Crisis in Dairyland - For Richer and Poorer - Teachers and Wall Street - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - 03/03/11 - Video Clip | Comedy Central


Quote Originally Posted by gugi View Post
Right, but those officials are elected, or appointed by elected officials, and tasked with making decisions on behalf of the taxpayers. So, when they screw up the taxpayers are still on the hook for those bad decisions.

What the current political majority in Wisconsin is saying is that it's too bad the guys before us messed it up, now we're going to fix it by just giving a round of tax breaks and just alter the contracts on the low level government employees.
(Anybody still remember the big outcry a couple of months ago over the unfairness of taking an extra 1-2cents on every dollar over $250,000/year? Way better to take 3-10cents on the dollar from all these government employees making $30,000-$80,000/year.)

What I see is just lot of politics and very little interest in addressing the problem in a meaningful way.