<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Bob Reuschlein</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bobreuschlein@gmail.com">bobreuschlein@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 5:11 PM<br>Subject: Scott Walker of Wisconsin<br>To: <br><br><br><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Link to send to others
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt"><a href="https://bobreuschlein.wordpress.com/2015/02/28/scott-walker-of-wisconsin/" target="_blank">https://bobreuschlein.wordpress.com/2015/02/28/scott-walker-of-wisconsin/</a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16pt;line-height:115%">Scott Walker of Wisconsin</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%">By Dr. Bob Reuschlein</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(51,51,51)"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(51,51,51)">The leading Republican candidate for President in some polls,
Scott Walker, Governor of Wisconsin shows a consistent pattern of indifference
to the law and the truth in all his elections. Born in the high military spending high crime state
of Colorado,
he was the son of a Baptist Minister and a bookkeeper. After five years they went to Iowa, then at age 10 to Wisconsin where Scott graduated high school
from a small town. Attending but 34
credits short of graduation, Scott Walker was disgraced from the Student
President race at Marquette University in Milwaukee,
Wisconsin. The student newspaper reversed their
endorsement when Walker
resorted to a last week smear campaign against his honorable opponent and lost
the race in a landslide. His campaign
also stole all copies of the student newspaper when the bad endorsement came
out. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(51,51,51)">When Walker
ran for Governor, six members of his Milwaukee County Executive staff were
indicted and convicted for working on Republican political campaigns, including
his, while drawing paychecks as public employees. Walker
was the subject of that John Doe investigation, listed as an unindicted
co-conspirator in that process. This
becomes a common Walker
practice to throw others under the bus in pursuit of his higher ambitions. When he defeated the recall, the only governor
in American history to do so, he took advantage of a loophole in the
fundraising statutes in Wisconsin to raise
almost unlimited amounts of Koch brothers’ money to outspend the other side two
to one, about $70 million to $30 million, unprecedented sums for Wisconsin politics.
Just like in his student president race, his first election to governor,
and his reelection to governor, he has denied his intentions to attack the
existence of public sector unions the first time and private sector unions the
second time. However, he revealed his
intentions when a donor of $1.3 million to his campaigns was caught on tape in
a film about Janesville, Wisconsin, asking him about right to work
laws. His reply was first public sector
unions, using a divide and conquer approach. His outrageous sneak attack on public sector
unions in Wisconsin
brought 500,000 protestors to the capital in February March 2011. He was caught on tape entertaining the thought
of introducing troublemakers into the peaceful crowd, which he later decided
not to do. He lied to the Oshkosh newspaper one
week before the 2010 election saying he would negotiate with the unions. After the election he immediately began ALEC
research on legislation the first week and refused to accept $800 million in federal
railroad money between Milwaukee and Madison. Walker’s
action led directly to the end of thousands of jobs in a Milwaukee factory. Then in office, he gave a tax break to
corporations in January enough to create a budget crisis. He then used that budget crisis to strip away
public sector union rights. This overreach
was way beyond the health pension and wage cuts needed to balance the budget
after the Bush 2008 recession and the new revenue cuts. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(51,51,51)">For the
reelection, he continued the lying by claiming job growth although he had half
the jobs he promised in the 2010 election, and Wisconsin fell behind ten other
Midwest states in job growth during his first four years. His give away to the rich tax cuts are the
exact opposite of Dayton in Minnesota,
with Minnesota now ranked #9 for business climate
by the Wall Street Journal among states while Wisconsin is ranked #32. He claimed to reduce the deficit in reelection
to half a billion, but after reelection he admitted it exceeded $2 billion. In Minnesota,
when taxes were raised on the rich rather Walker’s
lowering them, the deficit went from $4 billion to a surplus of $1 billion.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(51,51,51)">Now Walker is pursuing
“divide and conquer” again as he first took on the Universities in the budget,
then a couple of weeks later announced a surprise special session to pass
so-called “right to work” laws to allow freeloaders to avoid paying unions for
the services and pay raises earned by those unions.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16pt;line-height:115%"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16pt;line-height:115%">Dignity or Rankism at
Work</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman'">by Dr. Bob Reuschlein</span><b><span style="font-size:16pt;line-height:115%"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(51,51,51)"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(51,51,51)">Wisconsin</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(51,51,51)"> is
passing so-called “right to work” laws this week. People who do not believe in democracy or real
equal rights under the law especially resent fair treatment in the
workplace. They reward freeloaders who
want to enjoy the benefits of a union without paying for them. They want wage slave work under a dictatorship
in the workplace. They want the feudalism of lords and serfs. They also seem to want to destroy the
meritocracy and replace it with birthright capitalism, a self perpetuating
aristocracy of those who were born on third base and think they hit a triple. For example, the inherited wealth Koch
brothers who want to buy the next election with 989 million dollars. In the government world, when a majority votes
for higher military spending, those of us who object can’t just refuse to pay
our taxes. But with Wrong to Work
(mislabeled “right to work”) legislation, an employee can refuse to pay union
dues while still being entitled to the rewards of those union dues. This freeloading is encouraged by the same
people who often complain about the poor “freeloading” off of society, a very strange
double standard. So it’s okay to
undermine democracy in the workplace, but you can go to jail if you undermine
democracy in the greater society. A
Great Civil War was once fought in this country over the right to separate from
the Union. Those states who lost that Civil War have
taken over the modern Republican Party so much so that it is no longer the
party of Abraham Lincoln. This effort to
diminish the rights of workers is nothing if it is not a clear case of rankism,
favoring those in power over the dignity of those subject to the power of
others. Jesus’ challenge to those who
would abuse others with their power and riches is exactly why he ran afoul of
the religious and Roman authorities on Good Friday. So these same people don’t hesitate to
inflict harm on workers, while claiming to love Jesus. With such twisted logic, no wonder some of
them believe the president doesn’t love this country.</span><span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black"> </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black">Four page sermon on “Jesus and Empire”:</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/9979093/JESUS_and_Empire_12-4-05_4_p._2005" target="_blank">https://www.academia.edu/9979093/JESUS_and_Empire_12-4-05_4_p._2005</a></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(51,51,51)">So here in Wisconsin,
Scott Walker continues to tell lies during the election season and then do just
what he has said he won’t do, when actually elected. The consistency is to say anything to get
elected, then do as much as you think you can get away with to destroy the
political base of the opposition party. The
new so-called right to work law is a case in point. The legislature will fast track this bill in
a special session while ignoring the very real budget problems that might have
justified a special session. The point
is to punish his political opponents and weaken their opposition, although it
is supposedly to improve the business climate.
But TV commercials claim 400 businesses don’t want the law changed
because they will lose business. So the
agenda is set in high military high wealth parts of the country the Koch
Brothers live in. Scott Walker, born in
high military spending Colorado, does not love
Wisconsin, he
loves power. He wants to destroy the
Wisconsin Idea and the many educational strengths of Wisconsin. I still fail to see how less money for the
middle class can possibly improve business sales or attract better workers, but
that’s just me.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(51,51,51)">More on the uncivil wrongs of rankism:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(51,51,51)"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/11020728/RANKISM_Robert_Fuller_Concept_1_p._2006" target="_blank">https://www.academia.edu/11020728/RANKISM_Robert_Fuller_Concept_1_p._2006</a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(51,51,51)">Dr. Peace, Dr. Bob Reuschlein, Real Economy Institute<br>
best contact to ask Bob to speak to your group: <a href="mailto:bobreuschlein@gmail.com" target="_blank">bobreuschlein@gmail.com</a><br>
to leave message: 608-230-6640<br>
for more info: <a href="http://www.realeconomy.com" target="_blank">www.realeconomy.com</a><br>
(<i>Real Economy</i> and/or <i>Peace
Economics</i> free pdf on request by members of the press)<br>
An archive of this yearlong press release campaign can be found at: <a href="http://bobreuschlein.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">http://bobreuschlein.wordpress.com/</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">National press release
edition: <a href="http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=66874" target="_blank">http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=66874</a></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(51,51,51)"></span></p></div>
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