Posted on 02/21/2011 12:14:27 AM PST by FTJM
Wisconsin is one of the most heavily-taxed states in the country, and its government employees are paid much better than the state’s taxpayers. Like many states, it's facing a budget deficit. But when the state’s newly-elected Republican governor, Scott Walker, attempted to place reasonable limits on government-employee pay and collective bargaining, liberal commentators like Rachel Maddow falsely claimed that the state’s budget crisis was manufactured, and that Wisconsin was running a budget surplus.
This claim has now been debunked even by the liberal Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, which endorsed Obama in 2008 and John Kerry in 2004: “Our conclusion: Maddow and the others are wrong. There is, indeed, a projected deficit that required attention, and Walker and GOP lawmakers did not create it.” Maddow blamed the state’s current deficit on business tax breaks supported by the Governor, but those cuts are a tiny drop in the bucket compared to the state’s overall budget; and as the Journal-Sentinel newspaper noted, “the cuts are not even in effect yet, so they cannot be part of the current problem.”
Despite being debunked by newspapers like the Journal-Sentinel, liberal bloggers and TV commentators continue to make this false claim that Wisconsin’s budget crisis was “manufactured” to create an excuse to destroy public-employee unions. (Never mind that the proposals by Wisconsin’s governor would still allow far more collective bargaining in Wisconsin than is permitted in states like Virginia).
The dishonesty of the liberal assault on Wisconsin’s governor is mirrored by the dishonesty of striking government employees there, who have engaged in widespread fraud in calling in “sick” to shut down Wisconsin schools. By the thousand, they have procured doctors’ notes fraudulently claiming that they were sick when they were in fact perfectly healthy.
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Yet, she continues to stay on the air. I wonder why...
The budget crises was in fact manufactured.
By liberals.
We have been waring them for decades that this day will come.
Only over-educated angry Leftists with too much café time on their hands can dream this stuff up.
Is maddow the skinny, ugly little guy that is on msnbc at 9:00 PM?
I watched him once or twice, a very angry little fag boy.
Her mad assertions have already taken root, though, to those who wanted it to be true. Really diabolical.
LISTEN to Newsradio 620 WTMJ Milwaukee conservative Charlie Sykes over the Internet!
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