Shout out to Michigan and Wisconsin

Michigan has joined the ranks of Wisconsin and Indiana as battle grounds between statehouse against the union hall, the private citizen against the public sector union lobby, the taxpayer against the bureaucrat. These states are fighting and overcoming the immoral and unchecked power of public sector unions, which have used and abused their paycheck pilfering privileges to stake the state capitals with union-friendly legislators, lavish pensions, and enshrined entitlement provisions.

In demonstrations reminiscent of the red-shirt backlash that littered Madison, Wisconsin following Governor Scott Walker’s budget reforms, Michigan public sector union interests descended on the Lansing, Michigan state capital to protest the Republican legislature and Governor Rick Snyder’s pledge then signature to grant “workplace fairness and equity” to all workers. Unlike the 2011 protests in Wisconsin, organized labor has engaged in disorganized violence against individual citizens in the public square. One incident captured one group pulling down a “right to work” tent, while another protester punched a conservative columnist, both a shocking display of undemocratic dissent, both an exaggerated reminder of the slap in the face that recall challenger Tom Barrett received follow his concession speech in June.

Walker has refused to discuss enacting “right to work” legislation in Wisconsin, yet his reforms are benefiting this country. Union power is showing its true colors in the Midwest, not just with the red hue on their shirts, but the red blood of the people who oppose union violence, and the red ink which governors and legislators are staunching to great success.