Gov. Scott Walker gave his weekly radio address on Thursday. Here, he talks about the upcoming state budget process.
Hi, I am Scott Walker.
I recently received budget requests from each state agency, which outline the money each of those agencies would like to spend in the future. Over the next few months, I will be carefully reviewing each of these budget requests. These requests are just the first step in the budget process—I will eventually propose a complete budget early next year for consideration by members of the State Legislature.
The budget I signed into law last year made long-term reforms balancing a $3.6 billion budget deficit without raising taxes, without massive public employee layoffs, and without massive government service reductions. Wisconsin has a projected budget surplus this year. We are depositing money into the state’s rainy day fund in two consecutive years for the first time in our state’s history. Unlike other states, instead of burying the next generation under a mountain of economically crippling debt, we are making responsible decisions—leaving our children and grandchildren with funding reserves for future hard economic times.
The next state budget I plan to introduce early next year will focus on five main priorities:
1. Creating Jobs
2. Transforming Education
3. Developing Our Workforce
4. Investing in Infrastructure
5. Reforming Government
As I work on the next state budget, I am excited about Wisconsin’s future and the opportunities we have to grow private sector jobs in our great state.
The state partnered with the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association to produce and distribute brief radio address once a week. Audio files and a written transcript of this radio address can be accessed on http://www.wi-broadcasters.org and http://walker.wi.gov/Weekly-Radio-Addresses. To download an mp3 file, you can right click the radio address link and click “save link as.”
And during his current campaign for president, he has backed efforts by governors in Wisconsin, Ohio, Florida and other states to strip fire fighters of their collective bargaining rights and take away their pensions. He even said the people of our nation don't want any more fire fighters.
The Obama-Biden team promised to help protect fire fighter jobs, even while local government budgets faced unprecedented shortfalls. And they delivered. The administration doubled funding for the Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response (SAFER) grant program, and pushed through special rules to allow communities to use the funding to bring back laid-off fire fighters. Without those federal funds and waivers, thousands of fire fighters would have been laid off across the country, putting communities and families at greater risk of harm.
Because, it's all about jobs and the economy to the Republican Party, completely eliding the fact to these 'small government' fetishists who actively want the government getting into women's uteri, that this is absolutely an economic and jobs-related issue for women. Being unable to control when a woman has a child will play a major role in her economic future: what education she can complete, what jobs she can apply for, how much she will get paid, whether she and her child can break through multi-generational poverty cycles.
There is today an enormous amount of attention given to the U.S. Constitution (Law of the land) because it's an editable script. Other countries have and had constitutions but it's needless to point out here all the mind boggling points of gross havock that have to date manifested as a result of such inept constitutions. The American Constitution has proven to work while their's have essentially failed. The difference is that our Constitution is designed to ensure a healthy arena for individual growth not an unhealthy arena for stagnation and mental atrophy. Liberals/progressives want to be taken care of, which is forfeiture of ones natural independence (of the individual) and their own unique gifts and creativity reflected in the United States Declaration Of (human - ("we the people")) Independence. It's a unique document, thee foundation for the Constitution. The Declaration is an uneditable document. It is the bench mark to measure all Amendments and laws by. Desiding a law to be Constitutional is putting the horse before the cart if the law hasn't first met the criteria and spirit of the Declaration. The Supreme Court has forgotten that. One thing that stands out in the Declaration is that there are no "special interest" clauses. If there were there wouldn't have been written "We the people". Any exceptions opens the door for taxation without representation, fraud, chaos and tyranny, aka socialism.
American's will be at risk at home and abroad when Obama commits this country to juristiction of international law. As it stands the U.N. has the power to subject any country to the ICJ that it wants without their consent. International law in conjunction with the International Criminal Court trump it's members own domestic laws which is why China and Russia detain a limited membership in the U.N. as does the U.S. so far. If your ready to forfeit this country's and your sovereignty then voter for Obama. If you thought the Patriot Act was an intrusion on your freedom you haven't seen anything yet. Keep in mind Obama filed an appeal with the U.N. against several states including Wisconsin for human rights violations. That's an act of treason. It's the first time any president has done that. U.N. peace keeping troops are already playing war games here, and doing public shows and drills, and monitoring voting polls. CAP and TRADE has been out of the news but it's alive and kicking in the U.N. waiting for Obama to commit us to full international law and the prez of Iran can't wait. Public sector unions are the epitome of taxation without representation!
The job creation numbers since 2010 are skewed by the thousands of state workers who were laid off (ironically the number would have been much higher without Walker's Act 10 reform) which greatly improves our long term budget balance but counts against the total job increase. Wisconsin was #20 in the nation for "Total Private" job creation in 2011. What was Tom Barrett's plan to reduce the budget deficit and make Wisconsin a more attractive place for employers? Oh yeah, he didn't have one but it turns out he is in favor of homosexual marriage. http://www.freedomtomarry.org/pages/mayors-for-the-freedom-to-marry
Non partisan group. WI has been a model for ALEC. Glad the Conservative Republicans can think for themselves.
I don't think it's a bad thing. I read about the ACLU, the NAACP, and The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights inviting UN observers to Wisconsin and other states due to concerns "...as part of a “mission” designed to monitor and report to the international community on the security and integrity of U.S. elections." Nothing about Pres. Obama filing appeals with the U.N. Even so, this would not be treason, which is defined by the U.S. government as "whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States." So, no. http://mediatrackers.org/2012/10/26/un-observers-in-wisconsin-to-monitor-election/ Also, I have lived in a socialist country, this isn't one. And concerning public sector unions, taxation without representation? No. Let's stick with facts, please!
Can't have a train without a mine.
They do background checks
That said, guns have 2 enemies, rust and dubious politicians.
Is the United Nations a state of this United States? No. Obama violated his oath to protect this country from foriegn adversaries both at the boarders and by appealing/consorting with foriegn entities to interfere in this countries domestic affairs. All this preceeds U.N. pole watching across the entire U.S. which by the way is suspect if not idiotic. People go in to vote, they vote and then they come out. Just how difficult is that to comprehend and memorize considering this has been going on since Clinton paved the way for it during his first term. What in Gods name does Prescott Bush have to do with Obama and his administration consorting with the U.N. over American state rights? Perhaps the U.N. should bring suit against the family decendants of the WW II Muslims that voluntarily joined Hitlers all Muslim Waffin SS Division for the express purpose of killing Jews. Great idea????
Treason. Obama's acts of treason on filing charges with the U.N. began with Arizona 3 years ago needing help from the Federal government to protect the U.S. boarder from illegals which is what the federal government is supposed do AND for the federal government to enforce even it's own federal immigration laws. Other states that agreed with Arizona's position who subsequently instituted their own immigration laws were also accused before the U.N. by Obama for human rights violations. continued...