Rachel Maddow on Scott Walker

Shep Smith and Rachel Maddow both agree that Scott Walker is using budget issues as a pretext for destroying unions.

Senate Majority leader Scott Fitzgerald says that public employees don't need unions because they have civil service protections, but Fitzgerald and Walker don't plan on having many public employees around to be covered. The plan, as diagrammed out by the Koch brothers for Walker and Fitzgerald to run, will look like this:

-Use the budget crisis to declare that the state must reduce funding to local governments.

-Pass laws that make it easier for local governments to privatize their work force.

-Create a financial incentive program for local governments to do so.

The best Civil Service benefits will do no good if there is no civil servants to benefit from them. But as Shep Smith and Rachel Maddow point out, the real dividend will be the removal of the last organized group to oppose the creation of a free-market Koch-istan.