Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Union Due

The last several weeks have seen public employees protesting with unprecedented fervor. What I find most interesting is how the same folks who were calling the Tea Party folks violent racists have now decided violence is an appropriate means to their ends. After all, the unions are unabashedly leftist, conservative hating, democrat dominated and politically motivated more than perhaps any other segment of our population.

What has been accepted as practice in Madison, Wisconsin, is vandalism on a staggering scale, overt violence toward a Fox News reporter, the encircling and threatening of a GOP State Senator and angry, hate filled, speech. When the chants of "shame, shame, shame" switched to "fuck you, fuck you, fuck you" even I was surprised at the depths to which the ingrates had sunk.

The public employees engaging in the protests in Madison were so beyond what would be considered "civil" behavior, I, as a citizen would like to see the whole bunch of them fired from their jobs and jailed for the various illegal acts they committed. The media tried over and over to manufacture hate and paint a picture of the Tea Party activists as gun toting, racist, bigoted, violent, homophobic, thugs. The public employees protesting in Madison demonstrated their hatred, used violence, intimidated a lawmaker and essentially kidnapped him (look up the definition) and destroyed or severely damaged public property. Where is all the outrage from the media?

Why is the American media so derelict in their duties? Well, it might have to do with the fact that most of them were schooled by public employees and have had hatred for the right programmed into them since they were in kindergarten. Somebody needs to let them know they need to experience and express a little gratitude or the public who is paying their wages is going to become disgruntled. The public is their paying customer after all and the wholesale contempt for anyone who might be sympathetic to the plight of Governor Walker, risks the fury of their anger.

We, the paying public, who are now questioning the huge paychecks, overly generous benefit packages and fat pensions are worthy of scorn, hatred and even violence if we dare challenge the great sacred cow of the public employee. They have become the caricature of the one who bites the feeding hand and even after latching on refuses to let go until they are clubbed into submission.

I believe Scott Walker had the best intentions but was misguided in one sense. He mixed the issue of balancing the State budget with the need to pare back the unmitigated power of public employee unions. The budget needed balancing but to handcuff the two issues together places the public employee unions right where Walker wanted them least, in the driver's seat. He needs to separate the two issues. Balance the budget then take on the bloated unions.

The unions would have been far more effectively dealt with through Right to Work legislation which could have been introduced separately and would likely have been less polarizing while gaining essentially the same net effect. Yes, I am in-fact available as a political consultant. Is anyone listening?

I believe a watered down version of Walker's proposal will eventually be passed. The Legislators who left the State should be recalled, or worse. The unions will begin to lose their grip on the throats of the taxpayers and ultimately, they will get their due. It is high time.