Here's Hoping Wisconsinitis Goes Viral

Wisconsin is just the beginning, with any luck. We'll probably see the inverse in Sacramento. Private sector protests as (Jerry) Brown and his Merry Pranksters concoct new and wondrous ways to funnel money to public worker unions, who will in turn, funnel some of it back to Jerry and Friends. And I love these people who feel cheated by Governor Walker's "legislative gimmick" but cheered their own representatives as they ran away and hid in Illinois. They used their gimmick and Walker used his. The whining would be unseemly if it weren't coming from a group of people who have repeatedly proven that they are spoiled, chronic entitlement whores. And I don't care that it was Walker's goal all along to dismantle the Unions. Public worker unions have to, and ultimately will be, broken. I'm a little tired of being extorted by people who are supposed to be providing me a service. Especially when we're already paying a premium for that service and by just about any objective measure that service is sub-standard (California Teachers, anyone?). A system that pays government workers more than their private sector counterparts is not only unfair (a favorite liberal buzzword) it's unsustainable. They can't be paid at all until someone in the private sector produces and sells a product or service on the open market. The government takes some of that money from the "producer" and gives it to the government employee for providing a service that the government has mandated that the "producer" must use. It's a racket whose end is near, at least at current hyper-inflated benefit levels. Right or wrong, the people who subsidize the system must earn more than those receiving the benefits of that subsidy. That's basic math, which is neither liberal nor conservative.