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Wis. Gov. signs budget cutting education $1.85B

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Wis. Gov. signs budget cutting education $1.85B - CBS News

Holy OUCH!

They worked quickly to approve the budget before recall elections in August that could result in Democrats gaining a majority in the Senate and the power to block Walker and the GOP's agenda.

Democrats assailed the budget as an attack on middle class values since it cuts funding for public schools by $800 million, reduces funding to the UW system by $250 million and cuts tax credits for poor people.

It also reduces the amount schools can collect from property taxes and other revenue combined, which translates into another education cut of about $800 million. While schools are seeing deep cuts, Walker's budget extends tax breaks to manufacturers, multistate corporations and investors.

The budget also calls for $500 million in unspecified cuts to Medicaid programs, puts an enrollment cap on the popular Family Care program and increases spending on the state's roads.
 
Truly sad.. Sad that children are forced to pay for the mismanagement of the republican party..
 
This is what happens when politicians play chess with the public. Nothing but vengeance and personal agendas.

This governor needs to be shown that he's not a king and he can easily be removed from office by voters.
 
I feel bad for the kids of Wisconsin.
 
Quite the biased one sided article there from CBS. Here's a little bit more information that doesn't just make it sound like Walker focused solely on schools, from a Wisconsin paper which doesn't include the Washington spin points.

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker signs state budget in Green Bay area | Green Bay Press Gazette | greenbaypressgazette.com

Green Bay Press Gazette said:
t 2:30 p.m., Walker signed the $66 billion 2011-2013 budget that balances a projected $3 billion deficit without raising general taxes, but also cuts more than $1 billion from education and local governments. The budget passed on party-line votes in the Legislature.

"Our balanced budget makes tough choices while also providing a path to recovery and prosperity for our state and our people," Walker said.

Outside, Green Bay area teacher Polly Reynolds said the cuts were too severe and the priorities misplaced.

"You don't cut money to things that are important to you. Wisconsin has some of the top schools in the nation. That's not where you cut your money," Reynolds said.

"When it ain't broke, don't fix it."

Walker, who has among the widest latitude for veto power of all U.S. governors, released just 50 vetoes. Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle issued 81 vetoes with the 2009-11 budget, his last before leaving office.

In addition to vetoing a measure that would have changed how chewing tobacco is taxed, Walker also eliminated a measure to legalize commercial bail bondsmen, voided a provision that would make acquiring lawmakers' ethics statements more difficult and rewrote a section of the budget to now require public employees to work five years before qualifying for pension.

Walker's private signing at the local manufacturing company was the same venue where he announced his candidacy for governor, and he touted manufacturing as a linchpin to the job creation he has promised since the campaign trail, noting the sector accounted for 13,100 of the 26,400 non-public jobs added this year.

Sounds like Walker made tough decisions and the unions and local governments have to start pitching in more. Cuts had to be made due to irresponsible past spending measures of past governments, assembly's and state congressional missteps. I know a lot of people are upset, but Walker had to make a decision and he did it. Now let the recalls happen - which is just dinner theater.
 
interesting how the article in the OP lumps in "not raising taxes" with "reducing spending" and claims that both are "cuts to education".

Good on them for balancing their budget.
 
Bout time the Governors in these states like WI, NJ, NY started getting the balls to stand up to the union bullies.


j-mac
 
You forgot the part where he gave billions in tax breaks as well.

This just shows people even more how heartless and evil the right can be.
 
The radical right wing war on the working class continues in full force.

It is interesting that Walker had to move the location at the last minute. He was going to sign the bill at a notorious anti-union factory but then it came out that the infamous owner was a convicted felon. Nice allies he has - anti-union thugs and criminals.

http://www.jsonline.com/watchdog/noquarter/124524174.html

Records show Badger Sheet Metal CEO Gregory A. DeCaster was convicted of eight felony counts of income tax evasion and filing false income tax returns in the mid-1990s and was sentenced to three months behind bars. He also was fined $10,000, ordered to pay another $3,700 to cover prosecutors' expenses and given two years of supervised release. "It was something we wish we would have known on the front end," said Walker spokesman Cullen Werwie, acknowledging the oversight by the first-term governor's advance team. Less than an hour after the Journal Sentinel contacted the governor's office to ask about the executive's criminal history, Werwie announced that officials were canceling the event at Badger Sheet Metal and moving it elsewhere. The event will now be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at Fox Valley Metal-Tech Inc. in Green Bay.

Werwie said officials decided to change locations because they believed DeCaster's past tax problems would serve as too much of a distraction. "We just want to ensure that the focus . . . is on creating 250,000 new jobs, not about other things," Werwie said.
 
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Quite the biased one sided article there from CBS. Here's a little bit more information that doesn't just make it sound like Walker focused solely on schools, from a Wisconsin paper which doesn't include the Washington spin points.

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker signs state budget in Green Bay area | Green Bay Press Gazette | greenbaypressgazette.com



Sounds like Walker made tough decisions and the unions and local governments have to start pitching in more. Cuts had to be made due to irresponsible past spending measures of past governments, assembly's and state congressional missteps. I know a lot of people are upset, but Walker had to make a decision and he did it. Now let the recalls happen - which is just dinner theater.

It's too bad Wisconsin is going to balance it's budget and Walker will likely pay for it with his govenor's seat in the end. People hear "education cuts", and turn a blind eye to what the cuts actually are or mean. here in NC there was all this to-do about education cuts and everyone acted like teachers were going to lose their jobs. It was just cuts to administrative positions, but people didn't care to investigate. People somehow equate education cuts to "not caring about children". But that's emotional rhetoric for you. When you don't have the details, make victims instead.
 
The Republican Party is hell bent on bringing the country back to the early 20th century. Remember those better times? When people were dying of diarreah? Streets had about a foot of human excrement on them? The average literacy rate was comparable to a modern African country? And then people wonder why nobody likes Right Wing Protestant Christians. They're troglodytes with iPads trying to pull the country back into the social dark ages.
 
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It's too bad Wisconsin is going to balance it's budget and Walker will likely pay for it with his govenor's seat in the end. People hear "education cuts", and turn a blind eye to what the cuts actually are or mean. here in NC there was all this to-do about education cuts and everyone acted like teachers were going to lose their jobs. It was just cuts to administrative positions, but people didn't care to investigate. People somehow equate education cuts to "not caring about children". But that's emotional rhetoric for you. When you don't have the details, make victims instead.

The political fallout rarely has anything to do with reality. Sad but true.
 
The Republican Party is hell bent on bringing the country back to the early 20th century. Remember those better times? When people were dying of diarreah? Streets had about a foot of human excrement on them? The average literacy rate was comparable to a modern African country? And then people wonder why nobody likes Right Wing Protestant Christians. They're troglodytes with iPads trying to pull the country back into the social dark ages.


You're full of comedy gold Hatuey!
 
You're full of comedy gold Hatuey!


Or just really, really immature....In any case, thank God for the internet, fore it allows contemptible, bigoted, racist filth to be spewed without the possibility of being knocked the hell out on the spot.


j-mac
 
wisconsin had a DEMOCRAT for a governor 8 years prior to Walker. So, liek Obama says... he 'inherited' that mess... from a DEMOCRAT.

Damn inconvenient them facts are.
 
The Republican Party is hell bent on bringing the country back to the early 20th century. Remember those better times? When people were dying of diarreah? Streets had about a foot of human excrement on them? The average literacy rate was comparable to a modern African country? And then people wonder why nobody likes Right Wing Protestant Christians. They're troglodytes with iPads trying to pull the country back into the social dark ages.

Hey, take that back. I never hurt anybody. :mrgreen:
 
You forgot the part where he gave billions in tax breaks as well.

This just shows people even more how heartless and evil the right can be.

Who got all these tax breaks? If the people like what's happening, it's their business. Most states are bankrupt, so what are they supposed to do? There was probably a lot of spending on education that was unnecessary, and probably went to the the teachers. The teachers were riding a gravy train that had to end. It's always hard to take away once it's been given, but it shouldn't have been given in the first place, so somebody, a responsible governor, takes it away, and is the bad guy. I say, too bad. They'll survive. I think they're making more of it than needs be. I remember getting a raise at work that was unnecessary, and in a year our job was eliminated. Pay the teacher's too much and you have fewer teachers. It's a vicious cycle.
 
You forgot the part where he gave billions in tax breaks as well.

This just shows people even more how heartless and evil the right can be.

Yes, tax cuts that made the state much more atrtractive to business. They went from 49 to 24 (those numbers are pretty close) in rankings of a states ability to create a business friendly enviroment.
 
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For my entire life, the government has been pouring more and more money into public schools to solve the problem of our failing education system, and kids are no better educated today than kids were 30 or 40 years ago. Since more money has not produced better educated kids, what makes you people think that less money is going to produce less educated kids?

I have an idea... It's a bit unconventional and you really have to step outside the box on this one, but how about you wait a few years and see what the educational results of those cuts actually are, before assuming that our children will be less educated?

Oh, but that wouldn't be politically prudent now would it?
 
I really don't get this mentality in the Republican party that we need to "stand up to the union bullies" and yet bow down to the rich and cut their taxes some more.
 
Who got all these tax breaks? If the people like what's happening, it's their business. Most states are bankrupt, so what are they supposed to do? There was probably a lot of spending on education that was unnecessary, and probably went to the the teachers. The teachers were riding a gravy train that had to end. It's always hard to take away once it's been given, but it shouldn't have been given in the first place, so somebody, a responsible governor, takes it away, and is the bad guy. I say, too bad. They'll survive. I think they're making more of it than needs be. I remember getting a raise at work that was unnecessary, and in a year our job was eliminated. Pay the teacher's too much and you have fewer teachers. It's a vicious cycle.

I hope the teachers relocate.
 
I really don't get this mentality in the Republican party that we need to "stand up to the union bullies" and yet bow down to the rich and cut their taxes some more.

"Bow down to the rich"? With the top 10% of tax payers paying somewhere in the neighborhood of 75% or more of all taxes, while 47% of people in this country pay nothing, I don't think your talking point has any credibility at all.

j-mac
 
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