Wisconsin Pt. 3 The People Are Standing

Another weekend of CNN, CNBC, and host of other news channels so-called reporting on the issues brought to the front by the Labor struggle in Wisconsin.  The more I look and read on this issue, the more I become certain that the claim of Public Servants should not be entitled to bargaining rights is BOGUS!  The fact of the matter is that Public Employee Unions are feared because of their collective strength.  With that strength comes collective power, just ask Former D.C. Mayor Fenty.  The real struggle is to curtail the employee's benefits and to undercut the collective strength of Public Sector Unions.  This has nothing to do with managing the Public Sector more efficiently or producing cost savings.  Its about undercutting the political strength, the same strength that put President Obama in office which is the same strength that ran Ardrian Fenty out of town. 

Out of this struggle has come something very pleasing.  The people are standing up!  The people are coming together in unity!  You may not like your Union representatives locally, you may not see the value of Unions, but one thing for sure is that if you have no collective bargaining rights many things we take for granted will be those same things we will then be willing to unite and fight for to regain.

You could strip the workers of all benefits and collective bargaining rights and state, local and federal governments would still be broke.  They not us put the nation in debt to many trillions of dollars.  I don't recall one Union paying 500 million dollars for a stadium that sits half empty during baseball season.  I don't recall the Union creating 100 million dollar tax breaks for companies to build stores.  What about Wall Street who made trillions by creating bad mortgages, then doubled their money on the back end when the taxpayers bailed out their losses to the tune of multi trillions of dollars.  IN FACT WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE OVER TAXPAYERS MONEY BEING USED TO BAIL OUT GOLDMAN AND SACHS AND MAJOR BANKS?  They on Capitol Hill are spending the CITIZENS money in the mutli trillions of dollars with maybe less than 1% going toward Union Benefits, that is where the outrage should be happening.