Scott Walker wins the recall
Some of his 'faits d'armes':
- Turned a $3.6 billion budget deficit into a $154 million surplus
- Unemployment went from a close 8% to 6.7% (However, I don't know if it is due to people leaving the workforce)
- Dealt with public unions who often forget that they get paid to serve the public, not to protect their working conditions.
And to top it off, a crying liberal:
This is awesome.
Good for Walker, but Wisconsin voters tend to be pretty smart, informed, and moderate. In the exit polling, Obama was leading over Romney in the same margins that Walker led by.
Voters want a small, efficient government that keeps costs under control, but they do not want a complete rollback of the welfare state. They just want to (A) stop it from growing and (B) operate more efficiently.
This victory is a vindication of Gov. Walker's effort to roll back collective bargaining for public employees. Even liberal icons like FDR realized back in his days that collective bargaining right is a horrible idea for the public sector as nobody is on the other side of the table bargaining for the taxpayer. That is why you see public employees retire in their early 50s making over $200,000 a year and then retire with annual pension equivalent to 80% of that for perpetuity til they die while the states and municipalities are going bankrupt.
Aaaaand the hordes on Reddit are in the very process of collectively shitting in their panties, making upset memes, and posting angry kitties. =) Brightens up my day.
Got out of the office around 9:00 in Madison last night and part of my walk home involves going past the capital. Right after Walker won.
My goodness the hordes of angry people were amazing. I have only lived here for about 10 days but the cries of "Hey hey, ho ho, SCHOTT WALKER HAS GOT TO GO" and "WE WILL BE HERE UNTIL EVERY LAST VOTE IS COUNTED!!" had me thinking that this was a pretty divisive issue.
fo da lulz
http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/unpz5/wisconsin_is_a_wakeup_c…
[quote=Nabooru]fo da lulz
http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/unpz5/wisconsin_is_a_wakeup_c…]
That was the first...and last...time I will ever be on reddit. I have some buddies that are fairly liberal who get most of their information from the site and they are so uninformed it's scary. A couple of them even said they ask about it in interviews, as if it's some measure of a person's abilities.
As mentioned in the posted reddit thread, the recall wasn't likely to turn the tables anyways. The people that voted for Walker were still likely to vote for him again and those that didn't vote for him are more likely to not vote for him again, with the exception of the people who like that he had cut the deficit and unemployment rate. The recall election just allowed Walker to be even more experienced with an actual track record.
This was exciting to see and I welcome the impact it will have on states other than Wisconsin and on the national level.
Regards
agreed on all aspects
Thank god he won. If he lost with that record, I would be deeply concerned about our country's ability to embrace austerity measure.
Hopefully this means Mitt can grab Wisconsin.
o and I forgot to mention that this is the first time in US History that a Governor faced with a recall survives.
Kudos to Mr. Walker.
I wonder if all these people will be investigated:
http://twitchy.com/2012/06/06/kill-scott-walker-angry-libs-flood-twitte…
They seem to investigate anyone who disagrees with Obama, well there are quite a few people on that Twitter thread who are clear with their intentions.
PS. I have a cousin who is a teacher in Wisconsin. She has posted every Thinkprogress, The Nation, Daily Kos article about this recall the last few weeks.
I am sure she cried herself asleep last night. It kind of makes my heart warm to think about it. I am sure Ed Schultz was a hueg ball of blubbering blubber last night.
Ed Schultz was about to cry on msnbc last night. He portraid this result as the '' rich evil koch brothers and their toy Walker'' VS ''the good, honest and hard working american people''.
I'm extra excited because I think we may have prevented the zombie apocalypse...
Mod Edit: Photo removed because it made thread text unreadable
Double post.
Regards
Mods, if you want to edit the size of that photo, feel free. I was going to do it, but I mistakenly quoted myself and now I can't edit the original post.
Regards
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