Keeping on Walking, Governor Walker

Governor Scott Walker and his Republican caucus have done well by the voters of Wisconsin. He should not be recalled.

Public sector unions have been demonizing any move that accords more power to the community and their voters. However, it is unconscionable for the public workers to demand more of what the state has less to spend. Everyone, public and private, rich and working class, must contribute to the shared sacrifice necessary to salvage the state's fiscal solvency.

Unions have no right to bully the states which they serve. In Wisconsin, Governor Walker's budget reforms required union members to contribute a modestly increased amount towards their pensions and benefits, still a third less than required of private sector employees. The unions have no right to complain, considering that if they had held onto their generous pension packages, the state of Wisconsin would have been forced to lay off a large number of workers and cut vital services.

To appraise the devasting fall-out of such organized selfish, one need only look at the New Jersey teachers' unions, in which teacher layoffs and widespread school closures resulted from public workers' refusal to share in the state's sacrifice.

The voters of the state of Wisconsin should be commended for sticking up for the rights and needs of all, not just organized labor.

The states do not need more state workers. State workers need to work more, instead of picketing at length in the capital demanding more of the same exorbitant entitlements at the expense of the cash-strapped taxpayer.

Despite the raucous rallying cry for the recall of Governor Walker, I believe that widespread and growing support for the Republicans' budget reforms will more than dissuade current voters from throwing out of office a dedicated executive who put the needs his state and constituents over a cabal of vocal public-sector unions.