Walker Delivers The Dagger

The Cato Institute, The Heritage Foundation, The Reason Foundation, are all funded by the Right's super-wealthy, free-market financiers - -  including the Koch Brothers.

These conservative/libertarian/small government organizations and funders have for more than a decade provided the inspiration, training, personnel - - Walker's point person on Medicaid and health-care program cuts, Dennis Smith, was a Heritage Fellow - - - - and policy details to inform Scott Walker's anti-collective bargaining, anti-worker budget 'repair' bill.

And now also his full-blown, two-year radical state budget that will leave the rich even richer, the poor even poorer, and the middle-class struggling for survival, begging for an $8-an-hour wage, and scanning job websites for better opportunities in Chicago, Minneapolis, Atlanta, or Timbuktu.

He's one of their most important creations. He is and will continue to do their self-interested, dividend-driven, tax-free bottom-line bidding, and he is hell-bent to dismantle middle-class life in an entire state - - from eliminating public transit to public schools to healthcare to environmental protections to common space and wetlands that developers will be handed first.

(Some links and summaries, here: I know there's a lot to digest.)

For Walker, this is nothing new: His ill-fated plan to privatize Mitchell International Airport was right out of the Reason Foundation's playbook; expanding school choice is one of their big issues.

Public institutions? Open space? Union wages and family-supporting jobs?

Who needs 'em.

We're in first place as of today in the right-wing sponsored domestic race to the bottom.

Walker will get kudos from Reason when he endorses so-called HOT lane road tolls (he'll call them user fees, paid by motorists with money who choose the fast lane), and paves the way for private investors to borrow for, build, own and profit from them.

They'll get tax breaks along the way, so the circle and public contribution, too, are closed.

Mark my word: Walker will bring highway privatization, like education privatization and wetlands privatization, along with Right-to-Work/bargaining free workplaces, to Wisconsin.

While everyone else is taking cuts, he's shoveling $200 million to the new private-sector dominated Department of Commerce (yeah, there's your small government in action - - in reality, a new welfare state for corporations and top-earners) and is looking to put UW-Madison Campus under a private-sector dominated new board, too.

The far-right- - with unlimited money, legions of ideological foot-soldiers and a beady-eyed zealot named Walker nominally in charge - - has captured Wisconsin.

Recall, less than a year, and counting.

Walker: "One And Done."