Governor Walker is the rock star for the Tax Payers, for the Tea Party, for every Tom and Patty taxpayer, including California residents such as myself, who are tired of one class or workers bullying and prodding legislators to vote them benefits, perks, and largesse at the expense of the state and the taxpayer.
Our schools suffer because of union stone-walling. Our public works programs are losing countless millions in underfunded liabilities which are benefitting a limited section of individuals at the expense of everyone else.
A new breed of executive is taking shape across the country. From Chris Christie in New Jersey to Chris Cuomo in New York, and even reluctantly Governor Jerry "Moonbeam" Brown, governors in bankrupt statehouses are forcing massive cuts in spending, entitlements, and future benefits. Even liberal politicians are preaching and practicing austerity, and they are not suffering a massive backlash from their base or the middle-class voters. Even Governor Luis Fortuno of Puerto Rico, a nation whose government employed one third of the country's working population, had to cut spending and institute massive lay-offs just to ensure that the state had enough money to cover the next month's payroll.
The tide is turning against big government and easy payouts. We prize and respect the role of public workers, but not to the degree that they receive massive salaries while making minuscule contributions. These cozy relationships between union hall and statehouse are no longer sustainable.
Wisconsin is shifting into a red state. What are the Wisconsin values that Tom Barrett has been braying on about? In this new era of limited government, the true progressives are the libertarian, limited government, and the respecters of constitutional rule who demand that local, state, and federal governments serve everyone, not just a political linked class of unions who spend money that is not theirs to get more money that is also not theirs.
I do not dispute at all that workers have the right to organize, but the power of collective bargaining belongs not to the public sector, because the state simply cannot stop the assembly line, the way that private corporations can without severely disrupting commerce.
Congratulations to Governor Walker, his Republican core, and the voters of Wisconsin who have refused to permit the static progressivism of years past to stall the future of the Dairy State.
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