Looks to me like he can't even stay awake.

That's because he's too busy traveling throughout the country raising money.

Jim please speak for yourself, you are only one of many. I just had my property taxes raised in Waushara County.

Yes, please Jim. You definitely do not speak for more than half of the taxpayers in Wisconsin.

Betty the road was easy for S.W.. He just ran his dog and pony show like a dictator.
The recall I think will show how disliked he really is both as a Gov and human being.

Jeff ... Scooter will be more then happy to take all your money but you may want to save just a little for when this state goes under. Next year will be a different ball game.

This is only the beginning of the end. Don't see things getting any better.

@Bucky -

You may want to watch Millennium (1989) with Kris Kristofferson, as I'm pretty sure they tell us that this is NOT the beginning of the end as you assert, but rather the end of the beginning :-)

really? wisconsin is not getting better, only worse! 11$ an hour jobs won't cut it when taxpayers have to foot the bill for incentives to corperations who create 11 dollar an hour jobs!

Did you ever notice that the one and only school Sooter ever talks about is Kaukauna. Lets see where Kaukauna is next year or the year after when there budget takes a dump, like every other school.

Will the Walker Team & supporters EVER look at what is happening in the other 434 districts representing the other 99% of school kids?

1. The Districts with the neediest kids had to make massive cuts that affect kids from families that don't have the $ to make that up.

2. The rest of the school districts did not fare so well. They cut take home pay, cut positions, etc. QUality will drop, though it won't be measureable for several years. It's like deferring maintenance in a house: It catches up with you years later.

3. Acknowledge that the budget was balanced on the backs of middle class workers. Sure, they are secretaries, teachers, aides, custodians, game wardens, corrections officers, etc, but they are people too. Their take home pay has gone down thousands. One sup't commented that their Dir. of Food Services, who makes a bit over $40K, is paying over $4000 MORE out of pocket for retirement, health care premiums and deductible changes. Perhaps people like 'him' deserve it, but at least acknowledge it.

yeah look at where our schools will stand in about 4 years. I have already seen a downgrade at my local public school.

not a public sector thug! just a guy trying to make a living! thugs are gangsters and drug dealers who you guys are setting free more often to save money! see the milw county transit for an example

Since Scooter has been in office we have lost more jobs in the the state then were created, simple fact.

The job creators and those that come are only here for the tax breaks, when the tax breaks disappear so will the jobs that aren't here now. The company that relocated here from Illinois brought their people, hired very few if any and after the 9 to 5 jump the boarder and return back to their homes. Reminds me of Mexico.

Billy I see really lacks education ... puyt ... what is that Billy ? Looks like your school could have spent an extra dollar on you.

You are a small person Bucky to not argue Billy's impressive fact of health care savings and pick out a keyboard error. Walker really has done and awesome job, he has gotten those on your side of the isle down to a preschool level of debate.

What district is this? I am curious about the data, as I'm sure that either Bice (JSOnline watchdog) or Walker would have highlighted it if it was this much different for an apples to apples comparison.

Good chance that the numbers are inaccurate, or that there is a part of the story that isn't being told. Like, what is the deductible? are the same drugs covered? what is the percentage of premium now being covered by employees, who probably had their pay frozen?

Steve , What is the Health care savings as it applies to Scott Walker ? Was his pay cut ? Was his benefits cut ? Was any of the staff wages and benefits affected ? From what I read all those that were given or appointed by him to a job got pretty good salaries and or substantial raises. I'm sure that the teachers paid more in taxes then both you and Billy did in one year. When the loans come due where's Walker getting the money from ? The taxpayers and don't forget the interest. That's when you will see your taxes sore.

what school district was this? let's see the facts!

Time will tell if we pay for it in quality, though, won't it?

And anyone who has been in a pay for performance situation based on something other than sales knows that it is really pay for butt kissing. Will that lead to better municipal services? Better schools? My experience says 'No'.

As time goes on, will the quality of individuals choosing the teaching profession be maintained? Schools have already reported a drop in education majors, and some in the profession are choosing to leave.

I used to live in a community in IL with low school taxes and wages. It was a Right TO Work school district. All teachers had a second part time job. They weren't as on top of things as those in my current school district-both day to day, and instruction. And frankly, on average, not as good.

Time WILL tell if this is the panacea and bargain that the Fitzwalkerstan clan leads us to believe. Be a sceptic. Look at changes over time, not in 3 months.

ummm, gearhead, most peoples property taxes have risen. that's a fact

Why should the Affordable Healthcare act scare you more than the old system where your insurance carrier could raise your rates at will? Or does it limit your option to stop providing health insurance at all, which passes the problem on to your employees?

I couldn't agree more Gearhead! Menomonee Falls k-12 costs are near $15,000 per student. UW Madison is around $10,000. This doesn't make people think??
@DBJ- how is that hope and change working for you now?

gearhead, please explain how obama care works. because i don't think you really have a clue!

Tony , one word of advice ... Don't drink the Kool - Aid !

Wait till the next two years when his budget cuts trickle down to the local level and your taxes go up. Pawlenty did the same thing in minnesota and property taxes have doubled and commercial is almost tripled after you add in all the new service fees.

Can't happen William - Walker put a cap on how much property taxes can be raised in order to force local governments to control their spending and use his savings from overspending on unions.

This was a tactic used by at least one US President back when he was a state legislator. Rough tactics require rough responses.

@Steve...A bit of nonsense. None of the legislation that you are praising needed to be done to correct the state's fiscal problems. These were all politically motivated moves to cut the legs out from under the Democratic Party.

No Lyle they were needed. We are not socialists and do not believe that ever increasing taxes will solve a financial problem all in while still giving vast amounts of money to a corrupt union in exchange for substandard labor with no check or balance.

Our way worked, your way did not and you continue to whine about it.

Kryptonite

Steve , do you have any idea what else is going on in the state or are you just hung up on the Illinois thing ? Scott Walker is no leader, he is a shepherd and you are one of his flock.

By definition the shepherd is the leader. So yes Walker is a leader.

m, your not being involved really shows!

►Now felons can legally carry guns into public places◄
You're going to have to explain that one to me

Did you post the same about Doyle flying a private plane around the state when people were out of work? Cry more

@Steve -

The left ignores hypocrisy that comes from their side.

@Terry Burkett-

I don't really see what's so wrong with Walker riding his Harley all over the state. Better than seeing liberals driving their foreign and non-union made Prius's all over the state that are costing Americans union jobs! Your side is full of HYPOCRITES!!!

I read this one thing on the internet that the Koch brothers and their cousins have already purchased the State of Wisconsin from the Federal Government. Their first act of owning all of the WI citizens is to build a huge wall so there is to be no unauthorized exit. I am positing this from a secret location and hiding my IP if you could please relay this to MSNBC we still have time to save our freedom.

@Steve -

Love it! That's about the mentality of the Koch conspiracy that Bren is preaching!

sam, i agree with you 100% i have actually exposed a few of these tea party paid bloggers in the last few weeks! check their profiles and locations, then google search them. they do have party ties!

SAM, I'm in Whitefish Bay and I see this article as local under our Patch as well. Patch has some items that apply specifically to one area that show up only in that area, some that may apply to a couple of local areas (in my case, that might be Whitefish Bay, Shorewood, Fox Point, etc), some that are state wide (such as this one) and even nation-wide (the Heidi Klum halloween costume contest, for instance). If Patch had to generate enough content specifically targeted to each and every little "Patch" instead of filling out some of that with content that applies across several areas or the state as a whole, there'd either be very little content or the cost of producing that kind of content at the same volume they achieve by sharing content would be so prohibitive as to make the model unworkable.

That's why you end up with people in the comments section from all over the place. They see the article the same way you do - part of their local Patch.

I might suggest as well that if you want more local content, you may wish to volunteer yourself to produce blog entries. I'm not familiar with Hudson, but I know down here there's a running ad for local bloggers all the time. A certain percentage of our local content comes from people who decide to do that. As such, it also has a tendency to fluctuate in terms of the amount produced as well. People get busy with other stuff or decide it's just not for them. Since it's voluntary, it's hard to hold folks to producing X amount of content over a period of time, but that's one of the key components Patch relies on for content.

Maybe if they have that arrangement up in Hudson, you could do some of that yourself and produce more of that local content you feel is missing.

@Sam & john....As a regular blogger on the Shorewood Patch I can tell you that all who contribute are volunteers. Now, once the blog is out then the comments begin flowing and there is a polarization in comments and opinions. On selected issues there have been obvious paid trolls that weigh in. The last one I am aware of was a troll in support of constitutional conceal and carry.

If you follow the blogs and comments, you'll soon see who consistently falls where on the issues. It becomes immediately obvious whose is a competent writer and who is not. Based on that, the Patch is dominated by nonprofessional writers.

Wait I can get paid to support Scott Walker? How much and where do I sign up?

LOSING!!!!!

I seriously doubt there are many, if any, people paid to post comments on Patch. If Patch itself is relying on volunteers to provide a portion of its content (those positions I mentioned previously are unpaid, volunteer positions), I can't imagine someone actually paying people to comment on articles that have as small an audience as do these. If they are, they aren't getting their money's worth by a long shot.

I guess you're assuming that the folks you're referring to couldn't possibly hold the positions they do unless they were paid to do so. I've seen the same assumption stated by those on the other side. It's part and parcel of there being no middle ground on virtually any issue anymore.

Agree ...

@ Seriously... If many(10 or more) 'qualified' people apply for a single position, doesn't that tell us that the compensation is sufficient? So, the net total compensation, for teachers, is reduced by about 4% and we still have a large pool of qualified applicants. If teachers are not abandoning their profession, due to the lower compensation, how are they not paid enough?

@Jay Sykes....I would agree with your statement if it weren't for the fact that the job market wasn't so tight. But it is and it is difficult to support your reasoning. If these people don't teach what are they expected to do.

Thank you so much for your intelligent and well-written comments. You are right on the money. Just one more thing I want to add:

In taking away disposable income from teachers/public workers, etc., you are also taking away their buying power. Less money to buy goods and services from all of those local, small businesses. That means less jobs in those businesses as well, and more struggling. The only group of people these policies help are the huge corporations and people that are already wealthy, who are the ones who got him elected. Everyone else gets screwed. You may not see it now, but it's coming. Soon. And it's not going to be pretty.

Recall this idiot and maybe we can salvage something before the state goes totally belly-up.

@Lyle: That's the rub....it's a signpost that that there is a glut of teachers. That glut drives wages down(well it does now, it didn't when WEAC made those decisions<tongue in cheek>). Yes, teaching is a difficult job. But the facts are that a) There is a very low barrier to entry to this profession. An undergrad teaching degree is one of the easier degrees to acquire. b) Relative to most private sector jobs the benefits are still fantastic and they only work 9 months out of the year. Without the union artificially keeping wages and benefits high we will start seeing teacher's salaries and benefits being driven by the market. I am sure that won't make the teachers happy. But there's a crop of new teachers coming out of college here in the spring that I am sure will more than enthusiastically scoop up the jobs the existing teachers want to vacate due to their low wages and benefits<sarcasm>.

Don't know , but what ever it is it's making his hair fall out.

Boy, if you guys think that Walker is smoking something, then Obama must be smoking, snorting, shooting-up, and drinking all at the same time!

you might want to check your property tax bill before you seak stephanie! all local municipalities have taken huge cuts in revene sharing and they will take it out of your property tax because walker has passed on the states deficit to your community! now they are faced with cut backs, layoffs, and reduced services that you will now be charged for like hikes in garbage pickup fees!

@john -

You forgot to mention this, so I'll cover it for you:

But if property taxes do go up, blame your local government leaders for not utilizing the tools he provided them with - not Walker!

The stupid word is size , shouldn't be side ? Another drop out !

@Bucky -

I'd rather have a few keyboard/spelling errors than attend the same school that you did, where they apparently only teach propaganda and rhetoric and have no use for logical analysis.

@Dave Koven -

"often unfair attempted treatments of teachers"

Any examples you can cite to?

@Dave Koven -

I'm with you on this one! I always thought of the whole 'use it or lose it' philosophy to be foolish and short-sighted. Responsible families have a savings to fall back on – why shouldn’t the government employ this same kind of mentality, as then maybe we wouldn’t have to borrow money from nation’s like China and then have to pay them interest on top of the principle! I’m just saying!

@M.S. -

Where in the speech did he say that he was implementing further cuts to the UW system?

In the short term. It amazes me how the same folks who defendmulti-million dollar CEO salaries because 'that's what it takes to attract the best talent' will expect the intelligent people who teach the next generation to settle for a life of genteel middle-class struggle. Very few in their right minds will go into teaching when a better life is to be had in other fields.

You get what you pay for, which will be the equivalent of the graduates of a two-year teacher college who taught me in elementary school.

You're right. We will lose teachers who instead of being educators because they love what they do will become professional athletes making millions of dollars. Some will also move to Hollywood to become a star banking in the big bucks.

@ Celeste Koeberl -

Did the Hudson Star Observer explain why other districts were able to use the tools in the BRB and balance out their budgets without having to implement any of the negative measures that were done by the HSD?

Walker's legislation doesn't magically and overnight correct years of mismanagement by local officials. If other districts were able to come to a surplus without having to take negative measures by using the tools contained within the BRB, then all HSD's actions prove is that the district was mismanaged by local officials for quite some time and that the district is carrying a lot of baggage.

Blame your local officials for this - not Walker!

But if by using the tools of the BRB, the HSD was able to save additional money, then there is no misrepresentation contained in the referenced web-site. It merely doesn’t mention the fact that the district was poorly managed for such a long period of time. Why do you want Walker to start slinging mud for anyway? What exactly does that accomplish?

They should have kept their unions in check. Ripping off the tax payers is a far cry from the "good reasons" that you claim.

Walker fired all the Janitors and makes the teachers clean the toilets now? awesome

steve is just another fake christian tea partier and it shows in his posts! god will be judging him one day, and a hypocryte is way worse then a non religeous person.
no real christian would wish others harm or dispare. good show of the tea party attitude steve! this is exactly why walker will be recalled by the real middle class.

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You're not very good at this internet thing what do I wish harm on who now?