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Originally Posted by Minte
You I expected more from. Jumping on a bandwagon, without checking other reliable sources. The entire state of wi budget and audits are online. Check them out. I did.
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I'm flattered you expect more from me... I'm not jumping on the bandwagon at all. Has Walker done anything to address the actual problem? Cutting pensions or restricting collective bargaining doesn't solve anything. Even if it 'works' it only serves to cut income to people who had negotiated for it and worked for it.
When Walker has a plan of what to do long term with millions of people who are no longer needed, let me know. That would be something to have a thread about. The fact that he may have a short term surplus from better than expected tax revenue, borrowing and cutting collective bargaining is hardly a roadmap of the way to move forward. At best it's cost shifting from state pensions people bargained for to federal aid we all pay for... We are years, not decades, from a massive shift in economic viability for most Americans. Cutting collective bargaining doesn't stem that tide.
As I posted in another thread, 85 people now control more wealth than 50 percent of the entire world population. It's not sustainable and a one year surplus in Wisconsin is nothing to hang your hat on.