Hoffa begins: "Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker will be among friends today when he testifies before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Nearly half the Republican committee members receive funding from the notorious union-busters, Charles and David Koch. Three of the witnesses - including Walker - are supported by the Kochs."
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker at the State Capital in Madison. (photo: Reuters)
Scott Walker and the Koch Brothers
17 April
isconsin Gov. Scott Walker will be among friends today when he testifies before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
Nearly half the Republican committee members receive funding from the notorious union-busters, Charles and David Koch. Three of the witnesses - including Walker - are supported by the Kochs.
Walker will present the fiction that he solved a budget problem by stripping government workers of their collective bargaining rights.
We've all heard Walker's fantasies before. They're an attempt to disguise the ugly reality that he's doing the bidding of the billionaires and CEOs who fund his political ambitions. They want two things: more for themselves and less for workers.
The truth is that Scott Walker doesn't have a clue how to create jobs, and he has no intention of doing it.
His fellow Koch-ticians are all in on the game. They won't ask Walker why Wisconsin was projected to have a budget surplus when he took office. It was only after Walker rammed through corporate tax breaks that the budget was projected to be in deficit.
The Koch-funded committee members sure won't ask him about killing 20,000 government jobs through his budget cuts - or the 9,900 private sector jobs that will also be lost because of reduced economic activity in Wisconsin.
And they won't say a word about the high-speed rail project that Walker pulled the plug on, along with 15,000 jobs that go along with it.
Walker's attacks on workers put $47 million of federal transit funding at risk in Wisconsin because bus systems must maintain the collective bargaining rights in place when they first received federal funds.
He gave back $23 million to the federal government, money that was to expand high-speed Internet in Wisconsin. It would have been used in libraries and schools and to improve police, fire and hospital communications in rural areas.
Walker's testimony will be pure political theater, bought and paid for by the Koch brothers.
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Doesn't he mean Kochroaches?
Thanks, Progressive, for a name that will stick to those two filthy roaches, kockroaches, indeed!
We are largely a paperless society and even with a gold standard value of things would still go up and the system would only crash when people lose confidence, ie stop buying things, stop pushing paperless money around, ie loans, and/or make real withdrawals of currency.
May People though seem to forget W Bush came to office with a surplus as well as in latter 2001 we went into a recession followed by a 24+ month jobless recovery.
I wonder who are those to counter with proof, stats, People should be aware that this is a dig and pony show nothing more. No concern about any budget, jobs, or medicare, education
This is to get the next endowment from those with large pockets. If teh Judiciary Committee doesnot see this than Recall and no votes for Judges in next election.
Time we start State Boycotts on products..Wisco nsin, Iowa, Utah Arizona and more. Let them live within their states with no government help, let them see boycotts and explain the facts to People who will have no business. No more potatoes, cheese, Keep you procducts we don't need them
Good idea, and here's an article: The Big Three secret funders of the $75 million campaign to trash Democratic candidates http://www.hightowerlowdown.org/node/2624
And here's exactly what you asked for:
Here's who is buying America's democracy - http://www.hightowerlowdown.org/node/2603 This article names products. There ARE alternatives!
They don't try murderers in their home towns bc of "this/that" and so --
THERE OUTTA be a law to cover this mess.
DAMN the Stupremes for opening the door to this corruption. Scalia/Thomas-- - RESIGN. SHAME ON YOU.
WTH, are you guys for sale too?
I'm all for grilling this yahoo again, please be more explicit as to what house.
I wish we could all find conflicts of interests, money links directly to them or their families/founda tions. Then we can use the good old American Constitution the Right way and if the Justices do not uphold the Laws they can go. Technical difficulties or some such matter. We need a clean sweep, we need it now
Bet you didn't know that...
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