This move by Gov. Scott Walker is one of a series of power grabs by Republicans with the intent of achieving some of their long time goals; destroying unions and the middle class and getting rid of our public education system.
If our political conversation was sane, we would have Democrats all over the TV discussing the underlying political motivations here instead of joining the freak out about deficits, particularly when someone like Walker pushed through tax cuts to exacerbate the problem. This is the missing element in the story that puts it in the proper context and decouples average people from the conventional wisdom. But they need to be told.