tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3561726959150987222.post1997347659246093446..comments2023-06-06T06:33:55.098-05:00Comments on Whallah!: NO MORE CUTSOther Sidehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06475658453374184885noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3561726959150987222.post-11270180191246224942008-09-26T10:15:00.000-05:002008-09-26T10:15:00.000-05:00The Walker template for "leadership" can be summed...The Walker template for "leadership" can be summed up simply: "I refuse to govern."<BR/><BR/>His budget process is simple. Create a budget which calls for massive cuts which he knows full well the County Supervisors will not approve. This budget does not raise taxes, but what does it matter? Walker KNOWS the supervisors will not approve it. In this way he keeps his campaign promise to Charlie Sykes, without actually having to keep it.<BR/><BR/>Next, Walker sits back and lets the country supervisors create an actual budget. Walker then makes a big deal out of vetoing it, knowing full well his veto will be overridden.<BR/><BR/>Then the following year, Walker can propose a new budget at the new HIGHER level of taxation passed the previous year, but still lower than the actual county needs. He again knows he will not have to live with his budget, because the entire process will begin again, and the supervisors will create and vote in their own budget.<BR/><BR/>Of course, this year his two faced position is even more transparent, as he votes his own lacky's raises up to 26%.<BR/><BR/>And now, in a few minutes, Charlie Sykes will be on the air, kissing and making nice to Walker, "one of the few politicians who holds the line on taxes..."<BR/><BR/>I guess the complexity of the process, which Walker is smart enough to understand, is too deep for Sykes. After all, doesn't he notice that Walker's "tax freeze" budgets are never voted in?<BR/><BR/>The supervisors should call Walker's bluff one year and pass his budget as presented.<BR/><BR/>That would be the last we would see of Scott Walker. Of course, the suffering in the city this would cause makes it impossible for the supervisors to do so, politically or morally.<BR/><BR/>s and bAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com