I often go to conservative websites to hear the opposing arguments of liberals and progressives. During my recent perusal I found this golden nugget over at redstatedotcom (I refuse to post a link to the website). This is an interview Gov. Walker did with arch-conservative Moe Lane.
In it he touches on a great many topics. He starts off describing the situation in Wisconsin. He says that the "big government union bosses" are trying to undo the voters' voice of last year's election. He says that his core priorities are creating jobs and cutting spending. But what the Gov, doesn't say is that a massive jobs program, high-speed rail, for Wisconsin was cancelled and the money was refunded. The project, which the Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel, a notorious liberal rag who even endorsed Scott Walker for Governor, estimated the project would create 13,000 jobs, was killed by Walker back in November. Apparently, Walker thought Wisconsin would be on the hook for too much money to operate the line. The cost of operating the high speed rail line? Estimates put the cost as low as $750,000 yearly. The cost of his new line? 16 times that according the Journal Sentinel analysis of the operating costs. A whopping $12 million.
Back to the interview. Walker then goes on to say how the big government unions from out of state are pushing these issues in the courts. Against the will of the voters from last November. Never-mind the fact that the Walker administration and the legislators are/was being sued by not only the AG for the State, a republican, but also by the DA for Dane county. Walker says that the union bosses brought in people from Chicago and as far away as Nevada. Does he mention that those people who were brought in were actually Tea-Party supporters funded by the Koch brothers? Of course he doesn't. He then goes on to beg for money. He asks listeners to go to his conservative website, asking a million people to donate in $1 dollar increments, to avoid the massive recall efforts mounting against the 8 republican senators in the state. His only true statement was about how the progressives have been ruling the airwaves. Scott Walker and republicans are scared and they should be. I find politics amazing. Conservatives state over and over how the federal government has no business in state matters. But don't tell Scott Walker. He insists that because federal workers don't have collective bargaining that states shouldn't either. So, it's more of the same from Walker. Do as I say, not as I do.