocking, and if he restricts collective bargaining to wages and benefits, he can go ahead and implement [them]: like teacher-tenure reform; like if there are layoffs, laying them off in order of merit, not based on seniority; merit pay.
“In other words, he needs to say what he is for, that he is for those reforms rather than just what he is against,” he said.
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“Once the [Wisconsin] governor has to actually start to layoff people, because the senators won’t come back and pass the cuts that are necessary – and refinance the bonds that are necessary to be refinanced – he will be able to stand up and say: ‘These are 100 people who have lost their jobs,’ because these guys [the senators] haven’t come back,” Morris. author of "Revolt! How to Defeat Obama and Repeal His Socialist Programs," said Wednesday on Fox News.
Host Bill O’Reilly asked Morris why Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has not yet taken any such action.
“Because he doesn’t have to yet, if he starts doing it just because there is a threat, people will say: ‘You are just ratcheting this up.’ But when the numbers dictate that he has to, which will come in a few days, they are going to have to come back,” Morris said, adding that he sees the situation resolving itself next week and “he wins, they lose.”
“The important thing to understand about this, that nobody is talking about – and [Wisconsin Gov. Scott] Walker is not talking about – is he talks about ‘I only want wages on the table when I do collective bargaining,’” Morris said.
“Well, the other step he is sweeping off the table, is largely very popular education reforms, that the union is blocking, and if he restricts collective bargaining to wages and benefits, he can go ahead and implement [them]: like teacher-tenure reform; like if there are layoffs, laying them off in order of merit, not based on seniority; merit pay.
“In other words, he needs to say what he is for, that he is for those reforms rather than just what he is against,” he said.
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