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Walker and the Legislature had to fix liberal mess

Posted by Kevin Fischer on April 30, 2012

By guest bloggers
Bob and Jean Dohnal
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The Wisconsin Conservative Digest


Gov. Scott Walker and the Legislature were faced with some very tough decisions after being elected in 2010.  Raise taxes and chase people and businesses out of state, as Jim Doyle, Wisconsin's worst governor in 100 years, as Illinois and California are doing, or to restore fiscal sanity to the budget for a generation.  They figured that they were going to have to break a few eggs.

Not wanting to see massive layoffs and big class sizes, across the state, they settled on the best possible answer, making public employees pay their fair share of pensions and health costs, as the rest of the state does.

Their results were good and they are working.  Some of the public employees were a little upset, with having to do with the same salary deductions as what the taxpayers are getting and so decided to completely engage in a civil war with the governor and legislature, upsetting the whole community and throwing the economy into a tailspin.

Few businesses want to work with these aggressive unions and their foul mouthed friends, so they have held back and watched.  The carryover from the bad decisions of the Doyle administration precluded a quick recovery, so Wisconsin continues to suffer under their obnoxious tactics.

With this Recall election, Wisconsin has two distinct paths to follow for their schools, either the path of our kids under the thumb of the union thugs or the path of more freedom for the families and local communities to plan for their own kids.  Already we have seen some amazing changes.

Or, we can take the path that Tom Barrett wants?  Do we want to take our road money and build silly little choo choo trains around the state that go nowhere?  Drop back to 19th Century technology with windmills and dammed up streams?  Maybe we can hook treadmills up to our TV sets at night to not only power them but get off the weight??

Fact is, without cheap plentiful energy societies will not move forward.  Energy is here to serve us, not for us to be it's slave.

If we revert to the policies of the Barrett, Falk and Doyle gang we will see property taxes sky rocket, there goes Granny's farm, there go Grandkids jobs.

Where is Illinois going?  California?  Greece??

They even ruined deer hunting.

In Brown Deer they have shown that minority kids can be taught to read while in Milwaukee, still under the thumb of the union thugs, thousands more kids will leave school with minimal skills, but the teachers’ pensions, health and salaries will remain intact.

If a kid can't read by 4th grade, he or she is pretty much lost.  

Why do you think kids are in trouble?  Poor family lives, uncaring school monopoly and unable to comprehend lessons put in front of them, they act up.  Thank God that CHOICE came along to give some of them hope, something that they have not had even with this HOPE AND CHANGE program voted in nationally. 

Scott Walker is a REFORM governor, sent in to clean up the mess made by Liberal Tom Ament and his leftists. They feathered their beds at the expense of the taxpayers, as have the other public employee unions around the state.  Now, having to deal with the mess left by the Leftists in Mad City, Walker and the Legislature made some tough decisions.  He dealt with Milwaukee County's mess and is now dealing with the mess in Mad City, and boy are they screaming.

"When you pull all of those noses away from the trough you sure do get a lot of oinking": Ronald Reagan.

Unions, faced with the loss of dues that they use to pad their fat salaries and further their leftist political power, have been the worst.

Tommy Thompson showed us the way in 14 years as governor.  He cut taxes, encouraged businesses, controlled spending, and kept a steady course to attract and grow businesses.

Walker is following the same path, while the dimwitted left wants to make enemies of those that start from scratch, work 60 hours per week, and grow their businesses to create jobs.  They need capital to do that and the more we take from them the less we get.

If you take money from productive people and give it to non-productive people, you get less production from both.

There is a reason that around 7,500 top income people have left this state and over 150,000 tax eaters have moved in and it isn't because of Conservative fiscal policy.

It might be nice to live in Mad City with the Universities, hospitals, and state government there, providing stable, high salaried jobs, but the rest of the state does not have that and we need private jobs to pay the way there. While the leftists, in Mad City, can stroll along the lake in their Birkenstocks puffing on a little pot while talking socialism and its goals, the rest of us have to work.