Posted on 03/17/2011 12:47:01 PM PDT by Nachum
Governor Scott Walker may not have started out with the intention of making himself a national figure in the fight for fiscal sanity, but he’s not backing away from the role thrust on him by union protests and fleebagging Democrats. In today’s Washington Post, Walker accuses the unions of selective outrage, pointing out that his reforms of collective bargaining for public-employee unions still leave Wisconsin workers with more leverage than federal workers. Why haven’t unions blanketed the White House in protest signs and dictator references?
Imagine the outrage if government workers did not have collective bargaining for wages and benefits. Consider the massive protests that would be staged by labor leaders all across the country.
Think I’m talking about Wisconsin? No, I’m talking about the federal government.
Contrary to what the Obama administration would lead you to believe, most employees of the federal government do not have collective bargaining for wages and benefits. That means the budget reform plan we signed into law in Wisconsin on Friday is more generous than what President Obama offers federal employees.
This is a point that has been made repeatedly in the conservative blogosphere, and even to some extent in the media, but it’s interesting to see Walker raise the point as the lead-in to an essay in the Post, of all places. The point should go even further. Union bosses like Richard Trumka and Andy Stern had weekly — or better — access to the White House over the last two years. If collective bargaining for PEUs is what protects the middle class against Mubarak- and Hitler-like tyrants, then how is it that these labor leaders can even sit at the same table as a despot like Barack Obama?
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LOL nice question.
Mock them and point out the hypocracy. I like it.
I sure like Scott Walker.
GOOD QUESTION!!!
Oh yeh, he is their guy, that’s why!
GOOD QUESTION!!!
Oh yeh, he is their guy, that’s why!
GOOD QUESTION!!!
Oh yeh, he is their guy, that’s why!
GOOD QUESTION!!!
Oh yeh, he is their guy, that’s why!
GOOD QUESTION!!!
Oh yeh, he is their guy, that’s why!
What’s so funny is one of the heads of the union was recently bragging how he visited the WH a couple of times a week and didn’t he call Obama quite often.
And the unions trust their leaders? LOL They have been screwed by them.
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