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SENSENBRENNER: ANOTHER BUDGET SCAM

By Charlie Sykes

The pols are stealing money again. (Is that redundant?) Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner isn't happy with the new state budget deal.

 

When the State Legislature passed the state budget, they included a six dollar increase on drivers' license Renewal fees to help pay for Wisconsin to be Real ID compliant. Now, Governor Doyle is playing fiscal games and stealing from Wisconsinites $6 at a time to get himself out of this budget mess. Games will not make our country more secure. Governor Doyle must wake up and stop playing these games.

"Governor Doyle is like a fast talking salesman trying to orchestrate a deal. The problem is it's the citizens of Wisconsin who are the unwilling pawns in this irresponsible deal and will ultimately pay and pay and pay.

"When I shepherded the REAL ID bill through Congress 3 years ago, it was in response to one of the key recommendations made by the 9/11 Commission, that 'fraud in identification documents is no longer just a problem of theft.' As we saw in 2001, in the hands of a terrorist, a valid ID accepted for travel in the US can be just as dangerous as a missile or bomb."

Tuesday, May 13 at 6:38 PM Maddie - Saukville wrote ...

Where can you find another few hundred Sensenbrenners? This is the only guy, other than Paul Ryan so far as I can tell in the federal government that actually pays attention to where our money goes and has the courage to call B-S, B-S! He's the Glen Frankovis of the USHOR. If we had more people willing to call thugs thugs and B-S spending B-S spending and good people to back them up, a lot of problems might actually get solved.

Tuesday, May 13 at 6:17 AM Kurt/Elkhorn wrote ...

Can you say Flim-Flam man! Thanks again Slim Jim Doyle!

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