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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsScott Walker: Wisconsin is a model for the country. Oh, and I'm just like FDR.
Well, "model" is often defined as a "non-working replica".
http://www.jsonline.com/newswatch/217421191.html
Wisconsin a model for country, Scott Walker says
Detroit would not be bankrupt and Chicago public schools would be flourishing if those cities operated under Wisconsin's public union laws, Gov. Scott Walker said Monday in what amounted to a national stump speech and came days before he hosts the National Governors Association conference in Milwaukee.
Walker likened his public union philosophy to that of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
"The position I pushed is not unlike the principle that Franklin Delano Roosevelt not exactly a conservative pushed as well when it came to public sector collective bargaining," Walker remarked at the annual Governmental Research Association policy conference. "He felt that there wasn't a need in the public sector to have collective bargaining because the government is the people. We are the people. And so what we've done is to be able to empower our great employees, to affirm them."
Walker likened his public union philosophy to that of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
"The position I pushed is not unlike the principle that Franklin Delano Roosevelt not exactly a conservative pushed as well when it came to public sector collective bargaining," Walker remarked at the annual Governmental Research Association policy conference. "He felt that there wasn't a need in the public sector to have collective bargaining because the government is the people. We are the people. And so what we've done is to be able to empower our great employees, to affirm them."
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Scott Walker: Wisconsin is a model for the country. Oh, and I'm just like FDR. (Original Post)
Scuba
Aug 2013
OP
Lifelong Protester
(8,421 posts)1. Right, as we sit here in the smoking ruins
I'm in education, as you may know from previous post encounters, and I am hoping that my fellow Badgers will WAKE THE HELL UP! This guy is ruining us.
"I'd like to empower you by making you poor".
KansDem
(28,498 posts)2. Walker's model is broken...
Blue Owl
(50,368 posts)3. He is Koched up outta his mind, I tell you...
n/t