LETTER: Walker exposes public workers, and their unions

To the Telegram:

By the end of this summer, the recall process should be over and regardless of whether Scott Walker stays in office or is replaced by a tool of the unions, the perception the people of Wisconsin have of public sector employees and their unions will have changed drastically.

In the past year, taxpayers learned just how well public employees have been compensated. They learned that while taxpayers made significant contributions toward their health care and retirement, public workers contributed nothing toward their own pension plans and most of them contributed nothing toward their health care insurance. They also learned how WEAC, the teacher’s union, set up an insurance company, and then forced local school districts to purchase their health care insurance from this company and then drastically inflated the cost of this insurance.

In other words, taxpayers learned they were being raped by the public workers’ unions.

When public workers learned the governor’s budget was going to change this and put public worker benefits more in line with average taxpayers, they saw these same public workers vandalize the state capital building, disrupt public events including one that honored participants in the Special Olympics. They saw doctors writing fraudulent medical excuses, teachers abandoning their students, death threats to the governor and other Republicans and the intimidation of individuals and businesses that don’t openly support them.

I don’t think the taxpayers are going to forget this.

I know I won’t.

Robert White,

Waukesha, Wis.

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