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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Pretty much everything lacking in Baraq Obama....
If Walker loses in Iowa by even 1 point, he is finished. He is not running well in any other early primaries.
Well, you just keep pinning your hopes on that.
It is hard for me to believe Americans are this stupid to elect some one like Obama. I think the Iraq war fatigue was the main reason, and people believed all the lies such as “if you like your insurance and doctor, you can keep them”, “I am a uniter, there is no white America, no black America etc”.
I am simply observing the movement in polls. Hope and $4 might buy you a latte at Starbucks.
Baraq’s 2008 win was pretty understandable. After all he was endorsed by John McCain!
His 2012 win with $4 gas, 8% unemployment (13% actual), surging food prices, trillion dollar deficits, Benghazi, and Obamacare, is a monument to the ability of the Chicago Mob.
Chicago mob hid Benghazi really well by saying Ambassador was killed due to the video. And unemployment rates were lower in 2012 than at end of Bush term. And lies about Obamacare are monumental.
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