Paul Ryan, and nearly everyone else, is under a misapprehension or is being willfully ignorant of the causes of the current union activism here in Wisconsin. The anger isn't because Walker wants to reduce workers income, it's because he has decided to destroy workers' ability to negotiated, organize, and generally engage in collective action to improve their economic, political, and social lives.
What's interesting is that "sane" conservatives, like the Wisconsin State Journal, are now realizing that Walker isn't what they expected. It 's not just that he has decided to deal with the unions unreasonably but also his tendency toward cronyism which they find worrying. I would like to point out, however, that the WSJ is reaping exactly what they sowed.The current crop of Reagan epigones are only fulfilling the the Gipper's vision of an American morning. It's just that Reagan vision included the recreation of the 19th century.
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