THE BURNED OVER DISTRICT

And the latest destructive measure from the Evil Koch owned Governor Scott Walker was the gutting of the Civil Service Law that for 110 years had guaranteed fair and honest government employees. No longer.

The Republican-backed legislation rewrites the state’s 110-year-old Civil Service system by eliminating job applicant exams, centralizing hiring decisions within the governor’s administration and tossing so-called bumping rights, which protect more senior employees from losing their jobs during layoffs.

The new law also creates merit bonuses, allows state agencies to extend probation periods from the current six months to two years and specifies that layoffs will be based on job performance rather than seniority. The changes, most of which will take effect July 1, are expected to affect about 30,000 state workers.

“The legislation we are signing here today implements common-sense reforms to our recruitment and retention processes to get the best and brightest in the door and keep them there,” Mr. Walker said in a news release after signing the bill on Friday at Manpower, an employment agency in Appleton. “These Civil Service reforms provide a more effective, efficient and streamlined hiring process to ensure state government operates at a good value for our citizens.”

A handful of other states have taken steps to roll back Civil Service protections, which are designed to keep officials from handing out government jobs as rewards to their political allies. Arizona, Colorado and Tennessee passed legislation in 2012 scaling back Civil Service protections.

But critics say the century-old rules lead to inefficiencies, offer little incentive for hard work and unfairly protect employees who behave badly.

How else can your idiot bastard son get a job if you can't protect him with the law? And every governor knows people who need employment for otherwise worthless slugs for the sake of family peace. And now Wisconsin will be a haven for those whocontribute.