# Govenor Scott Walker (R) WI **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 17, 2011, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/govenor-scott-walker-r-wi/571743 "2011-02-17T20:56:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 58
**Author:** ![TravisFromOR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cc9497/32.png) [@TravisFromOR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TravisFromOR)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2011, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/govenor-scott-walker-r-wi/571743/1143 "2011-03-06T03:30:04Z")
> [@superslug](#): > > Over-priced gold? What’s going for? Is gold worth more or is a dollar worth less? I wish I _had_ bought gold twenty years ago… So you actually believe that the price of gold will climb unchecked? You _are_ an idiot. (BTW: 20 years ago, when the price of gold was low, it was a good investment. In the good old 2010s, when the price of gold is high, it’s a sucker bet. Beck and his cronies are laughing their asses off at you poor schmucks.) ---
**Author:** ![superslug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e56c9b/32.png) [@superslug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/superslug)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2011, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/govenor-scott-walker-r-wi/571743/1144 "2011-03-06T03:33:57Z")
> [@TravisFromOR](#): > > So you actually believe that the price of gold will climb unchecked? > > You _are_ an idiot. > > (BTW: 20 years ago, when the price of gold was low, it was a good investment. In the good old 2010s, when the price of gold is high, it’s a sucker bet. Beck and his cronies are laughing their asses off at you poor schmucks.) Wow… Reading comprehension is not your strong point is it? ---
**Author:** ![Zeriel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/58956e/32.png) [@Zeriel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeriel)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2011, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/govenor-scott-walker-r-wi/571743/1145 "2011-03-06T03:46:08Z")
He’s better at reading comprehension than you are at forming a coherent, logically backed argument. ---
**Author:** ![superslug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e56c9b/32.png) [@superslug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/superslug)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2011, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/govenor-scott-walker-r-wi/571743/1146 "2011-03-06T03:51:31Z")
Maybe… BUT… To get back to the premise of this thread (twenty-three pages can’t be wrong)… Collective bargaining among public employees goes against the public interest. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2011, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/govenor-scott-walker-r-wi/571743/1147 "2011-03-06T03:54:45Z")
> [@superslug](#): > > Collective bargaining among public employees goes against the public interest. Why would public employees bargain with each other? ---
**Author:** ![Zeriel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/58956e/32.png) [@Zeriel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeriel)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2011, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/govenor-scott-walker-r-wi/571743/1148 "2011-03-06T03:59:36Z")
> [@superslug](#): > > Maybe.. BUT… To get back to the premise of this thread (twenty-three pages can’t be wrong)… > > Collective bargaining among public employees goes against the public interest. If Harry Browne were alive today, he’d whack your ass with a boat paddle. ---
**Author:** ![superslug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e56c9b/32.png) [@superslug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/superslug)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2011, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/govenor-scott-walker-r-wi/571743/1149 "2011-03-06T04:00:00Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Why would public employees bargain with each other? The main reason that it goes against the public interest. ---
**Author:** ![superslug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e56c9b/32.png) [@superslug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/superslug)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2011, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/govenor-scott-walker-r-wi/571743/1150 "2011-03-06T04:04:25Z")
> [@Zeriel](#): > > If Harry Browne were alive today, he’d whack your ass with a boat paddle. Which is the main reason that the libertarian party can’t win an election. The vast majority of right wingers align themselves with the libertarian ideal, they just don’t like being constantly whacked in the ass with boat paddles… ---
**Author:** ![Zeriel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/58956e/32.png) [@Zeriel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeriel)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2011, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/govenor-scott-walker-r-wi/571743/1151 "2011-03-06T04:07:18Z")
> [@superslug](#): > > Which is the main reason that the libertarian party can’t win an election. The vast majority of right wingers align themselves with the libertarian ideal, they just don’t like being constantly whacked in the ass with boat paddles… Not being able to defend your talking-point assertions is against the public interest. ---
**Author:** ![superslug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e56c9b/32.png) [@superslug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/superslug)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2011, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/govenor-scott-walker-r-wi/571743/1152 "2011-03-06T04:08:01Z")
Ron Paul had to sell his canoe and hide his paddle to get elected… ---
**Author:** ![superslug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e56c9b/32.png) [@superslug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/superslug)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2011, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/govenor-scott-walker-r-wi/571743/1153 "2011-03-06T04:09:42Z")
> [@Zeriel](#): > > Not being able to defend your talking-point assertions is against the public interest. I defend my points just fine. It’s the fact that I won’t play by your rules that really irks you. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2011, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/govenor-scott-walker-r-wi/571743/1154 "2011-03-06T04:12:14Z")
“Paddle? Oh, hell no, this isn’t a paddle, paddles are statist and coercive, this is an oar! Totally different!” ---
**Author:** ![Zeriel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/58956e/32.png) [@Zeriel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeriel)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2011, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/govenor-scott-walker-r-wi/571743/1155 "2011-03-06T04:14:22Z")
> [@superslug](#): > > I defend my points just fine. It’s the fact that I won’t play by your rules that really irks you. Being named superslug is against the public interest. ---
**Author:** ![TravisFromOR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cc9497/32.png) [@TravisFromOR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TravisFromOR)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2011, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/govenor-scott-walker-r-wi/571743/1156 "2011-03-06T04:14:56Z")
> [@superslug](#): > > I defend my points just fine. It’s the fact that I won’t play by your rules that really irks you. Where have you defended your points? Repeating yourself isn’t defending your points. (Or is this one of our “rules” that you find distasteful?) ---
**Author:** ![Zeriel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/58956e/32.png) [@Zeriel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeriel)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2011, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/govenor-scott-walker-r-wi/571743/1157 "2011-03-06T04:15:43Z")
> [@superslug](#): > > Ron Paul had to sell his canoe and hide his paddle to get elected… Hiding your paddle is against the public interest. ---
**Author:** ![Zeriel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/58956e/32.png) [@Zeriel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeriel)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2011, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/govenor-scott-walker-r-wi/571743/1158 "2011-03-06T04:18:05Z")
> [@TravisFromOR](#): > > Where have you defended your points? > > Repeating yourself isn’t defending your points. (Or is this one of our “rules” that you find distasteful?) If this idiot doesn’t get banned as a troll soon, I think we should make this thread about the various things that are against the public interest. After all, in superslug world, asserting it makes it true! ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2011, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/govenor-scott-walker-r-wi/571743/1159 "2011-03-06T04:22:04Z")
> [@superslug](#): > > Some would say that FDR, being the good socialist that he was, just followed the socialist creed of never letting a good crisis go to waste and prolonging said crisis until the productivity boon of WWII pulled us out by our bootstraps. FDR was a member of the elite. He came from one of the richest and venerated families on the globe. You think he was a socialist? Fuck is that stupid. He was dealt a bad hand. A depression caused by the rich . People were starving and unemployment was even worse than it is now, Wealth distribution was almost as bad as it is today. it was an economic nightmare caused by the looters on top. Like any other industrial country, he had to set up institutions to keep people from starving. The poor and middle class still live in America. You can not give all the money to the people on top and keep the country together. It was a time of social unrest because capitalism was not working. He fixed a lot of it. Then we slowly killed his safeguards until it happened again. ---
**Author:** ![superslug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e56c9b/32.png) [@superslug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/superslug)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2011, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/govenor-scott-walker-r-wi/571743/1160 "2011-03-06T04:27:13Z")
> [@Zeriel](#): > > If this idiot doesn’t get banned as a troll soon, I think we should make this thread about the various things that are against the public interest. After all, in superslug world, asserting it makes it true! Because that’s what you do isn’t it? You ban people you don’t agree with. Of course… if you stopped taunting me I’d probably just get bored and go away. But instead… you call me names and try to get me to talk myself into a corner. I know this game. You try to change the subject… Single out one sentence or segment of a sentence that you can hone in on, misrepresent, build as a strawman then knock down. I won’t play that game. I completely expect to be banned. However, I have not spammed, threatened or harassed anyone here. So… When you do ban me… It means that you have banned me to silence me because you don’t like what I say. Which means… I ultimately win. ---
**Author:** ![superslug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e56c9b/32.png) [@superslug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/superslug)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2011, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/govenor-scott-walker-r-wi/571743/1161 "2011-03-06T04:28:42Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > FDR was a member of the elite. He came from one of the richest and venerated families on the globe. You think he was a socialist? Fuck is that stupid. > He was dealt a bad hand. A depression caused by the rich . People were starving and unemployment was even worse than it is now, Wealth distribution was almost as bad as it is today. it was an economic nightmare caused by the looters on top. > Like any other industrial country, he had to set up institutions to keep people from starving. The poor and middle class still live in America. You can not give all the money to the people on top and keep the country together. It was a time of social unrest because capitalism was not working. He fixed a lot of it. Then we slowly killed his safeguards until it happened again. How many americans starved during the great depression? ---
**Author:** ![Zeriel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/58956e/32.png) [@Zeriel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeriel)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2011, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/govenor-scott-walker-r-wi/571743/1162 "2011-03-06T04:35:15Z")
> [@superslug](#): > > I ultimately win. The funniest part is that you think you’re winning. The problem isn’t the cause you’re advocating for, it’s the fact you suck at it and keep spamming the same one-liner in lieu of evidence. I’m more of a libertarian than 90% of this board, and not only are you wrong, but you’re awful at it. > [@](#): > > Single out one sentence or segment of a sentence that you can hone in on, You’ve mostly only posted one sentence, ignatz. There ISN’T any nuance in “Public unions collectively bargaining is against the public interest.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/govenor-scott-walker-r-wi/571743.md?page=57) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/govenor-scott-walker-r-wi/571743.md?page=59)