3 Reasons Why Walker is not a Cheesehead

1) Cheeseheads are men (and women) of the people.
        The Packers are the only publicly owned team in the NFL. More or less, Packers players are public employees. Walker seems to prefer corporate, private interests; especially energy companies (see Koch brothers). The Pack are the people's team. Walker's team must be a rich energy baron's team. I want to be very careful with libel laws here, so let me just say I suspect that Walker is a Cowboys fan.

2) Cheeseheads know that you have to nurture talent from within. You can't just throw money around and expect outsiders to come in and save you.
       The Pack is not built around high-priced free agents. The team has invested in young players, or people whose potential has not been realized. Cheesehead do not use money to lure people who they hope will come in and solve all their problems. A cheesehead believes in education, not outside investors. Scott Walker is the Randy Moss (or Brad Childress?) of American politics.

3) Cheeseheads are loyal and patient.
        Investments take time to pay off. A cheesehead works hard and supports the team, and knows that his/her reward will come with the team's. There is no "i" in "cheesehead." The cheesehead will sacrifice for the greater good. How committed is Walker to the state of Wisconsin? How much of his agenda is to position himself as a national candidate, say a vice-presidential pick to shore up credibility with conservatives? Walker wants to be a free-agent. Aaron Rogers is a cheesehead.  Is Scott Walker Brett Farve (circa 2008)?

Finally, cheeseheads know that sometimes you make a bad pick. If you start the guy but you find out he isnt who you thought he was, you have to pull him. Scott Walker is Jay Cutler. We don't want Jay Cutler as governor. Time to recall Scott Walker.

Wage Slavery

My first diagnosis of all that ills our society: Capitalism. OK, not an especially novel or creative diagnosis. One might even say this view has been consigned to the dustbin of history. I hope to pull myself out, though, with a better alternative than state socialism. There is no denying the creative power and efficiency of the market. A decentralized economy, with private firms, is the only way to go. It's not private property that's the problem, it's who owns the property. Companies should belong to their employees. Think about what employee ownership would entail. 1) Much less outsourcing. People will strongly resist sending their own jobs overseas. 2) Full employment over profits. When cuts have to be made, when economic times are tough, firms will cut profits rather than lay people off. 3) Better environmental and safety behavior. Employees tend to live where they work, and they are the ones who suffer from poor working conditions. More generally, employee ownership recognizes the fact that a job is more than a paycheck-- an employee's relationship with their company (at least a career employee's) goes beyond the wage. One's job is a source of identity, and company loyalty should be more than just a ploy by management to extract more value from the workers. So, workers' compensation should be in terms of shares of the company. The people who supply the capital should be paid the wage (interest). End wage slavery now!