I haven't blogged much recently. What prompts me to update now? Here I am sitting in Japan's Narita airport having just left the Narita Express. The news screens on the train include just a handful of stories, but there it is: Madison, Wisconsin - my home town - in the news. Ditto the front page of the Japan times? And it is embarrassing.
Teachers fraudulently calling in sick to protest having to pay a bit closer to the industry average for pension and health insurance?
Doctors handing out medical notices without the benefit of the privacy and record-keeping required by law?
Protestors, many of them also public school teachers, comparing the just elected governor of the state with Hosni Mubarak?
State congress members hiding out? in Rockford? at the Clock Tower Inn?
Seriously?
I might have imagined that behavior in Illinois perhaps but Wisconsin?
Good thing I'm on my way to Madison now. I can't do much but lend the elected majority moral support and call out this silliness for what it is: An assault on the democratically elected will of the majority of Wisconsin voters.
Wisconsin is not Greece with snow.
Hang in their Governor Walker! The taxpayers are on your side. Sound government will prevail over thuggery.
On, Wisconsin.
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About Me
- Rising Sun Pundit
- Happy Valley, Wanchai, Hong Kong
- I am a US Citizen originally from Wisconsin. I lived in Japan from 1991 to 2008, at which time I moved to Hong Kong where I now reside. I have a background in technology and have been an IT manager and consultant for several years, covering mainly the financial sector, but also the pharmaceutical industry, nanotechnology, and even fashion and music. I earned a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in Electrical Engineering in 1991. My undergraduate degrees (BSEE and BA) are from the University of Notre Dame.
