From the Letters to the Editor section of this morning’s edition of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Responsible government needed
In his op-ed, Scott Walker writes about “a budget that puts the needs of Milwaukee citizens above the needs of government” (Perspectives, Nov. 17).
A civics lesson, Mr. Walker: Who do you think the government is? Who do you think government serves?
We have representative government in this country, which means government is about the people. That Walker separates the two is precisely the problem in this age of anti-tax rants and relinquishing, on the extreme political right, the spirit of responsible shared citizenship.
We have economic struggles indeed, but sacrificing good-paying jobs to the private- service sector (lower wages, few benefits) and cutting services for those most in need, while vetoing a tax increase of several bucks per year for property owners, is not good government.
Limiting access to the lakefront for the financially strapped by making people pump dollars into meters amounts to a tax on the poor who will be least likely to afford a day at the lake.
We want good government, not no government.
And we wish you cared as much about the people of this county as your ambition to be the Republican candidate for governor.
Margaret Swedish
Milwaukee
Brava, Ms. Swedish. Very well said.