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Related: About this forumScott Walker's creative bookkeeping will scare off businesses
http://host.madison.com/news/opinion/editorial/scott-walker-s-creative-bookkeeping-will-scare-off-businesses/article_2eee104a-7fc5-11e2-a09a-001a4bcf887a.html#ixzz2M1Dks7nhGov. Scott Walker is running for re-election in 2014, so he is peddling the fantasy that Wisconsin has a budget surplus.
He can get away with that comic claim on "Fox News Sunday," where the Washington-based host of the show knows nothing about Manitowoc or Mineral Point or Madison.
But no one who cares about Wisconsin should be taken in by Walker's creative bookkeeping.
There is no surplus. In fact, Walker is trying to sell off state-owned power plants in order to pay for road projects. Hes shuffling money from fund to fund to cover deficits. Hes tossing tens of thousands of working Wisconsinites off health care programs. And he continues to underfund public schools and public services.
Thats not the outline of a balanced budget. Thats a scam intended to fool some of the people some of the time sort of like Walkers Wisconsin Economic Development Corp., which seeks to win the confidence of business but cant even keep track of taxpayer dollars.
Walkers budget math might work for the governors apologists. But it wont work with business owners who are considering where to locate production and start hiring.
Wisconsin now ranks No. 42 in job growth, trailing every state in the region.
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Scott Walker's creative bookkeeping will scare off businesses (Original Post)
hue
Feb 2013
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Sure makes those "Open for Business" signs at the border signs meaningless
CatholicEdHead
Feb 2013
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CatholicEdHead
(9,740 posts)1. Sure makes those "Open for Business" signs at the border signs meaningless
Hopefully the Democrats retake at least part of the legislature. All Republican control of Wisconsin is taking the state down the drain.
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)2. I hear that the legislature has a bill pending
to change all those "Open for Business" signs to read "State For Sale."
ewagner
(18,964 posts)4. I hear Walker is having a "two-fer" sale
Buy one Senator, get two Assembly members at no extra cost!
unionthug777
(740 posts)3. i wonder
what his cut will be for selling the powerplants?? what a worthless piece of shit he is !!!
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)5. No-bid sales at that.