Scott Walker: Wisconsin is a model for the country. Oh, and I'm just like FDR. [View all]

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Well, "model" is often defined as a "non-working replica".



http://www.jsonline.com/newswatch/217421191.html

Wisconsin a model for country, Scott Walker says

Detroit would not be bankrupt and Chicago public schools would be flourishing if those cities operated under Wisconsin's public union laws, Gov. Scott Walker said Monday in what amounted to a national stump speech — and came days before he hosts the National Governors Association conference in Milwaukee.

Walker likened his public union philosophy to that of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

"The position I pushed is not unlike the principle that Franklin Delano Roosevelt — not exactly a conservative — pushed as well when it came to public sector collective bargaining," Walker remarked at the annual Governmental Research Association policy conference. "He felt that there wasn't a need in the public sector to have collective bargaining because the government is the people. We are the people. And so what we've done is to be able to empower our great employees, to affirm them."