Sunday, June 1, 2008

When A Recession Is A Republican's Dream

Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker says tough times means the county has to privatize more services.

The context is his 2009 budget, but the real target is his 2010 gubernatorial campaign commercials.

One county board supervisor urged Walker to stop submitting phony budgets.

What? And ruin a campaign strategy?

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I guess 60% of the county voters disagree with you old wise Jim. Stick with your eco-nut writing.

James Rowen said...

Yet you still read this. I'm winning.

Joshua Skolnick said...

Naomi Klein called privatization opportunities that take advantage of budget crises, natural disasters, and terrorist attacks the Shock Doctrine. It gave us such wonderful things as Enron, Bechtel (privatized water in Bolivia), the war profiteering of Halliburton and Blackwater, and boondoggles such as the Department of Homeland Security. Our "friend" Mr. Walker is simply looking to re-create this on a local basis; use disaster capitalism to provide less services for more money, redistributing wealth upwards.