Speechless....

Well not quite.

Ill start at the end here and work backwards hoping to keep this brief.

WI  SB11, unless you have been in a hole this is known as the Budget Repair Bill and has been the genesis of major protests throughout the state. teachers have walked off the job, the protests have been in the major media hell Obama even commented.
       Thats not whats getting my goat right now though, its these damn teachers and even more than them the Dem. Reps who bailed out and are hiding in other states, are you kidding me? These people are pulling the same thing my 3 yr old does when he shits his pants and dont want us to find out.
       They are not helping me come down in favor of them when they walk out on the kids (teachers) and walk out on the electorate (Representatives).
     So here's the deal Mr and Mrs. Union worker, I dont hate you, I dont wish ill will on you and I know this is not going to be good for you. With that said we cannot afford to keep paying you what we have been, the state is broke, more than broke we are billions in debt. Like any sensible person buried in debt you look at your biggest expenses and hindrances to making your budget and you cut them.
    Labor in WI. is 60 % of the state budget we cannot afford to keep increasing wages and benefits. Now before I hear it, I know you say you will negotiate the pension and health, but see the problem is we would still have collective bargaining, meaning we would still be hamstrung to make any labor cuts and balance the budgets because all of that needs to be done through the unions. We cannot make real progress on the problem if we have a roadblock at every turn.
    Think of it like this, you walk into your house and say ok we are broke and we need to make some cuts. Then 27 people stand up and say you cant take this and you cant limit that and we still need those and oh by the way next year we'll need extra. You are standing there going well ok well now not only did I not save anything I somehow managed to spend even more money I dont have.
     Thats where we are as a state right now, nobody wants to give up anything and in fact keep seeking more. We cannot afford this , thats where we are, we cannot afford to keep doing what we have been.
     I have been hearing a lot of "we take less in salary so we could have good benefits and a pension" Well guess what, your new deal allows you to now negotiate more wages so you can be just as well paid as you seem to think we in the private sector are, you will also have a better benefit package than most of us ever will but thats still not enough.
   No your not going to get a lot of sympathy from us, we didnt see you guys storming the capital or employers when our wages were froze (in some cases for years and years) nobody was making commercials for us when health care costs increased for a decade and yet you somehow managed to get better benefits. We didnt get to keep our jobs simply because we had them longer than another guy, we have to produce and  prove our worth everyday and still face the loss of a job because, well thats how the real world works.

Welcome to it, now get back to work.