Growing Up

It's probably important to note that curbing the power of unions in Wisconsin to collectively bargain anything but wages is just the start of a battle between taxpayers and the Selfish Class.

Most of the Selfish Class have enjoyed extraordinary privileges in the last forty years. The salaries and benefits - and generous working conditions that dictated they work nine months a year and get extra money for every extracurricular activity - were not perks and privileges deserved by any recognized excellence or even competent performance. Shielded by their thuggish unions and poorly served by the universities and colleges that expected little by way of learning by their students or themselves, the Selfish Class anointed themselves with their belief in their own specialness, a vanity which shelters them from self-assessment and, hence, improvement. And maturity.

For decades parents have known their children enrolled in public schools had been ill-served. No better demonstration of who to blame than the union protests in Wisconsin.

At one time the protesters could get away with infantile street performance and tactics that only worked because they were anonymous, unidentifiable as university students who more than likely don't even pay taxes. Shielded by a media that is barely distinguishable from the Democrat party, the taxpayer was not privy to the antics and arrogance of the union officials or the composition of the easily-duped mob who perform on cue like some spoiled French socialists heeding the call to the streets.

No idealists, most of these students recognize that they are fighting foremost for themselves, for the government jobs they had counted on. Jobs with guaranteed job security few taxpayers enjoy. Government employees at the state and local level and teachers in Wisconsin and other states now have to worry about layoffs in a bad economy. Just as taxpayers do.

These protesters aren't fighting for their rights but to preserve their privileges.
It's time to grow up.