The illustrious governor of Wisconsin has reached into his bag of tricks and produced a budget that would lower taxes about $100 for a family of four making 80 thousand dollars per year. Point double zero one two five percent of their income will be allowed to remain in their hands. This, he says and the news repeats, will allow additional spending that will stimulate the economy. Now I look at this with a tiny amount of amusement because I often spend $100 or more on a single trip to the grocery or farmer's market. I have spent far more than that filling up our cars,just once, with fuel and a single pair of shoes that I buy for work often cost more than that as well. Our median income in Wisconsin has dropped by more than ten times that amount since the bugger took office and Fox "News" is touting his actions as not only wonderful, but essential to our "recovery". They also managed to glaze over several other facts that Mr. Walker highlighted in his speech last night.
Schools will face new "tests", designed to reduce spending in "poorly performing" districts and shift those dollars, from the schools with arguably the greatest need and give that money, plus millions in new spending to private institutions. All of this will continue to undermine unions, shift public dollars, circumvent oversight on how those dollars get spent and funnel even more money into the hands of private corporations, leaving taxpayers in a more forlorn state without any type of recourse. Rather than mention any caveats or questions about these new policies, Fox proudly told us exactly what the governor wanted us to hear. Their "fair" and "balanced" news network succumbed to the deafening stunned silence that most people in Wisconsin felt at the utter stupidity of the governor's statements.
Scott Walker acts as a stooge for corporate welfare recipients, undermining the interests of the majority of state residents for the enrichment of wealthy out of state folks and hides his transgressions with a fig leaf of false sincerity. I thought that his utter stupidity was all an act until I saw the footage this morning. The times his driver blew past us, with him in the backseat of his limo or SUV, looking incredulously at the massive crowds gathered to protest his policies, I wondered if he was just that out of touch, or if he was in fact standing for something. Now I know that there is nothing supporting him other than a desire to give as much of our hard earned money, as many of our community resources and as much of our productive capacity as possible to those out of state interests who put him in office, defending him from the recall. Out of his extreme poverty of spirit and intellect, he must be growing a considerable nest egg in offshore accounts. If all those serving him are all as corrupt as those on the mining rules re-write committee, no good can come from leaving them in power.
There has not been a single news story on Fox that mentioned that the governor has violated the law by shifting money into a legal defense fund for himself. State law specifically prohibits such activity unless the Governor has been specifically charged with a crime. This month alone, another forty thousand dollars was put into his legal defense fund. This is the same man who was permanently barred from political activity in college for stuffing the ballot boxes, the same man who encouraged his staff to spend tax dollars on campaign activities and the same man who claims ignorance of the facts that his staff have been involved in theft, malfeasance and election fraud and mismanagement. His pet projects have squandered and mismanaged millions of tax dollars and have crushed the public trust in government, yet the Fox "news" team has looked the other way throughout the entire term of his governorship.
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Only one thing can save us from these misguided policies...Not fear, not hate, not retribution...only love, no matter how awkward it may seem at first, we need to send the message, even to those who would exploit us, in whatever language they might understand and in as many ways as humanly possible that they are loved.
Schools will face new "tests", designed to reduce spending in "poorly performing" districts and shift those dollars, from the schools with arguably the greatest need and give that money, plus millions in new spending to private institutions. All of this will continue to undermine unions, shift public dollars, circumvent oversight on how those dollars get spent and funnel even more money into the hands of private corporations, leaving taxpayers in a more forlorn state without any type of recourse. Rather than mention any caveats or questions about these new policies, Fox proudly told us exactly what the governor wanted us to hear. Their "fair" and "balanced" news network succumbed to the deafening stunned silence that most people in Wisconsin felt at the utter stupidity of the governor's statements.
Scott Walker acts as a stooge for corporate welfare recipients, undermining the interests of the majority of state residents for the enrichment of wealthy out of state folks and hides his transgressions with a fig leaf of false sincerity. I thought that his utter stupidity was all an act until I saw the footage this morning. The times his driver blew past us, with him in the backseat of his limo or SUV, looking incredulously at the massive crowds gathered to protest his policies, I wondered if he was just that out of touch, or if he was in fact standing for something. Now I know that there is nothing supporting him other than a desire to give as much of our hard earned money, as many of our community resources and as much of our productive capacity as possible to those out of state interests who put him in office, defending him from the recall. Out of his extreme poverty of spirit and intellect, he must be growing a considerable nest egg in offshore accounts. If all those serving him are all as corrupt as those on the mining rules re-write committee, no good can come from leaving them in power.
There has not been a single news story on Fox that mentioned that the governor has violated the law by shifting money into a legal defense fund for himself. State law specifically prohibits such activity unless the Governor has been specifically charged with a crime. This month alone, another forty thousand dollars was put into his legal defense fund. This is the same man who was permanently barred from political activity in college for stuffing the ballot boxes, the same man who encouraged his staff to spend tax dollars on campaign activities and the same man who claims ignorance of the facts that his staff have been involved in theft, malfeasance and election fraud and mismanagement. His pet projects have squandered and mismanaged millions of tax dollars and have crushed the public trust in government, yet the Fox "news" team has looked the other way throughout the entire term of his governorship.
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