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May 23, 2013, 9:40:28 PM5/23/13
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scott walker is destroying wisconsin, tsk tsk for the idiots that not
only voted for him once, but we stupid enough to get suckered twice:
He drained $850 million from the state's economy: cut funding for
public education by $1.6 billion Turning Wisconsin Into the New Greece
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lee-a-saunders/scott-walker-austerity_b_3326111.html?utm_hp_ref=business&ir=Business
Lee A. Saunders
President, American Federation of State, County, and Municipal
Employees, AFL-CIO
Scott Walker's Austerity Plan: Turning Wisconsin Into the New Greece
Posted: 05/23/2013 12:16 pm
When the global financial system came close to collapse a few years
back, economists and politicians on the hard right claimed austerity
would be the perfect medicine to restore the floundering economies of
countries across the globe. No nation took more of the austerity
elixir than Greece. It's now become clear that austerity -- and the
attack on unions that always comes with it -- was not only bad
medicine, it was close to toxic.
The downgrading of Greece's government debt in April of 2010 provided
the IMF and right-wing politicians in Greece the crisis they needed to
implement radical austerity reforms. What followed not only set
Greece's economy back 20 years, but should have served as a warning,
if not a line in the sand, for the champions of austerity across the
globe.
Austerity has been nothing short of a disaster for Greece. Rather than
encourage growth and produce jobs, it has left the Greek economy
dangling on a ledge, threatening to prolong the recession and sending
unemployment skyrocketing. While the debt-crisis to this day remains
practically unaltered, unemployment rose like a meteor, climbing from
8.9 percent in January of 2009 to 27.2 percent in January of 2013.
But you don't have to look at Athens, Mykonos or Rhodes to see the
damage that austerity can cause. You can find it in Appleton,
Milwaukee and Racine, Wisconsin. Two years ago, Governor Scott Walker
entered office promising to create jobs. Only after winning the
election did he reveal that austerity would be his miracle brew.
Wisconsin needed extreme reforms, he and his allies told the public,
in order to be competitive in an ever-changing economic climate.
What followed is a tragic tale worthy of Greek mythology. Walker
proceeded to sink the economy and turn Wisconsin into the new Greece.
Like the austerity promoters in Greece, Walker went after the public
unions. The Governor's first move was to enact Act 10, which did away
with fifty years of successful collective bargaining for fair wages,
safe working conditions and increased job training between the State
and local municipalities and their public workers. He drained $850
million from the state's economy by cutting the pay of the average
public employee by 10 percent -- taking money out of shops,
restaurants and businesses all across the state.
Then, he cut funding for public education by $1.6 billion. Wisconsin's
invaluable technical college program that provides workers the
training or re-training they need to prosper in an evolving economy
was slashed. The safety net protecting seniors and the state's most
vulnerable faced historic funding cuts.
Governor Walker then lavished tax breaks on his friends, the
corporations and wealthy who funded his election.
What better way to pay them back for all their campaign contributions
than to cut taxes on corporations and the wealthy by $2.3 billion over
two years, forcing the burden of austerity on the Badger State's
working middle class.
When the federal government offered a helping hand, Walker turned back
billions in funding for Badger Care and the state's rail systems.
Nothing but austerity could produce growth, he claimed.
But in Wisconsin, as in Greece, austerity did nothing to bring about
the changes promised. In Greece, unemployment rocketed an unfathomable
18.3 percent in a span of four years. In Wisconsin, the results are
similar. In 2010, Wisconsin gained more than 24,000 jobs. A year
later, under Walker, it led the nation in lost jobs. According to a
March 2013 report last month from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics,
Wisconsin continues to falter, falling to 44th in the nation in
private sector job creation.
Now Walker is traipsing around the country speaking to wealthy donors
and right-wing audiences as he prepares a potential presidential run.
He was in Stamford, Conn., earlier this week, hoping to build support
for his destructive policies. AFSCME members were there too,
protesting his slash-and-burn policies that destroyed jobs and
workers' rights. We will not let his cavalier -- and clueless --
claims of Wisconsin prosperity go unanswered.
Before Wisconsin, Greece was seen as a case study of what not to do
during troubled economic times. A safety net destroyed, public unions
decimated and massive corporate tax breaks that did nothing to help
their economy, leading only to skyrocketing unemployment and a
faltering GDP. Now, Wisconsin sadly serves as a parallel study, with
an economy sinking into severe long term job losses, far behind the
national pace of job growth.
Scott Walker and his tea party cohorts bought the snake oil of
austerity. They forced the Badger State to drink it. And Wisconsin's
families are suffering because the governor ignored the evidence that
it is a toxic brew.
only voted for him once, but we stupid enough to get suckered twice:
He drained $850 million from the state's economy: cut funding for
public education by $1.6 billion Turning Wisconsin Into the New Greece
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lee-a-saunders/scott-walker-austerity_b_3326111.html?utm_hp_ref=business&ir=Business
Lee A. Saunders
President, American Federation of State, County, and Municipal
Employees, AFL-CIO
Scott Walker's Austerity Plan: Turning Wisconsin Into the New Greece
Posted: 05/23/2013 12:16 pm
When the global financial system came close to collapse a few years
back, economists and politicians on the hard right claimed austerity
would be the perfect medicine to restore the floundering economies of
countries across the globe. No nation took more of the austerity
elixir than Greece. It's now become clear that austerity -- and the
attack on unions that always comes with it -- was not only bad
medicine, it was close to toxic.
The downgrading of Greece's government debt in April of 2010 provided
the IMF and right-wing politicians in Greece the crisis they needed to
implement radical austerity reforms. What followed not only set
Greece's economy back 20 years, but should have served as a warning,
if not a line in the sand, for the champions of austerity across the
globe.
Austerity has been nothing short of a disaster for Greece. Rather than
encourage growth and produce jobs, it has left the Greek economy
dangling on a ledge, threatening to prolong the recession and sending
unemployment skyrocketing. While the debt-crisis to this day remains
practically unaltered, unemployment rose like a meteor, climbing from
8.9 percent in January of 2009 to 27.2 percent in January of 2013.
But you don't have to look at Athens, Mykonos or Rhodes to see the
damage that austerity can cause. You can find it in Appleton,
Milwaukee and Racine, Wisconsin. Two years ago, Governor Scott Walker
entered office promising to create jobs. Only after winning the
election did he reveal that austerity would be his miracle brew.
Wisconsin needed extreme reforms, he and his allies told the public,
in order to be competitive in an ever-changing economic climate.
What followed is a tragic tale worthy of Greek mythology. Walker
proceeded to sink the economy and turn Wisconsin into the new Greece.
Like the austerity promoters in Greece, Walker went after the public
unions. The Governor's first move was to enact Act 10, which did away
with fifty years of successful collective bargaining for fair wages,
safe working conditions and increased job training between the State
and local municipalities and their public workers. He drained $850
million from the state's economy by cutting the pay of the average
public employee by 10 percent -- taking money out of shops,
restaurants and businesses all across the state.
Then, he cut funding for public education by $1.6 billion. Wisconsin's
invaluable technical college program that provides workers the
training or re-training they need to prosper in an evolving economy
was slashed. The safety net protecting seniors and the state's most
vulnerable faced historic funding cuts.
Governor Walker then lavished tax breaks on his friends, the
corporations and wealthy who funded his election.
What better way to pay them back for all their campaign contributions
than to cut taxes on corporations and the wealthy by $2.3 billion over
two years, forcing the burden of austerity on the Badger State's
working middle class.
When the federal government offered a helping hand, Walker turned back
billions in funding for Badger Care and the state's rail systems.
Nothing but austerity could produce growth, he claimed.
But in Wisconsin, as in Greece, austerity did nothing to bring about
the changes promised. In Greece, unemployment rocketed an unfathomable
18.3 percent in a span of four years. In Wisconsin, the results are
similar. In 2010, Wisconsin gained more than 24,000 jobs. A year
later, under Walker, it led the nation in lost jobs. According to a
March 2013 report last month from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics,
Wisconsin continues to falter, falling to 44th in the nation in
private sector job creation.
Now Walker is traipsing around the country speaking to wealthy donors
and right-wing audiences as he prepares a potential presidential run.
He was in Stamford, Conn., earlier this week, hoping to build support
for his destructive policies. AFSCME members were there too,
protesting his slash-and-burn policies that destroyed jobs and
workers' rights. We will not let his cavalier -- and clueless --
claims of Wisconsin prosperity go unanswered.
Before Wisconsin, Greece was seen as a case study of what not to do
during troubled economic times. A safety net destroyed, public unions
decimated and massive corporate tax breaks that did nothing to help
their economy, leading only to skyrocketing unemployment and a
faltering GDP. Now, Wisconsin sadly serves as a parallel study, with
an economy sinking into severe long term job losses, far behind the
national pace of job growth.
Scott Walker and his tea party cohorts bought the snake oil of
austerity. They forced the Badger State to drink it. And Wisconsin's
families are suffering because the governor ignored the evidence that
it is a toxic brew.
Harold Burton
May 23, 2013, 9:50:32 PM5/23/13
to
In article
<c26e328b-d92d-495a...@r3g2000yqe.googlegroups.com>,
Nickname unavailable <video61%tcq...@gtempaccount.com> wrote:
> scott walker is destroying wisconsin . . .
. . . and other leftard lies.
Leftards like Nickname love to whine.
snicker
<c26e328b-d92d-495a...@r3g2000yqe.googlegroups.com>,
Nickname unavailable <video61%tcq...@gtempaccount.com> wrote:
> scott walker is destroying wisconsin . . .
. . . and other leftard lies.
Leftards like Nickname love to whine.
snicker
Nickname unavailable
May 24, 2013, 12:36:45 AM5/24/13
to
On May 23, 8:50 pm, Harold Burton <hal.i.bur...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> In article
> <c26e328b-d92d-495a-b65f-a7c336554...@r3g2000yqe.googlegroups.com>,
criminals.
https://groups.google.com/group/alt.politics.economics/browse_thread/thread/8455997cbba5630d/e891055dbf97c108?hl=en&q=Harold+Burton++world+war+two&lnk=ol&
Harold Burton
View profile
More options May 19, 8:14 pm
In article
<90d4c035-5a00-4dc5-b0c5-3b981dc6d...@s9g2000pbc.googlegroups.com>,
Bret Cahill <BretCah...@peoplepc.com> wrote:
- Show quoted text -
Well doh. Democrat FDR proved that in the 40s when he firebombed
thousands of innocent women and children in Dresden, Tokyo and
numerous
other cities.
snicker
you were responded to promptly by a patriot.
https://groups.google.com/group/alt.politics.economics/browse_thread/thread/8455997cbba5630d/b08042a9da25f19f?hl=en&q=Harold+Burton++world+war+two&lnk=nl&
While It's ALWAYS DISconcerting To Encounter a HOPELESS IGNORAMUS,
it is Conversely, a GREAT PLEASURE To Illustrate - And Hopefully
DISSIPATE - The HARM of The DEPENDABLY, Self-Serving, Fact-
INTOLERANT, Delusional And INTRACTABLE IGNORANCE of such Notable
RighTARDS as "Harold Burton"...
THUS: The Rationale For AND Decision To Bomb [FIRST With High-
Explosives, THEN With Incendiaries] Dresden [Among OTHER High-Value
Targets] Was a - Waaaaait Forrr Iiiiiit - *British* Undertaking...
FDR's Involvement being Limited To his Administration's LONG-Standing
Acquiescence To Placing [American] Eighth Air Force assets At The
Disposal Of British Air Marshalls... As Would Be Expected Of a GOOD
War-Time Ally...
ERGO: *The British* Bombed Dresden [Among OTHER High-Value
Targets] employing Combined Military Assets of British and American
Forces... The *British* FIRST Low-Level Attacking at *Night*, Per
British Strategy; American Forces [Under *British* Command] High-
Level Attacking by Next Daylight...
ERGO - The Sequel: CONTRARY To Harold The RighTARD's HOPELESSLY
IGNORANT And Self-Serving, Ignoramus-Speak Blather, FDR had LITTLE OR
NOTHING To Do With The Bombing Of Dresden and Most Likely, Wasn't
Even Aware that The British High Command had Determined To Bomb
Several East German Cities, In Aid Of The Burgeoning Russian
Advance...
even after knowing the slaughter of americans in the Philippines,
and all of the other atrocities commited by them, they would have to
be worn down, as they tried to do to us.
and here is your response, you defended the nazis, and now you defend
the imperialists japanese.
https://groups.google.com/group/alt.politics.economics/browse_thread/thread/8455997cbba5630d/b08042a9da25f19f?hl=en&q=Harold+Burton++world+war+two&lnk=nl&
The CiC takes ultimate responsibility for what our armed services do.
The buck stopped at FDR's desk.
> . . . .and Most Likely, Wasn't Even
> Aware that The British High Command had Determined To Bomb Several
> East German Cities, In Aid Of The Burgeoning Russian Advance...
Hahahahahahahahahaha. Now THAT's even funnier.
I also notice you did your best to ignore the firebombing of
Tokyo . . . and Osaka . . . and Kobe . . . and Fukuoka . . . and,
oh hell just check out http://www.ditext.com/japan/napalm.html. How
are you going to blame that on the Brits?
then i demanded a apology,
https://groups.google.com/group/alt.politics.economics/browse_thread/thread/8455997cbba5630d/b08042a9da25f19f?hl=en&q=Harold+Burton++world+war+two&lnk=nl&
and he owes WWII vets a apology.
you said,
Just as you owe sentient beings an apology
Hahahahahahahahahahah
you sir are not only a liar, but a unpatriotic one at that.
and you added this recently
https://groups.google.com/group/alt.politics.economics/browse_thread/thread/3803f1d64d8e4b45/5d73a1560313be84?hl=en&
. . . and deliberately targeting and murdering civilians.
snicker
> In article
> <c26e328b-d92d-495a-b65f-a7c336554...@r3g2000yqe.googlegroups.com>,
> Nickname unavailable <video61%tcq....@gtempaccount.com> wrote:
>
> > scott walker is destroying wisconsin . . .
>
> . . . and other leftard lies.
>
> Leftards like Nickname love to whine.
>
> snicker
when are you going to apologize for calling our WWII vets war
>
> > scott walker is destroying wisconsin . . .
>
> . . . and other leftard lies.
>
> Leftards like Nickname love to whine.
>
> snicker
criminals.
https://groups.google.com/group/alt.politics.economics/browse_thread/thread/8455997cbba5630d/e891055dbf97c108?hl=en&q=Harold+Burton++world+war+two&lnk=ol&
Harold Burton
View profile
More options May 19, 8:14 pm
In article
<90d4c035-5a00-4dc5-b0c5-3b981dc6d...@s9g2000pbc.googlegroups.com>,
Bret Cahill <BretCah...@peoplepc.com> wrote:
- Show quoted text -
Well doh. Democrat FDR proved that in the 40s when he firebombed
thousands of innocent women and children in Dresden, Tokyo and
numerous
other cities.
snicker
you were responded to promptly by a patriot.
https://groups.google.com/group/alt.politics.economics/browse_thread/thread/8455997cbba5630d/b08042a9da25f19f?hl=en&q=Harold+Burton++world+war+two&lnk=nl&
While It's ALWAYS DISconcerting To Encounter a HOPELESS IGNORAMUS,
it is Conversely, a GREAT PLEASURE To Illustrate - And Hopefully
DISSIPATE - The HARM of The DEPENDABLY, Self-Serving, Fact-
INTOLERANT, Delusional And INTRACTABLE IGNORANCE of such Notable
RighTARDS as "Harold Burton"...
THUS: The Rationale For AND Decision To Bomb [FIRST With High-
Explosives, THEN With Incendiaries] Dresden [Among OTHER High-Value
Targets] Was a - Waaaaait Forrr Iiiiiit - *British* Undertaking...
FDR's Involvement being Limited To his Administration's LONG-Standing
Acquiescence To Placing [American] Eighth Air Force assets At The
Disposal Of British Air Marshalls... As Would Be Expected Of a GOOD
War-Time Ally...
ERGO: *The British* Bombed Dresden [Among OTHER High-Value
Targets] employing Combined Military Assets of British and American
Forces... The *British* FIRST Low-Level Attacking at *Night*, Per
British Strategy; American Forces [Under *British* Command] High-
Level Attacking by Next Daylight...
ERGO - The Sequel: CONTRARY To Harold The RighTARD's HOPELESSLY
IGNORANT And Self-Serving, Ignoramus-Speak Blather, FDR had LITTLE OR
NOTHING To Do With The Bombing Of Dresden and Most Likely, Wasn't
Even Aware that The British High Command had Determined To Bomb
Several East German Cities, In Aid Of The Burgeoning Russian
Advance...
even after knowing the slaughter of americans in the Philippines,
and all of the other atrocities commited by them, they would have to
be worn down, as they tried to do to us.
and here is your response, you defended the nazis, and now you defend
the imperialists japanese.
https://groups.google.com/group/alt.politics.economics/browse_thread/thread/8455997cbba5630d/b08042a9da25f19f?hl=en&q=Harold+Burton++world+war+two&lnk=nl&
The CiC takes ultimate responsibility for what our armed services do.
The buck stopped at FDR's desk.
> . . . .and Most Likely, Wasn't Even
> Aware that The British High Command had Determined To Bomb Several
> East German Cities, In Aid Of The Burgeoning Russian Advance...
Hahahahahahahahahaha. Now THAT's even funnier.
I also notice you did your best to ignore the firebombing of
Tokyo . . . and Osaka . . . and Kobe . . . and Fukuoka . . . and,
oh hell just check out http://www.ditext.com/japan/napalm.html. How
are you going to blame that on the Brits?
then i demanded a apology,
https://groups.google.com/group/alt.politics.economics/browse_thread/thread/8455997cbba5630d/b08042a9da25f19f?hl=en&q=Harold+Burton++world+war+two&lnk=nl&
and he owes WWII vets a apology.
you said,
Just as you owe sentient beings an apology
Hahahahahahahahahahah
you sir are not only a liar, but a unpatriotic one at that.
and you added this recently
https://groups.google.com/group/alt.politics.economics/browse_thread/thread/3803f1d64d8e4b45/5d73a1560313be84?hl=en&
. . . and deliberately targeting and murdering civilians.
snicker
BeamMeUpScotty
May 24, 2013, 1:18:49 AM5/24/13
to
> In article
> <c26e328b-d92d-495a...@r3g2000yqe.googlegroups.com>,
> Nickname unavailable <video61%tcq...@gtempaccount.com> wrote:
>
>> scott walker is destroying wisconsin . . .
Wisconsin had already been destroyed by Democrats and Unions and Scott
Walker was elected to stop that Democrat destruction.
--
*Rumination*
#13 - Being Liberal means, never knowing that, you are your own worst enemy.
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