Walker has labor reeling in
Wisconsin . . . At the old union hall here on a recent
afternoon, Terry Magnant sat at the head of a table surrounded by 18
empty chairs. A members meeting had been scheduled to start a half-hour
earlier, but the small house, with its cracked walls and loose roof
shingles, was lonely and desolate. “There used to be a lot more people
coming,” said Magnant, a 51-year-old nursing assistant, sighing. Washington Post
Editor's notes: for the sake of accuracy, Walker ended collective bargaining for the unions' legacy programs, NOT collective bargaining for wages. The benefits that were in place, before the law was changed, still exist. Union folks still get those benefits. So why are they leaving the unions? Because of union corruption and forced payment of dues for political issues many members do not support. About a third of union membership has walked out the door since their wages were freed from union demands. This is a problem created by union bosses and whiners who can't make on their own, without forcing others to support their benefit programs.
The median household income in Wisconsin is $51,467 a year, nearly $800 below the national average. And it has fallen consistently since the passage of the anti-union law in 2011, despite a small bounce-back nationally in 2013. Predictably, the meager earnings growth that has come to Wisconsin has mostly gone to the top 1 percent of earners. Wisconsin has not joined the movement to increase minimum wage as Walmart recently has, its minimum wage still consistent with the federal floor, at $7.25 an hour.
ReplyDeleteWalker's anti education agenda is consistent with this.... keeping people uneducated and in low income jobs while the top 1% prospers. That is the face of the GOP economic and education policy.
I doubt your numbers. No doubt, they are heavily interpreted by the Marxist Left. What makes your criticism more ridiculous is the fact that Walker is more popular now, in Wisconsin, than when he won his election. Walker is not anti-education. But the Left preaches this tripe knowing that if you tell a lie, often enough, people may come to believe it.
DeleteYes looking good for the case against the GOP and the another nail in the coffin of that tired old fallacy: "trickle-down"
DeleteWisconsin - Republican Gov. Walker: Gave the rich a $2.1 Billion tax break, cut school funding more than any state.
Result: 3rd worst job growth in midwest, $283 million budget deficit, median income $800 below nat'l avg.
compare with -
Minnesota - Democrat Gov. Dayton: raised taxes on the rich by $2.1 billion, invested $900 million in schools.
Result: 2nd highest job growth in midwest, $2 billion budget SURPLUS, median income $8000 HIGHER than Nat'l avg., highest economic confidence in USA.
Republicans lose again. If you need further proof, look at Kansas, they're about bankrupt ... but the wealthy are thriving with Brownbacks taxcuts... like Walker, he also cut education heavily.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-01-16/kansas-follows-red-ink-road-with-brownback-tax-cuts-muni-credit
GOP FAIL - it just doesn't work, how much more proof do you need? GW Bush caused a recession with his tax cuts and ward. But alas, you'll do the conservative thing and keep your persistent response pattern, unable to assimilate and adjust (admit failure).
What you have, in the comment immediately above, is the perfect example of the mission and content of a troll. What is a troll? One who uses an existing media site, whether liberal or conservative, to push made up theory and invented histories, in an effort to defeat a given political point of view. By definition, then, a troll never presents "truth" and is always unpatriotic in her views. Trolls hate the very concept of "America, “ working only and always for the tearing down of the polemics that made this county the great nation it was just a few years ago, before Obama took over. With that definition in mind, the above comment is both tiresome and sheer trash.
DeleteNo one but a troll believes that the Bush tax cuts fueled the 2008 collapse. Everyone in the world of finance, on both sides of the political fence, knows that the collapse was a "sub-prime crisis," the result of failed policies of the Establishment in both parties, policies we identify with "Affordable Housing." Everyone knows that the Bush tax cuts resulted in a 23% increase in tax receipts. And while federal spending increased, something Obama believes is ALWAYS a good thing ("all government spending is 'stimulus' " ~ Barack Obama) the annual debt grew at by 400 billion per years, or around 37% of our annual GDP, verse the 80% to GPD growth under Obama and a 1.2 trillion dollar PER YEAR annual debt increase.
And while our resident troll pushes the success of Democrat governors, all two or three of them who have been successful, still, all but two GOP governors were re-elected this past midterm, while the ranks of GOP governors grew to 31 versus the embarrassing level of 17 for the Democrats. Keep in mind, the Democrat Party, in its current Marxist/One World state, has been rejected by the American voter to the point that it, the Democrat Party, is at its weakest since 1928, and has as its chief representative, a man who knows nothing about governance, something that is verifiable, with each national program and crisis he tries to manage.
This troll uses Minnesota as his only claim to fame, comparing that state to national averages, hoping you will forget that the "national average" is a measure of Democrat theories and economic successes over the past six years.
On more point: when the Troll blames Bush for our national predicament, he is arguing, at the same time, that the last 6.5 years of Obama's agenda are meaningless. In other words, Obama has assumed power and failed to correct the Bush Era. That is what he is saying . . . . . wrong on both counts.
If the comment about Walker vs Dayton and the result of GOP vs Dem governing is "sheer trash" ... why didn't you present some facts on the topic that support your contention? No, instead you present vague innuendo and BS .."national average is a measure of Democrat theories"
ReplyDeleteOnly stupid people buy the crap that Smithson dishes
The reader needs to understand that I do other things much more important than answering nonsense from the Left/ If I have asked "Anonymous" a thousands questions, he has answered, maybe, four of them, and, yet, he thinks he has the right to demand that give specific answer to him. I would say that 997 specific replies to his plenty. He needs to understand that this blog is not obliged to support his Marxist rants. But, of course, I did answer his charge, pointing out that his Minnesota example compares the two or three positive examples of gubernatorial Democrat success to the fact that the GOP lost in only two of the 34 gubernatorial races, winning 31 such races while the Democrats control only 17 state houses. Pretty pathetic, and proving, once again, that the people are squarely opposed to the Progressive/Marxist agenda of the Utopian crowd.
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