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Monday, June 04, 2012
All Eyes
on
Wisconsin
Wisconsin
NOT EVERYBODY FAMOUS IS FROM THE COASTS. Most of what we're going through in the news cycle at the moment is a slow motion explosion (unless it's a slow motion implosion) whose real impact won't be known for a couple weeks at least. The Obama campaign fumbling away the ball on its last three or four possessions in a row. The administration burstingly pregnant with an intelligence leak scandal so indicative of treason that in a non-election year it would already be raising calls for impeachment. A president who is chest-thumpingly on display doing no work whatsoever other than begging for money from the filthy rich he spends every other waking moment trashing while the economy tails into a double-dip recession.
I have nothing to say about those things. No other commentator should either. This is a time when the bigmouths should (gasp) shut up and let events sink in on their own. Let reporters on both sides of the great partisan divide simply report for a while. There will be plenty of time to comment when the debris has established a definitive footprint on the ground of the electorate.
Why the only thing I have for you today is a modest bulletin. (No Urthshu, I'm not persisting because "I haven't found a Keith to my Mick." I am my own Keith to my Mick. Always have been. I persist because, like the scorpion of folklore, it's my nature.) The next 24 to 36 hours are going to be all Wisconsin all the time. I think it's worthwhile to remind you that the state of Wisconsin does NOT, contrary to what the coverage will imply, consist entirely of government employees and public service unions.
In fact, depending on your interests and how all-American they are, you encounter private sector Wisconsin on a regular basis.
Beer, motorcycles, football, and cheese. Will we get more and better or less and worse of these American staples if Wisconsinites have to pay an ever-increasing percentage of their incomes into the union pension funds of government employees and bureaucrats? Note that three of the four are also heavily unionized enterprises. But their unions aren't benefited by overpaid public school teachers who retire to Florida at the age of 50.
Is it time to start rethinking what "fair" means and who gets to tell the rest of us what that definition has to be?
Something to bear in mind during all the "fair and balanced" debates you'll see if you dare watch the news over the next day or so. On any channel.
My two cents. All the spare change I have right now. The multiplier is in your hands, though. Give my two cents to the nearest liberal handout-champion you know.
