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EEO

(1,620 posts) Fri Jul 10, 2015, 09:04 AM Jul 2015

Wisconsin Governor Walker Signs Budget Establishing Feudalism

Most likely Scott Walker and the Koch Brothers' end game. Satire warning.

And Walker would love to do to the entire country what he is doing in Wisconsin.

Wisconsin Governor Walker Signs Budget Establishing Feudalism

MADISON, WISCONSIN (The Nil Admirari): Republican Governor of Wisconsin Scott Walker signed a $73 billion two-year budget today that will establish a feudalistic system throughout the state beginning in January 2016. The budget from the Republican-dominated legislature mandates all residents of Wisconsin who do not make at least $250,000 annually will be serfs tied to specific portions of land owned by a wealthy lord they are legally required to provide labor for.

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"I will not stand in the way of children who want to work," replied Walker, who had to cut the press conference short to take a "good boy" call from the Koch brothers.

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Wisconsin Governor Walker Signs Budget Establishing Feudalism (Original Post) EEO Jul 2015 OP

This story is so close riversedge Jul 2015 #1

Wait. You mean this is satire? Are you sure? Scuba Jul 2015 #3

If it were satire, wouldn't it also have to be funny? marble falls Jul 2015 #4

The tactic of budget brinkmanship is broadly used to push the regressive program HereSince1628 Jul 2015 #2

riversedge

(70,239 posts)

1. This story is so close

Reply to EEO (Original post)

Fri Jul 10, 2015, 09:14 AM

Jul 2015

to the truth that it hurts.

Scuba

(53,475 posts)

3. Wait. You mean this is satire? Are you sure?

Reply to riversedge (Reply #1)

Fri Jul 10, 2015, 09:24 AM

Jul 2015

marble falls

(57,097 posts)

4. If it were satire, wouldn't it also have to be funny?

Reply to Scuba (Reply #3)

Sun Jul 12, 2015, 01:02 AM

Jul 2015

HereSince1628

(36,063 posts)

2. The tactic of budget brinkmanship is broadly used to push the regressive program

Reply to EEO (Original post)

Fri Jul 10, 2015, 09:20 AM

Jul 2015

What happened with the budget in WI is a mind-boggling not in kind but extent. At one point there were 134 awful political amendments put into the budget.

Clearly, the republicans in WI don't have the kind of creativity to produce such a library, which is why one of the 134 amendments actually excluded from FOI requests the revealing of background information (emails, communications with think-tanks etc) on how legislation is developed.

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