Walker, Rep. Robin Vos and Sen. Alberta Darling all have made a ridiculous request of Barrett; go back and write an old budget so they can compare the two. They assume Democrats are as dumb as their low information voters.
Things to keep in mind, Walker trashes Barrett's jobs numbers that spanned the Great Recession, which would make anyone look bad, and it all happened during Walker's own time as Milwaukee County Executive. But that's all too complicated for conservative voters. All they know is the lousy jobs numbers put the state on the right path...I guess. WKOW:
Walker's new strategic angle; claiming a "surplus" by the end of June 2013, so I guess we should wait? But that surplus only exists if Walker continues to blow people off Badgercare:
jsonline: Coming less than four weeks before Walker's June 5 recallelection, the projections take the state from a previously estimated $143million budget deficit in its main account through June 2013 to thesurplus.
But almost half of the surplus is realized by delayingpayments that will ultimately cost taxpayers more in interest. The projectedsurplus includes $78 million that was acquired by restructuring debt. A smallamount of that comes from getting lower interest rates, but most of it comesfrom pushing off payments and allowing long-term interest costs to rise.
But taking any of that supposed “surplus,” and applying itto the budgets shortfall, oddly is completely out of the question.
The budget numbers do not account for a sizable shortfall inthe state's health programs for the poor that Walker's administration says itwill deal with through increased efficiencies and spending cuts.
What would a phony announcement like this be without acompletely out of place comment from the snakiest guy in the Assembly:
"This is a great example of how honest budgeting paysoff," said Rep. Robin Vos.
