As I Type It: Give The Guard A Shot

 We here at HowdyLand and News From The Great Re-Depression have learned that the newly elected governor of Wisconsin has alerted his state’s National Guard to the possibility that they may have to step in to teach children, keep order in prisons, or collect garbage.

I say yes–Let our men and women in uniform stuff themselves into those uniforms and get to work instead of sucking away Wisconsin tax dollars with their so-called “exercises.”

Two good things could come from my proposal: We will finally get to see our proud patriots in action at home where they belong, and they will be unavailable for duty abroad in, say, Afghanistan or Iraq or Germany or Korea or Guam or, finally, wherever.

Since unionized Wisconsin state and municipal workers will be taking home less pay and enjoying fewer benefits, they will obviously have to cut back to the bare minimum of productive work required by the terms of their employment and seek supplemental employment at Walmart. Maybe they can wait tables, too, at the fabled Wisconsin Dells, where those jobs are currently enjoyed by many workers imported from abroad.

It is truly the Wisconsin National Guard’s moment to shine something.