{"id":4585,"date":"2012-06-11T22:13:09","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T03:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=4585"},"modified":"2012-06-11T22:14:25","modified_gmt":"2012-06-12T03:14:25","slug":"burrus-says-the-actions-of-white-males-as-a-group-are-inconsistent-with-logic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2012\/06\/11\/burrus-says-the-actions-of-white-males-as-a-group-are-inconsistent-with-logic\/","title":{"rendered":"Burrus Says The Actions of White Males As A Group Are Inconsistent With Logic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/burrus-journal.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4586\" title=\"burrus-journal\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/burrus-journal-150x150.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In his recent editorial &#8216;THE RECORD&#8217; former APWU president Bill Burrus details HIS opinion as to why the incumbent Wisconsin governor (Scott Walker) came out a winner in the recent recall election. We all know that many postal employees, of ALL races, fought hard and long against Gov. Walkers&#8217; actions and his election.<\/p>\n<p>In his editorial Burrus states <em>&#8220;The results are that approximately 70% of white males voted to end collective bargaining, reduce wages and benefits for government workers and these same politicians oppose birth control, Social Security, Medicare and tax cuts for the wealthy.&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0 He further states<em> &#8220;The point of my post is that white males vote contrary to their interest and the statistics confirm this inconsistency.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So, are we to believe that white males are this nations enemies? This may well be true&#8230;IF you share Burrus&#8217; opinion.<\/p>\n<p>Burrus tells readers <em>&#8220;Using money as an excuse, the question turns then to why the negative campaigning appeals more to white males than others? So whatever the excuse, the record shows that their actions as a group are inconsistent with logic. The record speaks for itself. Go figure!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.burrusjournal.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read Burrus Editioral Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What are your thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his recent editorial &#8216;THE RECORD&#8217; former APWU president Bill Burrus details HIS opinion as to why the incumbent Wisconsin governor (Scott Walker) came out a winner in the recent recall election. We all know that many postal employees, of ALL races, fought hard and long against Gov. Walkers&#8217; actions and his election. In his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editors-section","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4585"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4590,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4585\/revisions\/4590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}