Walker promised three things: no new taxes, eliminate the $3.5 billion state budget deficit, and create 250,000 new jobs. He knows he can’t deliver on the last two and keep his promise on taxes, so if he’s going to get himself and his Republican legislative majority re-elected, he’ll have to kneecap the unions so they can’t support the Democrats financially. It’s sort of the next stage to the Citizens United game plan: make unlimited money available, but only from corporations.

Meanwhile even the Packers are upset with Walker. Pissing off the Packers, the only successful thing Wisconsin has done since Bret Favre “retired”? In an Goldman-Sacks v. Packers face-off, I’d back Clay Matthews…

Viva la Cheddar Revolucion!

Next, the farmers will be blocking Madison’s streets with tractors. Or giant cheese wheels.

When he was elected, the state had a surplus, but he then slashed taxes and spent millions of taxpayer dollars on programs to benefit business, his contributors, and his friends (with no notable benefit to the state of Wisconsin).

Just don’t get your hopes up. A group of people — a team — from Wisconsin could never win anything, right?

Here is the link to that information.

I particularly enjoyed Rep Ryan saying Cairo had moved to Madison. Kinda doubt that Scott Walker has billions stashed abroad, though; he was good with his Brothers but the solo albums never sold much.

He still has the Koch brothers to fall back on.

Unfortunately, the “stupid” narrative will hold sway in the media.

Actually, the money belongs to Wall Street pension fund managers. I think they’re getting 15% to manage the state’s pension fund. And let’s not forget that the “crisis” was fomented by a January bonus in the form of contracts to Walker’s political patrons.

$258 will buy you about a half-hour’s worth of “work” from the Brooks Brothers-clad consultants that the great minds at the Weekly Standard meet for lunch. Of course, that’s completely fair, since the Wisconsin teachers are charged with the meaningless task of educating our kids.

FSM, sometimes these vermin just make me want to puke.

Ummm. Welfare state riots? YOU Friggin’ Asshats – this is a demonstration by people who work hard for a living and accomplish more good in one day then you do in a decade. There is nothing “welfare” about it. Welfare is your damn bonus because it is payment for sitting on your ass losing other people’s money, but watch you have a tantrum and talk about contracts if one cent of it is threatened.

Apologies to the TBogg. But the MOTU piss me off.

With 190 school days per year, Wisconsin public education employees make about $258 per day.

Oh, bullfuckingshit.

If Wisconsin’s teachers’ lives are anything like those in my state, they also work a week before school begins and a week after it ends, raising the total to 200; then they put in 15 – 20 work days on professional development during the summer when they’re “off”. So now we’re up to 215 or 220 days – a whopping 18 – 23 days less than those asshats at The Weekly Standard “work”, assuming they only get 2 weeks’ vacation and you know goddamned good and well they get more.

The only way you could make this type of “error”, claiming that teachers “only” work 190 days per year, would be if you didn’t *know* any teachers, or that you’re a goddamned lying sack of shit.

In the case of the folks at The Weekly Standard, I’m guessing it’s *both*.

Slow, raging burn at the hypocrisy and sheer callousness of the GS newsletter. Fuck them with a very rusty pitchfork. Very. Class warfare? You want it–you fucking got it. Fuckers.

Well, the Teebaggerz could do this:
http://privatizethepack.wordpress.com/

Of course, that would require them to actually believe in what they incessantly spew out.

Also, it’s not just the days, it’s the hours. My sister once kept track of all the hours she worked during one school year, including prep, grading, meeting with parents, etc., and the round number was … 2000. (Note for business and economics editors: 40 x 50 = 2000.) No wonder she was exhausted when summer came around.

It should be pointed out that the Goldman Sachs company newsletter is Tbogg’s term for the Wall Street Journal.

There was a time when the right wing used to say, “we love teachers but their union leaders are jerks.” Now it’s, teachers used to be wonderful, underpaid paragons, now they’re a bunch of parasites.”

dispatching their armored mobile-chair division of low-information high-density tea bagging Seniors

AKA Bathwater Security Contractors.

By the way did anyone notice that years after Prince changed his name to an unpronounceable symbol (shrewd marketing move there, you betcha), Erik Prince renamed the disgraced security company Blackwater to the basically unreadable “Xe”?

If anyone wants to see conspiracies, I’d start looking there (I’m talking to you Glenn) It’s all patterns….

Chainsaws, my dear, chainsaws. Pitchforks are far too gentle.

Solidarity!

Yeah, and those extra hours are off-the-clock. My sister teaches, and her contract day ends at 3:00pm. Anything she does at home, or in the classroom at night or on weekends is basically working for free. And they’re looking at taking the “extra duty” contracts (coaching sports, being a class advisor, heading up the yearbook, etc.) and eliminating them.

Anyone who claims teachers are overpaid and underworked has *never* set foot in a classroom since they graduated. I have challenged many an anti-education zealot to get their substitute license and try running a class of 30 7-year-olds for a week. None have taken the offer.

Thanks for the URL. That’s some fine sarcasm at Privatize the Pack, as anyone who follows the Bucks and Brewers would recognize.

Wall Street is printing its own money now, Humans are just in the way.

Wall Street is Skynet?

This explains a great many things…

WSJ:
Mr. Walker’s very modest proposal

You know who else had a “modest proposal”?

That’s right…

I would like to see some Dogs naow. Maybe an otter hound. Or a bassett.

Anyway. PLIZ. DOGS.

Scroll down…Today’s Friday!

Yeah, I understand. When the week’s news is like this week’s, we want dogz every day, right?

Over the past few days, thousands have swarmed the state capital and airwaves to intimidate lawmakers and disrupt Governor Scott Walker’s plan to level the playing field between taxpayers and government unions.

As if none of those union members pay taxes or spend money in Wisconsin businesses. (They won’t be doing that after he screws them over, lying bastard that he is.)

the Koch brothers will be dispatching their armored mobile-chair division of low-information high-density tea bagging Seniors

Call out the 82nd Chairborne Division, 3rd Hoverround Matlock regiment.
Those Medicare-paid scooters don’t do so great on snowy Capitol steps. Damn, the horrors of socialized medicine!

Hey, remember the big spaces at the Tea Party rallies? They don’t do well in crowds, either. They won’t stay long.

I wish I could be supreme judge of America for one day. I’d sentence Goldman-Sachs to 500 years, no solitary, mix with the general prison population.

JUMP FUCKERS! JUMP! Oh, it’s too late. They’ve already got the billions in bailouts.

Well this is cool.
Photo from Egypt, in support of Wisconsin workers

Sweet, even tho there aren’t any floppy ears or freckles.

Check out the the wording of a new resolution by Vermont state senator Virginia Lyons linked in “On Corporate Personhood” (by: norsehorse, Feb. 16, 2011 at 23:06:01 PM EST)

Used to date a high school teacher, and we spent many of our dates grading her class’ papers. Further, I know of no teacher who does not dump a couple large a year into “classroom expenses” because it’s too big a pain in the ass to get the school itself to cough up everything that’s needed to teach. And last, as Jenn pointed out, teachers spend their summers developing curricula for the upcoming year, or brushing up on the subjects they purport to know more about than their students, or developing additional skills to bring to the job– like picking up another language, for example, which turns out to be of some use in our country.

Which is more than I say for any member of the class that picks the taxpayers’ pocket while complaining about his spending habits, as Goldman-Sachs makes its living doing. And publishes a newletter furtheringing the myth that teaching is a cushy part-time gig for those only in it for the money.

Conservatives point out often how overrun with liberals the educational system is, and I agree. But there is a simple rationale for this, which eludes the self-absorbed assholes making this claim. And it is that few conservatives are capable of giving enough of a fuck about the welfare and needs of others to endure the often thankless task that teaching can be.

And I’ll tell ya something else fer nothing, dammit. The fucking Margarine Riots of ’74 were more of a threat to civility in the Dairy State than the peaceful and orderly demonstrations taking place there now.

Sweet.

Have you seen the film, The Corporation?

Repugs don’t believe in education,at least education paid for by their taxes,in Maryland anyway.also,too…