Lawrence Kudlow:
Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., calls the protests in his home state Cairo coming to Madison. But the protesters in Egypt were pro-democracy. The government-union protesters in Madison are anti-democracy -- they are trying to prevent a vote in the legislature. In fact, Democratic legislators themselves are fleeing the state so as not to vote on Republican Gov. Scott Walker's budget cuts. That's not democracy.
The teachers union is going on strike in Milwaukee and elsewhere. They ought to be fired.
Think President Reagan PATCO in 1981. Think President Coolidge police strike in 1919.
The teachers union on strike? Wisconsin parents should go on strike against the teachers union. A friend e-mailed me to say that the graduation rate in Milwaukee public schools is 46 percent. The graduation rate for African-Americans in Milwaukee public schools is 34 percent.
Shouldn't somebody be protesting that?
Walker is facing a $3.6 billion budget deficit, and he wants state workers to pay one-half of their pension costs and 12.6 percent of their health benefits. Currently, most state employees pay nothing for their pensions and virtually nothing for their health insurance. That's an outrage.
Nationwide, state and local government unions have a 45 percent total-compensation advantage over their private-sector counterparts. With high-pay compensation and virtually no benefits co-pay, the politically arrogant unions are bankrupting America -- which by some estimates is suffering from $3 trillion in unfunded liabilities.
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More generally, both Democratic and Republican governors across the country are taking on the extravagant pay of government unions.
Why? Because taxpayers won't stand for it anymore.
In an interesting twist on this story, even private unions are revolting against government unions. Private unions pay taxes, too. And they don't have near the total compensation of the public unions. It's no wonder they're fed up.
So, having lost badly in the last election, the government-union Democrats in Wisconsin have taken to the streets. This is a European-style revolt like those seen in Greece, France and elsewhere.
So it becomes greater than just a fiscal issue. It is becoming a law-and-order issue.
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They are trying to refuse the mandate of an election they lost badly. The should not be allowed to get away with it. They should have to go to work.
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