Tuesday, June 5, 2012

"The Harbinger"

har·bin·ger :  A person or thing that announces or signals the approach of another event.

 All this week we have heard from the liberal media that the Wisconsin recall election was "to close to call".  But it was not. It was a blowout for the governor who took on the union bosses and it looks like he won big. He was polled to be ahead by 3% (within the margin of error) yet he won by close to 10%. Wisconsin spent almost 20 million dollars on this ridiculous recall election and it wasn't even close. Bill "Bubba" Clinton came in at the last minute to try and help pull out a win and Obama even added his support with a "Tweet" supporting the democratic challenger...what a guy.

But the important message here is that the American people are fed up with unions and their ridiculous pensions and benefits breaking the back of state and local budgets.  Keep in mind that after Governor Walker eliminated collective bargaining and gave state employees the choice of union membership, more than 50% dropped out of their union with their "mandated" dues.

This is more than a state election; it is a harbinger of things to come.  I believe Americans both Republican, Independents, and moderate Democrats are fed up with debt and union protected government employees getting preferential pension and benefit treatment compared to private employees; pensions and benefits that are breaking the back of local, state, and federal budgets.

The Obama administration will tell us in the next few days that this was a "local" election and has no national significance. But I bet they are circling the wagons tonight and wondering WTF happened.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wow - that was quick.
And as usual, you got it right.
Olav

Louise Strickland said...

Wow, another good one Chuck !! I love the way you think & express yourself - THANKS !!
cousin Louise

Chuckie D said...

And congratulations to my home town of San Diego where 66% voted to cut pensions of public employees. Another harbinger of things to come.