Yes, but is people making money off of oil companies the problem here, or rather that the Bush tax cuts are designed to make the US some kind of valhalla for these rich (oil company owners)?

"Rockmolder" wrote:

First, i want to make this clear. I DO NOT watch Fox news channel. I do watch the local Fox station (channel 6) in Milwaukee. Bit they are HARDLY "right wingers". I(t's funny how all the local news outlits show all the protestors, but show very little of those that stand with Walker. And unlike you might think, there are plenty that do stand with what he is trying to do.

I saw Bill Clinton mentioned as some great guy in this thread. You mean the extremely RICH Bill and Hillary Clinton? They have more money then i could count. WHERE did they get all that money? I know they own oil company stock.
Why are rich democrats never held to the same standard that rich republicans are? Bush gets vilified for supposedly doing dasterdly things "for the rich oil barrons". Oh....you mean like the Clintons?
My wife pays $500 a month out of her checks for our health insurance. And we still have to pay deductables. She pays almost $50 a month in union dues. Yet any time she has needed to union, not ONE of the reps at her work actually did anything to help her.
Unions push up wages, then protect the LAZY ones who SHOULD be fired, while doing squat for the hard workers. I've seen this more times then i can count. I worked at a union shop, and the guy at the machine in front of me WAS ASLEEP AT HIS MACHINE. I took a bathroom break. Was gone from my machine for 10 minutes, came back and was called into the office and yelled at. With the union rep there, i asked "Why am i being yelled at for a valid reason for not being at my machine, while the guy in front of me was ASLEEP!?!" I was told in front of my boss by the union rep "He was at his machine." So he got away with that right in front of the boss, and the boss did nothing to the guy sleeping.
THAT is what unions are today. And they inflate wages to the point where it's not possible for the companies to make their products, so the companies move to other countries.
Like it or not, THAT'S the truth.
Orgainzed crime at it's best.
People deserve FAIR wages and benefits. FAIR compensation being the main word.
But you know, i have no kids. So i guess i shouldn't give a damn if the state bankrupts and costs kids in the next several generations.
Maybe i'll join the democrats after all. After all, i'll be long dead and have no grandchildren to worry about when the bill that's owed comes due.
SPEND AWAY DEMOCRATS! I don't care anymore.

"Cheesey" wrote:

However, most oil companies want republicans in office. That's just a fact.

"porky88" wrote:

Perhaps the only honest portion of the budget has to do with taxpayer-funded vouchers for private schools. Before giving the governor credit for honesty, however, you also need to understand how vicious the proposal is. Over the years, many people may have wondered why Republicans were such stalwart supporters of tax vouchers to allow poor black and Latino children to attend private schools. Republicans and their right-wing supporters dont want to pay taxes for anything. And they certainly dont care about poor children, especially not children of color.

Walkers budget finally exposes the entire Republican plot. While Walker guts the funding of public schools that educate the overwhelming majority of poor children -- white, black and brown -- he removes income limits on families receiving tax vouchers for private schools. What that means is all those rich parents who send their children to expensive private schools now will receive generous taxpayer subsidies at the same time poor children in public schools are having their educations decimated.

Walker, who fraudulently campaigned on creating jobs, jobs, jobs, already has begun sending out pink slips to thousands of state employees. Now his budget not only slashes nearly a billion dollars from aid to local government, but he also would make it illegal for local officials to raise property taxes to replace all those state funds he is wiping out. That leaves local governments with no choice but to lay off thousands more workers and -- after collective bargaining rights are abolished -- further reduce the pay and benefits of anyone still employed.

Why in the world would any political leader want to cut jobs at a time when the nation is still struggling toward recovery from one of the worst financial disasters in history?

The BizPulse Survey conducted this past week reveals that 92 percent of the respondents said they did not support Ohio's efforts to limit collective bargaining for public workers. Of those, 75 percent said it was an attack on middle class workers, while 17 percent said it simply won't solve anything.

The poll had 11,412 votes cast with dozens of reader comments and ran on the Dayton Business Journal's Web site. While not a scientific poll, the survey does offer insight into the thinking of a wide segment of the population. Link to poll 

The former head of the Division of Water in the state Department of Natural Resources said rollbacks of clean water regulations in Gov. Scott Walkers proposed budget could put the state in violation of federal laws.

Walker has proposed reducing standards for phosphorus which were set in a rule passed by the Natural Resources Board last year. His budget also includes a plan to eliminate municipal stormwater standards that regulate pollutants running off streets, parking lots and other urban surfaces.

But Todd Ambs, who until last year was chief of the DNRs water division, said such changes could put the state in violation of the federal Clean Water Act as well as the Great Lakes Initiative, which sets standards for a number of pollutants, including phosphorus, and was approved by the Environmental Protection Agency in 1995.

"Its a huge step backwards," said Ambs, who is now president of the River Network, a national environmental organization.

Thursday, the fiscal bureau was forced to correct its memo describing the bill, after unearthing some more buried treasure. Seems there were a few things the original memo forgot to mention:

There are two items in the LFB's March 10 document that are not reflected in the March 9 document.

Here's the language in the second version of the document:

1. SALE AND CONTRACTUAL OPERATION OF STATE-OWNED POWER PLANTS
Governor: Allow the Department of Administration (DOA) to sell any state-owned heating, cooling, or power plant or contract with private entities for the operation of any such plant,
with or without solicitation of bids, for any amount the Department determines to be in the best
interest of the state.

As a reminder, that power plant provision points directly to Koch Industries, who is already advertising for power plant managers. 

"porky88" wrote: