Posted on 03/08/2015 6:45:11 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
You’re buying the liberal mainstream media slander of Scott Walker.Walker has been very impressive as Governor . LOOK up his record there where’s hes passed several conservative policies
I’m saying walker has passed conservative laws in a liberal state and defeated the media and democrats there, several times. Those are successful conservative actions. They prove who he is,a conservative . And they prove that he is very effective and can get things done . what the news media says he said or didn’t say mean NOTHING as actions mean everything, words mean nothing. Take Rubio he says a lot of things that sound good but I don’t trust him and what he’s done is try to pass a horrible amnesty bill. Rubio is as fake as 3 dollar bill imo. We have to stop bashing Walker or Cruz because that’s what the liberal news media want, divide and conquer. we can bash Jeb Bush, Huckabee and Rubio because they are liberals/socialists jerks and con men imo .
Walker has been very impressive as Governor . LOOK up his reocord there. put down the liberal news media spin and buzz
Walker also has a problem with the Homosexual lobby that we've yet to hear about
from him. He's gone offline on that topic. Unless I missed something.
It's important to know the true person and we should all conjure up due diligence.
I refuse to fall prey to the lessons of the past.
Cruz does have more integrity and he looks eager to do battle. Walker has already flipped on a few things. I fear another establishment politician with Walker.
Walker doesn't play it safe, he plays it smart
Walker is dismantling the Democrat money and muscle machine in WI [unions-university] - I expect that is what he will do if he's elected president.
Watch what a candidate does, not only what he says.
Haven't we heard farmers argue against all the EPA rules, regulations and paper work that was taking all their time [= money]?
Here is ONE example of how Walker loosens their grip.
March 7, 2015 - Farm Bureau, others question Scott Walker's proposed farm research cuts
"Researchers and supporters of a program that helps farmers run cleaner and more efficient operations say they were “stunned” and “blindsided” by Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to cut a third of the project’s funding.
Discovery Farms, a UW-Extension program that dates to 2001, applies science from a “plows-on” level, evaluates and monitors efforts by state farmers to control runoff, calibrate fertilizer use and employ techniques to conserve land and water.
It has a $750,000 budget, of which $248,000 would be cut in the governor’s proposed state budget.
UW-Extension officials noted the loss affects longstanding projects and the ability of the small program to leverage crucial additional grants and funds.
“We would have a 1.2-employee reduction of staff and we would pull back some of our sampling efforts, water quality analysis and a project (set) for Rock County,” said Amber Radatz, project co-director.
The project’s programs include monitoring 20 state farms and educating thousands of farmers on conservation strategies.
“This was a big surprise to our agency partners as well as our partners in farm groups and in UW-Extension,” she said. “We never had an inkling.”
The $248,000 comes from a surcharge on farm chemical sales that would be discontinued."....
Let the market decide.
...”Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker said he would continue the subsidies for now but phase them out once ethanol producers are assured access to markets. “I think eventually you can get to that,” he said. “But you can’t get to that unless you deal with market access.”...
“...Saturday’s forum also was an opportunity for likely contenders to display knowledge of rural issues and connect with Iowa’s farmers. Walker waxed nostalgic about growing up as the son of a Baptist preacher in the small Iowa town of Plainfield, where he said he learned that “farming isn’t just a business, it’s a way of life.”....
Walker said that he favored drawing down federal tax credits for wind power over time and opposed mandatory labeling of foods made from genetically modified crops. This is one of those where I believe it's served its purpose," Walker said of the credits. "I would support phasing that out over a period of time." Source
America needs a strong conservative who has the strategic “vision thing” - seeing what is wrong and a plan to correct it to get America back to a Constitutional republic.
That “vision thing” supersedes a Governor (Walker, Bush) who has been an administrator but lacks the commitment & courage to stop ALL forms of amnesty including its various brand names.
Cruz is that visionary much in the same vein as Reagan and not afraid to speak the truth. Walker & Bush, not so much...
Walker announced Friday that he will sign the bill at Badger Meter in Brown Deer.
Badger Meter’s CEO and Chairman Rich Meeusen this week said passing the bill will lead to between 30 and 50 new jobs at his factory. He spoke out after a coalition of more than 400 businesses joined together in opposition to the proposal.
The Assembly passed it Friday morning on a party line vote with all Republicans in favor and all Democrats against.
“What we`re gonna be seeing is a weakening of the power of labor over the next couple years and along with that the weakening of the power of the Democratic Party.
It`s almost like what we`re seeing (Monday) is the moment Wisconsin becomes a Republican state,” UW-Milwaukee Professor Mordecai Lee said....." Source
A big part of the rationale for mandating ethanol use in our gasoline blends was that it was a suitable replacement for the chemical additive MTBE. Just how harmful MTBE may or may not have been is subject for an entirely different debate, but it is nevertheless all water under the bridge. Ethanol was chosen as the replacement for MTBE, and it would not make much sense to eliminate it completely from our gasoline.
The real debate should be over how much ethanol is needed in gasoline to serve as a suitable replacement for MTBE. The original E10 formulation (or gasohol, as it used to be known) contained much more ethanol that was needed to prevent knocking in engines. Even a 5% blend (E5) is overkill. E5 was never a popular blend in the U.S., but in Europe it is the blend which is found in premium grades of gasoline (which contains other additives to give it octane numbers of 93 and higher).
Instead, in the U.S. we went the other way. If E10 was okay, then E15 must be better, right? Instead of answering that question, Congress rushed to try to standardize E15 as the the blend of record for the nation.
That caused all sorts of problems for small engine makers such as Briggs & Stratton. They invested heavily in the 1970s to make their engines safe for use with E10, and Congress comes along and pushes the standard up to E15. That was too much for most of these small engines and the companies which made them. Brands such as Clinton and Tecumseh either disappeared completely or were bought out by the Chinese. The only silver lining of the EPA’s assault on small engine makers is that the survivors have maned to make the small four-stroke engine incredibly light for the amount of power that it produces.
Reports of problems caused by E15 in lawn care equipment, outboard motors and small industrial engines by owners were overwhelming, and as a result of E85 and other factors, the small engine industry changed almost overnight. Now only Kohler and Briggs remain from the old days, and newer players such as Honda, Kawasaki and Ryobi are now on the list. The two-stroke small engine has virtually disappeared, with Lawn Boy switching to four strokes across its product line. A few two-stoke makers, such as Göbler-Hirth are still around, but their products are highly specialized (like Italy’s Vortex engines, which as used in go-karts).
Abolishing the ethanol mandate overnight, while an appealing idea for champions of limited government, would send shock waves throughout the system. Phasing it out, or at least down, appears to be the compromise which would cause the fewest problems for consumers and manufacturers. For the latter, the damage has already been done.
High blends of ethanol, such as E85 are ridiculous and wasteful. Proposed escalation of the mandate to blends of E30 or E35 has thankfully been met with significant resistance. Sorry, Al Franken. Now the idea of keeping it at E15 for the time being and scaling it back to E10 is gaining in popularity.
Again, E5 is a blend which would contain more than enough ethanol to do the job for which it was originally justified. Actually, E1 or E2 would be more than sufficient, but good luck getting it down that low. E5 would be a significant victory.
So any candidate who supports phasing out the mandate is doing more than just pandering, whether they realize it it or not. An incremental approach to lowering the mandate, as distasteful as it is to absolutists, would cause fewer problems for farmers, consumers, refiners and manufacturers in both the long and short runs.
- JP
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