Walker's Yard Sale

So Walker wants to sell state assets - - buildings, power plants, forests (?), parks (?) - - to cover borrowing for road over-building - - and to pay off the road-building complex, too.

The state is becoming a right-wing piggy bank, and the withdrawals will reduce funding for social programs and transit that the right prefers to starve.

Also being sold off  - - the state's water law legacy, with actual lakes and waterways available for filling as the Penokee Hills and the Bad River Ojibwe culture are targeted for obliteration under the mining law proposal.

To enrich the Cline Group, one Florida coal-mining, privately-owned and politically-active corporation.

Tax phobic (no mining tax allowed for Wisconsin resource extractors) and right-wing Grand Marshal Grover Norquist said government should be shrunk small enough to be drowned in a bathtub.

Walker, instead, wants to strip it of its best parts and sell them for the benefit of his private-sector, special interest campaign and ideological supporters.

In a democracy and for public policy - - equally damaging and cynical.