I’m more of a Milton Friedman fan. I don’t believe that conservative economic positions are what is being followed in Wisconsin.
There is a lot of discussion going on in the economic field about what is happening in Wisconsin. It is going to be front and center in this campaign. I think that what is being discussed needs to be looked at and weighed. I don’t care whether people agree with my position or not. I just think the information needs to be looked at.
Speaking of which, in an unprecedented move, Walker added a provision in the budget deal that would have blocked open records law in Wisconsin. Public outrage and the objections of his own GOP legislators made him pull back from that when the legislators refused to sign off on the budget deal unless it was removed. Why would Walker not want open records in Wisconsin?
I was more interested in why you think maintaining or increasing spending by massively bloated state and federal governments is preferable to taking that money out of their proven wasteful hands and giving it back to the citizens who earned it to spend as they see fit.
That was why I commented. I don’t know yet who I am going to vote for at a federal level, but what this country needs is someone who can slash spending by government the way Scott Walker has, and can return at least some of it to the people who earned it.
I deliberately use the term “slash”. It has to be bloody and messy, but if we don’t do it at all levels, from towns to federal, then the issues aren’t going to get fixed.
We will be “Greeced”, or “Greased”, both mean the same thing.
I don’t know much about Walker, living in a blue state myself, I have far more to worry about. I am not interested in his blockage or un-blockage of open records for whatever reason, but I saw how he handled out of control spending and funding of state unions, and we need more of that from some candidate. Not many have done it.
You are going to have to prove that. So far it looks like the republican legislators are the ones that added it (after all, it was inserted and voted to be put in the budget last Thur), and that Walker told them to back it out. It is certainly possible that Walker was involved in putting it in, but at this point that is not an established fact.