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The effort kicked off ten days ago when, after fifteen months in the Governor’s chair where Walker has consistently cried poverty in the state budget as the rational for his many controversial moves, the Governor miraculously came up with $100 million to fund economic development in Milwaukee’s poorest areas—money Walker claims will come from the Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Board.
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Your topic is incorrect as the money has nothing to do with funding his re election. The criticism of Walker for not accepting stimulus money for a state in desperate need may be justified as is criticism for the lack of job creation. However, Walker has faced a Democratic Party in his state doing the very same thing Democrats nationwide have been accusing Republicans of in Washington DC by opposing everything Walker tries to do.
Walker is facing a recall effort which is diverting attention away from the very fact that Wisconsin is in desperate need and by the time the recall effort is over, new elections are held to choose his replacement if he is voted out and trying to rebuild will only make Wisconsin's situation worse.
As the topic you linked to points out, Wisconsin is almost dead last in jobs creation... it fails to mention that under the Democrats things were ...
The effort kicked off ten days ago when, after fifteen months in the Governor’s chair where Walker has consistently cried poverty in the state budget as the rational for his many controversial moves, the Governor miraculously came up with $100 million to fund economic development in Milwaukee’s poorest areas—money Walker claims will come from the Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Board.
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Your topic is incorrect as the money has nothing to do with funding his re election. The criticism of Walker for not accepting stimulus money for a state in desperate need may be justified as is criticism for the lack of job creation. However, Walker has faced a Democratic Party in his state doing the very same thing Democrats nationwide have been accusing Republicans of in Washington DC by opposing everything Walker tries to do.
Walker is facing a recall effort which is diverting attention away from the very fact that Wisconsin is in desperate need and by the time the recall effort is over, new elections are held to choose his replacement if he is voted out and trying to rebuild will only make Wisconsin's situation worse.
As the topic you linked to points out, Wisconsin is almost dead last in jobs creation... it fails to mention that under the Democrats things were ...
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The effort kicked off ten days ago when, after fifteen months in the Governor’s chair where Walker has consistently cried poverty in the state budget as the rational for his many controversial moves, the Governor miraculously came up with $100 million to fund economic development in Milwaukee’s poorest areas—money Walker claims will come from the Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Board.
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Your topic is incorrect as the money has nothing to do with funding his re election. The criticism of Walker for not accepting stimulus money for a state in desperate need may be justified as is criticism for the lack of job creation. However, Walker has faced a Democratic Party in his state doing the very same thing Democrats nationwide have been accusing Republicans of in Washington DC by opposing everything Walker tries to do.
Walker is facing a recall effort which is diverting attention away from the very fact that Wisconsin is in desperate need and by the time the recall effort is over, new elections are held to choose his replacement if he is voted out and trying to rebuild will only make Wisconsin's situation worse.
As the topic you linked to points out, Wisconsin is almost dead last in jobs creation... it fails to mention that under the Democrats things were as bad or worse which is why the majority Democrat state went with Republicans in the first place... desperation because of their own leaders failure to accomplish anything.
Wisconsin is suffering from too much union control and too much Socialism on behalf of the Democrats... but if Democrats are going to attack Republicans for voting against Obama, the same thing rings true here where Scott Walker is concerned.
In regard to where the money is coming from, Walker is actually being applauded by many of his political rivals not because they want to applaud him, but because the aid is needed regardless of how it happens.
But he is not using the money to win re election... trying to buy influence by helping people maybe, but the key here is he is helping people and may have been able to have done much more if not for all the diversions created by Democrats.
You don't have to support Walker to understand that the recall effort is a distraction for the state government as it seems more important to remove Walker than actually fixing what's wrong in the state as Democrats aren't offering anything different than they offered before... lol, and is this not what the Democrats attack Republicans who oppose Obama in Washington DC when they should be working with him to fix what's wrong with our economy??
Lol... Democrats are often the biggest hypocrites as they should have just given Walker his chance and use his failure (since they are convinced he's a failure) against him in the next election to replace him. How is that any different than Republicans trying to impeach Obama? It's not, at least in regard to what Democrats claim when they attack Republicans claiming that all these distractions serve to do is keep Obama from achieving more so he'll be removed from office and cause ineffective leadership where our problems will only get worse.
It's the same damn thing and all of you who are sick and tired of the two party BS need to look at this and understand that Democrats and Republicans are two faces on a one sided coin.
Fix what's wrong and then go back to party politics as usual on both sides if you even give a damn about this country!
(more)The effort kicked off ten days ago when, after fifteen months in the Governor’s chair where Walker has consistently cried poverty in the state budget as the rational for his many controversial moves, the Governor miraculously came up with $100 million to fund economic development in Milwaukee’s poorest areas—money Walker claims will come from the Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Board.
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Your topic is incorrect as the money has nothing to do with funding his re election. The criticism of Walker for not accepting stimulus money for a state in desperate need may be justified as is criticism for the lack of job creation. However, Walker has faced a Democratic Party in his state doing the very same thing Democrats nationwide have been accusing Republicans of in Washington DC by opposing everything Walker tries to do.
Walker is facing a recall effort which is diverting attention away from the very fact that Wisconsin is in desperate need and by the time the recall effort is over, new elections are held to choose his replacement if he is voted out and trying to rebuild will only make Wisconsin's situation worse.
As the topic you linked to points out, Wisconsin is almost dead last in jobs creation... it fails to mention that under the Democrats things were as bad or worse which is why the majority Democrat state went with Republicans in the first place... desperation because of their own leaders failure to accomplish anything.
Wisconsin is suffering from too much union control and too much Socialism on behalf of the Democrats... but if Democrats are going to attack Republicans for voting against Obama, the same thing rings true here where Scott Walker is concerned.
In regard to where the money is coming from, Walker is actually being applauded by many of his political rivals not because they want to applaud him, but because the aid is needed regardless of how it happens.
But he is not using the money to win re election... trying to buy influence by helping people maybe, but the key here is he is helping people and may have been able to have done much more if not for all the diversions created by Democrats.
You don't have to support Walker to understand that the recall effort is a distraction for the state government as it seems more important to remove Walker than actually fixing what's wrong in the state as Democrats aren't offering anything different than they offered before... lol, and is this not what the Democrats attack Republicans who oppose Obama in Washington DC when they should be working with him to fix what's wrong with our economy??
Lol... Democrats are often the biggest hypocrites as they should have just given Walker his chance and use his failure (since they are convinced he's a failure) against him in the next election to replace him. How is that any different than Republicans trying to impeach Obama? It's not, at least in regard to what Democrats claim when they attack Republicans claiming that all these distractions serve to do is keep Obama from achieving more so he'll be removed from office and cause ineffective leadership where our problems will only get worse.
It's the same damn thing and all of you who are sick and tired of the two party BS need to look at this and understand that Democrats and Republicans are two faces on a one sided coin.
Fix what's wrong and then go back to party politics as usual on both sides if you even give a damn about this country!
This contributor to Forbes is not a right of center guy. He is a Democrat partisan. Just because Forbes is pro-Capitalism generally does not mean that all of its contributors are pro-Capitalism.
Walker brought WI back from the brink of another Democrat financial disaster. The recall election was caused by nothing less than a bunch of paid union thugs who WILL WASTE TAXPAYER DOLLARS for a senseless re-election.
I also know as a fact since I watch you almost every weekend on Forbes on Fox that you support public sector union and the sort of backroom deals they and the democratic party make.
You just can't have the unions making contracts with people that they are going to make campagin contrabutions to later. And the democratic party has been reaping the rewards of doing this kind of bussiness for years. Seems to lead to a special kind of coruption.
The effort kicked off ten days ago when, after fifteen months in the Governor’s chair where Walker has consistently cried poverty in the state budget as the rational for his many controversial moves, the Governor miraculously came up with $100 million to fund economic development in Milwaukee’s poorest areas—money Walker claims will come from the Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Board.
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Your topic is incorrect as the money has nothing to do with funding his re election. The criticism of Walker for not accepting stimulus money for a state in desperate need may be justified as is criticism for the lack of job creation. However, Walker has faced a Democratic Party in his state doing the very same thing Democrats nationwide have been accusing Republicans of in Washington DC by opposing everything Walker tries to do.
Walker is facing a recall effort which is diverting attention away from the very fact that Wisconsin is in desperate need and by the time the recall effort is over, new elections are held to choose his replacement if he is voted out and trying to rebuild will only make Wisconsin's situation worse.
As the topic you linked to points out, Wisconsin is almost dead last in jobs creation... it fails to mention that under the Democrats things were ...
The effort kicked off ten days ago when, after fifteen months in the Governor’s chair where Walker has consistently cried poverty in the state budget as the rational for his many controversial moves, the Governor miraculously came up with $100 million to fund economic development in Milwaukee’s poorest areas—money Walker claims will come from the Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Board.
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Your topic is incorrect as the money has nothing to do with funding his re election. The criticism of Walker for not accepting stimulus money for a state in desperate need may be justified as is criticism for the lack of job creation. However, Walker has faced a Democratic Party in his state doing the very same thing Democrats nationwide have been accusing Republicans of in Washington DC by opposing everything Walker tries to do.
Walker is facing a recall effort which is diverting attention away from the very fact that Wisconsin is in desperate need and by the time the recall effort is over, new elections are held to choose his replacement if he is voted out and trying to rebuild will only make Wisconsin's situation worse.
As the topic you linked to points out, Wisconsin is almost dead last in jobs creation... it fails to mention that under the Democrats things were as bad or worse which is why the majority Democrat state went with Republicans in the first place... desperation because of their own leaders failure to accomplish anything.
Wisconsin is suffering from too much union control and too much Socialism on behalf of the Democrats... but if Democrats are going to attack Republicans for voting against Obama, the same thing rings true here where Scott Walker is concerned.
In regard to where the money is coming from, Walker is actually being applauded by many of his political rivals not because they want to applaud him, but because the aid is needed regardless of how it happens.
But he is not using the money to win re election... trying to buy influence by helping people maybe, but the key here is he is helping people and may have been able to have done much more if not for all the diversions created by Democrats.
You don't have to support Walker to understand that the recall effort is a distraction for the state government as it seems more important to remove Walker than actually fixing what's wrong in the state as Democrats aren't offering anything different than they offered before... lol, and is this not what the Democrats attack Republicans who oppose Obama in Washington DC when they should be working with him to fix what's wrong with our economy??
Lol... Democrats are often the biggest hypocrites as they should have just given Walker his chance and use his failure (since they are convinced he's a failure) against him in the next election to replace him. How is that any different than Republicans trying to impeach Obama? It's not, at least in regard to what Democrats claim when they attack Republicans claiming that all these distractions serve to do is keep Obama from achieving more so he'll be removed from office and cause ineffective leadership where our problems will only get worse.
It's the same damn thing and all of you who are sick and tired of the two party BS need to look at this and understand that Democrats and Republicans are two faces on a one sided coin.
Fix what's wrong and then go back to party politics as usual on both sides if you even give a damn about this country!
See that...things are not always what they seem! And thanks for reading the piece.
Tax payer's money put towards the economy or, Walker's re election?.... Walker doesn't have to use 'tax payer's' money apparently, he has received more than enough to help him. Have you seen his two latest videos?... On-the-other-hand, in helping the economy of WI I sure hope he uses tax payer's $$ instead of his own. And, Walker hasn't waited until the last minute to provide an environment conducive to creating jobs so the part about the 'last minute' is spin. Of course a qualified and smart Governor saves for special funds to help the poor. Is that whats going on here Unger? Thats what our Governor here in Texas does and yes the left moans and groans because it wasn't spent on their agendas.
Washington Post had an article yesterday stating pretty much the opposite. And, liberals were boohooing all over that blog, pointing out that Scott Walker has collected more in campaign funds than the WI democrat candidate, Barrett, has so far. They were/are whining that Obama and the DNC have betrayed them terribly and have also neglected in donating much to their campaign funds. Furthermor...
Tax payer's money put towards the economy or, Walker's re election?.... Walker doesn't have to use 'tax payer's' money apparently, he has received more than enough to help him. Have you seen his two latest videos?... On-the-other-hand, in helping the economy of WI I sure hope he uses tax payer's $$ instead of his own. And, Walker hasn't waited until the last minute to provide an environment conducive to creating jobs so the part about the 'last minute' is spin. Of course a qualified and smart Governor saves for special funds to help the poor. Is that whats going on here Unger? Thats what our Governor here in Texas does and yes the left moans and groans because it wasn't spent on their agendas.
Washington Post had an article yesterday stating pretty much the opposite. And, liberals were boohooing all over that blog, pointing out that Scott Walker has collected more in campaign funds than the WI democrat candidate, Barrett, has so far. They were/are whining that Obama and the DNC have betrayed them terribly and have also neglected in donating much to their campaign funds. Furthermore, Union Dems are upset (poor babies) that Scott Walker has received millions from those living outside the state of WI. I just donated again this evening to Walker's cause as it's my belief that all body systems (states) are interconnected and interrelated.
Results from the WI Governor re election earlier this week show Scott Walker won by more votes than both democrat candidates, combined.***
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According to the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development, Wisconsin's unemployment rate dropped to 6.9%, the lowest since December of 2008 and remains well below the national rate!
Not only that, but spurred on by the leadership and reforms of Gov. Scott Walker, Wisconsin added 15,700 private-sector jobs in December and January.
What makes these numbers even more impressive is that they happened DESPITE the union led recall against him which has instilled uncertainty in the Wisconsin economy and political system. Imagine all that Gov. Walker could get accomplished if he were actually allowed to do the job he was elected to do!
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If you examine Obama's voting record as a US Senator, you will find he voted against leftwing issues numerous times, never once voted against Bush, voted instead to pass Bush legislation even through cloture and when Bush didn't have enough Republican support... Obama got him the Democrat votes he needed to pass the legislation. If not for Obama's betrayals, the Democrats could have done more to stop Bush jr in his second term... and how is it that Democrats blame Bush jr and the Republicans while finding Obama guiltless when he supported Bush more than many Republicans did?!
You talk about the $100 million Walker just "discovered"... what about Obama's birth certificate? His website manager posted the short form bc not knowing that a scanner wouldn't pick up the raised seal impression. Instead of hiring a professional documents handler to correct this like almost anyone else would have done, his website ma...
If you examine Obama's voting record as a US Senator, you will find he voted against leftwing issues numerous times, never once voted against Bush, voted instead to pass Bush legislation even through cloture and when Bush didn't have enough Republican support... Obama got him the Democrat votes he needed to pass the legislation. If not for Obama's betrayals, the Democrats could have done more to stop Bush jr in his second term... and how is it that Democrats blame Bush jr and the Republicans while finding Obama guiltless when he supported Bush more than many Republicans did?!
You talk about the $100 million Walker just "discovered"... what about Obama's birth certificate? His website manager posted the short form bc not knowing that a scanner wouldn't pick up the raised seal impression. Instead of hiring a professional documents handler to correct this like almost anyone else would have done, his website manager started a Fight The Smear campaign accusing everyone asking questions of being racists. This angered millions of people who were only asking questions and that's why they began demanding to see the hospital birth record... suspicion pure and simple. When Obama finally releases the hospital birth record, it's in a layered format revealing heavy editing. Claims this was done over a period of time fall short because the technology didn't even exist when they claim the editing began. Then his lawyers came out and basically admitted his hospital birth record was a fake in a recent lawsuit where the court agreed and refused to allow it to be admitted as evidence for that reason.
All because some idiot forgot to compress the layers back into a single document allowing everyone who understands the software to see every edit.
My point is this, Obama has been responsible for most of what's happened to him either directly or indirectly. His supporters came out claiming they were going to save the world and Republicans could either get on board or get out of the way... not exactly the smartest thing to do as it guaranteed Republicans would do exactly what they did in 1992 during Clintons first two years uniting to say no to everything and telling Democrats to do it on their own if they could. Instead, the left self destructed just like they did between 1992 and 1994 allowing their hate for the political right to blind them to the point they began attacking rightwing Democrats splitting their party against itself and in 2010 they allowed their hate to again get the better of them attacking Republicans when they should have been promoting their own candidates to give people reason to vote for them.
Had Democrats in Wisconsin done this, Scott Walker might never have been elected Governor in the first place. Even the Tea Party promoted their candidates while Democrats devolved to mud slinging to a point they didn't even know who their candidates were in many cases like in South Carolina where a man named Al Greene won the nomination because his name was first on the ballot and none of the Democrats knew who their choices were.
While you may not like Scott Walker, examine the truth about the Democratic Party as a whole as all they do is convince everyone they are victims, attack wealthy Americans trying to give our federal government more power and not understanding that we are electing con men who have little or no leadership ability.
Remember in 2008 how John McCain kept saying over and over he knew nothing about economics during one of the greatest economic collapses since the Great Depression? It was then revealed that very few of our leaders have any knowledge of economics at all nor healthcare or any of the other issues they address. Instead, they have advisers who help them... we don't elect these advisers do we and yet, they're the ones shaping how our elected leaders will vote because they don't have the leadership ability or knowledge to make these decisions on their own.
Under the Communist system, the same was true and the system failed because sharing the wealth required that as the population grew, the economy had to grow with it or else everyone's share becomes less and less and inflation explodes as while people are being paid less, the cost of living wasn't reduced.
These Socialists and Communists who joined the Democratic Party and began calling themselves Liberals and Progressives (to a point true Liberals and Progressives have forgotten what their beliefs are) attack the wealthy just like the Soviets did to win power when the truth isn't who has the wealth, but what they do with it... who controls the wealth is more important because it doesn't matter if it's Plutocrat rightwingers or Socialist leftwingers if neither side are electing leaders who possess any ability to actually lead beyond the ability to con us out of votes.
Isn't that what you and Roger47 are basically accusing Walker of doing? Using $100 million dollars to con people in Wisconsin into voting for him? Will his Democrat opposition do anything different... of course not because this is all they really know how to do, toss money at the problem in an election year and then sit on your bupkiss for the rest of your term because our federal government is a Republic and in a Republic leaders are essentially a council of chiefs with a mandate to do whatever they want for whomever they want limited only by the fact they must work together to achieve a majority to accomplish anything and deal with the indignity of having to slug it out every few years to be re elected.
As I keep telling people, it's not the left or the right but both as both sides have forgotten there is a center and they are so intellectually lazy they refuse to invest any real amount of time vetting the candidates to see where they stand on the issues and their past voting record... they just sit back and wait to be told what to think and blindly vote for whichever side they were raised to believe is right.
It's gotten so ridiculous that we have finally reached a point where leftwing Democrats are supporting a man whose voting record makes him look like a rightwing extremist and rightwing Republicans are supporting a man who is blatantly lying about his leftwing views because he knows to win on a national level he has to talk like a rightwinger.
If you want to make a difference Rick, you have to abandon the left and right to rediscover the center... otherwise, you're just another damn blind sheep following a shepherd whose only concern is to provide you what you need until he fleeces you of your wool... then leads even the youngest and most innocent to a slaughterhouse to provide for his own self serving needs.
Cenk Ugyur in a moment of clarity where he not only tells us how Obama never opposed Bush even once as a US Senator, he reminds us he told Democrats not to vote for Obama. Cenk happens to be one of Obama's biggest cheerleaders but on occasion, he tells the truth about what he really thinks because he's not a polished leftwing commentor. In fact, he also praised Olbermann who you may know was fired by MSNBC because of all the hate he possesses... then was fired from CurrentTV by Al Gore for the same reason. Yet Olbermann was a leading voice during Obama's first two years leading many of Obama's most extreme leftwing supporters to do immense damage to Obama who wasn't caving to the Republicans, he was trying to reunite his party after the extreme left split it against itself.
You are correct that if he commits the money to Milwaukee, it is a good thing and the sad thing is that whether Democrat or Republican, they do too little during their terms in office and only really get active trying to fix what's wrong when it's an election year.