the cookie joke
I’ve been seeing this all over the place the last couple of days, and to be honest, it’s one of the better simple analyses of the whole Wisconsin situation that I’ve seen.
Presented here for posterity:
A public union employee, a tea party activist, and a CEO are sitting at a table with a plate of a dozen cookies in the middle of it. The CEO takes 11 of the cookies, turns to the tea partier and says, ‘Watch out for that union guy. He wants a piece of your cookie.’
It’s sad and disheartening that a not-insignificant portion of people in this country have been convinced that cutting compensation to middle-class public servants like police officers and teachers by ten percent is an exercise in “sharing the sacrifice in these difficult economic times,” but raising taxes on income over and above the first quarter-million by half of that rate is class warfare and totally untenable.
Few realize that it’s ninety-eight percent of the country fighting over a fraction of the one cookie the other two percent deigns to toss our way. And, if teachers continue to get nickeled, dimed, and prevented from actually doing their jobs along the way for much longer, even fewer of the next generation are going to be equipped to come to that realization, let alone learn the skills to get to the point where they might one day be able to conceive of “cookies” in the plural.
But then, I’m pretty sure that’s the idea the people backing Governor Walker have in mind.
