The day after Gov. Scott Walker released his budget, I attended a forum on entrepreneurship hosted by the UW-Madison Business School where Lt. Gov. Kleefisch spoke. During her talk she shared a famous Reagan joke: “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, ’I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’” The room went silent. Kleefisch chuckled, “I didn’t get a single laugh!” Did it occur to her that no one laughed because many of us felt personally insulted?
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