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Nonetheless, Walker claimed the bill's passage is "good for the Badger State's hard-working taxpayers. It will also be good for state and local government employees who overwhelmingly want to do their jobs well....Our (union busting) bill is a commitment to the future so our children won't face even more dire consequences than we face today, and teachers (won't have to be) laid off (so) government (can) work for" everyone in Wisconsin.
It's instructive to remember journalist IF Stone's admonition to young journalists, telling them:
"All governments lie," or at other times, saying, "All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed." Who better than Walker and Obama prove it. Like other corrupted politicians, the president is no friend of labor.
A Final Comment
Wisconsin Republicans' Wednesday night putch was preceded a week earlier by Walker demanding at least $1.5 billion in budget cuts, besides earlier ones enacted, including:
-- $1.25 billion from schools and local governments, including $900 million in education funding (or $500 per student), exposing his real education agenda;
-- $500 million from Medicaid at the expense of a million needy Wisconsinites dependent on it; and
-- $250 million from the University of Wisconsin, besides sharp tuition hikes, wage and benefit reductions, separating the main Madison campus from others, and possibly privatizing the system, ruining it by selling it off to profiteers.
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