I live in Wisconsin. I have a Ph.D. It is very painful watching what Scott Walker is doing to Wisconsin. It’s to the point now where I rarely talk about the current administration in public, because after a few statements giving examples of what Scott Walker has done to the working men and women of Wisconsin, all I can say are invectives and profanities. Money has corrupted our politics to the point where our Governor is nothing more than a puppet to well-monied extreme right-wing radicals. He completed a couple of semesters at Marquette, had a tough go of it, and has since been very anti-education. The dullard now seeks to destroy the University of Wisconsin by removing tenure. Any claims that tenure decisions will fall to the University imply that the Regents will protect tenure, yet the majority of Regents are appointed by the Governor.
I was not educated at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, but I accepted employment in Wisconsin and came because my children could attend a great University. Over the years, I started my own business and have done very well. However, if the University of Wisconsin-Madison tanks due to Walker’s hatred of education (and I am talking about the loss of many extremely talented top-tier tenured professors), then I’m going to move my business and my family to a much more education-friendly state. I can afford out-of-state tuition for my children, but I cannot abide the abuse that Walker is foisting on all but those who flood the state with their filthy lucre.
Walker is Brownbacking the state of Wisconsin. His failure to thrive at Marquette and his subsequent loathing of education demonstrate his very deep disappointment with himself and his failure, and now he is projecting that self-loathing onto Wisconsin’s education system.
