Wisconsin Recall 2012--Aka The Giant Money sink-- Walker up 9%

[DarthVolod]

gergroy said:

killerzX said:
freedom and liberty lives on!

with a $3.6 billion deficit turned into a budget surplus in 1 1/2 years, and with unemployement at 6.7% and going down. how could you not like this guy.
not to mention he passed voter ID, and actually let people choose if they want to be in the union or not, they used to be forced in it.

He has done some good things for his state, for sure, but he is also incredibly polarizing.  I don't think any politician can be effective if he or she drives people to extremes of like/dislike.  Good politicians build bridges, they don't burn them down.  That being said, I'm glad he won.  The recall was a joke and should have never happened.  I don't agree with the taking away of collective bargaining for everything but pay (I am a school teacher,) but I fully support the option of opting out of the union.  Nobody should be forced to join an organization against their will.  

It actually amazed me how upset the unions got over what Scott Walker did.  I live in Utah and we have pretty much the same set up here as what he implemented, it isn't that big of a deal and that is coming from a teacher.  

It is really no mystery here in regards to the union unrest. If people are not forced to join the union and pay union dues then a significant amount of public employees will choose not too (only the real diehards that are actually convinced the unions are helping anyone but themselves will keep paying, and even they will give up when they realize that they could use that money to line their own pockets and not some union boss's).

These unions had a very sweet scam set up for the longest time in Wisconsin, and Scott Walker rattled their cages to say the least by letting people choose not to join and pay ... he also clamped down on the other shady operations they had going with collective bargaining and their one provider of health insurance which was union controlled.

With the failure of this recall I think the unions need to finally accept that they had a good scam while it lasted, and this the end of the line for them. It doesn't matter wher you stand idealogically, what Scott Walker has done is just a small taste of the deep cuts that will be necessary to keep this country going at least for a little while longer.

Austrian economists have warned us about the perils of radical government spending for decades. Unfortunately, there are many people who are now  dependent (just as was intended) on the current system which is why we saw such a backlash to the rather trivial reforms that Scott Walker created.