Tale of Two Cities

Eric Allie illustrates the lopsided struggle that beleagured taxpayers in Madison, Wisconsin have had in trying to defend themselves from powerful public employees unions.

The overwhelming support of the liberal media for the public employees unions in Wisconsin and elsewhere against taxpayers who have heretofore had no one in Madison to fight on their behalf and who finally decided last November to do something about it, has, according to Michael Ramirez, inspired Col. Qaddafi's advisors in Tripoli:

These two cartoons cause us to wonder. Is there not a similarity between the relatively weak Libyan people demanding to be set free from the oppression of those who are bleeding them dry in Tripoli so that they can live in relative security, and the taxpayers of Wisconsin who, through their elected representatives, are demanding the same thing? Why would those who side with the people in Libya side with the public employee unions in Wisconsin?