There Is No Budget Surplus in @WisGOP Scott Walker's #Wisconsin- He has a $2.2 billion deficit

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There Is No Budget Surplus in @WisGOP Scott Walker's #Wisconsin- He has a $2.2 billion deficit https://shar.es/12D8k3 #IOWA #nhpolitics #p2


There Is No Budget Surplus in Wisconsin

Scott Walker is telling the world he has a budget surplus. What he has is a $2.2 billion deficit and a big problem.

Submitted by Jody Knauss on June 11, 2015 - 10:56am

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By Jody Knauss and Mary Bottari

When grilled by Jonathan Karl on ABC's "This Week" about why he had failed to meet his 2010 pledge to create 250,000 new jobs by almost half, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker changed the topic. "Look we fixed the budget from $3.6 billion in a hole to surpluses," he assured America. According to Walker, Wisconsin is in the black, unemployment is down, and all is well.

But talk to the folks struggling to address the state’s staggering budget deficit and you get a different story.

"Maybe if Governor Walker was actually in the state he was elected to represent, he would know that this budget and this state is a mess. Cutting UW System by $250 million, taking hundreds of millions of dollars from our public schools and auctioning our state parks off to the highest bidder does not equal a surplus," said State Rep. Chris Taylor (D-Madison), a member of the state’s Joint Finance Committee which has been meeting in marathon sessions for weeks attempting to dig the state out of the hole it is in.

The facts are these: Walker does not have a surplus. He has a $2.2 billion deficit and a big problem. With his budget committee now caught up in a hot debate over how to fund the Bucks’ new arena and bankroll new road-building, Joint Finance is stuck, with no new meetings scheduled. The standoff could delay Walker’s much-anticipated announcement as a candidate for president.



Walker Talks Fantasy Surplus While Proposing Massive Borrowing



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[AuntPatsy]

1. Where's the televised media in these more than interesting revelations?

[Fred Sanders]

2. Getting a double hand job from their corporate and Madison Ave. masters?

Trying to spin two escaped convicts on the run into the next great national terror...I remember Ebola and how it even terrorized some DU'ers, nay, many, into rejecting science in favor of fear...because they said to be afraid and so Americans ARE?

[AuntPatsy]

3. Take away the prejudices and greed from humanity and they would not be so easily fooled..

Again, not sure that it is possible...

[progressoid]

4. Looks like GOP presidential material to me.

[6chars]

5. Maybe he can sell off UW to the highest bidder

It's accredited!

[yourout]

8. He would if he could.

[Wellstone ruled]

6. With cuts to Food Stamps and General Assistance

in place and more coming. The outrage will be so over the top,that the GOP Press in Milwaukee will have to finally do a anti Walker story. Hearing most local property taxes are spiking to make up local short falls. If this plays out,finally Walker's supporters will feel the Tax bite.

[Scuba]

7. Call it what it is: Walker's War on Wisconsin.