These governors are using or creating budget deficits (as in Gov. Scott Walker's tax cuts in Wisconsin) to crush public service employee unions and privatize public services — in effect, "disaster capitalism".
Walker became a conservative hero for his efforts to crush public sector unions and cut government spending in the Democratic-leaning state in Wisconsin, something that led to an attempted recall of the Wisconsin governor in 2012 and became a national cause célèbre.
More recently, Republicans in state capitols across the country have sought to crush public and private unions to both aid business and empty Democratic Party coffers.
One of his first acts in Feb. 2011 was to crush public-sector unions, which were born in Wisconsin fifty years previously.
Sports were different in my youth — a series of events to look forward to and then to turn over in memory, rather than a huge, omnipresent industry, with its own economics and politics and crushing public relations.
Critics warn that his stimulus measures, including a new wave of public works projects, could increase Japan's already crushing public debt, or set off a currency war as the prospect of drastic easing by the central bank has caused the yen's value to plummet.
The bailout recipe for Greece, and now Ireland, has a fundamental problem: It fails to acknowledge that these deeply indebted countries will not recover until they reduce their crushing public debt, which in both cases is on its way to hit a staggering 150 percent of gross domestic product within three or four years.
The Conservative MP Sarah Wollaston, who chairs the Commons health select committee, said: "I think David has public support on the grounds that this is a crushing public health emergency and we cannot ignore the fact that a quarter of children in the least advantaged postcodes are leaving primary school obese".
Berlin has also rejected one of Greece's key demands: some kind of relief or restructuring of the country's crushing public debt, which has ballooned to about 180% of gross domestic product.
At the CNN debate in Milwaukee, she bashed Governor Walker, who crushed public sector unions in 2011 and private sector unions in 2015, for "ripping out the heart of the middle class".
Because of this crushing public scrutiny, Sisi often fled the capital, traveling under the alias of "Countess Hohenembs" and seeking some solitude in remote regions outside of her husband's realm.
