Walkerville

Since I now live on the west side of Madison I miss out on a lot of the goings on downtown. Case in point, the new tent city of protesters, dubbed "Walkerville." From what I gather this stunt is meant to bring attention to the real issues and hearken back to the days when  people were really poor and had to live in not much better than cardboard boxes...

What I see, however, http://www.facebook.com/walkerville are a bunch of really nice, new tents. The kind people take on fun, outdoorsy trips (i.e. expensive tents). sigh...I guess will never understand how the hypocrisy goes right over some people's heads.

To be fair, I haven't really been following the whole recent budget battle as closely as I should. Even with that admission I can say that both sides did really poor jobs in making their arguments going all the way back to Jan/Feb when this whole thing started. I've essentially given up on all, but a few politicians to be real statesmen who can govern justly.