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Political Factoid
Republican Governor Scott Walker
has been caught repeatedly in
lie, after lie, after lie.
- Walker said his bill was only about fixing* a budget crisis.
Actually, it was all about politicing and union busting.
(The budget problem was the one Walker created with the tax cuts for his wealthy friends.)
- Walker said he was not trying to destroy the unions.
It was indeed about destroying the unions and killing their political voice for the 2012 election.
- Walker said Wisconsin was broke and had been for years.
It wasn't broke until Walker got there and put his corporate tax cuts in place.
- Walker said state employees pay nothing for their pensions. and that it is all a big taxpayer giveaway.
The employees are paying 100% of their pensions.
- Walker said his budget "repair" bill would deliver the tools for local governments and school districts needed to balance their budgets.
It wasn't - Walker was slashing state aid for schools and blocking local governments and school districts from raising taxes.
- Walker claimed he is supported by a silent majority.
The evidence is otherwise.
- Walker said he wanted to avoid layoffs.
Layoffs (21,325 jobs) were implicit in his budget cuts.
- Walker claimed protesters did $7.5 million of damage to the Wisconsin Capitol building by putting signs on marble walls with tape.
Walker-appointed state facilities administrator said he did not see any damage.
- Walker claimed he had created 125 new jobs at a state manufacturing plant, and indirectly creating 129 jobs,
Actually, the jobs were created by his Democrat predecessor.
- Walker said the state budget problem was largely due to employee wages.
State employee wages make up only 8.5% of the state budget.
- Walker said states without collective bargaining faired better in a bad economy.
Those states (and the evidence) disagree.
- Walker said almost all of the protesters at the Wisconsin capitol were from outside the state.
The Madison police department said the vast majority were from Wisconsin and Dane county.
- Walker said he had campaigned on union busting.
Behind closed doors, maybe. (He was caught on tape, afterwards, bragging about how he had "dropped the [union busting] bomb."
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Maybe the governor should go see a vet.
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