Walker presents a record of achievement as governor that's taking some big hits [wins] at home

Newser ^ | June 16, 2015 | SCOTT BAUER

[Cincinatus' Wife]

[snip of long lead-in]

"...But the panel did agree on $250 million in cuts to the 26 campuses, including the flagship in Madison.

..The committee also kept Walker's call to remove tenure protections from state law, a proposal that's garnering attention nationally from academics who fear weakening tenure protections will catch on elsewhere.

Even with delays and squabbling, Walker is likely to walk away with some big wins: on lifting an enrollment cap on statewide private school vouchers, on new drug screening for public aid recipients and on lower property taxes. Those are all sure-fire crowd pleasers on the Republican presidential circuit.

At least in Walker's view, he's getting enough done so that he could tell his lake cruisers: "If we can do it in a blue state like Wisconsin, we can do it in the Granite State and all across America."

[Cincinatus' Wife]

*ping*

[dp0622]

That’s one advantage of being governor during election. You can try to pass all kinds of laws that strengthen you in the run.
Crux is my guy though.
Getting stuck on a question about evolution is a bad omen.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Gov. Scott Walker was on a trade mission and refused to engage in the media gotcha-question.

Sarah Posner: Evangelicals Looking for Walker to “Do Nothing” in 2016 Election

[dp0622]

Interesting article. If he wins the nomination, i would pull the lever for him. He’s about the only one I would pull the lever for besides Cruz in the general election.
But I’m Cruz’ camp, and support him fully :)

[Cincinatus' Wife]

I know.

: )

[wita]

Walker and Cruz have my interest, it is a bit early to be set in concrete.

[StoneWall Brigade]

Scott Walker= NWO

[onyx]

Governor Walker BTTT!!!

[familyop]

Thanks! Good discretion with excerpting text, too.

[familyop]

Walker looks best so far, in my opinion. He's the most sure to cut big spending on those who use the spending to turn politics more to the left and violate our freedoms. Wish more voters could grasp that and the need to avoid politicians who talk about doing the same with no records to back up the talk.

If spending is not cut the way Walker's been doing it in Wisconsin (and more), the remainder of the default process ahead is going to come as a brutal shock to many government employees and pensioners supporting the big spenders. Living for the rest of their lives as peasants in third world conditions will come as terrible shock to them, and no amount of stocking up on a narrow array of things now will help them then.

It will either be quite a few salaries and pensions cut here and there with care or most of those salaries and pensions simply stopped nearly all at once. We simply don't have the manufacturing base to support all of that spending with real revenues, so the debts continue to pile up.

Pensions are already being repudiated in slow motion. Follow the link in the following article and read every line. You'll see what the money is already coming out of (pension funds and investments).

90 Days: Treasury Says Debt Has Been Frozen at $18,112,975,000,000
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3300458/posts

After the vicious circle is started by increasing yields, bond collapse, interest increases going viral, repeatedly declining business activity, market crashes, repudiations, trade stoppages, etc., things may get worse much more quickly.

[familyop]

When that vicious circle starts, all investments are going down. Walker is the only candidate who has a record of cutting spending with enough consideration to possibly avoid a complete collapse, where nearly everyone would lose horribly.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

The states are the laboratories that have shown how it can be done after the liberals are pushed out of power.

You are correct, it is unsustainable - we’ll look (and feel) like Greece in short order if this isn’t sorted out.

[conservativejoy]

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker hasn’t delivered the job growth he promised. >Scott Walker has been compared to Ronald Reagan by both Republicans and Democrats—sparking hopes, and fears, that he’d be just like the Gipper in the White House. Great for the jobs and the economy, GOPers say. A deficit-busting enemy of the working man, counter Dems. Is he as good as some Republicans think and as bad as Democrats fear? And how has the Badger state’s economy fared under his leadership? >Walker crows that he’s a hardcore conservative who has rolled to three consecutive victories in a deep blue state. Wisconsin, after all, hasn’t supported a Republican for president since the Reagan landslide of 1984. >Impressive, though it’s fair to note that Walker’s wins for governor have come in non-presidential years—2010 and 2014—when lazy Democrats don’t vote. But independents do, and Walker has consistently done well with this swing group, getting 56% and 54% in his two races, and 54% in the 2012 recall vote. Those are consistent, solid margins spread out over several years, which suggests Walker’s appeal has staying power. >On a national basis, Walker is largely known as the governor who eliminated collective bargaining rights for most public employee unions in Wisconsin—and then beat back a recall motion over it. It vaulted him into folk-hero status with conservatives, and Walker has been milking it for all it’s worth ever since—including one since-retracted claim that if he can take on Wisconsin’s unions, he can handle ISIS in the Middle East. >The win further emboldened Walker. Just last week he won round two in his fight against against big labor, signing a “right to work bill” that says private-sector workers don’t have to pay union fees if they don’t want to. The Governor called the measure “one more big tool” for attracting jobs to his state. >The fight versus Wisconsin’s unions has national implications. Walker argues that the rest of the country needs similar reforms; if he were to win the White House, a President Walker and Republican-controlled Congress would almost certainly move to weaken labor laws wherever they could, shifting power from workers to corporations. >Walker has cut both income and property taxes. But the cuts have been fiscally irresponsible: he now has a $283 million budget deficit to deal with—and is looking at a $2 billion shortfall in the state’s two-year budget cycle that begins in July. The governor is now vowing to skip an upcoming debt payment—a tactic that should be raising howls in conservative circles. Rick Perry left a Triple-A credit rating when he stepped down as Texas Governor, as did Jeb Bush in Florida. But Fitch and Standard & Poor’s rate Wisconsin’s long-term general-obligation bonds AA. Moody’s rating is lower: Aa2. >Walker thinks Wisconsin can grow its way out of this shortfall. But even with tax cuts and weaker labor laws, his job creation record—compared to the promises he made—has been less than stellar. In the year before he became governor, Wisconsin’s unemployment rate fell 100 basis points, to 8% from 9%, as the U.S. economy began to recover from a crippling recession. The national rate, meantime, fell just 70 basis points, to 9.2% from 9.9%. >But what happened after Walker took over? Between January 2011 and January 2015, Wisconsin’s rate fell another 300 basis points, to 5% from 8%. But the national rate, meantime, fell even faster, dropping 350 basis points to 5.7% from 9.2%. >Thus: Wisconsin’s recovery outpaced the U.S. before Walker took over, but has lagged ever since. >He promised to create 250,000 jobs in his first term; the real total has been about 159,000. The Governor’s reaction: so? It’s still one of the best job records in the Midwest—surpassing growth in neighboring Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota and North Dakota, for example. >Talk about disingenuous. Of course Wisconsin’s job number is bigger: its population of 5.6 million is nearly as large as Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota and North Dakota combined. The real way to gauge job growth is in relative terms: how many jobs are being created relative to the state’s population? Here, Wisconsin trails not just its upper Midwest neighbors, but the nation at large. >Private-sector job growth between June 2013 and June 2014 (the latest data available) was 1.3% compared to 2.1% nationwide. >“When you look at all this,” says Charles Franklin, a Marquette University Law School professor and pollster, “Walker’s economic record is substantially exaggerated. I think this will be a weak point for him.” >That’s what happens when you overpromise but underdeliver. But Walker is fairly lucky: as a relative newcomer to the national stage—he is far less known than Bush or Perry, for example—most Americans don’t know these details. He and his people can keep spinning things like good fiscal stewardship and solid job creation. It doesn’t mean they’re true, but that’s how the game is played. Link to Marketwatch

[Senator_Blutarski]

The Wisconsin newspapers generate daily hit pieces on Walker, thus faithfully acting in their role as the guardians of the Democrat Party.

Except for the usual crazies that write comments on the online newpaper articles, the average Wisconsinite does not pay any attention now.

Walker can weather just about anything they throw at him. The lies don’t stick.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

bttt!

[houeto]

Seriously? You expect people to try to read that?

[conservativejoy]

When I copy and pasted, it wouldn’t let me alter the format. If you’re interested, you could go to the link for easier reading.

[houeto]

10-4. BTW, you can ALWAYS alter the format by using these with no spaces:

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[conservativejoy]

Thanks for the tip.