Wisconsin State Journal had this interesting and obscure article, where I have added my critiques to in ( ):
If elected, Scott Walker says he would:
Bring 250,000 jobs and 10,000 new businesses to Wisconsin by 2015 by cutting taxes, easing regulations. (Don’t you just love this old saw? It never gets old.)
He would block frivolous lawsuits against businesses. (Why let the courts do that when some bureaucrat can? Where are the checks and balances between protecting public safety and someone making blood money?)
Stop the passenger rail project between Milwaukee and Madison. (Taxpayers should repair the tracks from the state coffers and forget about the future benefits of rail.)
Work to remove state mandates for education. (Yes, education should be whatever it wants to be, and as good as privates schools say they are)
Try to block federal health care reform from taking effect in Wisconsin, would support a lawsuit, state legislation or a constitutional amendment to stop the measure. (The trillions of dollars savings estimated by the CBO can’t be believed. A competitive race to the bottom of cheap health care should protect our freedoms, just as long as we can’t sue)
Oppose embryonic stem cell research. (The frozen eggs should all be adopted, tossed or saved, but not used to cure disease and save lives, not to mention build on a huge economic engine for the University of Wisconsin. So much for being a leader in the medical research industry. Hey, is that a jobs killer?)
Support a ban on all abortions in the state, with no exceptions, and has said he would protect pharmacists who refuse to dispense birth control on religious grounds. (Forcing women to have an incestuous baby or rapists child, what could be wrong with that...if you're the Taliban? And the conscience clause makes medical treatment voluntary, subject to the whims of ideology. Crazy? Why the hell not...?)
In the world seen through the conservative mirror, the above dramatic changes are being packaged as a return to the "real America," and a rejection of the last 80 years of progress.
These people should scare us, but sadly don't anymore.
If elected, Scott Walker says he would:
Bring 250,000 jobs and 10,000 new businesses to Wisconsin by 2015 by cutting taxes, easing regulations. (Don’t you just love this old saw? It never gets old.)
He would block frivolous lawsuits against businesses. (Why let the courts do that when some bureaucrat can? Where are the checks and balances between protecting public safety and someone making blood money?)
Stop the passenger rail project between Milwaukee and Madison. (Taxpayers should repair the tracks from the state coffers and forget about the future benefits of rail.)
Work to remove state mandates for education. (Yes, education should be whatever it wants to be, and as good as privates schools say they are)
Try to block federal health care reform from taking effect in Wisconsin, would support a lawsuit, state legislation or a constitutional amendment to stop the measure. (The trillions of dollars savings estimated by the CBO can’t be believed. A competitive race to the bottom of cheap health care should protect our freedoms, just as long as we can’t sue)
Oppose embryonic stem cell research. (The frozen eggs should all be adopted, tossed or saved, but not used to cure disease and save lives, not to mention build on a huge economic engine for the University of Wisconsin. So much for being a leader in the medical research industry. Hey, is that a jobs killer?)
Support a ban on all abortions in the state, with no exceptions, and has said he would protect pharmacists who refuse to dispense birth control on religious grounds. (Forcing women to have an incestuous baby or rapists child, what could be wrong with that...if you're the Taliban? And the conscience clause makes medical treatment voluntary, subject to the whims of ideology. Crazy? Why the hell not...?)
In the world seen through the conservative mirror, the above dramatic changes are being packaged as a return to the "real America," and a rejection of the last 80 years of progress.
These people should scare us, but sadly don't anymore.
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