.... Even after billions in tax cuts under Walker, per capita state spending in Wisconsin is the highest of any state in the Midwest, including Illinois. In per capita terms, its state budget is twice as big as that of Texas.... National Review Jan 2015
Governor-elect Scott Walker had vowed to kill the planned 110-mph Milwaukee-to-Madison passenger train route that was to be funded with Wisconsin's share of $8 billion in federal stimulus dollars. Ohio Governor-elect John Kasich had issued a similar promise for a planned 79-mph line connecting his state's three largest cities, funded by $400 million in stimulus cash.
Now, almost all of the $1.2 billion from the two projects will be divided among other states. California is the big winner, with up to $624 million, followed by Florida, up to $342.3 million; Washington, up to $161.5 million; and Illinois, up to $42.3 million. Smaller amounts will go to New York, Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont, Missouri, Oregon, North Carolina, Iowa and Indiana.....
In a meeting with reporters in Waukesha, Walker called the decision a "victory" because he sees the rail line as a symbol of excessive government spending.
"That's the decision they've made and we're going to move forward," the Republican governor-elect said.
Even with the federal government paying all construction costs, Walker has said he didn't want state taxpayers to bear any of the operating costs. ......."
I FULLY support non-segregation, desegregation and dismantling of state-sponsored segregation under the 1st Amendment right of assembly.
But I oppose state-sponsored integration as a violation of the 1st Amendment FREEDOM of assembly. Integration is just the flipside of legal segregation and separate but supposedly equal. BOTH are the result of ONE EVIL, a power that should be abolished of the state to violate basic rights which theoretically could turn back the other way or be used in new ways like forcing acceptance of so-called gay rights.
Even ending busing, a step in the right direction, is insufficient if it could come back.
Angry White Men Are Not Going to Win 2016 for Republicans
http://atlanticsentinel.com/2015/03/angry-white-men-are-not-going-to-win-2016-for-republicans/
What the hell is wrong with Wisconsin?
I am down here in deep south cracker racist Georgia,
and we don’t do that “bussing” crap down here.
Y’all need to get with the times!
It ain’t the 60’s no more.
And another thing...
Just exactly how does that work, anyway?
Does one school bus come through the neighborhood
and pick up the black kids and takes them to the white school?
And another school bus comes through the neighborhood
and picks up the white kids and takes them to the black school?
Oh! Wait!
I Get It, Now!
Your NEIGHBORHOODS are segregated!
Damn, you yankees are such such a bunch of racists.
Do the Liberals have any data that it has had any positive affect? No, they don't...
Like everywhere else in the country, school busing has done nothing to enhance the academic performances of minority students. After all these years they're still on the bottom of test scores.
After all these years with busing instituted to increase the academic performance of black students, there is not one racially mixed school district in the country where black students have outperformed white students.
I have an idea. Give parents a voucher worth half the current per-pupil government school expenditure, and let them spend it on a school of their own choice.
Educational freedom! Fight the power!
The more and more I see what Governor Walker is doing for Wisconsin the more and more I like him for President.
Maybe they could do something more useful with all that money.
Yes Scott is retro, a reminder of an America that is quickly receding. A Boy Scout amongst vengeful craven shadow people. But worst of all...oh the shame of it all...he is white he is male he is Christian he is heterosexual, and he just doesn't seem to understand, it’ his turn to sit in the back of the bus.
May God Bless and Protect him and his family.
Walker’s plan to reform school funding.
FReep Mail me if you want on, or off, this Wisconsin interest ping list.
Black parents and white parents don’t like bussing... it’s a white liberal elite idea that’s served it’s time... Walker should end it.