Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/03/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Mar 13, 2011, at 4:52 PM, George Lottermoser wrote: > On Mar 13, 2011, at 4:43 PM, philippe.amard wrote: > >> Where was this and about what if I may ask. > Madison, Wisconsin, US of A > We have a new governor > who within his first month in office signed a bill: > to ravage collective bargaining rights of public workers (in effect for 60 > years) > slash spending to education in local municipalities by $90 million (while > freezing property taxes which would normally make up the difference) > slash badger care (health insurance) to poorest citizens > eliminate environmental protection programs > (the list goes on and on) > and all this is happening after giving huge tax breaks to corporations and > wealthiest state residents. P.S. He did this in the state that: "?inventedProgressive Era Republican rule in the 19th and early 20th centuries under such exemplars as Robert LaFollette. Under their tenure, rent-seeking from the public domain and similar insider corruption were checked by a strong public sector anchored in integrity. The state's long history of reforms nurtured a prosperous middle class and made it a model of clean government, solid infrastructure, trade unionism and high value-added industry managed by socialists and the LaFollette Progressives." <http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/mar/10/wisconsin-usa?CMP=twt_gu> Regards, George Lottermoser george at imagist.com http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist