Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker says the continuing showdown with his state’s public employee unions is at bottom about whether the state government can “balance its budget” and why “at a tough time when the private sector has been making sacrifices to keep people working, we should expect the same from government.”

In an interview with Examiner contributor Tina Korbe of the Heritage Foundation’s Center for Media and Public Policy, Walker says the old games played by professional politicians must end: “I think in November, voters certainly here in Wisconsin, but across the country, voters elected people to turn things around, to balance the budget, to stop the games … we’re broke and it’s about time somebody stood up and told the truth.”