Posted on 11/12/2009 3:15:56 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
“Anyone notice that Texas is not on the list?”
While waking up (so I may have not gotten all the details right),
I did hear on NPR’s “Marketplace” show that the Millken (sp?) Institute found
that four of the top five financially-stable metro areas today were...
In Texas.
Of course, I only listen to NPR for “opposition research”.
But even then they do let some interesting things slip out that you
don’t expect to hear liberal admit to on the street.
I was just going to post about his current jaunt, PL!
What on Earth do they buy from Wisconsin? Whatever it is, they spent $68 MILLION on it last year, buying stuff from us...
“You got that right! Look at the money that goes to the TAKERS in
this country! Whatever happened to Welfare being a ‘hand-UP’ and
not a ‘hand-OUT?”
It’s morphed into a multi-generational lifestyle.
That was shortly dented by the welfare reform enacted in the 1990s.
But sure seems like that was short-lived, given how those expenditures keep
on going up.
Of course, that might just be due to paying all the bureaucrats
bigger salaries to administer the programs every year.
“How many are taking the Porkulus money to balance their budgets? Michigan is...”
Wisconsin did! And they’re going after ANY cash bone that DC is dangling in front of them. D@mn the torpedoes! Screw our Grandkids! Full speed spending ahead!
Tom Barrett (D, WI), Mayor of Milwaukee, is supposedly deciding by this Friday if he’s going to run for Governor...or not. If so, Walker will have TONS of ammo to use in his campaign against Barrett.
I grew up in Milwaukee. It is Hell on Earth these days.
Bring. It. On. I LOVE bloody-knuckle, full-contact politics, LOL!
Scott Walker for Governor of Wisconsin!
florida boy here and i’m counting on charlie crist to make all ok here. Yeah and next week i’m gonna hit the lottery.
Diana,
is Wisconsin worth coming to for the Christmas time to go snow mobiling?
Thanks.
Did you notice that what all the politicians moaned and complained about was the built-in budget constraints? As long as people keep electing politicians who think it is their job to give out goodies, this will not end. The main job of elected officials is to spend other people’s money.
Keep an eye on the weather. We’ve had two WONDERFUL snow-filled years in a row with lots of winter activity. (Over 100 inches of ‘White Gold’ the past two years!)
However, our snowfall can be unpredictable, depending upon where the El Nino is this year.
I doubt Barrett will...not when he’s got the Mayor job for as long as he wants and he won’t have to deal with Scott Walker as County Exec on a daily basis for the most part.
Milwaukee isn’t as bad as it used to be Diana...sure we got all the same issues that plagued the city, but the problems are mainly confined to specific parts of town (NW side still). Now if they keep insisting on running jobs and people out of the city with continued high tax increases it could go to sh!t again pretty quick.
I hope you’re right. It would be WONDERFUL for Walker to run against a total unknown ‘Rat for Governor. Name recognition alone would suffice.
Barret is supposed to announce at Noon, Sunday. All indications are that he will run...
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