Friday, March 18, 2011

Wisconsin: Temp Restraining Order

I'll file this under another waste of Wisconsin's public funds... Just like when the Democrats delayed the inevitable by leaving the state. A temporary restraining order based on whether adequate notice was given seems wasteful and pointless. (WSJ Wisconsin Blockage) Here are the possible results I see happening:
  • The court says they violated procedure and rules the law not valid. At which time they do it again while paying more attention to the clock. Then it is a law again.
  • The court says "close enough" and it is still a law.

Unless of course you think those "recalls" will happen sooner than later. Which of course I do not see happening at all. The Liberals continue to say how much support they have. However I did a little looking and found that Wisconsin has 5,000,000+ citizens, and the Public employees only number ~120,000. That means there are 4,800,000+ citizens that may like lower taxes more than higher paid Public employees.

Now there is apparently one benefit of delaying the inevitable. The School Boards and Teacher's Unions have a few more weeks to conspire against their tax payers... (otherwise known as set their Contracts) Thoughts?

Wisconsin Race to Contracts

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

At the time, I wondered why they were in such a hurry. The issue was clearly raised at the hearing, and there was nothing to stop the Republicans from following the law.

Wisconsin is pretty much alien territory to me, but if they are facing the same financial problems as Minnesota, cutting wages for state employees will have very little impact on them. The structural deficit all states are is driven by the aging of the population, not employee wage costs. By scapegoating Wisconsin's policemen, firemen, teachers, and park rangers, Wisconsin's Republicans are simply trying to divert all of us from the real issues.

Are Wisconsin state workers overpaid? Depends on who you ask, but remember, one way or another Wisconsin state workers will be paid. We aren't talking about getting rid of them altogether, just some sort of theoretical excess compensation, a very small drop in a very large bucket.

--Hiram