Madison Wisconsin: Just What Are the Demonstrators Demonstrating

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Big Government:


It was like a root canal without the benefit of Novocain, watching and listening to the harangue on RT (Russia Today) about how the protests in Madison Wisconsin, Cairo, Libya, Bahrain, and Tunis are all one in the same, that is, the people revolting against dictators who want to bring back feudalism. The protests in Madison are, actually, far more akin to the protests in Athens Greece. The throngs in Madison, like the protesters in Athens consist, primarily, of government workers who are unalterably opposed to government interference with the pension and benefit entitlements their unions have squeezed out of the taxpayers; never mind that such unfunded benefits have turned Greece, half of Europe and more than half of the states in America into financial basket cases.

Make no mistake about it. This is a very high-stakes dust-off with historic implications for the country. If the union and its AWOL, left-leaning legislator allies win, this spectacle becomes the game plan for government unions in every other state that has been brought to its knees by unreasonable, if not incompetent, agreements between government employees and, well, government employees who sit on both sides of the bargaining table. And if the Governor and his Republican allies win, their victory will show politicians in both parties how to unburden their constituents of the continued growth in these same, ever-growing, largely unfunded liabilities.