THE WAR BETWEEN THE BUREAUCRAT AND THE CITIZEN

CHRISTIE: In Wisconsin and Ohio, they have decided there can no longer be two classes of citizens: One that receives rich health and pension benefits and all the rest who are left to pay for them. The promises of the past are too expensive, and the prospects of the future are too important to stay on the old, failed course. Across the country, we have come to a moment: The moment for real change and the return to fiscal discipline. RUSH: He's right, and it's not just in Wisconsin. It's in New Jersey, it's coming to Indiana, it's coming to Ohio. It's gonna happen to every state that's in this problem, and the number one expense -- the number one place that they have to cut -- is this irresponsible, mindless spending on people like he just said: "One class of citizen that receives rich health and pension benefits and the rest of us who are left to pay for it." We've gotten to a period out-of-balance now so the people receiving the benefits get twice what the people paying for them get. It's unsustainable, cannot happen. We have a war here between the government bureaucrat and the rest of us, and that's what this is. I don't care what the job is. Teacher, whatever the union employee is, the bureaucrat, that's the new war. That's the new class struggle. That's the new class warfare, not rich versus poor. It's the government bureaucrat versus the rest of us. The government bureaucrat happens to be unionized, and that's where we are. That's not gonna go away any time soon. You have Democrats going around, "We need to make it bloody in the streets here," and I'm sure they full-well intend to.

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