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Title: Politifact: Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker says Wisconsin is broke
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Politifact
URL Source: http://politifact.com/wisconsin/sta ... t-walker-says-wisconsin-broke/
Published: Mar 14, 2011
Author: Politifact
Post Date: 2011-03-14 16:10:22 by go65
Keywords: None
Views: 2165
Comments: 10
Republicans from Washington to Madison have adopted a new expression when it comes to describing the state of government finances: "We’re broke." Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker started using the "broke" description as he unveiled his controversial budget-repair bill, which would force state employees to pay more for health care and pensions and curtail collective bargaining rights for most public employees. "I don't have anything to negotiate," Walker said Feb. 11, 2011, the day he unveiled his budget-repair bill, aimed at closing a $137 million gap in the budget that ends June 30, 2011. "We are broke in this state. We have been broke for years." Since then, he’s repeated the phrase many times. -------- Experts agree the state faces financial challenges in the form of deficits. But they also agree the state isn’t broke. Employees and bills are being paid. Services are continuing to be performed. Revenue continues to roll in. A variety of tools -- taxes, layoffs, spending cuts, debt shifting -- is available to make ends meet. Walker has promised not to increase taxes. That takes one tool off the table. Another tool was never there: declaring bankruptcy. We’re not broke or bankrupt in part because under federal law we can’t be. We rate Walker’s statement False. 
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#1. To: go65 (#0)
Sure you do, You want more of the public pie.
Well, [W.A-R.'s] got to do something for attention, his multiple personalities aren't speaking to him any more, and his imaginary friends keep finding excuses not to come over.
Don't worry, fat boy Michael Moore will donate his $50 million net worth so that Wisconsin bureaucrats can continue their lavish pensions for another day or two.
FROM DECADES OF EXPERIENCE WITH YOUR LIES, ALL sane AMERICANS rate any libTURD financial or fiscal statement as FALSE. YOU libTURDS are incapable of telling the TRUTH about ANYTHING, let alone about anything involving any HARD science. You morons can't even fathom the supply and demand relationship. YOU gibbering herd dwelling morons are why AMERICA is so deep in the shit right now. ie. Living in mouth breather's empty noggins 24/7/365 totally rent free!
Maybe fat boy Rush Limbaugh will match him.
"Am I for or against abstinence?" - Sarah Palin
I certainly wouldn't.
I doubt you've got $50 million.
"Am I for or against abstinence?" - Sarah Palin
WTF?!?!?!?! Maybe the Feds should pass a law that says people can't die. That way, when they die, they won't be dead.
And the sheep will bleat their submission, Burma Shave.
Sure you do, You want more of the public pie. The source is "Politifact" published by "St. Petersburg Times" of Florida, a private sector business; how does their rating of Wisconsin's Governor's Claim translate into a bigger piece of the public pie for them? Gotta watch that knee-jerk thing.
You have the courage to tell the masses what no politician told them: you are inferior and all the improvements in your conditions which you simply take for granted you owe to the efforts of men who are better than you. Ludwig von Mises in a letter to Ayn Rand
Honestly. You are the most IGNORANT poster I've ever encountered on the web. It doesn't matter who said IT. IT's TOTAL BULLSHIT. Just like virtually EVERYTHING that you libTURDS say is.
Living in mouth breather's empty noggins 24/7/365 totally rent free!
Unfortunately, only 5. I still wouldn't.
We rate Walker’s statement False.
#2. To: go65 (#0)
(Edited)
"Everything that can be invented has been invented."-- Charles Duell, Commissioner of US Patent Office, 1899
#3. To: go65 (#0)
libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=18666
#4. To: jwpegler (#2)
Don't worry, fat boy Michael Moore will donate his $50 million net worth so that Wisconsin bureaucrats can continue their lavish pensions for another day or two.
#5. To: Skip Intro (#4)
"Everything that can be invented has been invented."-- Charles Duell, Commissioner of US Patent Office, 1899
#6. To: jwpegler (#5)
I certainly wouldn't.
#7. To: go65 (#0)
We’re not broke or bankrupt in part because under federal law we can’t be.
Seeing the others as fools,
Not knowing nor even caring,
They've become no more than tools.
#8. To: Rudgear, go65 (#1)
We rate Walker’s statement False.
#9. To: lucysmom (#8)
#10. To: Skip Intro (#6)
"Everything that can be invented has been invented."-- Charles Duell, Commissioner of US Patent Office, 1899
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