By now everyone knows that Scott Walker promised as part of his campaign, that he would “create” 250,000 jobs.
“get government out of the way of employers … who will then help Wisconsin create 250,000 jobs by 2015, and as we create those new jobs, we will be able to add 10,000 new businesses.”
We also know by now, over 2 plus years into his “promise” Wisconsin has added a net of 25,411 job, which leaves 224,589 jobs to add to meet his promise, in less than two years. Which we know job creation policies of Scott Walker have been a massive fail.
We also know he has not gotten any help, with the exception of a few months of which we had no session, the republicans have been in complete control of the legislature. Yet the only job creation priority has been their own(at great cost to the taxpayers of WI). As a matter of fact, the republicans even held a special session on jobs, in which no jobs bills were passed or even discussed.
Looking at some more numbers, we see that states that have Democratic Governors, consistently create more jobs than states with republican Governors. We also know, crunching numbers, that under Democratic Presidents, more manufacturing jobs are created.
Taking into effect, everything we know about job creation and what has happened in Wisconsin the past two years, WPRI hack and Madison “journalist” Marc Eisen has figured out what will save Wisconsin:
We need a “business friendly” progressive!
WTF?!?!? Completely ignoring the fact that “business” performs better when Progressives are in charge and not mentioning that the Progressives are not in power nor have been in power, yet tries to advance a false meme that Progressives are the problem? The Bradley Foundation must be proud that it can push its propaganda in every publication in our state with no accountability!
Just a few minutes on Google and we can easily show how ridiculous this “journalist” in disguise is. Here are some highlights:
* Is this a party that has a program other than restoring bargaining rights for public employees and opposing Walker on all matters
– First off the democrats truly did NOT campaign on restoring collective bargaining rights, much to the great dismay of the members of the democratic party.
* Most importantly, what is the Democratic program to resuscitate Wisconsin’s economy?
– Well Mr. Eisen the Wisconsin Democrats have introduced well over 40 different economic development/job creation bills, yet each and every one was summarily dismissed by the republican iron fist no other ideas allowed rule.
* He made his fortune in real estate, and that too shaped his political success. “He could talk to businessmen as one of their own,” notes Adamany.
– Businessmen like Mark Pocan and Rob Zerban or businessmen like Glenn Grothman, Steve Nass, Scott Walker and Paul Ryan?
* Wisconsin needs a new Pat Lucey. A progressive who gets job creation.
– Sorry Charlie, All of us progressives “get job creation” which is what the results and the numbers nation wide show! What we need is a republican who will denounce the radical wing(ALEC/TEA Party) wtc… and start working on fixing Wisconsin, instead of raising their national profile!
FYI: to our local papers, one way to bring our newspaper media back is to stop giving unlimited column space to the WPRI propagandists. ALec
I don’t get the vitriol. You can criticize the column without insulting me. There’s something wrong with you that you think this behavior is okay.
As the author of the post, I can easily answer that. I dont care if your a great guy or not, the fact that you can write such deplorable silliness because it helps advance an agenda of the Bradlies and WPRI, tells me all i need to know.
Unless of course you mean such vitriol like this”Existentially, the Democrats will face an even bigger challenge in 2013
than a resolute Walker. Who are they? What do they believe? Is this a
party that has a program other than restoring bargaining rights for
public employees and opposing Walker on all matters?”
As I explained in the piece how pathetic your “conclusion” came to when in reality it helps diminish the problems that the republicans have gotten themselves into. In a year the republican party(including scott walker)will have to startcampaigning on their records and it is NOT pretty! Which is why WPRI needs writers like you to blame the dems! Of course the dems have had absolutely NO power whatsoever the last two years.
As for what is wrong with me, that is simple the extreme Walker/ALEC agenda has been enacted and we are now suffering all over the state for it(especially in my public schools), now we have a Governor who instead of focusing on creating jobs(maybe it is inbred in republicans), have already laid out their plans to privatize schools even further and stop as many people from voting as possible,
Thats what is wrong with me and I am sick of WPRI getting unlimited column space as if they were a legitimate voice in WI, instead of a shadow Bradley Foundation group.
So Mr. Eisen, maybe you are a great guy, I dont care. I only care that you use the public forum you have been given so misserably!
Oh, boy, I made a mistake responding. You distort who I am and what I write. You choose facts that support your argument and ignore those that contradict it.
At the risk of causing you further palpitations, I want to cite a chunk from a column I wrote for Isthmus in September. This pretty much sums up my thinking. You can have the last word, unless you want to meet face to face.
That excerpt:
For a good decade, Wisconsin’s economy has stagnated and declined. Even the end of the Great Recession in 2009 brought no real relief.
The ugly truth is that the Wisconsin workforce has shed 164,500 jobs from the pre-recessionary high in December 2007. That’s almost a 6% decline, according to a fine, detail-rich report from the Center on Wisconsin Strategy.
But the situation is even worse, given the state’s population growth of 2.8%. COWS estimates that another 81,000 jobs are needed to keep the newcomers employed.
Wisconsin’s total job deficit? 245,900 jobs.
Just as bad, wallets are noticeably thinner for almost everyone. COWS focuses on four-person families and finds over the past decade that annual income has dropped from $84,500 to $76,000.
Note that conservatives often bash the Center on Wisconsin Strategy because its leaders — Joel Rogers and Laura Dresser — are advocates for progressive economic strategies. But the center’s reports pass the ideological blood test. COWS was just as hard on Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle during his lackluster eight years when the Wisconsin economy first slid into the ditch.
And that brings us to the most discouraging fact of all: Wisconsin’s leaders — not just Democrats and Republicans, but business and labor, city and county, even university and tech school leaders — have been depressingly ineffective in getting us out of that ditch.
We have a leadership deficit in Wisconsin, not just a jobs deficit.
Scott Walker is the biggest disappointment. For a Republican who promised to focus “like a laser beam” on job creation, he has produced bupkis. His campaign saturated the airwaves with brilliant ads at the close of the recall election touting the 20,000 jobs created in 2011. This blew away earlier jobs data that showed a loss. But bupkis it remains.
At the Walker rate, it will be freakin’ 2020 before the state returns to its 2007 jobs peak. This is a dreadful prospect! So it goes for a governor who fumbled an all-important venture capital bill. And who, after embracing the smart idea of streamlining the state’s commerce department, saddled it with a political agent devoid of relevant experience.
As for the Democrats, well, avert your eyes. Their embrace of the recall blew up in their face. It strengthened the hand of the unpopular Walker, while binding the party to a declining union movement. Does anyone remember that the Democrats once had a pro-growth wing led by an outstanding governor named Pat Lucey?
Like the unions, Wisconsin’s all-powerful business lobby is anchored in yesteryear. The power players are mature legacy companies from the last century. Research shows that these companies don’t add a lot of jobs. Their game is cutting taxes and regulations (and often their workforces) to boost their bottom lines. They will not build Wisconsin’s 21st-century economy.
Dare I say it? Wisconsin desperately needs a new generation of leaders.
Ok so you wrote a piece before stating false equivalency, now you come back after the election pointing out that it is now all the fault of the Progressives and if they would just be “pro business” then they could be start winning elections. Completely ignoring the fact that redistricting helped win a solid majority for the republicans,despite the fact that they got less votes. You also fail to mention that progressives are very “pro business”. As i pointed out historically, under progressive leadership and policy we tend to do better economically.
Ask FDR if Progressives need to be “business friendly”. We understand that our economy is a demand based economy, and to get the economy rolling you have to increase demand. Its that simple.
Looking at some of your other work, lets share a few other snippets….
***A longtime activist, Wright joined the state to run the DNR’s
Stewardship Program, which purchases valuable natural areas. Her contact
with her union left her unimpressed. “I paid about $50 per month [in
dues] and personally resent not being better represented.”****
Any mention that a union is a democracy in the workplace? What the hell would anyone think that sending in $50 a month would mean perfect representation for every individual in the union? a Union is only as strong as the people involved in it. I pay thousands of dollars a year to taxes and yet people like Scott Walker and robin Vos are not even close to representing my interests.
Unions are continually losing their power, because they are being LEGISLATED out of power, not because they are becoming irrelevant. They are needed as much now as ever ask the workers of Hostess!
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You push your repubs are for business dems arent again here:http://meisenstories.net/2012/04/09/handicapping-the-recall-election/
**** Who would have guessed they(the republicans) would be so inept on fundamental business issues?****
The question is WHEN has the republican party ever been ept on fundamental business issues? i can not think of a time.
Here we go again:
********** What the Democrats need — and probably won’t get — is a business-savvy
candidate like Kohl who understands the utter centrality of growing the
Wisconsin economy. ************
So only people born rich are able to understand how to grow the economy? Every single elected official who voted against ACT 10 understood this very concept, you can not suck a billion dollars out of the local economy and expect it to grow! Again in a reality demand based economy, increasing demand is how you grow it, Austerity measures and cutting public workers pay who are making $12/hr is NOT how you do it.
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One last one :http://meisenstories.net/2012/01/07/gov-walker-at-one-year/
****Walker is an unabashed pro-business governor who has proved surprisingly inept on key development issues******
Again here we go. Walker is to “pro business” what robin vos and michelle litjens are to pro marriage and family values. He has a full career of proving incredibly inept in “development issues” , which is why Milwaukee county was given a failing grade when he left the county executive position.
I get that we have a difference of opinion on what is pro business and what isnt, the difference being yours fits very nicely into the WPRI, Bradly Foundation propaganda that is infiltrating our media and given unfortunate credibility. Others who would dispute it are not given such a forum, which is why I try and point out egregious acts and stories that WPRI push. I found yours to be one of them and still do.
However if you would like to meet, I would gladly do so. I can be reached at jeff_simpson7@yahoo.com.
Oh, let’s end it on this note: I stand proudly guilty of multiple counts of deviationism from the party line.
Marc made poor use of his time in responding to this Simpson guy.
Marc,
Pat Lucey, for whom I worked, would be a good example for Dems to emulate. The M&E tax exemption and the end of the personal property tax on business inventories occurred on his watch. Were they to be reinstated Wisconsin would revert to negative job creation. Pat’s view was clearly stated: Democrats don’t need to be anti-business. There is of course no one in the current D leadership who would sign on to such an approach.
George, again you bring up the same tired talkingpoint that Mr. Eisen did that was the original subject. Democrats “dont need to be anti business” which of course there is absolutely no evidence whatsoever to say that they are, no matter how hard you push the meme it is not going to work here….maybe at Professor Sh & Sh’s blog but not here.
This however was my favorite line “Wisconsin would revert to negative job creation” – By negative job creation are you referring to the Walker Wisconsin or the Bush America???
Finally I have no problem with pat Lucey, but I would rather have Tony Earl back who actually eliminated our structural deficit. EVen more so than Tony Earl i would rather have FDR back who not only got us out of the republican great depression but rebuilt our country! That all aside, with the complete incompetence and lack of ethics of the Walker Administration, I would be happy with Scott McCallum back!