Republican presidential candidate, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker speaks to a reporter at the Billy Goat Tavern, July 27, in Chicago. (Christian K. Lee, The Associated Press)
Re: “Colorado in the lens,” July 26 Perspective article.
Although Alex Miller tries to portray Colorado as an ideologically split state, he can’t help but show his own political bias. His statement that “Scott Walker hopes to parlay his war on the middle class into a bid for the White House” is pure nonsense. If Walker has a war, it is on public-sector unions, which, with the help of Democratic politicians, have managed to create a slowly brewing debt crisis for most states (including Colorado). Walker has no problem with private-sector unions, whose members are also a huge contingent of the middle class. Private-sector unions, in many cases, do provide a necessary link between workers and management. The market protects consumers against abuses by either party. Unfortunately, there is no such protection for taxpayers in the case of public-sector unions with politicians in their pocket. Private-sector union members, as taxpayers, should be every bit as alarmed about public-sector abuses as those of us who are not in a union.
Mike Eller, Littleton
This letter was published in the Aug. 2 edition.
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