Ditto for the Scott Walker recall election in Wisconsin today.  If the union goons who pushed this recall, and who intimidated their neighbors and coworkers into signing the recall petition, succeed with this recall election Wisconsin and the Wisconsin economy will have jumped on a toboggan to economic hell.  Just that simple.  The unions – and more particularly the government employee unions – will be running the show.  You have to be dense as lead to think that would be a good thing.

 So here we are --- Today, the people of Wisconsin go to the polls to vote in the recall election of Scott Walker.  I am really hoping that this turns out to be a big, fat, screaming “Boortz I told you so.”  If the goonions are defeated today, and Scott Walker remains the governor of Wisconsin, then I will be able to gloat and the people of Wisconsin will be able to breath a sigh of relief.

 I’ve told you for months that I believe Scott Walker will remain the governor of Wisconsin, despite the hissy fit thrown by the union goons.  The reason is simple: The goonions were able to collect enough signatures to warrant a recall election because signatures are collected door-to-door .. they are not anonymous.  So a goonion thug shows up to your door demanding your signature.  Perhaps you are on the fence about signing the petition, but then you stop and think: “Hey, I know what these people are capable of.  They also clearly know where I live.  For the purposes of tranquility, I will sign their little petition and be done with it.”  But then, when they show up to the polls today, they won’t actually vote to oust the governor. 

 This is unless …

 Supporters of Scott Walker have become complacent.  There’s the danger.  The folks who want a return to fiscal sanity in Wisconsin may have gone-a-nappin’.  In the last few weeks, we’ve monitored the polls and it seemed as though Scott Walker had it in the bag.  Then the Democrats started the spin-game, claiming that this recall election wasn’t that big of a deal.  Hopefully these stories will not force a single soul to sit on their hands today and not vote.  Lord knows the aaaaaactivists will be voting in droves and they have done their part to intimidate people into voting.  Not surprising.  Eric Holder’s Department of Justice has deployed federal monitors to make sure the elections are clean.  That’s like sending in a drunkard to monitor the sales at a liquor store.  Obama’s justice department doesn’t add to a sense of comfort to me, it makes me more on edge about today’s results.  But that’s a whole other issue.

 At the end of the day, how heinous were these reforms implemented by Scott Walker? 

 A study conducted by the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research and released last Tuesday, studied total compensation — wages, benefits and pension plans — for private and public employees in Wisconsin. Prior to Act 10 it found public-sector employees enjoyed a 29 percent premium over workers in the private sector in overall wages and benefits. After the passage of the act, that edge was lower, but still 22 percent ahead of the private sector.

One example highlights just how good Wisconsin state workers still have it. Before passage of Act 10, they paid a mere 4.35 percent of their total health-care premiums. The law increased that to 12.6 percent. Most public employees in Worcester and many other Massachusetts municipalities, by contrast, pay 25 percent.

 What we are really talking about here are union thugs who have managed to pilfer the taxpayers for too long.  They’ve been able to come to the table and negotiate with politicians with other people’s money – your money.  If anyone should be outraged, it is the taxpayers.  Hopefully the taxpayers --- and the folks who have escaped the unions since their union dues are no longer forcibly collected --- will take the final step and head to the polls today.