{"id":18513,"date":"2013-07-30T19:20:18","date_gmt":"2013-07-30T23:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=18513"},"modified":"2013-07-30T19:20:18","modified_gmt":"2013-07-30T23:20:18","slug":"wisconsin%e2%80%99s-walker-previews-potential-2016-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/18513\/wisconsin%e2%80%99s-walker-previews-potential-2016-message\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin\u2019s Walker Previews Potential 2016 Message"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a speech to a room full of government researchers, Wisconsin Republican Governor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/news\/statepolitics\/scott-walker-likens-himself-to-franklin-d-roosevelt-in-speech-monday-b9964030z1-217421191.html \" target=\"_blank\">Scott Walker made some bold predictions<\/a>: If Detroit had passed the same public union reforms as the Badger State did, it wouldn\u2019t be bankrupt today. And if Chicago had done so, its public school system would be in much better shape.<\/p>\n<p>Walker\u2019s comments are sure to spark controversy from union-friendly Democrats who disdain his <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/18431\/scott-walker-the-anti-obama\/\" target=\"_blank\">rollback of debt-creating privileges<\/a>. But liberals should get used to the argument because <a href=\"http:\/\/watchdog.org\/96143\/walkers-act-10-to-save-milwaukee-taxpayers-110-million-a-year-study-finds\/\" target=\"_blank\">the success of Walker\u2019s program<\/a> is quietly making him into a <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/54-state-of-affairs\/1904-the-next-president-who-best-compensates-for-obamas-failings\" target=\"_blank\">viable 2016 presidential contender<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Later this week Walker is hosting the National Governors Association in Milwaukee, and he plans to deliver a simple message: \u201cWorry more about the next generation than the next election.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Absent Walker\u2019s track record, it would be an empty bromide. But with it, the phrase introduces a formula for success that Americans nationwide may be willing to try after eight years of economic futility under President Barack Obama.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a speech to a room full of government researchers, Wisconsin Republican Governor Scott Walker made some bold predictions: If Detroit had passed the same public union reforms as the Badger State did, it wouldn\u2019t be bankrupt today. And if Chicago had done so, its public school system would be in much better shape. Walker\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3887,3601,1447,2412,1051,1500],"class_list":["post-18513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-3887","tag-public","tag-reform","tag-scott-walker","tag-union","tag-wisconsin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18513"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18518,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18513\/revisions\/18518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}