{"id":2983,"date":"2011-02-18T10:11:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-18T15:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/?p=2983"},"modified":"2024-02-02T10:31:25","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T15:31:25","slug":"the-maddow-blog-wisconsin-gov-made-his-own-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/2011\/02\/18\/the-maddow-blog-wisconsin-gov-made-his-own-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"The Maddow Blog &#8211; Wisconsin gov made his own problem"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It turns out that Wisconsin&#8217;s &#8220;budget shortfall&#8221; it the direct result of Governor Walker and his allies&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/maddowblog.msnbc.msn.com\/_news\/2011\/02\/18\/6079270-wisconsin-gov-made-his-own-problem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pushing through tax cuts<\/a>&nbsp;that CREATED the problem he&#8217;s supposedly trying to &#8220;fix&#8221;. Some more detail&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/newsandviews\/article\/479146\/wi_governor's_fake_budget_crisis:_gave_tax_breaks_to_wal-mart_to_cloak_his_real_agenda_--_union_busting\/#paragraph5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As for taking rights away from public workers, there is no explanation how that saves money in the immediate future. With no rights, teachers and sanitation workers won&#8217;t be able to bargain for a fair wage and benefits in the future, but that&#8217;s not what the Governor purports to be doing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No, Scott Walker is beholden to the evil bastiches who paid for his campaign,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/motherjones.com\/mojo\/2011\/02\/wisconsin-scott-walker-koch-brothers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">among them the Koch Brothers<\/a>&nbsp;from Texas, who are working hard to&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/news\/149965\/wisconsin_is_a_battleground_against_the_billionaire_kochs'_plan_to_break_labor's_back\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">destroy unions<\/a>&nbsp;in our nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jimmy Hoffa aside, unions have done a lot in this nation. You have weekends, usually 8 hour shifts, no kids in coal mines, and so on because of unions. Carnegie might have build a lot of libraries but he didn&#8217;t give a rat&#8217;s ass about the common man. And it wasn&#8217;t his job to. No company is paid to worry about what workers need. That&#8217;s kind of the point of capitalism and to believe otherwise is to be an idiot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And so while carpet-bagging Tea Baggers are going to Wisconsin to&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/motherjones.com\/mojo\/2011\/02\/wisconsin-tea-partiers-breitbart-fight-unions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8220;support Walker&#8221;<\/a>&nbsp;even though THEIR jobs aren&#8217;t on the line, it&#8217;s mostly a sham to screw Americans out of even more rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And this isn&#8217;t just a Wisconsin or tea bagger thing. It is part of a&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/maddowblog.msnbc.msn.com\/_news\/2011\/02\/17\/6072306-whats-the-gop-got-against-working-folks%22\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">national plan of attack<\/a>&nbsp;on working men and women. And that&#8217;s as simple as it gets to explaining the situation there and across this land.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that Wisconsin&#8217;s &#8220;budget shortfall&#8221; it the direct result of Governor Walker and his allies&nbsp;pushing through tax cuts&nbsp;that CREATED the problem he&#8217;s supposedly trying to &#8220;fix&#8221;. Some more detail&nbsp;here. As for taking rights away from public workers, there is no explanation how that saves money in the immediate future. With no rights, teachers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agents-of-evi"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2984,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2983\/revisions\/2984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}