Lessons Learned from Wisconsin Recall

This past Tuesday's Wisconsin Recall taught a number of lessons to Unions and to taxpayers as well.  It taught the unions to never pick a fight if you are not 100% sure you can win.  It taught taxpayers to never be intimidated by big labor unions.  It taught me that there is still hope for this country.  Financial accountability is not a thing of the past.  Out of control spending will cease to exist if the current occupant in the Oval Office vacates the premises on January 20, 2013.  Regardless of who is the President on that date, the spending spree, by both Democrats and Republicans, will come to an end.  This country cannot sustain the kind of debt it now has for much longer.  At some point, we will reach a tipping point of which we will be hard pressed to recover.  Both parties share responsibility for this debt.  It just appears the Democrats do not care about the debt being passed on to our children and grandchildren.  When you have a Bob Beckel saying "....there's nothing wrong with the debt.  We print our own money," then you have to acknowledge there are people on the Left who are out of touch with reality.  The same can be said of some on the Right and, of course, the big labor unions who refused to pay more of their medical costs in Wisconsin.  Some unionists will say, of course, that is not the reason for the recall. They will say it was all about collective bargaining rights. Whatever.

Some of the lessons I learned from the Wisconsin Recall Election is that even in a truly blue state, there are people with a conscience.  These people realized that it is not fair for public sector employees to pay far less (medical costs and pension) than their private sector employee counterparts.  I also learned that the Democrats are eating a lot of crow today. Democrats and unions alike said this was going to be a big election for "the middle class" of America.  We were told it would be a harbinger of things to come for the Presidential Election in November.  Of course, they would still be saying those things if they had won.  Governor Scott Walker won by a bigger spread than he did the first time he won. But, all those things they said are true.  Just not for the reasons the Leftists had hoped.  I had hoped the 2010 mid-term elections would have been a wake-up call for President Obama.  It did not deter him on his Leftist agenda.   It is far too much to hope he can change this late in the game.  The Wisconsin Recall was a stake in the heart of a big spending congress and President.  Will they listen to the voters this November?  We'll see.