Wisconsin Already Rifled the Deep Pockets
Patrick McIlheran, RCP
Wisconsin is $3.6 billion worse than broke next budget, and unions don't much like Gov. Scott Walker's cure, a central part of which is cut their dreamy benefits and restrain their power to bargain them still higher.But the teachers largely went home this past week, leaving the Capitol protests to the harder left -- Madison's permanent party of retiree rads with heads full of Chomsky, and mohawked kids there to party against The Man. The Wobblies have a banner up; the "Revolutionary Communist Party" displays its manifesto. The politics were more distilled. Receive...
Wisconsin is $3.6 billion worse than broke next budget, and unions don't much like Gov. Scott Walker's cure, a central part of which is cut their dreamy benefits and restrain their power to bargain them still higher.But the teachers largely went home this past week, leaving the Capitol protests to the harder left -- Madison's permanent party of retiree rads with heads full of Chomsky, and mohawked kids there to party against The Man. The Wobblies have a banner up; the "Revolutionary Communist Party" displays its manifesto. The politics were more distilled. Receive...
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