Monday, June 27, 2011

The Budget Betting Window Is Now Open

Scott Walker has now signed what he calls a "balanced budget", which supposedly doesn't raise taxes.

But it's not as popular as the squawking heads on the right would have us believe.

Representative Peter Barca gives it to Walker and his miserable budget without hesitation.

But not even a day old yet, much less enacted yet, the growing numbers of lies contained in Walker's budget statement is being well documented.

Knowing Walker as well as I do, I am now opening the betting window for what day his "balanced budget" is found not to be as wonderful as he and his cohorts are trying to make us believe.  In fact, I am betting that he will do exactly the same that he did when he was Milwaukee County Executive and call a fiscal emergency (regardless if whether it's real or not) and use that as an excuse to do mass privatization of all County services.  And with the State so vulnerable to exploitation under his maladministration, it's really only a matter of time until he does the same thing to the state.

4 comments:

  1. I believe that Mordecai Lee said it best this morning on WUWM. "The changes will become evident in the new fiscal year July 1, 2011." You and I will begin seeing letters sent to us by our government. Our children will go to school with higher class sizes [could be as high as 40 students per class even for Special Ed.] Damage from flooding may go unaddressed. From these two items alone there will be a cascade effect. Poverty will rise as children are not educated and cannot compete. Property, [public and private] will become damaged by the more violent storms we have been getting these days. Nothing will be done to re-mediate these items as the personnel will not be available. Property will slide in it's condition so as to become visably evident.
    Many are saying that Nov 4, 2011 was the election that we forgot to show up for What a price we will pay.

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  2. Walkers budgets are nothing more than exploding cigars. They smolder and stink for a while and then they finally blow up in your face. Walker got lucky this last year because he got to leave Milwaukee before his cigar blew up. Unfortunately the people who remain in Milwaukee have to live with and clean up his mess.

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  3. Which dedicated fund should he illegaly raid?

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  4. You do realize he did raid segregated funds, right?

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