What were Badgers thinking? On one hand, they let Walker retain his seat (with nearly 40% of union households voting for him!?!?); on the other, they took away his Republican majority in the state senate. I get the anger of tax payers nation wide over public sector unions and their sweetheart deals re pensions and healthcare benefits; what I don’t get is that it seems to be largely aimed at public school teachers rather than the cops and firefighters who are the real abusers. In my state, they are allowed to rack up a lot of overtime in the last few years on the job, greatly inflating the salaries on which they then retire; this is abusive as hell and needs to stop – but school teachers can’t do this. Even in other states that don’t allow such flagrant theft from taxpayers, pretty much everyone allows them to retire after 20 years no matter what their age with a full boat package – again, school teachers can’t do this. Even with the downward trend in middle class pay over the last 35 years, public sector employees still earn less than their private sector counterparts; in exchange, they were always supposed to get more on the back end. What kind of people will we be attracting down the road to teach our kids, police our communities and staff our public hospitals if we take away the big reward? When will Americans realize that all those tax cuts have to be paid for somehow, and when will they see that the wealthy have reduced the rest of us to a giant pot of crabs, where the few who are trying to climb out get pulled back by those sitting in the bottom?

Money apparently rules. big surprise. its a shame that the common voter can’t see thru the flurry of political advertising.
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