This is the class warfare that the GOP is a master off. First, the GOP hates unions because their corporate masters have to pay union workers more and corporations have less power.
The GOP looked at the election of Scott Walker and other Republican governors in the context of the economic crises in the US as an opportunity to drive a stake into the heart of the union movement.
The GOP launched their argument in an worst case economic scenario with the canard thatthe government worker is better off than the average American.
Why? Because of collective bargaining, of course.
The GOP solution is lower the standard of living of government workers so share the misery of other Americans, a shared misery created by greedy corporations, not the government.
Gov. Walker had other options. He could have negotiated with the unions as did the other states and as did, the auto makers. He could have cut all government services across the board by a certain percentage.
Instead Walker passed two bills which gave tax breaks to corporations and started an experimental medical program. This is what created the deficit in Wisconsin. Walker started with a modest $60 million surplus. He is now claiming that his state is more than $3 billion in the red since he became governor two months ago.
These cynical GOP politics didn't work. The public didn't buy the argument that state and municipal unions are the bogey man. Fourteen Democratic senators fled the state to the Senate is unable to achieve a quorum. Jack Tapper also pointed out that there is no correlation with state deficits and public unions.
The GOP attempt to destroy public unions failed. Rightardia hopes that other state workers are as bold as those in Wisconsin.
If you know anything about the history of American unions, you should know that one hundred years ago pistols , rifles and machine guns were pointed at worker's heads. It wasn't the other way around.
A mining worker's camp that went on strike was even machine gunned in Colorado in 1914. See Wikipedia on the Ludlow massacre: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_Massacre
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