Walker is a good bet to be the next prez
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Re: Walker is a good bet to be the next prez - NOT
Hypocrite Scott Walker Just Gave $450 Million In Tax Money To Billionaire Sports Owners
Despite massive opposition from the public, Governor Scott Walker has decided to abandon all of his “small government” principles and fork over $450 million in taxpayer money to the Milwaukee Bucks basketball team for the construction of a new sports arena.
It’s a shocking corporate welfare handout that comes as Walker stripped millions from the University of Wisconsin budget and the public infrastructure of his state lies in tatters. Salon reported that “seventy-one percent of Wisconsin roads are in mediocre or poor condition, and fourteen percent of its bridges are structurally unsound.” To add insult to injury, the Bucks’ current station was constructed in 1988- a mere 27 years and $181 million ago.
The owners of the Milwaukee Bucks, Marc Lasry and Wesley Edens, are both billionaires, but will only be putting up $150 million between the two of them, putting the heaviest burden on the taxpayers. The team also threatened to move to another city if a new arena wasn’t built, highlighting the improper hostage games that sports teams play with cities and state governments.
It’s no surprise that Walker’s super PAC recently received a $150,000 donation from Jon Hammes, a Bucks investor who is now his campaign finance co-chairman. It’s a show of disgusting hypocrisy, put in sharp contrast bootstrap-lacing and belt-tightening austerity rhetoric that Walker is so fond of. It’s clear that Republican governors seeking the presidency are willing to sabotage the economies and public institutions of their own states in order to better their chances of winning the White House; with such little care for their current constituents, we can’t expect anything more from a Republican president.
Hypocrite Scott Walker Just Gave $450 Million In Tax Money To Billionaire Sports Owners |
So much for all this talk of small government and rugged individualism.
Hypocrite Scott Walker Just Gave $450 Million In Tax Money To Billionaire Sports Owners
Despite massive opposition from the public, Governor Scott Walker has decided to abandon all of his “small government” principles and fork over $450 million in taxpayer money to the Milwaukee Bucks basketball team for the construction of a new sports arena.
It’s a shocking corporate welfare handout that comes as Walker stripped millions from the University of Wisconsin budget and the public infrastructure of his state lies in tatters. Salon reported that “seventy-one percent of Wisconsin roads are in mediocre or poor condition, and fourteen percent of its bridges are structurally unsound.” To add insult to injury, the Bucks’ current station was constructed in 1988- a mere 27 years and $181 million ago.
The owners of the Milwaukee Bucks, Marc Lasry and Wesley Edens, are both billionaires, but will only be putting up $150 million between the two of them, putting the heaviest burden on the taxpayers. The team also threatened to move to another city if a new arena wasn’t built, highlighting the improper hostage games that sports teams play with cities and state governments.
It’s no surprise that Walker’s super PAC recently received a $150,000 donation from Jon Hammes, a Bucks investor who is now his campaign finance co-chairman. It’s a show of disgusting hypocrisy, put in sharp contrast bootstrap-lacing and belt-tightening austerity rhetoric that Walker is so fond of. It’s clear that Republican governors seeking the presidency are willing to sabotage the economies and public institutions of their own states in order to better their chances of winning the White House; with such little care for their current constituents, we can’t expect anything more from a Republican president.
Hypocrite Scott Walker Just Gave $450 Million In Tax Money To Billionaire Sports Owners |
So much for all this talk of small government and rugged individualism.
Re: Walker is a good bet to be the next prez - NOT
Guess you just can't never tell. Going by appearances only I got the idea he was fairly well grounded, articulate and honest but I guess slime comes in many forms. The list of eligible candidates narrows!
Guess you just can't never tell. Going by appearances only I got the idea he was fairly well grounded, articulate and honest but I guess slime comes in many forms. The list of eligible candidates narrows!
There are flip-flops, and there are flip-flops. After leaping to support Donald Trump's Birthright Citizenship Ending proposal immediately after it was released and apparently agreeing that birthright citizenship needs to be repealed when asked by a reporter he now says .. he has no opinion on it?
Scott Walker: The U.S. should ‘absolutely’ stop granting birthright citizenship
Scott Walker: The U.S. should ‘absolutely’ stop granting birthright citizenship - The Washington Post
Gov. Scott Walker offered support for Donald Trump’s new immigration plan, comparing it favorably to policies that he has backed as Wisconsin governor.
“It’s similar to what I brought up about four or five months ago,” the GOP presidential candidate said Monday on Fox News’s “Fox & Friends” when asked about Trump’s plan.
Walker offers support for Trump’s immigration plan | TheHill
"I'm not taking a position on it one way or the other," the 2016 Republican presidential hopeful said. Only after securing America's borders, he explained, is it appropriate to address the issue of birthright citizenship.
Scott Walker talks birthright citizenship
Scott Walker: The U.S. should ‘absolutely’ stop granting birthright citizenship
Scott Walker: The U.S. should ‘absolutely’ stop granting birthright citizenship - The Washington Post
Gov. Scott Walker offered support for Donald Trump’s new immigration plan, comparing it favorably to policies that he has backed as Wisconsin governor.
“It’s similar to what I brought up about four or five months ago,” the GOP presidential candidate said Monday on Fox News’s “Fox & Friends” when asked about Trump’s plan.
Walker offers support for Trump’s immigration plan | TheHill
"I'm not taking a position on it one way or the other," the 2016 Republican presidential hopeful said. Only after securing America's borders, he explained, is it appropriate to address the issue of birthright citizenship.
Scott Walker talks birthright citizenship
There isn't likely to be a Republican that is a good bet to be the ptez. The GOP has become the defender of the rich and privileged and that is and ever smaller but richer slice of the population. They do get out and vote, though and that is one of the few factors in their favour. Is the Dems can engage that big black and / or Hispanic vote, the GOP has no chance at all.
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Probably not. They mostly don't and their government barely functions at all anymore.
As long as 51% of the people who vote are sensible, Trump isn't going anywhere, same goes for Hillary!
Trump is likely to be a bitter, rejected and very negative man ...a sort of American Conrad Black, by Christmas.