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Rachel Maddow says Wisconsin is on track to have a budget surplus this year (PolitiFact: False)
PolitiFact.com ^ | 2/18/2011 | Dave Umhoefer, PolitiFact

Posted on 02/19/2011 3:01:25 PM PST by Qbert

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It seems every week, this fraud is caught making something up. (Whaddya wanna bet she cheated in college to get that Rhodes Scholarship...?)
1 posted on 02/19/2011 3:01:30 PM PST by Qbert
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Between the revenues generated by Cold Fusion and our Martian Colony, I think Wisconsin will be fine.


2 posted on 02/19/2011 3:04:09 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (The world is aflame with revolution. The year 2011 will be like 1848. Be not afraid.)
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is she a man??????


3 posted on 02/19/2011 3:04:47 PM PST by barbarianbabs
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and we care what the madcow dike says why?

lol

she has even fewer viewers than olberdork did!

ROFL

4 posted on 02/19/2011 3:06:34 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama = Epic Fail)
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It only matters because when she says anything all the brain dead Obamazombies accept it as God-given truth and start parroting it all over the place.


5 posted on 02/19/2011 3:11:30 PM PST by Qbert ("I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air" - Margaret Thatcher)
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Does it really matter if the state has a surplus?

After all, it’s now more than clear that the LAST THING the school teachers in Wisconsin care about are the ‘children’. So it’s more than obvious, at this point, these these unions MUST be broken up. I could care less as to the financial situation of the state.


6 posted on 02/19/2011 3:13:16 PM PST by BobL (PLEASE READ: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2657811/posts)
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I like the way you think!


7 posted on 02/19/2011 3:13:48 PM PST by kevslisababy
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bull...show me the math.


8 posted on 02/19/2011 3:15:15 PM PST by pointsal
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Let’s say this is true. Let’s say there is a surplus. So does that mean we should spend it like drunken sailors? Don’t these people ever save anything?

So this argument, even if accurate, wouldn’t convince me to side with the eduliars.


9 posted on 02/19/2011 3:17:22 PM PST by mockingbyrd
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I’m sure Madcow will correct himself at his first opportunity!


10 posted on 02/19/2011 3:17:40 PM PST by KansasGirl (1)
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“alker and fellow Republicans in the Legislature this year gave away $140 million in business tax breaks”

Those nasty businesses. Who needs em anyway? Businesses just steal from workin folks...

(Hopefully I don't need to explain the satirical nature of my post. I'm just trying to think and speak like a Democrat or union thug. And yes they do say “workin” with no g)

11 posted on 02/19/2011 3:18:18 PM PST by HereInTheHeartland (Vote like Obama is on the ballot)
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“Does it really matter if the state has a surplus?”

Nope. In addition to what you said, even if they had a surplus, it’s still a red herring when you have that much debt.


12 posted on 02/19/2011 3:18:44 PM PST by Qbert ("I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air" - Margaret Thatcher)
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“Let’s say this is true. Let’s say there is a surplus. So does that mean we should spend it like drunken sailors? Don’t these people ever save anything?”

Exactly. It would be like if Obozo channeled his inner Centrist (cough, cough) and somehow came up with a surplus for this year. It still doesn’t change the fact that we have 14 Trillion in debt to worry about.


13 posted on 02/19/2011 3:21:56 PM PST by Qbert ("I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air" - Margaret Thatcher)
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Last night, the lib femanist talk show host in S.F. had this as the theme. Her source was a reporter from The Nation, John Nichols.

He spewed the same data, and was an ass to callers who had the opposing view.

Glad to see this debunked.

However, Gov. Walker says the state is $3.6(?) Billion in the hole. What is that number from?

14 posted on 02/19/2011 3:24:30 PM PST by muleskinner
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Rachel often gets his facts wrong.


15 posted on 02/19/2011 3:24:46 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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I read that memo. I believe it didn’t address structural debt that Wisconsin has. In 2009 that was $2 billion. For 2011 it was going to be $2.5 billion.


16 posted on 02/19/2011 3:25:18 PM PST by bergmeid
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Yesterday on Fox News, Mr. Light-in-the-Loafers (Shep Smith) TWICE repeated this hogwash as if it were fact.

But then again, Shep Smith is to honest journalism what Rachel Maddow is to feminine pulchritude.

17 posted on 02/19/2011 3:26:56 PM PST by Flycatcher (God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
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Amazing that prior to the election -- before a Republican or Democrat was voted into the governor's office -- we in Wisconsin were warned that the next governor would face a $2.7 billion dollar budgetary short fall. Shortly thereafter we elected a Republican governor and discovered the shortfall had been under-reported by a billion dollars due to Doyle's shenanigans. And today, now that a Republican is actually doing something about the shortfall, suddenly history is rewritten and the lapdogs report we actually have a $122 million dollar surplus. Maddow is lying to our faces. Thank goodness not too many are falling for her load of dung anymore. We watched her online at the office the other day and even the most liberal among us was asking "who is she kidding?". This event is outing the Communists in our ranks. The big labor unions, the lapdog reporters, the Jesse Jacksons ... all the Commies are outing themselves. Joe McCarthy is smiling from Heaven on us right now.


18 posted on 02/19/2011 3:31:42 PM PST by so_real ( "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")
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Follow the link in post 18


19 posted on 02/19/2011 3:33:24 PM PST by so_real ( "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")
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“Wisconsin faces a budget shortfall of $137 million for the current FY2011 and the prospect of a $3.6 billion hole in the coming two-year budget.[1] Gov. Scott Walker proposed budget cuts to balance the state’s budget, and a bill related to collective bargaining by unions triggered days of protests in the state capitol.[1]

Wisconsin has a total state debt of $17,971,519,547 when calculated by adding the total of outstanding debt, pension and OPEB UAAL’s, unemployment trust funds and the 2010 budget gap as of July 2010.[2]”

http://sunshinereview.org/index.php/Wisconsin_state_budget


20 posted on 02/19/2011 3:34:14 PM PST by Qbert ("I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air" - Margaret Thatcher)
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