A More Perfect Dis-Union

The biggest issue I have with the conflict between Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and the teacher’s union is a bewilderment anyone in the public sector should have a union in the first place. Their salaries are paid for by taxpayers. Therefore, taxpayers are paying for these unions to extort more money from themselves. Talk about self-defeating. Why the heck would any private, taxpaying citizen support these protests? Are Wisconsin taxpayers so satisfied with the public school education their kids are getting, they want to fork over as much money as can possibly be squeezed out of them by teachers? One would think not.

I also marvel at the power these public sector unions have over the Democratic party. There is no counterpart for the republicans. As much as detractors would like to believe the GOP is under the control of the religious right, the NRA, Wall Street, defense contractors, or whatever other usual suspect paranoid progressives care to name, the fact is republicans have never and will never skip out en masses from a legislative session to avoid crossing any of thiet alleged puppet masters, even as a last resort. For Democrats, when it comes to public sector unions, running away is their first course of action.

Citizens take note--there is a a double whammy being suffered here. Public sector unions are using money we give them to force more money out of us in spite of the damage it may cause to other public services without any guarantee of any increase in quality of their provided service to justify the increased spending. Duly elected Democrats, fearful of their power to extort this money without any increased results, ignore the will of the people who elected them in order to protect the public unions’ continued racket.

The bottom line is that Wisconsinites are paying public unions more and more to get less and less other than screwed over at the same time they are paying Democrat legislators to run off and not do their jobs. Wisconsin is only the place where this circumstance is currently in the news. It is happening everywhere. A light just has not been shined on every case yet.