Thoughts on Governor Walker and the Recall Efffort Against Him

Governor Scott Walker said collective bargaining "is not a right," as many union supporters assert, but rather "an expensive entitlement."

I could not agree more. Workers have a right to peaceable assembly, according the First Amendment of the Constitution; but they do not have a right to disassemble the public sectors which they work for into pieces.

The attempt by rabid public sector unions in Madison only highlighted to the watching world that public sector unions care predominantly for their own interests, not the services of the state or the needs of the voting public.

By requiring public workers to contribute more to their health care and pensions and by stripping public sector unions of their collective bargaining rights, Governor Walker and the Republican caucus in Madison demonstrated a caring and consistent respect for the taxpayer in Wisconsin, including the public workers themselves, whom Walker would have been forced to lay off in large numbers but for the structural budget reforms that he and his party enacted last year.

The recall effort against Governor Walker will succeed in accomplishing one thing; solidifying individual, state-wide, and national solidarity against public sector unions, which is long over due.