What Madison Protests are Really About

On the one hand, taxpayers employed in the private sector have faced cutbacks and unemployment as a result of the Great Recession.  On the other hand, there is the unionized government worker class -- the Democratic Party's #1 special interest -- loudly expressing a sense of entitlement to better pay and benefits than private sector contemporaries, even when it means driving states into insolvency and placing ever-heavier burdens on ordinary Americans.