In November, Wisconsin lost 3,000 public sector jobs and 11,700 private sector jobs. This is not really news though . . . this is the fifth consecutive month Wisconsin has seen a net job loss. http://www.jsonline.com/business/state-lost-11700-privatesector-jobs-in-november-n43f475-135682638.html
Since July, Wisconsin has lost over 44,000 jobs while the US has created 420,000 jobs . . . are you angry yet? Are you even a little bit upset (if you are a Walker supporter, this is) that your Governor, who promised to create 250,000 jobs in four years is actually well on his way to losing that many jobs during his tenure?
And if you voted for Walker because you liked his catchy slogan, "Wisconsin: Open For Business" you should be on the phone right now asking his office, "Just exactly what business are we in - the business of laying people off?"
If you are one of those Walker supporters who place one of those "I Stand With Walker" signs in your yard, you might want to add the phrase, "On the broken backs of the working-class people of Wisconsin" in order to make your sign more accurate and honest.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/12/16/1046033/-Make-it-5-in-a-row-Walkers-jobs-report
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And on a related note, I want to apologize to the for calling them and bothering them by asking if their department keeps picking up my "Recall Walker" yard signs. I have had three signs "disappear" from my backyard recently, and am now on my fourth sign.
The other day I came across a man in a white four-door car about to remove my latest sign from my back yard. He informed me that it was too close to the road (my back yard is on Ramsey Ave.) and it was actually in the Village right-of-way, and all signs had to be on "my property". So I moved it back about 20 feet. It is now a good 35 feet from the road, but well within my property limits.
Too bad the sign in the photo I posted on this blog is only two blocks down from my house (on Ramsey Ave.) and is only 15 feet ( I counted) from the road, and has been there for three days now. Why is that sign, that is pro-Walker, allowed to stand close to the road and in the village right-of-way, but my anti-Walker sign is told to be removed or moved WAY back?
Let me put is this way - I was informed that some people in charge of the Village are very big fans of Scott Walker, and don't take kindly to "Recall Walker" signs.
If your "Recall Walker" yard sign has "disappeared" or you have been forced to move it WAY back, email village building inspector, Scott Satula and ask him why he tells his minions to remove certain signs, but allows others to stay? ssatula@greendale.org
Oh, wait! Europe did. That worked out great. Where should the money come from to pay for these government programs? Let me guess, the rich. When Europe did that, the income for all its citizens dropped. That is why Europe has a lower median wage then the US.
What happened five months ago was the first round of recalls...
You appear to believe that Walker is hiding a money tree in his backyard in Tosa. Where is the money supposed to come from?
Tell you what Jason, if you're so keen on leveraging your children's financial future to foreign powers, do so in their name only, but leave my children out of it! $135k+ of debt per taxpayer is enough for me! But, I guess you prefer to just keep on piling on the debt. If you were/are a teacher, I sincerely hope that you never taught personal finance to anyone else's children!
Who here or anywhere in Wisconsin does not know that the recall effort started as soon as the election ended. That was before your and my Governor, Gov. Scott Walker took office. The public employee unions and its lemmings knew from Gov. Scott Walkers campaign commitments exactly what he intended to do to solve WI budget and failing school problems. ( And he did it in grand style despite the fools and jesters of the union beating there bongos and stinking up our fine Capital) To state that the unions Useful Idiots have only been doing the street walking for the unions for five weeks marks and that marks the begin of the recall is total nonsense and I think you really know that. In Wisconsin, much like our nation under obama, no one want to risk investing in an uncertain market. You people are nothing but rocks in the roadway to real progress. Want to have some fun, just ask those union street walkers what they would do, how they would solve the States problems. Watch them morph into rabid dogs and snarling spitting rodents. It's like a scene from the new show Grimm. Tell us, what was the unemployment rate under Diamond Jim Doyle, the Casino King and Train to Nowhere Humpy Dumpty?
I guess you believe that the McIver Institute is also a non-partisan non-profit, right?
I reviewed the web site you suggested (http://www.wisconsinsfuture.org). Did you read the October, 2011 newsletter entitled "Who Does Not Pay Taxes?" http://www.wisconsinsfuture.org/publications_pdfs/WhoDoesNotPayTaxes/IWF%20Oct%202011%20WDNPT.pdf It basically laments the fact (rightfully so) that certain big corporations in Wisconsin have paid zero (0) state income tax over the years despite earning millions of dollars in profit. However, what is noteworthy and peculiar about the article is that such tax avoidance has existed from 2000 through 2009, yet the article fails to criticize the Legislators and Governor(s) that permitted such tax avoidance during this period. How do you feel about the Wisconsin Legislators and Governor(s) that permitted this tax avoidance between 2001 and 2009? Will you be as vocal in objecting to this as you are about the activities of the current administration? Or will you remain silent?
How are we supposed to trust the numbers you presented when you did not adjust down the 7000 for the revised October Wisconsin numbers? Also, have you taken into account the unemployment rate for 'gold star' states? Only one of them is below WI. It would appear we are still a better place to live.
The BLS data is the latest available and prior months are adjusted every month. I could explain exactly how the data is collected and I could also give you the UTA monthly report numbers used by the state and federal agencies, but I would run out of room here. If you have a specific question about how I calculated a specific number, just let me know and I will provide all of the BLS reports so that you can do it yourself. Through most of my life I was very middle of the road politically and I always split my ticket. No more. I think Repubs are shameful. So, yes, the tone of my blog is "liberal", but I'm careful to be objective in any of my reports regarding unemployment or jobs. That should be obvious. Our seasonally adjusted jobs numbers are still below what they were when Obama took office. If I were just a hack, I wouldn't report that.
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Risk to miners??? Do you understand these are open pit mine(s) that are safer than our highways? The people in that area do not care about your politics one single bit. They want honest work with good pay and the mine(s) will provide direct employment for years and with the increase in income it will expand other businesses in the area. No you want those peoples children to starve, wear hand me downs and go bare foot, have no health or dental care from their family or employer and the elderly to freeze in the winter for lack of money for fuel. I am not so heartless or thoughtless. This is what you want for Wisconsin and America?
I never considered that concept but the way this obama economy is going you may be right. All regulations are grand in your world, fine, no more fast food for you. No more battery powered vehicles that require mining rare metals and toxic chemical to make the batteries that produce the electricity. No more wind powered turbines to mutilate the birds and disrupt air patterns. No more keeping score or giving grades, no more games of tag or races on the playground. No more pickup trucks or SUV because Molly and the government thinks they are all bad things for either the environment or the people., no more whatever regulation, Molly thinks all regulations are good always good. No, to answer your question, I do not assume anything. I wait to see what is proposed, evaluate the facts and information and then formulate an opinion. Try that path sometime rather than making rash uniformed statements. And your line on slavery and plantations is just plain stupid and ignorant at best. Are you going to invoke some comment regarding nazis next? I do assume that you pulled that nonsense out of one of your body cavities other than your mouth. "Deform" a regulation, that just precious.
"... merely a seldom used legislative delaying tactic" ? Our fleeing crusaders perverted a quarom rule designed to insure legislation is not sneakily enacted by a minority of the total membership. Instead our "crusaders" insured that an even smaller minority would bring legislating to a halt. Today's US Senate fillibuster is a travesty, no matter which party is employing it, and they both do it when it suits them. The intent behind the filibuster is to add a further check on legislation that does not have a large majority backing. Reasonable people can disagree over the need for another check in our system in the form of the filibuster. Today's filibuster is nearly anonymous, a behind the scenes paperwork exercise, without political risk, and often abused. If Senators were required, as they once were, to take political risk by visibly tying up Senate business on the chamber floor, then the procedure would be less abused. The filibuster is being used as intended, albeit excessively. Refusal to attend legislative sessions in order stop legislation is a perversion of the quarom requirement.
The dishonesty is hurting our state. It has to stop.
If you want to stop dishonesty Bren, perhaps you need to stop posting. Contrary to your claim, there was indeed a 'deficit hole' that needed to be filled, and it was not created by the 'corporate/rich people' tax breaks. Also, it is not true that collective bargaining has nothing to do with fiscal issues--you should know very well that collective bargaining does indeed involve employee compensation. How can it not have anything to do with fiscal issues?
Such selective vitriol is so transparent. The climate here for job creation is better than it was, but cannot happen in too short a time. And qutie frankly, the psychotic behavior of Wisconsin's union leftists is plenty reason enough for businesses to now wait out what they initially perceived as a very positive change for our state. Those treating our Governor and Reps and Senators they way they have been have done NOTHING to move our state forward. So in other words, thanks alot.