Posted on 07/28/2015 10:09:15 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
On July 25, 2015, the day after news that a Scott Walker ally had called him a "dumb-dumb,"Donald Trump delighted in dumping on the Wisconsin governor during a campaign speech in Iowa.
"I read this horrible statement from his fundraiser about Trump. I said, ‘Oh, finally,I can attack,’ "the New York businessman said to laughter in Oskaloosa. "Finally, finally."
Trump--second to Walker among Republican presidential contenders in an Iowa poll earlier in the week--criticized him on several fronts. Then he made a claim about the fortunes of Wisconsin’s finances.
"Wisconsin’s doing terribly. First of all, it’s in turmoil,"Trump said. "The roads are a disaster because they don’t have any money to rebuild them. They’re borrowing money like crazy. They projected a $1 billion surplus and it turns out to be a deficit of $2.2 billion."
Let’s focus on that last part.
Is Trump right that a projected $1 billion surplus became a $2.2 billion deficit?
Trump is partly on the money,but he’s mixing apples and oranges,and his use of the word deficit is problematic.
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In the end,the 2015-’17 budget approved by the Legislature and signed by Walker in July 2015 was balanced--just as every other Wisconsin state budget is.
Our rating
Mixing apples and oranges,Trump said that under Walker,Wisconsin "projected a $1 billion (budget) surplus and it turns out to be a deficit of $2.2 billion."
There was in early 2014 a projection of a $1 billion surplus heading into the 2015-’17 budget period. Late in 2014, there was a projection of a $2.2 billion shortfall--the difference between expected revenues and the amount of money being requested by state agencies.But the shortfall was never a deficit--and some of the surplus was consciously spent by Republicans,as tax cuts.
For a statement that contains only an element of truth and ignores critical facts that would give a different impression,our rating is Mostly False.
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I think you are just beginning to see the real Trump. A lifelong democrat who supports Hillary to the tune of 100,000 is always suspect to me.
You should know that's not only irrelevant, it's likely illegal........
*Removes leftist talking points hat*
Of course he is. Who does Walker keep floating for his running mate? That says it all.
The best defense is an offense that puts the rival on defense.
The Donald does not play defense in the conventional way. There is a kind of personal combat martial arts technique called Jiu-jitsu, in which the thrusts by the opponent are met by a seeming lack of resistance, until the opponent realizes that he has been pulled beyond the point of balance, at which time countermoves become much more difficult, and the defense takes advantage of this overbalance. When the opponent then tries to pull back, the overbalance is maintained, and what had been a pull, becomes a push by the defense, still to the disadvantage of the opponent.
Much more a game of psyching out the opponent, than of any overwhelming power and brute force.
When your rival is making a fool of himself, give him every assistance to make an even bigger fool of himself.
Some 95% of the personal woe in this world is self-induced, by not thinking the strategy through beforehand, and overreacting when the Order of Battle is torn to shreds.
He’s parroting what pro-union liberals have been saying. But then, Trump is also a liberal so that is to be expected.
I'm so sick of "returning money to the taxpayers" being defined as government spending.
This was this New York Venture Capitalist who said this.
How about when that extremist organization in the Carolinas gave donations to a variety of candidates? You can’t be responsible for everything and I don’t know how well, Walker may know this fellow, Slayton(?) but Walker did not do it himself.
Trump ought to quit going after GOP opponents and keep trashing the Obama administration and its policy
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Good deal. Have property values gone down, stayed the same or gone up?
LMAO who knows, just shows Walker as a pro amnesty open borders douche.
Trump ought to quit going after GOP opponents and keep trashing the Obama administration and its policy
He IS going after 0 and the Dims (like Hilary!). I haven’t seen him strike (back) at GOP until he’s first attacked...by them.
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heat (metal or glass) and allow it to cool slowly, in order to remove internal stresses and toughen it.
Trump seems to be a bull in the crystal shop. Whoever let Trump in is seeking to destroy all potentials by letting him run amok. But, whoever remains standing after Trump has spent his energy may just be who we want to be the leader.
Walker is the first and only governor to repeal instate tuition for illegals; he did it just months after taking office in 2011.
All the candidates have been “attacked” (btw Walker did not make that statement). The unsettling visual (and “lesson” for our youth) is that Trump doesn’t have an emotional filter to control his reactions.
Haha....now, that’s a laughable statement...on so many levels.
Saying Trump is an unsettling visual and lesson for our youth is like saying Walker can’t control his message/reps and has irresponsible management skills.
Sorry, sir, no sale.
Donald hurts himself when he discredits good guys like Walker. Trump would be better served he ranted against the
Clintons, the Obamas and the rest of the RATS.
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