Those who don't appreciate the cuts to education, women's health, or unions, should be swayed by the bill against craft beer, the cutting of Badgercare, the bill that would have allowed strip-mining to not be sued by local towns if the mine pollutes the water supply, and especially the Deer Czar from Texas that had cut public lands for hunting and made them private.

I'm sure there's crossover, but Don't Mess with Wisconsin's Deer or Beer.

Politics stinks. Example-the birther crap which though disproved is still around. Why? Could it all have been designed to keep the left from checking into Mitt's birth certificate(rumor has it he was born in Mexico and his father who was also Mexican born had the birth certificates doctored.

Walker is another example of stench. All those signatures to have him recalled. All his attempts to have the recall petition overruled. Yet now he leads in the polls?If he wins democracy loses but then republicans do not believe in democracy except as an excuse to go to war.

Are we about to be turned into some theocracy? Are we about to let the right silence us all? Are we doomed? Well-are we?

Governor Walker you embarrassed me! I just came back in with my sign and I’m crossing out “I stand with Walker” and I’ve replaced it with “I can’t stand Walker!” Why can’t you just be honest? Barrett was right, we can see right through you! You put numbers together in a response to reality. Why are you accepting money from Texas Billionaires and others? You’re a liar, a criminal, and your headed to jail not back to our state capitol!

I have to say, this year is the first time my property tax has gone down in WI. I didn't vote for Walker the first time but will this round.

ALEC helped pioneer some of the toughest sentencing laws on the books today, “truth in sentencing” laws. In 1993 alone, ALEC’s Truth in Sentencing Act was signed into law in twenty-five states. (Then State Rep. Scott Walker was an ALEC member when he sponsored Wisconsin’s truth-in-sentencing laws and, according to PR Watch, used its statistics to make the case for the law.) This forced Wisconsin to build new or rebuild 71 county jails 71 courthouses and dozens of prisons. This also forced Wisconsin to build or remodel 238 police stations. This also forced Wisconsin to buy or lease several hundred halfway houses etc. This also forced Wisconsin into hiring some 30,000 plus public sector workers to work at these places. Every time Scott walker says he is for small government and talks about the budget. remember who caused the budget problems and huge government in Wisconsin. He is for small government like George Bush was. He hires millions in the name of Homeland security. Vote Conservative and for small government. Vote out Scott Walker. Can we afford his tax and waste ideals and huge government? If not for Walker and Alec Wisconsin would have tens of billions in surplus. We could get tax refunds again. Lets blame the real reason for budget problems. “Scott Walker”.

The Journal Sentinal the states largest paper with a the chairman of the board being a John Birtcher leader also even says truth in sentencining cost Wisconsin a 1/2 billion or more annually since enacted. The price is 30 billion plus walker ahs cost Wisconsin. Report on this.

As we all know this ended liberty and justice for all in Wisconsin. It has made our justice systems get rich quick schemes.

Walker has cost Wisconin 30 billion and counting. report the facts. walker as Alec`s kingpin has cost Wisconsin to add 30,000 public sector jobs.

Now I understand the GOP issue on education:

GOP Budget Guts Education Spending To Benefit the One Percent

By Jeff Bryant

http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2012041404/gop-budget-guts-education-spending-benefit-one-percent

This article makes last year’s GOP Education budget make sense now. The Republicans have decided that (a) unions are bad, (b) teachers are in unions, (c) unions must be busted, (d) teachers unions must be busted … and (e) if education is fouled up really bad, big businesses can ‘swoop’ in and offer *affordable* privatized education, with substantial cuts to save everybody $ and earn corporations $$$$$$ (Goldman Sachs has voiced strong interest).

House GOP Looks to Slash Education Spending

By Alyson Klein on February 12, 2011

House Republican leaders put out a bill Friday night that would slice and dice education funding far below current levels and far below what President Barack Obama wanted in his never-enacted fiscal year 2011 budget request. (List of cuts is here.)

The measure, which would continue federal funding for rest of the fiscal year, takes aim at some programs that were previously considered untouchable, including special education spending and Pell Grants to help low-and-moderate income students pay for college. Overall it would cut $4.9 billion from the U.S. Department of Education's fiscal year 2010 budget of $63.7 billion.

"This absolutely would be the largest cuts ever in history for education programs," said Joel Packer, a principal with the Raben Group in Washington, who works with the Committee for Education Funding, a coalition that advocates for increasing education spending.

The bill would cover fiscal year 2011, which technically started back on Oct. 1. Most of the federal government, including the Education Department, has been funded at fiscal year 2010 levels through a series of stop-gap measures, the latest of which expires on March 4.

It's tough to imagine the administration swallowing these cuts. And it's unlikely they'll get through the Senate, which is still controlled by Democrats.

Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, the chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee said in a statement:

The GOP approach "would knock the legs out from under our nascent economic recovery, kill jobs, and do virtually nothing to address the long-term fiscal crisis facing our country. Try as they might to convince the American people otherwise, it is simply not possible to balance the budget by targeting 15 percent of federal spending—no matter how deep the cuts are."

But Republicans say the cuts are needed to get the nation's fiscal house in order. Rep. Hal Rogers, R-Ky., the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, said in a statement:

Lawmakers "have weeded out excessive, unnecessary, and wasteful spending, making tough choices to prioritize programs based on their effectiveness and benefit to the American people. My committee has taken a thoughtful look at each and every one of the programs we intend to cut, and have made determinations based on this careful analysis."

Packer said he expects that the two chambers will have a tough time even agreeing on another stop-gap measure. That could spell a government shutdown, he said.

Under the GOP proposal, Title I would be cut by $693.5 million. It's not clear if that means just Title I grants to districts, which got $14.5 million in fiscal year 2010, or if the cut would also effect Title I School Improvement Program, which got $545 million in fiscal 2010.

Special education, which is typically a Republican priority, would be cut by $557 million, below its $11.5 billion funding in fiscal 2010.

Head Start was targeted for the one of the biggestreductions: a $1 billion cut below fiscal 2010.

And Pell grants would be cut as well, resulting in an $845 cut to the maximum per-student grant of $5,550.

GOP lawmakers also didn't find any new money for the administration's top priority, the Race to the Top 2.0. The administration had asked for $1.35 billion to continue the competitive grant program begun under the economic-stimulus package, and last calendar year, Congress had been poised to provide some of that money. Plus, there would be no money for another round of the Investing in Innovation grant program. The administration had originally asked for $500 million to continue i3, another stimulus-funded initiative.

The Obama administration in its fiscal 2011 budget had proposed consolidating smaller programs into broader funding streams. For instance, smaller literacy programs would have been combined into a big competitive fund aimed at improving reading and writing.

But, under the House bill, those programs would be scrapped entirely, including:

• Even Start Family Literacy program: $66.5 million

• Mathematics and Science partnerships: $180 million

• Striving Readers program: $250 million

• The Obama administration's $50 million high school graduation initiative, which is a fairly new program

• Literacy Through School Libraries: $19 million

• Education Technology State Grants: $100 million

• Foreign Language Assistance: $26.9 million

• The National Writing Project: $25.6 million

• Ready-to-Learn Television: $27.3 million

• Civic Education: $35 million

• Elementary and Secondary School Counselling: $55 million

• Smaller Learning Communities: $88 million

• Tech Prep State Grants: $102 million

• Teacher Quality Partnerships: $43 million

Even some prized education reform programs with deep political connections would be slashed:

• New Leaders for New Schools would be cut by $5 million.

• Teach for America would lose its $18 million appropriation.

• The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards would lose its its $10.6 appropriation.

Also on the chopping block:

• 21st Century Community Learning Centers would get cut by $100 million. And two college access would be cut: TRIO by almost $25 million, GEARUP by $19.8 million.

So who would come through unscathed? The Teacher Incentive Fund, which helps districts create pay-for-performance programs, and got $400 million in fiscal year 2010. Charter schools, which got $256 million in fiscal 2010. And Teacher Quality State Grants, which got $2.95 million in fiscal 2010.

The bill was expected to go to the floor though Packer said some GOP lawmakers could introduce amendments making even further cuts. This Republican budget proposal was for fiscal year 2011.

No more needs to be said. If Walker is not walking out of the Govenors office as result of this recall, corruption has won the day. American integrity is NOT for sale despite how it looks. The more the education budget is reduced - the longer the GOP will maintain control over their flock...

all 180 of these "big-red" signs were hand-made and installed by volunteers with totally grassroots group based in Mazomanie, a village of about 1600 population. www.people4progress.net can you imagine what a great country this would be if that activism was the RULE rather than the exception??? Stunning.