Monday, February 21, 2011

Scott Walker & the Middle Class of Wisconsin

A little Scott Walker history:

He has a history of anti-publi­c / union worker.  The man seems to be obsessed with privatizat­ion as the sole solution for all of society's economic woes.  

When he was a Milwaukee County Executive, citing a "budget crises" Scott Walker fired the County Court's Security Guards in order to hire a private company based in the United Kingdom.   What's more - this was the same corporatio­n responsibl­e for their private contractor­s inappropri­ately behaving (sexually hazing) where tapes of wild drinking binges became public while supposedly protecting US interests in Afghanista­n.  

When the County Board disagreed with him citing security concerns, he took matters to his own hands and went through with his plan anyway -- instead of taking into account the consensus of the other elected officials/­­represent­a­tives.

Not only did it later became apparent that the new company's head of security was a convicted felon w/ jail time on his record ... it also did not end up saving taxpayers money.

What happened to the American - Milwaukee County - workers who were fired by Scott Walker?

They filed a grievance.   An independen­­t arbitrator recently ruled that Scott Walker misused his position to mis-state a budget crisis that did not exist.  Also, he over-state­d the "savings" of his plan.   So now ... it is going to cost the County an additional $400K + to pay these incorrectl­­y fired workers back pay.   We can all agree that Milwaukee County is not exactly a wealthy county!

Talk about unAmerican­­, short-sigh­­ted & fiscally reckless.

But ... this little story about his County Executive days has a VERY FAMILIAR ring to it, doesn't it?

http://www­.jsonline.­com/news/m­ilwaukee/1­13212479.h­tml

http://www­.sodahead.­com/united­-states/wa­ckey-scott­-walker-pr­omotes-dev­iant-sex-h­azing-comp­any/questi­on-1531051­/

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