Mr. Walker Said

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has proposed legislation which would effectively limit [public sector] union workers’ collective salary bargaining rights. 

For Minnesota DFLers, it might as well be Kristallnacht: to suggest civil discussion of a proposal such as Gov. Walker's is to commit a grave affront.

MNpublius launches a ferocious attack on Gov. Walker's intentions: It's not just 'an attack on the middle class,' it's an attack on 'the economy in general'.  ('It’s another front in the GOP’s war on the middle-class, launched to pay back their corporate backers for their hundreds of millions of dollars in campaign contributions.')

MNpublius' Jeff Rosenberg sees into Gov. Walker's soul--and doesn't trifle with reason:  Rosenberg holds a pepfest for political homies--as we observe him frequently doing.  MNpublius commentators need feel no requirement to set hatreds aside and evaluate ideas; Rosenberg doesn't like having his ideas probed.

The fact is, Gov. Walker's primary motivation probably doesn't lie in destroying his state's economy and/or middle class, and Jeff Rosenberg knows this too--when he's not grandstanding for his gallery. 

Next, I wanted to see if Prof. Jessica Pieklo had published anything--and found these three recent tweets: 

Would give just about anything to be in Madison right now. For so many reasons.

I must live in an alternate universe that people actually support candidates like Walker.

Yeah, so from the GOP we've seen #curbstomping, and now calling to cops on political opponents. You're right. Not at all fascist.

So Pieklo, like Rosenberg, can't momentarily entertain any serious argument in support of Walker's viewpoint.  The Republicans' goal must be fascism--says the ultradelicate sensitivity expert.

Next, I checked the Minnesota Progressive Project--and found this piece by Eric Ferguson.  Like Pieklo and Rosenberg, Ferguson ascribes extreme ill intent to Gov. Walker, who--like other conservatives--takes 'advantage of disasters, and the dislocation and distraction they cause victims, to impose policies the people would never stand for if they were able to resist'. 

Ferguson isn't 'comparing Scott Walker to Augusto Pinochet,'--he'd never do that--though 'the pattern is the same.' 

'Conservatives are taking advantage of Republican control of some state governments to attack a basic right to organize,' Ferguson dogmatically asserts. 

I ask Pieklo, Ferguson and Rosenberg:  What benefit do public sector unions confer?  From whom do public sector employees need to be protected?  If governments knew public sector employees weren't paid a premium and could be dismissed at will, might it not be possible public sector employment would increase?