NBC/WSJ poll: 62% against stripping public employees' bargaining rights

[sinkingfeeling]

Source: MSNBC.com

Strong majorities of Americans say they are comfortable with states requiring their employees to pay more for their retirement and health care to balance state budget deficits, according to the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.

But the public is adamantly against eliminating public employees' collective-bargaining rights -- as Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) is pursuing.

In the poll, a whopping 68 percent find it acceptable requiring public employees to contribute more of their pay for retirement benefits; 63 percent are fine with requiring these employees to pay more for their health-care benefits; and 58 percent are OK with freezing public employees' salaries for one year.



Read more: http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/03/02/6171265-nbcwsj-poll-62-against-stripping-public-employees-bargaining-rights

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Amazing. Maybe there is some hope.

[marmar]

1. 33 percent are hopelessly brainwashed.

nt

[aggiesal]

7. So here's what baffles my mind ...

Wisconsin Republicans besides the obvious union busting that is so transparent,
they want their state employees to pay an addition 8% towards their pension.
but are willing to give $140M to the Gov. Walker "Donors"?

Same thing is happening at the Federal level. Republicans have the Bush tax
cuts extended for another 2 years, and then turn around and want the govt to
cut at the social services level.

How do these bastards continue to get elected?

[No Elephants]

10. My thought exactly.

[Blue Owl]

2. Hear that, Scott-tay?

Let the recall proceed.

[progressoid]

3. I don't think he's listening to the people.

Someone else is shouting in his ear.

[Bozita]

4. Admiral Yamamoto was right about waking a sleeping giant

[truedelphi]

5. You'd never know

From reading MSM, that the protesters aren't wild eyed and unreasonable folks with absolutely no support outside of their small cult-ish groups.

Never a word about the Koch brothers, or the infamous "energy" monopoly paragraph inside the legislation, at least not in the force fed crappola the MSM provides us with.

[Kingofalldems]

6. Can't argue with that.

K and R

[NeoConsSuck]

8. That's expected

The WSJ is, after all, left wing fishwrap.
:sarcasm:

I wonder if Gov. Christie is going to blame these results on the liberal media the way he did with the NYT/CBS poll, which came to the same conclusions?

[ellenrr]

9. I wouldn't call 62% a whopping majority.

Not to be a damp towel, but I'd call it a slim majority and pitiful.

85% is a strong majority, 62% is not.
I bet in most European countries, even tho today they also are turning right, just not as sharply as America, I bet you'd find much larger majorities.

[PassingFair]

11. What the F***! What is WITH 28 -32% of the population?

Why is it always 28-32%?

What is wrong with that group?

What do they all have in common?

Religion? Greed? Stupidity?


It's a big enough group to foul things
up at all times. And they NEVER waver.

[fascisthunter]

12. BLOWBACK!