Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Wasteful spending in Walker's budget

  • Provide $1 million for raises for prosecutors.
  • Set aside $1.04 million to investigate Internet crimes against children.
  • Provide $993,800 for more public defenders.
  • Provide $196 million in funding for the new Wisconsin Economic Development Corp.
  • Allocate $225 million to reconstruction of the Zoo Interchange. Money will cover engineering expenses, preparing for 2013 start of construction.
  • Put $59.1 million into expansion of I-39/90 in Rock and Dane counties and authorize three other highway projects in Racine, Milwaukee, Winnebago, Calumet and Outagamie counties.
  • Provide $5 million to clean up contaminated sediments in the Great Lakes and their tributaries.
We just don't have the money for all this.  Doesn't Walker know that we have a deficit?  Hard decisions must be made.

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