Barrett admits Walker reforms helped his city

[Conservative]

Hell of a way to thank the man who saved your city... run against him in a recall.

Walker’s Reforms: Good Policy, Good Politics - By John Fund - The Corner - National Review Online

Take Milwaukee, where Barrett is the mayor. Even he has acknowledged that the reforms in Act 10, Walker’s early 2011 budget-repair bill, enabled his city government to balance its budget. Walker’s cuts in state aid to the city cost it $14 million, but it was able to come up with $30 million in savings, of which two-thirds came from the budget-repair law. The law required employees to pay a larger share of their insurance premiums, and it also made it easier for the city of Milwaukee to switch to more cost-efficient health-insurance plans.

As for the overall effect of the Walker reforms?

Now a new study by the Beacon Hill Institute, a public-policy think tank based at Boston’s Suffolk University, has quantified just what the savings have meant for the economy. Its economic simulation found that Act 10 has reduced the tax burden Wisconsin residents would have had to pay by nearly a billion dollars. The ability to avoid those tax increases had positive economic effects. “The Act has saved between 15,400 and 20,500 public and private jobs that would otherwise have been lost,” the report concluded. “[It also saved] between $185 million and $350 million annually in private investment and between $760 and $1.030 billion in real disposable income.”

 

[RightWingFerret]

I hope someone creates a new catch phrase "Scott Walker Is God"...just to irritate the Liberal Thugs.

 

[Avatar4321]

I hope someone creates a new catch phrase "Scott Walker Is God"...just to irritate the Liberal Thugs.

Let's not go that route. Blasphemy is not a good way to get on the side of the Lord. And we need to be on His side if we are going to restore the Republic.

 

[Lakhota]

You just can't make this shit up. Oh, wait, yes you can.

 

[SniperFire]

You just can't make this shit up. Oh, wait, yes you can.

Simple truth got you down?

Perhaps you should introspect as to why.

 

[Political Junky]

Walker wants to rid his state of unions because they elect Democratic candidates.

 

[Dr.House]

Walker wants to rid his state of unions because they elect Democratic candidates.

And you wonder why people think you're an idiot....

 

[Conservative]

You just can't make this shit up. Oh, wait, yes you can.

what in the OP is made up? Be specific, and prove your contention with evidence, not opinion, Shitting Bull.

 

[naturegirl]

Scott Walker isn't God, Obama is, get your story straight............Jeeze!!

:lol;

 

[Dr.House]

All that union money wasted on this recall...

Think of the teachers that it could have helped...

 

[Truthmatters]

Beacon Hill Institute - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Is a right wing think tank

 

[Claudette]

They aren't thinking of anything but the power they are losing.

Hope Walker wins in a landslide and get re-elected to boot.

Won't that just frost their asses. LOL