The whiners in Wisconsin refuse to do their "fair share." Are they going to resort to violence, these connoisseurs of peace and tranquility??

Wisconsin is in a state of revolt. The teacher unions in that state are saying "no" to a proposal to replace "collective bargaining" with individual assessments and contracts for each teacher and school staff member . . . . . . . . you know, kind of like all of the private labor force.

Collective bargaining, the central feature of unionization, is a collective wage negotiating strategy that ties individual wages [especially minimum wages] to the collective rather than to the negotiated wage and productive worth of the individual.

Understand that redistributive socialism demands that the employer has obligations to the larger society. A shop that has been overrun by a socialistic oriented union [not all unions are such] often frames the employer as evil because he cares for the "bottom line" as much or more than any other single consideration; no matter that this concern is his primary reason for being in business and without this primary concern, the business fails and jobs are lost.

In Wisconsin, the public unions do not care about the bottom line and have used the process of collective bargaining to secure tenure for bad teachers and high wages for those who do not perform. More than that, they have lined their collective pocket with a retirement program that, in most instances, gives them as good or better "life after retirement" than the taxpayers who are forced to fund these programs.

Here is my thinking on this --- for what it is worth. If the unions are going to break the law in their protests, if they are going to threaten violence, then they need to be disbanded out of hand and immediately. The time has come to pay our "fair share." How many times have we heard this montra from Mr. Obama? Dozens.

Well, OK. So this old man is doing just that. He has seen his Social Security payments "cut" by 3% each of the past two years, under Obama. No complaints. No letters to my congressman. To be sure, I did not like the fact that my Social Security check has not reflected a cost of living increase since Obama took office -- a silent tax increase, the largest in the history of this nation, all on the backs of the senior citizen, all without much of a complaint.

Sooooo, unions, get in line. Do YOUR fair share and get with the program now.

Update: this makes the Dems and teacher unions look even worse. Turns out, the Governor has exempted wages from the current debate. Collective bargaining is being excluded from negotiations regarding the unions' legacy programs. More than this, rather than vote on the matter as scheduled, all of the Wisconsin State Democrat Senators (all 14 of them) got on a bus and reportedly left the state preventing a vote on the matter. We cannot imagine a more immature and incompetent choice of actions.

Fox News suggests that this is "democracy in action." We thoroughly disagree. In fact, we consider the statement to be rather stupid. What we have in this case, is mob rule. These folks care nothing for Constitutional procedures. Nothing could be obvious.

Whiner to the tenth power is what we have here. They want us to suck it up when legislation goes their way, but they cut and run, violate established law, willingly shut down government, if they do not get their way.
What a bunch of jerks, and we mean that in the collective sense of the word.
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