Doyle cut taxes? Are you kidding? He is a tax happy liberal democrat. Cutting taxes isn't going to happen with him in office.

I see a lot of misinformed comments about state employee travel. In part, it is the fault of the Gazette for not printing the entire AP story. Last year, $19.7 million of the $22.1 million travel expense was incurred by the UW-System. If you have a world class University System doing world class research, there will be some world travel. The next largest "traveler" was the state investment board. The investment board runs one of the best, if not the best public investment portfolios in the Country. They research firms before they invest hundreds of millions of dollars in overseas corporations. That diligence includes site visits.

momof1....I WORK,PAY TAXES & TAKE CARE OF MY FAMILY, HOW DARE YOU SAY THAT!!! Things happen that cause employeers to TAKE away health care at jobs, then when it's almost $250.00 a month 2 cover a single female, theres just not enough money to go around, there is NO shame in me to go to the state and ask for help when I DO TAKE MY ROLL AS A RODUCTIVE PART OF THIS COMMUNITY!!!If you could get off your very high horse maybe you would understand...What do you thinks gonna happen to Lear workers and the rest of them that don't get the sub pay that GM workers get...going from a $800.00 pay check to $350.00 with NO benefits...Are you gonna say the same to them when they need help??? NEVER once did I say I wanted the state to take care of me, I wanted help to get me through tough times....YOU ARE PROBABLY A SOCCER MOM THAT DRIVES A FORIEGN MADE SUV AND SHOPS AT WAL-MART BUYING CHINA MADE STUFF!!!! How about everyone buys American made things and bring our jobs back home.....

No..........gas taxes pay for our roads and bridges and the like to be fixed\maintained. Getting rid of the taxes is a stupid, short term idea.

Justmythoughts ~ The SYSTEM keeps you down? The system???? Where is it that says that you deserve the state to take care of you???? You could have been in the military and retired from the military and received a pension and lifetime healthcare. Or you could do a lot of other things to take care of YOURSELF. That is up to you. You want to live like the people that the state "takes" care of, enjoy your life, I am sure it will be wonderful.
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This article is about the travel that the government does. I agree that there should be more facts in here to make an educated statement on here, but with the budget shortfall, maybe they should stop travel.

I believe is it 32 cents per gallon state taxes
on gas right now in wi . I would think our govenor could stop taking the taxes out of our
gas ,.If there is that much money for these
ahhhh state workers to run around state to state and why would they ever have to go out of
the United States......................?

bkrkim - public schooling, right?

j m t - I think everyone has the same opportunities to fail or succeed, correct?

Don't vote / REVOLT

Ok vote for me. I want to take a trip. And to just my thoughts. I would quit both my jobs and do like I did drive down to Schaumburg Illinois and make bank because the people in Janesville are cheap tippers and yes I mean cheap...Did it for two days in Janesville made 20.00 as well maybe same restraunt. Or get a job in a bar that's where the monies at. Yep i'm a FIB. And dam proud of it.

Blah blah blah. Quit crying. Do you think the goverment really cares? This is quite normal for goverment to waste taxpayer money. If your shocked by this. maybe you should pick up a paper more often. I am not shocked at all.

So let's just all kick up our heels and overthrow it, cause lord knows I have all the time in the world to do that!!! Will someone please pay my bills & feed my kids so I can fight the system that keeps me down...Please don't tell us to stop bitchen when we go to work, pay our taxes, take care of our families and can get NO help from the state...If I was unable to speak english, you bet I'd have health care...Can you please explain that one to me...The state hires translators for imagrants to recieve heatlh care benefits that I can't get..My father is a Vet as my grandfather was and no help for born & raised citizens that CHOSE to speak the language...But hey, who cares, they will work for $5.00 and hour and have 20 living together...

This article doesn't provide any meaningful information to me unless it states what the travel costs are compared to the same time last year. Have they gone up, or have people curbed their travel like they were asked to do?

please see post #3 (Quitcherbitchin)

And these are the people I'm supposed to trust to run my health care?

Why the hell are state employees takeing trips when people in Wisconsin are loseing there jobs.Spending the tax payers money on trips.And god knows what elese.And our great govenor allows it to continue without takeing no action.Whos the govenor kidding.wonder how many trips he took.An this is the guy we voted for this is what we get were getting screwed at our expense an were getting screwed by a bunch of greedy ppolitician's.

shocking

Thats why I can't get health benefits for myself as a single working mother with no insurance, working 2 jobs, office clerk days at 8.50 an hour and waitressing part time at night making maybe $20.00 a night lately during the week...But I make to much money for health benefits...It's people that have everything making up desecions for those of us that don't...And looks like never will...

"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it".

- Abraham Lincoln
First Inaugural Address
Monday, March 4, 1861

Did we honestly expect anything different?

The bigger our government, state of federal gets, the harder it is to control. They tax the hell out of us and then waste our money on trips and all this other pork barrel crap.