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Cartoon tags: Wisconsin, Scott Walker, governor, budget, unions, teachers, public, employees, labor, work, money, pay, recession, economy, union-busting, workers rights, collective bargaining, Madison, education, funding, starve the beast, market fundamentalism
A TEACHABLE MOMENT - Lessons For Wisconsin's Governor
MATH - Teacher: "If you take a hypothetical balanced budget and subtract $140 million in spending on your own dubious pet projects...
you get a BIG NEGATIVE NUMBER." (On chalkboard: 0 - 140,000,000 = -140,000,000
PHILOSOPHY - Teacher: "If a governor intentionally causes a budget shortfall out of some kind of "starve the beast" ideology, then it does not follow that public employees are to blame. That's illogical."
HISTORY - "Union busting has a long history in the U.S. dating back to the Industrial Revolution. This is simply part of that time-tested strategy favored by moneyed elites."
Scott Walker in governor's office: "Note to self: After budget fight ends, revise school textbooks."