Wisconsin Magazine Felates Scott Walker

[maxrandb]

or, like we in the Navy say; "polishes a turd"

http://www.wpri.org/WIInterest/Vol20No2/Lightbourn20.2.html

(excerpt)

No, at the heart of the backlash is Walker’s audacity in reclaiming state government. Stated simply, he killed business as usual and seemed indifferent to the protestations of Erpenbach and the other former owners of government. Never had Wisconsin seen a governor so deaf to the dealmakers.

The unexciting truth is that Walker’s budget represented nothing more than a course correction. The two-year budget he signed into law increased state general fund spending by 2.5%, hardly the scorched-earth budget that has been described as “right-wing social engineering.” Local governments will be raising property tax bills by 1.2% the first year and 1.3% the second year. Again, these are relatively modest increases, requiring belt-tightening, to be sure, but they are still increases, not decreases. Many industries have been forced to make major cuts to their budgets and to their workforces. Neither has happened in state government.


There have been no state employees laid off, and under the Walker budget, furloughs are a thing of the past. All state workers retain their defined-benefit pensions, enviable health insurance and generous post-retirement health coverage.

[LaValle]

1. Tell That to the hundrds of teachers laid off NT

[Scuba]

2. PABS ....

Pure Unadulterated Bull Shit