This is about busting unions and there is no nicer way to put it. It's not about money. This is a hate crime.

Willy Haus, a lawyer who negotiates contracts for the State Engineers Association and Association of State Prosecutors in Wisconsin. Average state workers and union leaders say they would be willing to absorb increased pension and health-care costs (which Haus told the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel could have been achieved through labor negotiations), but they cannot abide a plan by Gov. Scott Walker to take away most of their union rights.