Overheard at the “Celebrating Scott Walker” Rally: The Illinois Jobs Wasteland

One theme that wove it’s way through the speakers at Saturday’s event was that Scott Walker has saved us from the fate of Illinois where they raised taxes and turned the state into a barren wasteland of opportunity.  It’s a good bedtime story for conservative children (like Jerrid), but the…

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Your Ticket to the Middle Class has been Cancelled

Men in the workforce have, on the whole, lost income ground over the past 40 years, a new study reveals.  Those who have been following the national discussion of income inequality shouldn’t find this data at all surprising. Over the past 40 years, a period in which U.S. GDP per capita…

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Lazy bums living off unemployment instead of getting jobs?

You know it would be a wanton waste of money if the federal government once again extended unemployment benefits for what are now becoming the hard core unemployed. It just encourages them to be lazy and live off their unemployment benefits instead of looking for jobs. [sarcasm] Well just last…

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You Just Made That Up!

The Young Guns (Paul Ryan, Eric Cantor & Kevin McCarthy) have been telling anyone who will listen the regulations is choking the private sector like like Justice David Prosser chokes a woman*(he was mad so it was justified). Unfortunately for the ‘Young guns” Bruce bartlett, ex Ronald Reagan and George…

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Another Monday, Another Few Hundred Jobs Lost in Wisconsin

Should we blame the Scott Walker Administration for the layoffs Frontier Airlines is planning in Milwaukee?  That’s 213 jobs lost, according to the Milwaukee Jounral Sentinel.  Should we blame the Scott Walker Administration for the jobs lost when Thermo Fisher Scientific closes its plant in Two Rivers later this year? …

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Wisconsin loses 12,500 private sector jobs in July….but remember, WI Republicans are all about job creation

According to numbers released by the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development, Wisconsin lost 12,500 private-sector jobs last month losses that effectively annul most of the previous month’s gains. It’s worth noting that even as the nation’s unemployment rate improved to 9.1% in July from 9.2% in June, Wisconsin’s unemployment rate…

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Somebody please get the Mittster a job

Mitt Romney was in Florida and seemingly depressed.  He was in a coffee shop just hanging out with the other unemployed guys, talking about their LinkedIn pages and about networking, etc.  The whole scene makes me want to cry for these grown men without a job.  Of course Mitt Romney…

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Because we don’t have enough unemployment in Wisconsin

Evidently not.  Sure, the Wisconsin unemployment rate was at 7.4% in April, which is low compared to the national figures.  I guess I’m a bit more concerned than the Republicans in the Wisconsin legislature.  Unemployment in Racine is 8.9%.  Those Republicans, at the behest of special interests, have decided to…

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Lifeline

Just a reminder of the impact unemployment benefits have for the millions of Americans who are out of work: There’s absolutely no denying Congress needs to take action when it comes to unemployment benefits, because millions of Americans will be dramatically affected by the expiration of their unemployment benefits due…

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More Paul Ryan…..

In the “throw the incumbents out” election year, Paul Ryan was re-elected overwhelmingly, despite representing three of the highest unemployment centers in the state. Rewarding him for a job well done i guess. Another example of why I call it “the year of dumb”.

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