Radio host Rush Limbaugh has a reputation as a blow-hard. It's undeserved, of course, as are most of the cruel characterizations put out by our liberal friends. On the contrary, Rush Limbaugh is one of the most acute political analysts in the USA.
Said Rush this morning: The Scott Walker achievement means that there is a fairly simple and easy way of dealing with state budget problems. All you have to do is stop union collective bargaining on government employee benefits and then unilaterally force government employees to contribute a bit more to their pensions and health care.
Hey, what could be more practical? What could be more compassionate? And the public employees will still be earning about 50 percent more than they could get in the private sector and they will still be working with civil-service protections and be pretty well sitting in lifetime jobs.
Of course there is still the problem that these folks will still be operating a school system that stinks, especially for the poor. They will still be operating social services that stink. They will still be getting paid whether or not they produce anything of value. So they will still have, I would say, a pretty cushy deal.
The other thing, of course, is that politicians all over the nation will be looking at the Scott Walker experience and be telling themselves that you can take on the government employee unions and win. But you had better have real cojones down there between your legs.
By the way, could we just mention Scott Walker and his courage and coolness under fire? For nearly 18 months this man has been subjected to the most outrageous abuse. Liberals, Democrats, and union members--and of course their willing accomplices in the media--have occupied the state capitol, tried to stop the operation of the state legislature by absenting themselves, abusing the recall election process, using every intimidation tactic in the book short of actual violence. And it started at the top with President Obama putting in an ill-judged remark about union-busting. And now, instead of letting himself go with triumphant rage, he merely calls for unity and says that Wisconsin should heal its wounds and get back together after the divisions of the last year.
There is class, and then there is class.
Said Rush this morning: The Scott Walker achievement means that there is a fairly simple and easy way of dealing with state budget problems. All you have to do is stop union collective bargaining on government employee benefits and then unilaterally force government employees to contribute a bit more to their pensions and health care.
Hey, what could be more practical? What could be more compassionate? And the public employees will still be earning about 50 percent more than they could get in the private sector and they will still be working with civil-service protections and be pretty well sitting in lifetime jobs.
Of course there is still the problem that these folks will still be operating a school system that stinks, especially for the poor. They will still be operating social services that stink. They will still be getting paid whether or not they produce anything of value. So they will still have, I would say, a pretty cushy deal.
The other thing, of course, is that politicians all over the nation will be looking at the Scott Walker experience and be telling themselves that you can take on the government employee unions and win. But you had better have real cojones down there between your legs.
By the way, could we just mention Scott Walker and his courage and coolness under fire? For nearly 18 months this man has been subjected to the most outrageous abuse. Liberals, Democrats, and union members--and of course their willing accomplices in the media--have occupied the state capitol, tried to stop the operation of the state legislature by absenting themselves, abusing the recall election process, using every intimidation tactic in the book short of actual violence. And it started at the top with President Obama putting in an ill-judged remark about union-busting. And now, instead of letting himself go with triumphant rage, he merely calls for unity and says that Wisconsin should heal its wounds and get back together after the divisions of the last year.
There is class, and then there is class.
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