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<blockquote data-quote="Forget Favre" data-source="post: 357899" data-attributes="member: 2006"><p>This is a really good take on the situation. </p><p>Puts things in perspective.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=32445" target="_blank">Scott Walker's War - Isthmus | The Daily Page</a></p><p></p><p>Walker claims the state's budget crisis is so gaping and horrific he had no choice but to unilaterally extract benefit concessions from some public employees and minimize the collective bargaining rights of nearly all of them, at the state and local level. But Wisconsin's fiscal situation is not as grave as that of other states, nor is its current budget deficit as large as what Walker's predecessor was able to plug two years ago, without drastic measures.</p><p></p><p>Moreover, Walker's sense of urgency over reining in employee benefits has not prompted him to be otherwise tightfisted. In just the last several weeks, Walker and the GOP have passed $140 million in new tax breaks for businesses, with more to come. (As a candidate, he promised more than a billion dollars of givebacks to corporations and the state's wealthiest residents.)</p><p></p><p></p><p>From reading this here's what I think:</p><p>1) Why or how the heck did ****** think that the majority of State workers would be OK with what he is proposing? He's gotta be the dumbest moron if he really thought that they would be fine with him taking away their bargaining rights and making changes to their pay checks.</p><p>You just don't mess around with stuff like that and not expect consequences or people to not be mad as hell. </p><p></p><p>2) It really is not about balancing the state budget at all. It's all about union busting, taking charge and making sure that the Republicrats will be in power for a long time. </p><p></p><p>3) It's good that those senators left the state. They did the right thing. </p><p></p><p>4) It really is a war on the working class. More power to them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Forget Favre, post: 357899, member: 2006"] This is a really good take on the situation. Puts things in perspective. [url=http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=32445]Scott Walker's War - Isthmus | The Daily Page[/url] Walker claims the state's budget crisis is so gaping and horrific he had no choice but to unilaterally extract benefit concessions from some public employees and minimize the collective bargaining rights of nearly all of them, at the state and local level. But Wisconsin's fiscal situation is not as grave as that of other states, nor is its current budget deficit as large as what Walker's predecessor was able to plug two years ago, without drastic measures. Moreover, Walker's sense of urgency over reining in employee benefits has not prompted him to be otherwise tightfisted. In just the last several weeks, Walker and the GOP have passed $140 million in new tax breaks for businesses, with more to come. (As a candidate, he promised more than a billion dollars of givebacks to corporations and the state's wealthiest residents.) From reading this here's what I think: 1) Why or how the heck did ****** think that the majority of State workers would be OK with what he is proposing? He's gotta be the dumbest moron if he really thought that they would be fine with him taking away their bargaining rights and making changes to their pay checks. You just don't mess around with stuff like that and not expect consequences or people to not be mad as hell. 2) It really is not about balancing the state budget at all. It's all about union busting, taking charge and making sure that the Republicrats will be in power for a long time. 3) It's good that those senators left the state. They did the right thing. 4) It really is a war on the working class. More power to them. [/QUOTE]
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