I have great admiration for him... he sticks to his guns like none other.
Help me out, WI FReepers.. just so I have some argument points vs. a couple libs from WI... what is the deal with the lost jobs over the past few months? Is it due to unease over the possibility Walker will be recalled, or is something else at work? Just trying to get a handle on it. Thanks.
Some seasonal jobs were lost, Wisconsin Dells, northern WI cabin rentals, basically tourism in general. All in all, the economy is improving in out state.
In which industries do you mean - there are different reasons for it in some cases? Tourism, for example, many tourists come up here from Illinois, and Illinois is so screwed right now with their economy people can’t AFFORD to come up here for vacation as much at all. Manufacturing, for example, is dealing with shortages of orders from places not affected by our local, or state economies. The other economies are depressed so it makes it much harder to keep the work coming in, so that employees actually have work to do, and companies have actual funds to pay their employees with.
Also, there are always going to be smaller companies in an economy that fail - especially ones who may get most of their business from outside of the state (like manufacturers). If the work isn’t coming in there are no jobs to do, no matter what a government does - not if other places are hurting so badly...
I think overall we are definitely on the right track - even though we need to work on local pockets, and statewide influence of unions and such. With what kind of a deck has been stacked against the Governor, I think he, and the rest of our Republican representatives in Madison have done a very good job. Of course, if not for the PEOPLE who recognize thugs, and stupid bullies, and “intellectuals” trying to condescend to the rest of us about how to make our state prosperous, we wouldn’t stand a chance. That’s exactly why the recall WILL fail - barring some incredibly brazen vote fraud (which wouldn’t surprise me with the GAB being a mini-arm of the WI Dems & Unions - look at the signature processes.).