Earlier this week it was reported Wisconsin lost private sector jobs for the third month in a row, and so I think it’s only appropriate that we talk jobs.
What do you think can be done by our elected officials to help create jobs and get people back to work?
I’d like to see a settled law concerning wind farms that does not pay off Scott Walker’s donors. No need for the huge setbacks. Let’s get the wind farms up and running and provide jobs and clean energy for the state.
Amen Steve. Took the words right out of my mouth.
We need to stop pretending that expansionary austerity works. It doesn’t. We need to return to economic principles that work and stop trying to balance the budget during a recession. This absurd belief that you cut spending during a collapse in aggregate demand is a Friedman / supply-sider fantasy. We’ve lived with this now for two years and it’s time to tack back to a plan that has worked in the past. Boost aggregate demand by boosting government expenditures to make up for shortfalls in demand.
Also, I’d like to see someone in the media, just one person, castigate Paul Ryan as he goes to his “listening sessions” and claims not to have voted for the Obama stimulus when the facts in the Congressional Record show that he voted for it three times.
http://sharkandshepherd.blogspot.com/2011/10/faith-of-economists.html
The shark, proving that as an economist he is a heck of a lawyer, thinks that has never worked…
How about using our Wisconsin advantages in high-quality education and technical manufacturing skills to attract businesses with a strong labor force? How about encouraging investments in new technologies and small businesses which can’t be outsourced to other countries. And then we should value public service by making those jobs respected and reasonably compensated.
In other words, annulling everything Scott Walker has done the last 8 months.