Thursday, August 13, 2015

Scott Walker approves a quarter of a billion in public funds for a new basketball stadium. The team is owned by a couple of billionaire hedge fund managers from NY.


Scott Walker, the Koch Brothers' puppet who wants to be president. I guess he wants to run the country like he ran Wisconsin. This is what he did for that state: Walker cut funds for education, he fired teachers, banned collective bargaining and pay increases for public employees, cut health care spending and ignored Federal regulations on the environment.

But Walker wasn't all cuts. No, not at all. He did increase spending on prisons and of course, like all good Republican governors, he gave more money to the wealthy via tax cuts.

In keeping with this wonderfully egalitarian program he just approved a quarter of a billion in public funds for the construction of a new basketball stadium for the Milwaukee Bucks basketball team. In case you are wondering where Walker got that money, it's the exact amount he cut from the state's famed public universities.

What's even more egregious about Walker's move is the fact that two of the owners of the Milwaukee Bucks are a couple of billionaire hedge fund guys out of New York: Wesley Edens and Mark Lasry. Edens is the founder of Fortress Capital and is worth about $2.5 billion, while Lasry runs Avenue Capital and has a net worth of about $1.7 billion.

Scott Walker is a billionaire, big corporate, errand boy. He is a twerp and a sadist who takes pride in hurting regular working people and  doing the bidding of the wealthy and powerful. Thankfully he was the only Republican candidate for president who's poll rankings went down after the GOP debates. That's good because he is scum.

3 comments:

Matt Franko said...

Mike dont get me started with these sports owners....

I just heard that the St Louis cardinals just signed a 1 B (with a B!) Deal with Fox Sports Midwest to televise Cardinals games from THEIR free stadium...

At least the Cardinals spend to get the best players. . Our crew here in Baltimore get free Billions and still wont spend to even retain the best players for the Orioles. .. they probably are making out like bandits. .

Ignacio said...

The Republic going down the drain, is time to dump the corrupt Senate and let Caesar clean up the house. Oligarchy has to end and give away to a new and better order: a Dictatorship under the domain of a strong leader which can save the Republic (soon to be an Empire under this wise dictator).

Welcome to >2000 years ago, story repeated. Or 100 years ago in Europe. Question remains, who will be the Dictator to follow on this process? It may a few more electoral cycles and a big crisis, but you can feel it in the air. 'Democracy' is done, it has always been an oddity, now is time to chose between Monarchy (what the people will be pushing for) and Feudalism (what the crooks are pushing for).

Peter Pan said...

The Bucks stop here. Sorry, couldn't resist.