Here’s just a taste of what’s in store for Wisconsin over the next four years.
Emboldened by a decisive victory and expanded Republican majorities at the state Capitol, Gov. Scott Walker on Wednesday pushed for a new wave of conservative legislation and government overhauls as speculation heats up about him as a possible 2016 presidential contender.
Walker says he hopes to fast-track the state budget process, expand the taxpayer-funded school voucher program, require drug tests for those seeking food stamps and unemployment benefits, and continue income and property tax cuts.
“We’re going to be even more aggressive now,” Walker told members of his Cabinet on Wednesday at the Capitol. “Because I think we’ve got an even stronger ally in the Legislature.”
I expect we’ll see Gov. Walker and his rubber-stamp Republicans in the legislature move quickly to enact “right to work” for less legislation, to expand the anti-union provisions of Act 10 to firefighters and police officers, and to expand the failed voucher school experiment to the entire state.
I see the Constitutional Amendment just passed on November 4th as a way to steal from the WRS pensions. If the state can’t borrow money from itself, the road fund, where is it going to get money from for the next ‘crisis’? Walker has already sullied the public to all public workers, stealing their pensions again is a very small step and the lock step public won’t even blink when this happens. And it will!
The irony of this amendment is the message that we can’t trust our own state representatives, and indeed we can’t.
You budget correctly Jeff, you can’t have your greedy union scam fingers on the money I paid in on every gallon of fuel.
Walker isn’t going to expand ACT 10 on the police or fire, hes said it many times and he means what he says. Public unions were stealing from my wallet for decades, you do get your pension still when you retire so flipping this around that Walker stole a public workers pension is disillusion.
But you were also told that on Tuesday’s election, by the majority.
“I expect we’ll see Gov. Walker and his rubber-stamp Republicans in the legislature move quickly to enact “right to work” for less legislation, to expand the anti-union provisions of Act 10 to firefighters and police officers, and to expand the failed voucher school experiment to the entire state.”
Walker has said repeatedly he wouldn’t enact right to work and he wont. People in general don’t support it. Why? Because the playing field is pretty level between private sector employers and private sector unions. That was NOT the perception of relationship between the public unions and the democrats they helped elect.
Jeff – I don’t support raiding ANY MONEY!!! NONE. That means your budget is out of whack. You just don’t like it when its SURPRISE!!!! the perception ITS YOUR MONEY THE GOVERNMENT IS COMING FOR. What a surprise and shock that is. I just love it when politicians shrink my wealth, why don’t you???? You sound like you work for government so aren’t you just getting your own money back?? Huh?? Its almost as shocking as a public employee being upset their pension and health plan contributions went up. That really shocked me.
Budgeting correctly?
When has Scott Walker done that?
This starve the beast — i.e. the government — i.e. us.