After the fiasco that took place in Madison last February over Governor Scott Walker's divisive budget balancing solution, Wisconsin's budget is finally balanced. Conservatives in Wisconsin's legislature are celebrating their "victory," while the people of Wisconsin live with the consequences of the Budget Repair Bill Walker pushed through Congress. With the elimination of collective bargaining rights for public employees and over $800 million in cuts to education among other massive cuts, I have been asking myself, just as others in Wisconsin have, "How could this possibly be good for our state in the long run?"