Working People Didn't Crash the Economy

If I had to reason as to what happened in Wisconsin, I would write something very similar to this posted email on Talking Points Memo.

I'm not going to print the whole thing here but it's worth the quick read.  In sum, in tough economic times, much like these, people really don't have that much sympathy for unions.  Or better said, non-union people really don't have that much sympathy for union jobs when the economy is struggling.

Also, many people see unions as complicating a lot of stuff.  They always seem to be complaining.  They do increase nepotism, or at least that's the appearance.  They do pay great wages for less work, again that's the appearance.  So sympathetic really isn't something people who work or maybe don't work are going to be when it comes to unions when times are tough.

On the other hand, if I had to write a response to such it would almost be word for word what this school teacher wrote as posted on TPM as well.

Again, I'm not going to re-post the whole thing you can do the quick read yourself.  But, many union jobs have guaranteed time off, have comfortable wages, have greater job stability and such entirely because that's what unions do.  That's why they are there.  They didn't get those benefits or circumstances simply because legislators decided one day to give it to them.  The unions had to fight for them and have fought for them for over a century.  Nothing was legislated to them from the goodness of elected officials hearts.  And there's no reason to believe that without unions legislators would do any such thing in the future.

Yeah, the recall was a total waste of time and total waste of resources.  It would have been better to wait and challenge Walker at the end of his term than to remove him from office.  But if you are bent on doing it, the thing you have to do is make sure you relate to people that the tough economic times didn't come from the five-day work week, or the cost of living adjustments, or the paid leave time that unions fight for everyday.  It came from a finance sector that was completely bailed out by George Bush with trillions of dollars of tax payer money where CEO's have seen their pay increase 46% in the last two years all the while the nation faces 8.2% unemployment.