Posted on 08/25/2011 6:59:49 AM PDT by Freeport
Democrats say that government can create jobs through borrowing, printing money and spending. They warn that trimming bureaucrats from payrolls will be an economic disaster. Republicans argue that the bigger the government is, the smaller the private sector. The Tea Party prescription: shrink government, lower taxes, decrease regulation, and the economy will rebound through private enterprise.
"Facts are hard to argue with," Governor Walker of Wisconsin declared in a Heritage interview earlier this month. In the three years before his election, the Democratic State legislature and Democratic governor presided over the loss of 150,000 jobs. In Walker's first six months in office, Wisconsin added a net of 39,000 jobs, including 14,000 in manufacturing. The remainder were in agriculture, tourism, biotech and medical technology.
In June, Walker earned boasting rights that half of the new jobs in the entire country -- a shocking and paltry 19,000 -- were created in his state. In the same month, Democrat Illinois next door lost 7,000 jobs. (For more on Illinois jobs, see this - ed.)
Not only did Wisconsin add private sector jobs, they trimmed government jobs by 3,000. Instead of leading to disaster, 12,500 private jobs were added, leading to the one month total of 9,500 net new jobs.
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Take it to ‘em Scott Walker!
"Facts are hard to argue with," Governor Walker of Wisconsin declared in a Heritage interview earlier this month. In the three years before his election, the Democratic State legislature and Democratic governor presided over the loss of 150,000 jobs. In Walker's first six months in office, Wisconsin added a net of 39,000 jobs, including 14,000 in manufacturing. The remainder were in agriculture, tourism, biotech and medical technology. In June, Walker earned boasting rights that half of the new jobs in the entire country -- a shocking and paltry 19,000 -- were created in his state. In the same month, Democrat Illinois next door lost 7,000 jobs. (For more on Illinois jobs, see this - ed.)
The United States in turning into India and Pok-E-Stan!
This should come as no surprise to readers here at FR...a number of us have been making these very prescriptions for years. The real issue is: Why can't those idiots in Washington not see that Socialists policies never work?
Conservative ideas certainly do. Republican ideas do, when they are conservative.
Because they do not see the ramifications; they do not relate one with the other.
I have a friend, we grew up together, that lives in Madison and buys into the big government idea. He doesn't get the connection to the amount of property tax he pays, the falling value of his house, the rising cost of living and unemployment are all intertwined with big government...
He just doesn't get it!
He and his wife, who are good people, also do not understand why combat troops make poor peace keepers and police. I tried to explain that training to kill anything that moves in front of you in the most expeditious manner possible is counter to the job of applying minimal force to defuse or maintain a situation.
They just sat there staring at me...
They didn't understand the basic fundamental difference so eloquently put forward by General Colin Powell at the time of the first Gulf War: "... We are going to cut it off and kill it.", when speaking about Saddam's military. It is alien to them.
Just as Socialism's strangle hold on jobs is an alien concept.
Walker needs to school Perry on how to effectively grow jobs without resorting to cronyism and creating corporate welfare schemes on the taxpayer dime. He can also school Perry on getting out of the nanny business with EOs dictating Gardasil and how to actually reduce taxes, not just trade them around like a shell game.
When I tell my friends I favor doing away for support for the poor, instead leaving charity to private philanthropy or the churches like it used to be, they would ask how I could be so cruel. My response: what have the poor done for me lately? I tell them to make a list of the good things the rich do (e.g., investment, innovation, philanthropy, job creation, support for the arts, etc.) compare to the contributions of the poor (e.g....I've got nothing for this column). Politicians support them because they vote, not for any intrinsic love of them. I'm willing to support retraining, but I think the day of the free handout or 99 weeks of unemployment comp are plain stupid.
Another example of Democrats falsly accusing Republicans of doing what they are ACTUALLY doing:
Obama’s cronies accuse Perry of riding on all the jobs “created” in Texas by the Porkulus plan when really it’s Obama who is riding on the backs of all the Republican Governors’ policies that are creating ALL the jobs Obama boasts about. Obama’s actions have only cost jobs just as I told all of his cool-aid drinking buddies it would. I don’t hear as much praise of him from them anymore. Their silence is solid gold to my ears. I don’t even have to say “I told you so.” But they know the words are right on the tip of my tongue.
Truth be told, if it weren’t for the Republican Governors’ policies, this would make the Great Depression look like boom-times.
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