Posted on 07/03/2015 12:47:53 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Bright spots in the Obama economy are few and far between, as opportunities for small businesses and entrepreneurs are often quashed by a federal government that has grown too large, powerful and pervasive. That’s why it’s telling that the president is scheduled to be in La Crosse, Wis., this week for an event focusing on the economy.
To be sure, Wisconsin’s economy has enjoyed a dramatic recovery over the last few years. But our fortunes have improved in spite of – not because of – the president’s big-government policies. Reforming our bloated federal government is essential to revitalizing our nation’s economy, and I like to think what we have been doing in Wisconsin could serve as a model.
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This is the message I will convey to President Obama when he visits our state this week. For the sake of hard-working taxpayers across the country, I hope he will listen.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
Can you imagine a “lean government” initiative in DC? We could turn a majority of it back over to the Natives.
Good statement by Walker.
“I’m going to point out that the president and others in Washington could pick up a lesson or two by the good work we’ve done to get our budget balanced, to get our finances in order, our economy is much better,” Walker said in a radio interview. “There’s a lot the president can learn from the state of Wisconsin.”
It's no mistake that Obama chose the Badger State to make his case for working class Americans. The president has made clear he's no fan of Walker's economic policies. When earlier this year Wisconsin became the 25th right-to-work state (making union payments voluntary), Obama criticized the state law, which he called "anti-worker" and said would "weaken, rather than strengthen workers in the new economy."
....... And for his part, Walker took the president on directly in criticizing his overtime pay agenda, calling it “empty political rhetoric," and touting his own economic record.
"The president's effort is a political pitch but the reality is this will lead to lower base pay and benefits and will cut workers' hours and flexibility in the workplace,” Walker said in a statement critiquing the president's overtime pay proposal, which boosts the threshold for paying overtime to salaried employees...
His team is also taking to social media to push points of contrast between Wisconsin's economy and national trends. One tweet uses a chart to show that Wisconsin's unemployment is below the national average -- at 4.6 percent compared to 5.3 percent nationally."
.@BarackObama should ask for some tips from the WI small businesses responsible for helping #WIForward. -STAFF
Cruz is good in front of the court.
Walker is good in front of the people.
"........Massive demonstrations have gone on for days in Wisconsin, as public workers and their supporters protest Republican Gov. Scott Walker's so-called "budget repair bill," which would scale back public workers' benefits, as well as their collective bargaining rights.
On the campaign trail in 2007, Mr. Obama had this to say: "If American workers are being denied their right to organize when I'm in the White House, I will put on a comfortable pair of shoes and I will walk on that picket line with you as President of the United States."...
....Organizing for America, Mr. Obama's political arm of the Democratic National Committee, has played a role in facilitating the protests in Wisconsin and across the country, but the organization has downplayed its role....
Leaders of the House Progressive Caucus are calling on the president to go to Wisconsin and continue to voice his support for unions.
"Of course I'd like to hear more from President Obama," Caucus co-chair Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) said on MSNBC on Wednesday. " He's made some statements, he should get credit for that, we'd like to hear him make some more statements. I think President Obama should come to Wisconsin and stand with the workers."
On a conference call on Wednesday, co-chair Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.) said, "There's a bully pulpit there that the president has and I think it needs to be used."
Amy Dean, a labor activist and former AFL-CIO official in California, told the Wall Street Journal the president could do more as the leader of the Democratic Party.
"Everybody is looking to the president on this one," she said...........
Protesters in Wisconsin said the same to the Huffington Post.
"He owes it to us," said Kathie Free, a retired Milwaukee public school social worker. "Obama was not put into office just by the big money. He was put into office by millions of poor and middle-class people who walk the neighborhoods, talking to neighbors, getting the votes, and that's how Obama got in, and he has to start remember how he got in. He'd better start working for the middle class and poor people.".........
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LOL...After six years of Obama you would think she has figured out people like her are his leftist tools...
It is the other way around; Obama is the tool of the real owners of the Democratic Party - the teachers’ unions. The Dems have no use for retired teachers (no more dues to transfer from the taxpayers, through teachers’ paychecks, into Democratic coffers), but working teachers are the real engine of the party, giving them access to every municipality with costs borne by the population onto which the parasites are attached.
Just as invading armies try to live off conquered land rather than deplete their own nation’s resources, teachers’ unions do much the same.
“The president has made clear he’s no fan of Walker’s economic policies.”................
And Wisconsin is no fan of odumbo and his ilk as well.
“Kathie Free, a retired Milwaukee public school social worker”..............
No doubt one of odumbo’s gimmedats daughters
The problem with these types of statements is that no one but political junkies is going to read them, and the liberal media will cherry-pick words to shape their narrative or ignore it altogether.
There’s a reason why Trump and Sanders are rocketing up the polls. They are cutting out the political BS and telling the people what they want to hear.
bo was talking up MN as better economically than WiSc . MN econ health has to be helped by the oil boom just to the west.
"He owes it to us," she could have quit right there.
Somebody always owes it to them, and they want it. Damn it. Right now.
Baraq Obama - the man most qualified to be “Minister Of Snappy Patter” versus a real leader who has actual accomplishments. Was Baraq hiding behind Michelle while he was talking tough about making the economy better?
Hmm Kathy Free - clearly a leader in the Free Stuff Army.
BTW the education social workers union was the most active of the public unions opposing Act 10.
Obama visits Wisconsin; greeted by Walker.
FReep Mail me if you want on, or off, this Wisconsin interest ping list.
Yes he was -- crony capitalists + Big Labor
He was put into office by millions of poor and middle-class people who walk the neighborhoods, talking to neighbors, getting the votes, and that's how Obama got in,
That didn't matter -- every vote was bought and paid for by Free StuffTM
and he has to start remember how he got in.
Or else what? You will vote Republican?
He'd better start working for the middle class and poor people.
The people that he laughs at, knowing he is both a lame duck AND has your vote by default? Again, or else what?
These people are delusional.
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