#Pocan - salaries & benefits for WI state employee ~8.5 percent of the 2009-2011 #budget

Click on title to see Polifact.com article - read the whole article before you decide who is "more" correct or "more" wrong!

I think there are other considerations to be made with respect to the UWSystem and it should not be counted in the total.  Many faculty and staff are partially or totally paid for by external grants and overhead charges associated with those grants (also true for some state agency funding).  The UWSystem is just a different kind of entity.  None the less the article makes for an interesting read in which the name of the game seems to be how to pick your favorite denominator but do not bother to distinguish how things actually work


From the source -

Pocan claimed in a blog post that salaries and benefits for state employees comprise 8.5 percent of the state budget. He did not provide evidence for the figure. In a footnote, Pocan acknowledged that two huge state operations -- the university system and corrections -- were not included, and that if they were, the figure is about 17 percent.

The Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance agreed with the 17 percent, while the state budget office argued that the figure is 60 percent. Experts said the two figures are different ways to express what employees cost. But everyone agreed that Pocan’s 8.5 percent -- the main number he used, which was repeated elsewhere -- is not accurate.

Super Hero Strategist or Wisconsin’s Chief Injustice 4/1/2011 LOL

4/4 Upd: Someone suggested to me that Bolduc provide a similar expose on the Justices Scalia and Thomas ... where and how they spend their time, speaking engagements and fees and stipends!   Oh!  Don't forget to report on how well they comply with filing disclosure forms.

Inside the Chamber of theWiscosnin Supreme Court - Crop / Download

Interesting? Can A Bird Fly With Only A Right Wing?! Flapping 

Just a collection point for various points of view to indicate why we want birds to have two wings!!

Wisconsin’s Chief Injustice - National Review Online 4/1

The author is clearly unhappy with Chief Justice Abrahamson.  He seems to suggest that she has been in charge of Governor Scott Walker's political strategy - to destroy collective bargaining and unions in the process - just so she can get another "activist" on the Wisconsin Supreme Court.  As they say on  the net - LOL.

From the source -

But behind Prosser’s travails lie not only enraged state-employee unions, but also a wily chief justice, who is “maneuvering to get the court back to a liberal majority,” a source tells National Review Online.

 Is being called wily by Bolduc better than being called b***h by Prosser?

Supreme Court - INDEX Rev 4/2/2011

Don't you feel rich? Politifact Check

Politfact says the first is mostly true and Michael Moore speech was true and the last is false!

The richest 400 taxpayers are taxed at a lower rate than a $29,000-a-year worker U.S. Senator Whitehouse.

"Just 400 Americans -- 400 -- have more wealth than half of all Americans combined." When Michael Moore was in Madison 3/5.

Trent Franks says top 1 percent pays over half of the entire revenue for U.S. Rated False but he said it on MSNBC before national cable audience.

See the 400 data:

http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/07intop400.pdf

Tea Party Credo: Leave the rich alone - I want you to be poor like me!

#1% #Elites #TeaParty Credo: Leave the rich alone - I want you to be #poor like me! #Rural #Elderly #MiddleClass