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Meritocracy in Wisconsin

April 4, 2011 By Mark Kleiman @markarkleiman

See, if we just get rid of civil service protection and public-employee unions, we won’t be stuck with over-paid and under-qualified state workers who can’t be fired despite their inability to do the work. And if we get rid of affirmative action, we can hire people based on their qualifications, rather than their descent.

Oh, wait …

Well, look on the bright side. To wingnuts, hiring unqualified people because their parents are important isn’t a problem as long as the unqualified people are rich and white.

Anyway, the universities are full of leftists; if the kid dropped out of UW it wasn’t because he was dumb or lazy, but because he was standing up for his conservative principles. And his inability to find a real job before he turned 27 is probably Barack Obama’s fault, or ACORN’s fault. No? Then let’s blame it on George Soros or Planned Parenthood or the SEIU.

After all, it stands to reason that if your father is a big-time lobbyist for homebuilders you must know a lot about business, so putting this ne’er-do-well in charge of environmental regulation makes perfect sense.

Here’s hoping that the State Senate recalls in Wisconsin are just a warm-up for the Gubernatorial recall.

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