The other night I was watching the Maddow show when she did a segment on how the odious Gov. Scott Walker was using money that will come to Wisconsin from the foreclosure fraud settlement to help balance the budget. Of course the reason Walker has a shortfall in his budget is because he cut taxes on corporations and fat cats. I went poking around on the Internet to find an article about this and found one at Think Progress, which you can check out here. The upshot is that Wisconsin is getting $140 million, $31.6 million of which goes directly to the state, presumably to be doled out to help victims of foreclosure fraud. Instead, Walker is going to divert $25.6 million of these funds to “help close a budget shortfall.” Wow, how much more brazen can these right wing Republican state officials get? All I’ve got to say is that it is a good the the whole $140 million didn’t go directly to the State!
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