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Newsmax...
Gov. Walker: Obama
Should Fix His Own Budget Crisis
Friday, 04 Mar 2011
By David A. Patten and Kathleen Walter
In a Newsmax.TV exclusive interview, determined Wisconsin Gov. Scott
Walker on Friday began the legal notification process that could lead
to 1,500 state employees losing their jobs in April. He also said that
President Barack Obama should stay out of his state’s fiscal crisis and
instead ought to focus on “the much, much graver budget crisis we have
in our nation’s capital, which he’s failed to lead on.”
The GOP governor said the jobs will be saved, however, if at least one
of 14 AWOL Democratic state senators return to the state next week,
which would allow the Wisconsin Senate the quorum it needs to pass
Walker’s “budget repair bill.”
Wisconsin has been mired in weeks now as thousands of union members,
many of them bused in from neighboring states, march to protest the
fiscal austerity measures that Walker maintains are necessary to rein
in a $3.6 billion deficit. Among his proposals are limitations on
unions’ ability to conduct collective bargaining, which would be
limited to negotiating salaries. Unions would have no say in how much
their members pay for pension and health benefits.
Read the full story and see the video at Newsmax
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