More Walker woes

When Governor Walker proposed his budget cuts, one has to wonder if he really thought through all the implications of what he was doing.  The effects of his cuts are hitting so many people is so many ways, it is almost impossible to track them all.  If you look at the folks being hit, it truly looks like war against the middle class.  I find it hard to believe, given what we’ve learned about the Gov and the Koch Brothers, that this was unintentional.  That means it was deliberate and in that case is one of the most criminal, hideous, unfeeling, greedy, selfish and undefensible acts in many years. Liar!  He needs cuts to create jobs, but cuts out facilities doing job-training. 

I do not know how the people of Wisconsin were taken in by this chameleon, but it should be a lesson to us all come next election time.  Don’t believe what you are told, ASK QUESTIONS, dig for the truth.

Among the victims of the Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s budget proposal will be technical colleges, which stand to have their state funding cut by 30 percent.

 Over the past decade, enrollment in the state’s technical college system has grown by 40 percent, to over 400,000 students, as the economic crisis and chronic unemployment have compelled people to seek higher education in an effort to make themselves more employable. “High unemployment is definitely one of the driving forces in the growth of enrollment at technical colleges,” said Jacob Weigandt, president of the Madison Area Technical College Student Senate.

 Last week, Walker announced his 2012-2013 budget proposal, which includes a nine percent cut in state aid to public education, totaling $900 million. The proposal would cut funding for technical colleges to its lowest level since the 1980s.

 Madison Area Technical College, which provides education and training to working class people of all ages and backgrounds, will be among the hardest hit. The college, which is spread over a dozen campuses, has an enrollment of over 40,000, roughly equivalent to the overall enrollment at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

 Enrollment has swelled by 22 percent at the college in the past five years. The college has expanded its campus in response, a project that cost more than $130 million. The college had planned on increased property taxes to finance the expansion, but Walker’s budget freezes property taxes at their current levels, leaving the college in an untenable situation, said Weigandt.

 While priding itself on its manageable tuition, the college has been forced to raise fees by about 5 percent per year over the past 10 years. While no further tuition increases have been announced, students suspect that they are inevitable.

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