:..........There are 414,600 public-sector employees in Wisconsin, and it’s safe to say that few would call Mr. Walker their favorite person. The governor recalls a visit to one elementary school where a teacher asked, “Why do you hate teachers so much?”
He said his response was: “I’m not attacking teachers. The ones who make you feel under attack are your union. It’s in their best interest to get people pumped up.”...... quote from: Wisconsin's Legacy for Unions [NYT]
GOP America needs lots of new jobs.
We have sent far, far too many American jobs to China.
(not blaming the GOP exclusively for the problem, just saying the GOP needs to be the solution)
Bring them back.
For those that don’t know, The Week is a typical leftist rag. Even their editors and publishers admit it. It’s for people who can still read, but can’t think for themselves. It’s best described as a “compiler.” It takes snippets from lots of sources from the MSM, abbreviates them and puts them all in a weekly format.
That aside, this article is also typically leftist, throws all conservative groups and candidates in one pot and paints them all the same. At this point, impugning any unified policy view to the GOP-e, evangelicals, Constitutional conservatives, and plain ol’ conservatives is simply wrong. We have candidates and groups all over the board on immigration and every other policy.
This guy wants to smear all with one broad brush without talking about the issue of immigration policy in objective detail. (Talking to a liberal will give you a headache.)
The value of the article is only in seeing what the left is up to.
That’s my opinion.
Oldplayer
The article’s author is a leftist. I guess this leftist wants a McDonald’s burger flipper to get $15/hour, which would help workers like a rivit gun would help patch the hole in the Titanic’s hull AFTER the hull split.
We need to return jobs back from Mexico, China and other places. We need to have a favorable tax policy so manufacturers will build factories.
I’m all for immigration. Let’s bring in persecuted Christians from Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.
He needs more ammunition for questions like this.
First of all, it’s a loaded question. Shovel in the word “hate”. Instant controversy.
Second, it’s a false premise. Few people hate teachers. Most of us have a problem with incompetent teachers, corrupt teachers, corrupt teachers’ unions. That’s a big difference.
He should turn it around and ask “Why do you love and want to reward incompetent teachers and corrupt teachers and teachers who have sex with students and teachers who embezzle?”
Election Day: The only time Democrats care about the working class.
>>”...given that pretty much every policy move by the Republican Party and the conservative movement seems designed to keep lower class incomes as depressed as possible.”<<
I almost quit reading when I ran across that line early in the article, and it turns out that I should have done exactly that.
Remember the name of the author, Jeff Spross, for future reference. What a complete idiot.
>>”Lumping both forms of immigration together as equally questionable makes sense from an economic perspective; market forces don’t care about legal formalities like borders. But it takes near-cosmic chutzpah for Walker to say our first concern should be American wages and workers....”<<
However, the sentence and a half that preceded his inane comment was enlightening, and illustrates well the effectiveness of Walker’s immigration position.
Here you have an obvious loony Leftists (way, way, way, loony) who essentially acknowledges Walker’s point that tackling both illegal and legal immigration simultaneously addresses the concern about American wages and workers.
After which, he ignores Walker’s point completely (which is telling in itself) and goes off on a litany of alternative solutions that only a Leftist could imagine would solve anything. I sa
Yup. They are, because of market economics...you can't compete with Chinese wage rates unless you do that.
So enlighten us as to what the Democrat party has done to alleviate that.
And we all know: since the jobs are going to non-whites overseas, and non-white illegals here, it's pedal to the metal for outsourcing!
Translation: the Rat party is all about one thing now - antagonism to the whites.
Whatta laff. Lemme know when Trumka and Beckel start working on keeping white guys in Ohio in their jobs. Fat chance. So guess whose votes are up for grabs?