Fuck Scott Walker for this, but especially for making Wisconsin a right to work state.
The Republicans knew that a convenient way to travel from Madison to Milwaukee and then to Chicago would create maybe tens of thousands of good paying tech jobs in the state of Wisconsin - which would tip their fragile anti-democratic electoral balance. That is literally why they killed the federally funded project.
That was among the concerns. It also would have been political suicide for them to allow that much land to be taken by the state to create the railroad. Of course, the unstated part is that all of that land would over the course of the decade by farming conglomerates that the Republicans let off the leash. So most of them were going to lose the land anyways, it was only a matter of if they lost it to private or public interests.
Every time people mention farmers not wanting to give up land for railways I'm like, for fuck sakes it's not even that much land, it's not a highway with 150 meters of clearance in each direction, it's a fucking rail line and after is built you can safely cultivate the clearances and not pay land taxes on it, who's gonna complain? the railway? the ones getting someone to maintain the clearances free of trees and the maintenance roads driveable for free?
Yeah you won't be able to put cattle nor sugar cane in it, but you can sure as hell cultivate it, and demand them to put as many "cattle-bridges" big enough to fit a combine as you want, unlike fucking highways!
FUCK
absolutely not, look up what the same governor's act 10 did to the state. it basically outlawed most unions of public servants (not cops or teachers though), so most state employees don't have union contracts even if they have union representation in some capacity.
Let me tell you, when an institution says that they'll still play along with the union once you've lost legal protection, they will not.
I hate this country. In a just world Scott Walker would be dead in an unmarked grave and his name erased from all records.
Oh, that’s why Stalin photoshopped people out of shit. Huh.
Knowing that his everyday lunch consisted of two boiled ham sandwiches on naked white bread with nothing else makes me wonder why the man hasn't just fucking dropped dead from a bowel obstruction
White bread had more fiber in those days.
Also that is the most WASP meal ever holy shit
edit: thought this was about my post on Lovecraft. My comment still stands
There is a certain similarity between the two
Lovecraft was probably less of a ham demon
Just get the strong feeling that he ate a lot of egg salad
I looked it up because I figured he'd be a big freak about it somehow, but he apparently ate surprisingly normal. Weirdest thing is apparently he liked to eat doughnuts and cheese for breakfast: https://www.hplovecraft.com/life/interest/foods.aspx
Never ask a Hoosier the legality of light rail in Indianapolis
I was so hopeful back then
But for the whims of a ham demon, I could have had the ability to go all over the place in a fast train
Back in high school any mention of Scott Walker in the halls was banned because so many kids were talking about shooting him
Look at these badger-red Talgos just sitting in a yard in Indiana. (They've been sold since, to Nigeria I think maybe?)
Anyway, California appreciated the money Wisconsin contributed to its HSR.
It does, but these are headed to Nigeria, I remembered correctly: https://www.wpr.org/trains-intended-unbuilt-milwaukee-madison-high-speed-rail-line-going-nigeria
