Dave Zweifel: Legislators tearing down proud UW

[sybylla]

An excellent editorial from the owner of the Cap Times. I recommend you read the whole as four paragraphs doesn't even begin to cover it.
http://www.madison.com/tct/opinion/index.php?ntid=43604&ntpid=1

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In short, these cutbacks are threatening to turn Wisconsin's once great university system into a mediocre institution.

This sad fact has many in the state - and not just educators - hopping mad.

Charles Nason, president of the Worzalla Publishing Co. in Stevens Point, is one of them. This week he fired off a letter to 24 state papers, including this one, to voice his utter disgust with our state legislators. (For his complete remarks, see today's Forum page.)

"How can the Republican members of Wisconsin's Joint Finance Committee sleep at night ... these users, manipulators and traitors who are destroying our once proud university system? How is it that they have lost their moral compass and feel compelled to dismantle one of this state's greatest assets?" he asks.
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[TheMightyFavog]

1. A great letter

I read this in the Stevens Point Journal, I loved reading it.

BTW, the biggest advocate for cutting the UW is the assemblyman form Whitewater. How the hell does that fucking work? Someone had better smack the fuck out of the students at UW Whitewater and get their asses to the polls next year.

[MessiahRp]

2. I love the CapTimes..

I used to get it here but the lack of local delivery service killed it for me. The mail delay is sometimes as many as 2-3 days depending on the day and it sucks to know all the news before you get the paper.

Rp

[gizmo1979]

3. This is my issue that

almost drives me insane.I can't believe how shortsighted they are.You don't cut the one thing you do right.It costs more to house a prisoner than it does to school them.This is truly class warfare at it's finest.Just like the Taliban,they don't want the masses educated,they just want to create a class of slaves to do the bidding of the super rich.OOOOh this gets me mad!