Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

February 22, 2011

Wisconsin is in the throes of a tax-feeder tantrum, with thousands of government employee union members thronging the state capital. Displaying a remarkable gift for self-dramatization, the protesters compare themselves to the freedom activists who took to the streets of Cairo to demand an end to Hosni Mubarak?s corrupt, tyrannical reign.

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker proposes modest changes to pension and health care benefits for state employees; they would still be more generous than similar benefits enjoyed by those who work in the productive sector. This would also limit collective bargaining rights for government employee unions, which should not exist in the first place.

Walker has said he doesn?t want a single state employee to lose his job. A better approach would be to treat the protests as a mass resignation.

Ditching work and pitching a tantrum to demand the preservation of "collective bargaining rights" for over-paid, tax-subsidized functionaries simply isn't the same thing as facing down the pitiless cadres of a quasi-totalitarian police state.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.