Delavan's Misplaced Tax Dollars

Our "Unintelligent" Governor Scott Walker had a new picture to not only post on Facebook, but to make as his cover photo:

I sure as heck hope that they city leaders did not use taxpayer dollars to pay for that.  Because if they had, they should be called out on their waste of tax dollars and not just because Walker is something a town should be ashamed of, but because Delavan isn't even his hometown as they claim.

Walker's hometown is actually Colorado Springs, Colorado.  And even they're not very proud of that fact.

The Walker Budget Is Already Working! Part XXIX

As with Waukesha, the small town of Clintonville is trying to cope with the money they lost so that Scott Walker could give raises to cronies and tax breaks to campaign donors.  And like Waukesha, Clintonville is about to sacrifice public safety for the sake of a few bucks:

Clintonville's new approach to saving its residents money is keeping some of them in the dark. The city had to cut its budget by $357,000.

So leaders in the city of 4,559 people came up with the idea of turning off some street lights to save some money.

But some residents say there's a cost to that move: their safety. Clintonville's streets are darker than Carol Oesteich can ever remember. And she doesn't like it.

“I think it's a danger to the people that walk. I think it's bad for the children with sports and everything walking,” said Oestreich.

The street lights with black plastic over them are no longer lighting the roads. And it's worrying some residents

“What if there was a kid that was going down the street and there's no street light, so how is a car supposed to be able to see them?" said Cory Hanson.

The city no longer turns on 10 percent of its street lights, which equals 70 lights. City officials say they targeted lights in the middle of a block near other lights.

The more that Walker's budget takes it's choke hold on this state, the more I feel like we're in Colorado Springs. That's not the future I want for this once great state.

Walker's Home Town Sides With Workers

In case you weren't aware or had forgotten, Scott Walker is not a Wisconsinite.  He was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

And apparently the old adage about not being able to go home again holds true.  Walker's home town is holding a rally to support Wisconsin's workers as we fight to defend and maintain our rights and freedoms from the overreaching Walker:

And if anyone in this country would know the dangers involved in what Walker wants to do to us, it is Colorado Springs, who have already been struggling with their own austerity measures for years:

This tax-averse city is about to learn what it looks and feels like when budget cuts slash services most Americans consider part of the urban fabric. 

More than a third of the streetlights in Colorado Springs will go dark Monday. The police helicopters are for sale on the Internet. The city is dumping firefighting jobs, a vice team, burglary investigators, beat cops — dozens of police and fire positions will go unfilled. 

The parks department removed trash cans last week, replacing them with signs urging users to pack out their own litter. 

Neighbors are encouraged to bring their own lawn mowers to local green spaces, because parks workers will mow them only once every two weeks. If that. 

Water cutbacks mean most parks will be dead, brown turf by July; the flower and fertilizer budget is zero. 

City recreation centers, indoor and outdoor pools, and a handful of museums will close for good March 31 unless they find private funding to stay open. Buses no longer run on evenings and weekends. The city won't pay for any street paving, relying instead on a regional authority that can meet only about 10 percent of the need.

Is it 2012 yet?