It’s nice to write about something positive:

Thousands of public employees and supporters converged at a hearing at the capitol here that ran into the wee hours of Wednesday morning to voice their objection to a proposal to cut their benefits and remove most of their unions’ ability to bargain.

The show of anger was powerful. Madison schools were closed on Wednesday after scores of teachers called in sick and appeared headed to lobby exhausted-looking lawmakers, who had heard more than 17 hours of comments in a public hearing that began on Tuesday morning. More buses of public workers from other parts of the state were still pulling up near dawn on Wednesday.[emphasis added]

   No way to sugar-cost this abomination: the Republican governor is trying to kill the public sector unions AND the middle class. And this is what hundreds of thousands of workers have to look forward to across the nation: governors, including some "Democrats" (led my King Andrew) look to appeal to their electoral base–by which I mean the rich people who fund their campaigns–by taking it out on people making $50,000-a-year, not be seeking higher taxes on the top one percent of income earners.