Facts:
- The state's budgets is busted
- The problem is increased spending.
- ALL (+/- 5%) of an average state's budget is employee compensation.
- Benefits cost the state more than salary compensation.
- Public employee benefits are the primary problem facing state government finances.
- Unions are the primary fundraising arm of the Democratic party
- Public employees are unionized at a rate of 4-5x that of private employees.
- Public unions get automatic paycheck-withdrawals from public employees.
- Damaging unions and their automatic paycheck withdrawal from public unions may well destroy the finances of the Democratic party.
So...how do we evaluate Governor Walker? Shrewd political operator? Heroic accounting realist?
(from a conversation with my dad)
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We should evaluate that the issue is dominated by unknown unknowns unless you have specific evidence to the contrary.
Governor Walker is in a place far removed, holds a philosophy alien to your own, and is in a profession known for lying and which has a known real Masquerade.
Though you can take a guess, it's best to very explicitly mark it as a guess.
For example, my first guess is that Walker thinks his wife will have sex with him more if he busts a union.
I can't see any reason to privilege other guesses over this one, and yet my justification is only, "This guess amuses me."
He may have picked this particular more-sex route because the budget gives him an excuse to stick it to the Dems, but without interviewing him personally and touring his offices I'd prefer to demur on that. Odds are I don't even have the truth on my table of possibilities.
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