Striking a Blow for Good Governance

From CatholicVote.org

By Tom Crowe

The Wisconsin Senate has passed the measure stripping government unions of the ability to collude with willing partisans to increase their largesse in exchange for loads of political support and campaign contributions. The state Assembly is expected to take up the legislation today.

In other words, the Wisconsin Senate voted to end collective bargaining for government unions.

This is not about hatin’ on teachers. This is not about trying to destroy all unions. This is about ending a corrupt system.

Wisconsin Unions vs. Governor Walker is a Battle for the Soul of America

As even pro-union FDR understood, collective-bargaining rights for government workers is the ultimate conflict of interest. What is really at stake in the Wisconsin donnybrook is whether individual liberty or government power has the upper hand in our country.

From The Christian Science Monitor

By Mark Hendrickson

It is hard to overstate what is at stake in the dramatic showdown between Wisconsin’s teachers and their Republican governor and legislature. The political and economic course of our country hinges on how the issue of public sector unions is resolved, in Wisconsin and elsewhere.

For the sake of our country’s political and economic future, Gov. Scott Walker and his Republican colleagues need to prevail in the current contest with the Wisconsin teachers’ union and their allies.

That isn’t easy for me to say. As an educator, I have great respect for all those (and they are many) in my chosen profession who capably and even brilliantly serve our nation’s youth. The fact is, though, that the status quo is untenable.