What happened to the Midwest ?

[gotsnowgotslush]

Madison, Wisconsin is the main target of Scott Walker's malice-

Walker targeted Dane and Milwaukee counties (the old I-94 Coalition), University towns, workers' wages, public schools, minorities, consumers' rights, the University System, voting rights, local control, clean water, the environment and anything Walker can get his hands on that doesn't vote Republican.

Dane County is too smart for Walker and without Dane County and its educated population and innovative industries, Wisconsin would be in worse shape.

Walker turned a $3.6 billion deficit into a $2.2 billion deficit even as the nation as a whole is recovering from the Great Recession.


It’s easy to see, as De Blasio noted, how Walker killed Wisconsin’s economy. His signature achievement, the public union-busting Act 10, lowered the wages of public employees at all levels, shrinking the economy when the public sector should have been stimulating it.

Walker’s irresponsible tax cuts have make his state budgets unworkable. And his economic priorities—big, unaccountable giveaways to corporations while slashing funding for education—are precisely what credible economists tell you not to do when you want to create a thriving economy for the long term.

http://expressmilwaukee.com/article-25619-scott-walker-wrecked-wisconsin%E2%80%99s-economy.html

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker continues to be a right-wing tornado as he pursues the Republican presidential nomination, spouting the most reactionary opinions possible on a host of issues, from public education cuts to reproductive rights to same-sex marriage.

Our state treasurer was able to ban some state employees under his control from so much as discussing the most serious threat the planet faces: global climate change

It’s hard enough to get coastal investors to even acknowledge “fly-over country,” much less drop some dough here. None of this is helping, yet oddly most of it comes from the party that portrays itself as the champion of jobs and business.

http://www.isthmus.com/news/opinion/city-hating-legislators-drag-down-midwest/


Scott Walker's best buddies outsourced Wisconsin jobs, after they took tax payer's money.

Gov. Scott Walker on Friday abruptly dropped his proposed merger of the state's top two jobs agencies shortly after the release of an audit that found one of them had again failed to follow state law and its own policies in awarding taxpayer-funded incentives to state companies.

http://www.jsonline.com/news/statep...w-its-own-policies-b99496533z1-303067521.html


The audit comes as Walker had been calling for a merger of WEDC and WHEDA, the Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority.

Within hours of the audit release, Walker issued a statement calling for that merger to be removed from the state budget along with a merger of two other state

http://host.madison.com/ct/news/loc...cle_578c0a5d-f398-56e5-9cf9-7196b64dd7ed.html

 

[sr71plt]

Walker turned a $3.6 billion deficit into a $2.2 billion deficit

Wouldn't that be a good thing? Assuming this isn't a typo.

 

[renard_ruse]

Translation of original post = really scared of Scott Walker kicking lib ass in the 2016 election.

 

[NeverEndingMe]

unions and government workers have killed the state

Walker is taking it back from the terrorists

 

[KingOrfeo]

Translation of original post = really scared of Scott Walker kicking lib ass in the 2016 election.

No, GOP, no! Please don't throw me in that there briar pa-- ermm, I mean, please don't nominate Scott Walker!

 

[about_average]

Wouldn't that be a good thing? Assuming this isn't a typo.

Not a typo, but taken out of context. Full quote is

Walker embarrassed himself while visiting Minnesota, where he tried to brag about his achievements. But contrary to his fantasies, Walker’s Wisconsin trails Minnesota, led by Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton, on just about every score. Wisconsin’s unemployment is higher. Our job growth is weaker and one of the weakest in the nation. Dayton turned a $5 billion deficit into a $1 billion surplus. Walker turned a $3.6 billion deficit into a $2.2 billion deficit even as the nation as a whole is recovering from the Great Recession.

But even so, not much context.
I'm certainly no fan of Walker, but there's not enough information to compare the before and after.

 

[NeverEndingMe]

yes, your kind needs your welfare!

working is just so unfair ... how dare 'we' be forced to get jobs ....

No, GOP, no! Please don't throw me in that there briar pa-- ermm, I mean, please don't nominate Scott Walker!

 

[someoneyouknow]

Not a typo, but taken out of context. Full quote isBut even so, not much context.
I'm certainly no fan of Walker, but there's not enough information to compare the before and after.

Using the numbers from the article, there has been a $6 billion swing in budgetary numbers in Minnesota whereas there has only been a $1.4 billion swing for
Wisconsin, a 428% difference.

Which makes sense if Minnesota has a growing job base while Wisconsin is creeping along.

 

[NeverEndingMe]

Using the numbers from the article, there has been a $6 billion swing in budgetary numbers in Minnesota whereas there has only been a $1.4 billion swing for
Wisconsin, a 428% difference.

Which makes sense if Minnesota has a growing job base while Wisconsin is creeping along.

states with a strong union are suffering. if you take New York, and move Wall Street, then you see the real truth that unions are dead and they are the problem.

unions add no value, unless you are from China

 

[Boxlicker101]

states with a strong union are suffering. if you take New York, and move Wall Street, then you see the real truth that unions are dead and they are the problem.

unions add no value, unless you are from China

Here are the unemployment rates for WI, MN and IL. https://www.google.com/search?sourc...=wisconsin+unemployment+rate&revid=1810955851

The rates for all three states have declined since reaching their peaks in 2010, which was the year Scott Walker was elected governor. The IL rate is higher than the national rate while WI and MN are lower.

The MN rate is lower than that of WI for a couple of reasons. A larger percentage of the WI economy is manufacturing, which has gone sour everywhere, and there is an influx of unemployed from IL, especially Chicago.

 

[about_average]

Using the numbers from the article, there has been a $6 billion swing in budgetary numbers in Minnesota whereas there has only been a $1.4 billion swing for
Wisconsin, a 428% difference.

Which makes sense if Minnesota has a growing job base while Wisconsin is creeping along.

Oh, I agree. And it looks really bad for WI, just that there are so many factors that play in to the equations. It would be nice if there was more background provided.

 

[NeverEndingMe]

Oh, I agree. And it looks really bad for WI, just that there are so many factors that play in to the equations. It would be nice if there was more background provided.

the only demographic that looks like they are in trouble is the career obama welfare slaves....those people need to get a fucking job

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Congratulations, to the people who convinced this man to be who he is, today.
/end sarcasm sequence

(Do you suppose that he might be someone who posts, or has posted on the GB ?)

May 2015 Goodbye, Kansas

Payless Furniture at 2800 Iowa St. long have been famous for their crazy signs and the dancing fellows who hold them. As the company closes its doors, it has one final set of signs for the community that it did business in for around two decades:

Lawrence: Commie and Candy Ass Capitol of Kansas. Goodbye Obamaville.”

The sign is pasted to the side of the furniture store’s delivery truck and is prominently displayed in the business’ parking lot.

One side of the truck says: “Restore Freedom. Even Retards Want to be Free.”

Then's there the third side of the truck.

One panel titled “Lawrence City Lib Facts” touts Lawrence as the No. 1 “city in the U.S. to be a homeless bum,” and being a “magnet for urban rats from Chicago & East Coast.” Not to be a geographic snob, though, the panel also points out that Lawrence is a “refuge for welfare lowlifes from KCK and Topeka.”

There’s a second panel on that side that is titled “Lawrence Lib Profile.” It talks about “urban snobs who have never done any real work but expect redistribution from those who do real work.” It also has language about “unpatriotic, amoral, materialistic, self-centered judgmental, busy bodies” and “brainwashed Marxist zombies.”

Robert Fyfe

When reached, Fyfe explained why he would send such a message to a community where he had done business since 1978: “I appreciate the business they gave me. It is not everybody, but it is a majority in Lawrence. It is not the young people’s fault. They are just so brainwashed.”

http://gawker.com/failed-furniture-outlet-plasters-truck-with-very-reason-1703728391

Robert Fyfe contributes some-

Lawrence City Lib Facts:

Ranked #1 city in the U.S. to be a homeless bum.
Kansas most liberal city, (liberal = most Marxist, most P.C., most regulating, most fascist).
In 2012 voted 61% Obama, even though Obama had revealed himself as a liar, lawbreaker, and a hardcore Marxist Dictator. Also, as a pro-Muslim, anti-Jew, anti-Christian race divider.
Magnet for urban rats from Chicago & East Coast.
Refuge for welfare lowlifes from KCK & Topeka.
Stronghold of the Democrat party (coalition of union teachers, public workers, and others who enable bums, welfare lowlifes, single mothers, dopers, gays, and illegals— mo’ democrat voters!)

Lawrence Lib Profile:

Brainwashed Marxist zombies, illogical, blinded by emotion. Can’t see the forest for the trees.
Unpatriotic, amoral, materialistic, self-centered, judgmental busybodies.
Spoiled urban snobs, many of whom have never done any real work, but expect redistribution from those who do real work.
Lib locals: Leisure class proletariat of public workers, overpaid union teachers and tenured professor indoctrinators living in a cushy bubble.
Students and youth: Uptight lifeless, sheeplike, spoiled and lazy urban candyasses. Also, they are clueless, brainwashed P.C. and enviro-dumbdowner [?] slaves, who blindly take their marching orders from Marxist teachers and media handlers.