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good grief. why not mine Pravda for hit peices on scott walker? they have more credibility.
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Union member?
And this is a problem because why?
What is "some?" Why isn't "some" quantified? Because it's one? Two? If it made between 6 and 10 ineligible awards, that would be typical of most state governments, and well under the percentage of ineligible awards made by the Federal government.
Why are you citing a rabidly anti-conservative source, which does not cite any authoritative entity for its own sources of information, and which does not even specify the actual scale of so-called "corruption?"
Giving away $$$ to “create jobs” is not conservative
FACTS:
The Wisconsin Commerce Department was a totally failed agency. Walker helped create WEDC to engage the private sector in the business of job creation. Most board members come from the private sector.
Walker put the Wisconsin Legislature in charge of the WEDC, not the governor.
The Legislature found problems and corrected them.
Walker asked the legislature to remove the governor from chairmanship of WEDC and name a private sector chairman.....the legislature agreed. Walker stepped down earlier this month.
The Wisconsin legislature is in charge of WEDC 100%.
Lastly, liberals have been throwing everything at Walker possible, including threatening his family and friends. This is a smear campaign orchestrated by the left.
We all know how tough the media was on the blatant corruption and abuse of money from the Obama stimulus (sarcasm)....but this is considered serious news.
Sorry, folks, you won’t find dirt on Walker. They all tried and are resorting to making it up.
But it never ceases to amaze me how quickly conservatives go weak in the knees when the left tells them to bow down.
formal training in economics, finance, capital allocation, wealth creation and so forth.
The Wharton School | Donald J. Trump, W’68
Oh well, it's too late for that now. As John Sacrimoni used to say, "that ship has sailed."
I can’t believe that people at FreeRepublic take lefty sources at face value. Walker’s economic record is NOT negative. Go to official sources:
——Wiscsonsin’s unemployment is 4.6 per the last report. This is third in the midwest and now in the top 20 in the US.
——Wisconsin’s labor participation rate is 5 percent higher than the national average. It is substantially unchanged during Walker’s governorship because Wisconsin (at 4.6 unemployment) nearly at full employment.
——Wisconsin’s employment growth has been slower that other states because unemployment in the recession did not increase as greatly.
http://dwd.wisconsin.gov/dwd/newsreleases/2015/unemployment/150416_march_state.pdf
——His union reform was so successful at generating savings that Walker massively paid off debt, gave taxpayers a tax-cut and still finished the budget with a surplus.
As was noted above WEDC was an innovative approach to increasing jobs which has had problems which are now addressed. But it is lefty nonsense that Walker has had anything but a stellar economic performance.
Hillary presided over a State Dept that lost over 6 billion that no one can account for.
Walker is good player; he’s just overshadowed by Trump/Cruz. When America gets happy and strong again, when it once again teaches its magnificent and inspired history in schools again, when it balances powers between its states and its federal government, then Walker can command it. He’s very young now and has plenty of time.
Best that Walker stay in WI and continue slamming the unions there. Better yet he should get to the bottom of the reports about state government officials of WI’s GAB that we hear horror stories about and if they are guilty he should support having them jailed to the fullest extent of his ability as governor. He should also insist on public hearings about what these government criminals did and he should voice how they should pay for their crimes and how WI should pass laws to keep such abuses from ever happening again.
As far as WI’s economy, they have never been a standout state for business and industry. They will follow a general recovery that Trump/Cruz will foster and then any alleged WEDC mismanagement will be long forgotten.
Bump for later.