Something troubled me watching the protesters camping in the Wisconsin state capitol.
Business Week hit the nail on the head:
Protesters chanted, sang, played drums, deployed yogic oms, and —though few gave the impression of being gainfully employed — they conducted long conversations about the sanctity of workers’ rights.
Business Week, A Divided Wisconsin, March 9, 2011
And, from the WSJ:
Whether Wisconsin represents the emergence of a broad-based, national campaign against reform-minded Republican leaders, however, depends on something far less clear: the ability of the protest movement to reach beyond its own echo chamber to the nonunion middle class.
WSJ, Rules for Wisconsin Radicals, March 15, 2011.
Funny how folks who don’t pay taxes aren’t fazed by wasted tax dollars …
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