Forced Unionism on the Ropes

Everybody is talking about Gov. Walkers triumph over the public sector unions yesterday. Some articles are even telling the truth. This isn't about what it means to the politicians and the 2012 Presidential election. It was about us, the citizens, and a victory for tax payers and for liberty in general.

The tyranny of forced unionism in states is on the ropes. With Indiana becoming a right to work state this year, along with Gov. Walkers bold reforms, surrounding states, including Michigan, have been forced to follow suit in instituting reforms to stay remotely competitive in the region. Michigan has passed laws ending the forced collection of dues, and lawmakers are now emboldened by the results in Indiana and Wisconsin to begin pushing right-to-work legislation. If residents of Rust Belt states like Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin are all on the side of freedom, liberty truly is on the march once again in the United States. When given the choice, more than half of union members choose to leave the union that was forced upon them in the first place. This screams loudly for other states to follow suit. Not only does this free people from what is in fact, a form of forced servitude by way of forced dues paying, it also cuts off a major funding mechanism that the Marxist party -- whoops -- Democratic party -- has relied on as a given for decades. And makes the playing field much more level in the arena of fund raising for the first time in nearly 100 years.

In other places, like California of all places, voters turned out in favor of cutting government workers benefits and pensions. And it wasn't even remotely close. In the city of San Jose, the vote was nearly 3-1 at 72-28.

It's time for elected officials to start acting like elected representatives again. These results proclaim loudly that if they move to enact bold reforms that promote liberty for employees and tax payers alike, they will have broad support. And that the noise of the increasingly irrelevant unions is just that. Irrelevant.