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Remember the violent and disgusting demonstrations over
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker doing away with collective
bargaining for Teacher's unions? The results are in.
Some school districts went from a $400,000 deficit to a
$1,500,000 surplus as a result. They are even hiring new
teachers, not firing like the Liberals said would happen.
Why?

It seems that the insurance company that provided all
the "so-called" benefits to the teachers was an insurance
company owned and operated by the teacher's union. Since
the outfit was guaranteed to get the insurance business
from the teachers, and the State had to pay for it (not
the teachers) the insurance company was increasing annual
costs every single year to become the most expensive
insurance company in the state. Then the company was
donating millions and millions of dollars to its favorite
democrat politicians who, when they got elected,
guaranteed to keep funding the union's outrageous costs.
In other words, the insurance company was a "pass through"
for Wisconsin taxpayer money directly to the democrat
politicians.

Nice racket, and this is the racket that is going on in
every single State that allows collective bargaining. No
wonder the States are taking it away. Now the State of
Wisconsin is free to put the insurance contract out
for bids and, lo and behold, they have saved so much money
it has turned deficits into surplus amounts. As a result,
none of the teachers had to be laid off, everyone got a
raise, etc., etc., and the taxpayers of Wisconsin
don't have to pay more taxes to fund the union's political
ambitions.

If you weren't aware of the reasons Gov. Walker was
fighting to take away collective bargaining, it gives you
an idea of the problem the Republican Party has. Outside
of one or two, none of them know how to speak up and
explain properly what the problem was. We could sure use
a Ronald Reagan now, someone who could explain things for
people to understand, since we know that people don't like
to read.

Washington Examiner July 2011

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