Walker bill would increase, not decrease State spending.

[Scuba]

http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/118779749.html

So all those cuts to services save millions? Where does it go? The Kochs?


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Madison —If new quasi-public agencies are included, Gov. Scott Walker's proposed budget would increase overall spending by 1% over two years rather than reduce it as the administration had said earlier this month.

A report released Monday by the non-partisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau showed the state would spend a proposed $64.1 billion in state and federal dollars over two years after including amounts that are being transferred to quasi-public authorities like the University of Wisconsin-Madison. That would amount to $609.5 million more over the 2011-'13 budget.

When Walker unveiled his budget proposal on March 1, he said it would cut spending of all dollars by more than $4 billion, or 6%. But those amounts didn't include spending cuts that simply amounted to transferring entities like UW-Madison and a new agency to replace the state Department of Commerce off the state's books.

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[aquart]

1. Regressives can't do math.

[ewagner]

2. Figures don't lie...

...liars do figure.....

[dkofos]

3. Cut math education so no one will know.

[louis-t]

4. I'll say it again: Balancing budgets is not the goal.

This is about privatizing.....EVERYTHING. Selling off of municipal assets for pennies on the dollar. One, big Monopoly game to these folks. They are dismantling the government they hate so much. The teabagger 'governors' don't care if they're unpopular, or even if they're thrown out of office. Most of them will be, I promise. Idiot Rick Snyder has already said "I knew there would be recall efforts if I signed these bills". I know it's hard to believe, but what if he's not lying? These guys are not interested in dedicating their lives to public service. They are interested in the guaranteed 7-figure jobs they'll have when they leave politics.

[Scuba]

5. Nailed it.

[FiveGoodMen]

6. It's not about saving money, it's about transferring power.

[freshwest]

8. Well stated.

[freshwest]

7. Privatization always does. People don't seem to be able to make the leap between calling...

Services provided by private vendors doing state work and true private enterprise. Just stick that old word 'private' and folks think the business sector is handling the costs outside the system.

Except for those getting the contracts and OMG are they gonna say what a great job they'll do and how much efficient they are gonna do it which is self-serving bull.

They'll hide the costs, pass them off to overburdened but still 'public' entities and hide the bodies out of sight. It's what they do.

I truly hope that this information will get to the voters of WI and get them to see the light. Those getting the money, of course, won't since they'll be on the gravy train, ripping off the state.

[louis-t]

9. You're descrbing what I call the 'skimmers'.

They offer no better service, often worse service, charge more, skim off profits, and claim they will "police themselves".