Ed Morrissey at Hot Air points out that…
The unions spent millions of dollars and over a year’s worth of effort to get a temporary one-seat majority in a chamber that will never meet in session. And that’s assuming that their lone win from last night holds up in a recount. Congratulations, Big Labor!
With Walker and Kleefisch crushing the opposition in Wisconsin, and redistricting likely to guarantee them, at minimum, two Republican seats and a return to a GOP majority in the State Senate come November, the Union/Democrat electoral ‘stimulus’ plan for Wisconsin appears to have had as much long term benefit as Obama’s Stimulus. Spend a lot of money, make a lot of noise, and get nothing useful in return. It’s the same failed policy everywhere you turn.
So congratulations, but before I finish, I’d like to add a message for New Hampshire legislators as well, particularity in the NH State Senate. There is a lesson here you had best learn.
Public union employees only represent a fraction of the taxpayers anywhere, and most of them can’t pay any taxes until someone else is first taxed to pay them. And while they make a lot of noise, write a lot of letters, and even threaten you from time to time, they are a fraction of the populace, and the noisy ones a fraction of the union. And somewhere in your book of political principles you might fine a notation about how taxpayers might find better ways to spend their hard earned money than on public employees who make more and have better benefits than they do, and can still manage to find the time to agitate for the constant increase of both.
So stop being afraid of the public sector unions. They are leeches on the budget and the wallets of the people at whose privelage they work. The sooner you give them the freedom to pay or not to pay dues, to become employed without a maintenance fee should they choose, to associate with unions freely or not according to their individual conscience, the sooner you will find them out of your hair and the opposition party without a guaranteed class of axe-grinding campaign donors to make your lives miserable.
