Robert Reich via Facebook.com
Three weeks ago Wisconsin Governor and presidential candidate Scott Walker signed into law a new state budget that slashes $250 million from the University of Wisconsin, one of the country’s great public institutions of higher education, cuts the budgets of most public schools in the state, and eliminates the one program designed to counter segregation in the public schools and improve opportunities for African-Americans. (Not incidentally, Walker signed the budget in Waukesha County, an overwhelmingly white county that is among one of the wealthiest and most conservative in the entire United States.)
Why did Walker slash education? Because he wanted to show he’s a fiscal hawk? Not a chance. Yesterday Walker signed legislation to spending $250 million taxpayer dollars on a lavish new arena for the Milwaukee Bucks basketball team. The owners had threatened to leave for another state unless Wisconsin came up with the dough. The team’s ownership group includes a real estate billionaire who’s one of Walker’s top campaign fundraisers (as well as a hedge-fund billionaire who’s raising money for Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid).
Walker isn’t a fiscal hawk. He’s a right-wing fanatic intent on making the rich richer, the poor poorer, and everyone who's not wealthy less educated.
The TRUTH will set you FREE.
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