In this morning's Wisconsin State Journal the editors deplored an unnecessary, I think they thought, investigation of a clearly overly, let's say, enthusiastic police officer and lamented the fact that she couldn't just be fired. Damn unions, they fume, it's like their primary purpose is to protect workers from arbitrary dismissal. They don't hesitate to condemn the Union for its failure to put "tax payers" first when trying to protect workers from arbitrary dismissal. Apparently, members of the many, if increasingly attacked and weakened, unions are neither tax payers nor yet citizens. The WSJ would like, as I read the thing, to condemn the police officer's punishment and condemn the Union that sought to defend her from that punishment. It's remarkably incoherent.
In a related matter, Walker declares war on collective bargaining; our AG declares, all evidence to the contrary, that ACA is a dead letter; despite the clear advantages the Act promises to the least amongst us, Ted Nickel sent money back to the Federal Government designed to aid the poor in making informed decisions about which insurance policy to purchase.
There then you have it, the editors of the WSJ pretend not to know that union members pay taxes and that unions exist to protect worker. Walker thinks, if that's the word I want, that union members are the cause of all our economic woes, the AG doesn't understand neither how the judicial branch works nor the Constitution's plain meaning, and a state official decides that the last thing people need is unbiased information about insurance options. It's like a Marx Brothers' movie except for not being funny.
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