Recall Revisited

     I wrote this article on March 1, 2011. It was titled Governor Scott Walker's Policies of Unequal Opportunities. I feel that it is important to revisit this article at the present time for the purpose of remembering that Governor Walker's balanced budget wasn't a shared sacrifice! And it will not be a shared sacrifice in the future: The middle class will continue to bear the lion share of the burden. As a matter of fact, I am predicting that the middle class will work harder, earn less in hourly wages, and lose more of their rights and freedoms, after Scott Walker wins the recall. 


     The article I wrote on March 1, 2011 follows:

  There is no doubt that the government in the state of Wisconsin is in deep financial debt. There is also no doubt that in order to reduce the size of this huge debt, Governor Walker needs to cut government spending (including the wages and benefits of Wisconsin’s public workers). What is in doubt is the fairness of the Governor’s budget policies, which clearly discriminates against the middle class and the poor.

     Consider the following: Although there are many wealthy Wisconsinites, who could easily afford to pay luxury taxes on expensive cars, boats, beach-front cottages, etc., Governor Walker has made it clear that they will not be asked to do so. He said, and I quote, “Revenues is off the table!” In other words, sales taxes, luxury taxes and property taxes will not be collected from the wealthiest citizens. Walker will make no attempt to lessen the deep and painful burden he is inflecting on the middle class and working class workers.
     Clearly this is an overt act of discrimination: Governor Walker is intentionally placing "an undue burden on the middle class and the working class by refusing to make the rich class pay their fair share to reduce Wisconsin’s debt.

     I suspect that no one who have heard Scott Walker's speeches, or knows his political history is surprise by the level of discrimination he is heaping on the middle class and the working class since he became governor. I suspect that a complete investigation of Walker's handling of state and federal funds in his previous job as Milwaukee County Executive will demonstrate a pattern of Fourteen Amendment violations. I suspect that it would reveal that a particular class received favored treatment at the expense of another class, which was subjected to an "undue burden."

     The only thing that is surprising to me is the fact that the Democrats/ and or the AFL-CIO hasn’t file a discrimination law suit against Walker in federal court, especially when Walker’s speeches, policies, and history provide an abundance of evidence that confirms Walker's intentional acts of discrimination, which should make this case so easy to win! Or at the very least will expose his unfair practices!

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James A. Porter