I don’t know how much time you spend in a day thinking about or reading up on Wisconsin, but this is an amazing development: the new Republican Governor, Scott Walker, and the Republican state legislature are aggressively combatting the public employee unions that are attempting to drag Wisconsin down into fiscal insolvency the way these same Democrat-loyal unions loot treasuries in all the blue states, like here in Illinois. The unions are killing this country.
I don’t know any other way to say that.
One of the most liberating moments of my life came in 2008, after I realized the Democrat Party was no longer something I belonged to, when I finally said out loud what I had always known in my heart but had forever been peer-pressured not to admit in a Democrat-controlled city: the unions are killing this country.
I grew up in Cleveland, where the unions killed the steel and automaking jobs in the 80s and 90s. They killed almost all of the manufacturing jobs pretty much wherever there was a factory anywhere coast to coast, actually.
Now, the public employee unions are killing entire cities, counties, and states because of the stranglehold they have on depleted budgets.
People who work for the government and are paid out of the tax coffers should not be unionized and have collective bargaining powers.
The government should not exist to provide union workers with jobs for life and a Shah’s ransom of benefits (the likes of which those in the private sector can only dream of, dumbfounded).
Government workers should exist to provide a needed public service, for which they should be compensated fairly, not lavishly.
I am sure you have met many government workers in your lifetime. I invite you to list all of whom deserve all the perks, benefits, and mandatory salary increases they enjoy in perpetuity.
Now, we clearly don’t live in a world where what “should” happen does, and that’s not going to change.
But it sure looks like what’s happening in Wisconsin is a step in the right direction.
