Mouse - Are you able to read a persons post and actually comprehend what they are saying? You keep going back to Bush and the Republican's as if you know anything about me. I didn't vote for Romney either. Again, please put your book down and open your eyes. You've got so much hatred towards anyone other than an extreme leftist that if anyone has an idea other than what they think up they automatically are a Republican. Bend over, touch your toes and take a deep breath once in a while!
I agreed with some of your ideas but you still can't have a civil conversation without going right into insults! Your expecting Washington to do what is right but your not able to lead by example in doing what you want them too! Respect is a two way streak. If you don't give it, you won't get it!

Mouse: your plan is as about as intelligent as your name. Does nothing, accomplishes nothing.

Eagle needs to look at the big rich government taking from the little people and stop defending the wrong ones that hinder not help this country. Obama is doing right by the people that matter and I hope he overrides the morons in congress that could care less about America and the people in it. Your Republicans are the big spenders Eagle PLEASE go research the truth about the GOP leaders and their budget disasters And not FOX news as they LIE

Yes to do as Obama did and pull the military out of Iraq and will do the same out of Afghanistan. Thank you Obama for saving wasteful Military money by ending the wars.

Mouse - I'm going to give you an opportunity to tell us your ideas. If you were the President of the United States and didn't need any approval from Congress or Senate to pass or make any law. What I want to know is "What would you do to fix our country and get us back to the financial stability we once were"?
All I ever hear from you are one liners. This is your chance!

Mouse, Mars wants you back

JoyM said, "...Russia and China are the countries we want to benchmark against."

If not Russia and China, then which countries? Mauritius, Seychelles, Gambia? Check.

Less spending??? Not for Walker and his half a million kitchen redo! Remember Walkers "brown bag" campaign ads? fail

Yes, poohbah, because Russia and China are the countries we want to benchmark against.

"As the U.S. winds down the war in Afghanistan, the military’s needs are changing. Spending by the Army in Wisconsin is down more than 75 percent."

Fantastic. Spending by the entire U.S. military should be decreased 75 percent worldwide; we'd still be spending more than Russia or China. Great start.

Say whaaat ?????

I guess we need somebody to Obama that the state voted for so now we want the bacon.

concernedwi, you are going in circles I realize it is going somewhere else that is exactly the problem, it needs to be cut back EVERYWHERE, and if it isn't we are doomed. Mouse I love how the big government people always point out the things government is obligated to do as a talking point to spend more. However I will direct you to the tollway on Indiana that has been leased to a private company and things haven't been better on that road... I know it well. And yes Ryan is a big spender which makes me wonder why Dems don;t love him, he fits right in.

But the fact is that money that we turn down is going to go somewhere else, spending isn't going to decrease. Since it is our federal taxes too, I think we should reap some of it instead of paying for another state to benefit.

concernedwi, which is exactly why I put what I did make that happen elsewhere. we need to stop spending EVERYWHERE.... it's pretty simple.

Eagle, I know how you feel about big government, but this doesn't mean that less money was spent, it means that other states got money that could have come to Wisconsin. We've turned down a lot of federal money in the past 3 years that could have been put into Wisconsin's economy.

Good now make that happen everywhere else.