Cheese headed unions

Public employees protested hard, loud, and ugly in the Wisconsin State Capitol this week. Many of them teachers who called in sick. State Democrats just picked up and left ^[1]the state. All this to stop legislation that would limit collective bargaining rights for unionized public employees. Governor Scott Walker has to address a $3.6 billion state shortfall before the state becomes insolvent and no one gets paid. The Republican governor decided to cut an expenditure, which,  after some post-protest concessions, essentially just curbs state pensions. He can do that or raise taxes on the majority of Wisconsinites who pay for their own pensions. Which would you do?

Most modern day American labor protests are inordinate. If you don’t like what someone pays you, then spend your lunch breaks and weekends for the next 6 months looking for another job or developing another skill, and move on. I know it’s not that simple, but neither is appeasing every citizen in a bad economy. Unions create this fabricated class warfare plight of the working man. The U.S. is a wealthy country, where people protest to save their $400,000 homes.  It’s not like the Middle East where people protest to save their lives. Unions were created at a time when they were needed, like the early 1900’s when 8 year-old children were working in sausage factories. Now there are laws in place to protect workers from real exploitation.

These particular Wisconsin protests are even more  disreputable because of the content of their dissent. Protestors are actually comparing their hardships to those in the Middle East, and Walker to Mubarak.  Making comparisons like that brings attention, but no respect. Mubarak is a dictator who suppressed opposition and stole from his people.  Walker is an elected state governor taking measured action against a debt crisis. These people are exactly what is wrong with America. They use terms like Hitler and racist and the rich like a pre-teen who calls her dad a “dictator” for not letting her stay out past midnight. It is time for the Democrats to return to Madison. And it is time for the public employees to get back to work, and start paying into their own pensions like everyone else.