{"id":390150,"date":"2018-12-22T15:21:28","date_gmt":"2018-12-22T14:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/viktor-orban-and-scott-walker-reconsider-it\/"},"modified":"2018-12-22T15:21:28","modified_gmt":"2018-12-22T14:21:28","slug":"viktor-orban-and-scott-walker-reconsider-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/viktor-orban-and-scott-walker-reconsider-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Viktor Orban and Scott Walker: \u201cReconsider It!\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>Protesters poured into the streets of Budapest by the thousands the past few nights with calls for Hungary\u2019s Prime Minister, Viktor Orban, to \u201creconsider it!\u201d The policy to be reconsidered is what Hungary\u2019s workers are calling the government\u2019s new \u201cslave law\u201d requiring labor to work up to 400 mandatory hours of overtime (think: every Saturday all year at 8 hours a day), with the \u201cpromise\u201d of pay 3 years later. Meanwhile, recent weeks saw protestors in Wisconsin marching to their capitol demanding the outgoing Republican Governor, Scott Walker (\u201cbutler\u201d to the \u201cblack energy\u201d oil and coal baron Koch Brothers), halt plans to restrict the powers of the new incoming Democratic governor. Changes to giveaways to big business through the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation, among other measures, would be foreclosed, ensuring that public gravy keeps getting ladled out to business interests favored by the Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>The Soviet Union always declared it was \u2018dizzy with success\u2019 on economic performance. They buried (pun intended) their critics in statistics to prove the point. Hungary\u2019s Viktor Oban and Wisconsin\u2019s (Hungary on the Great Lakes) Scott Walker, while not literally burying critics (both bully them), fill and filibuster media space with data declaring their economic victories justify their rule.<\/p>\n<p>Closer inspection reveals the fraud of these successes. Their chief claim to taking a victory lap in Hungary and Wisconsin is full&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/12\/21\/viktor-orban-and-scott-walker-reconsider-it\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protesters poured into the streets of Budapest by the thousands the past few nights with calls for Hungary\u2019s Prime Minister, Viktor Orban, to \u201creconsider it!\u201d The policy to be reconsidered is what Hungary\u2019s workers are calling the government\u2019s new \u201cslave law\u201d requiring labor to work up to 400 mandatory hours of overtime (think: every Saturday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-390150","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}