So when are conservatives going to finally start admitting Republican Gov. Scott Walker and the Republican rubber stamp legislature are failing miserably at living up to their collective promises to create jobs in Wisconsin?
The state lost an estimated 900 jobs among private-sector employers, it said. The manufacturing sector alone lost 3,000 jobs.
But employment in the government sector – particularly the state and local sector – continued to plummet, losing an estimated 11,700 jobs at public-sector agencies. The government sector has been shedding jobs for two years.
So my question stands: when are conservatives going to finally start admitting Gov. Scott Walker and the Republican rubber stamp legislature are failing miserably at living up to their collective promises to create jobs in Wisconsin?
I don’t think they’re failing miserably.
Walker is probably delighted over the unemployment rate. A bad economy is bad for Obama in 2012, right? That’s the goal. Whatever it takes to defeat Obama and to hell with the American people. That’s why the Tea Party is calling for a hiring boycott, to defeat global Obamalism.
Let’s check with Leni or Sqwiggy. They’d know more about how all this is supposed to work.
Allow me to borrow the mantra of those on the Obama plantation – It’s all Doyle’s Fault.
Nope. Try again.
And like the Obamabots repeated endlessly, over and over and over again, no matter what the issue – It’s all Doyle’s fault.
And when anyone suggested that no, that really wasn’t Bush’s fault and here’s proof, they continued with the Obamabot mantra, it’s all Doyle’s fault.
Sorry Zak, but the way I see it, logic, reason and fact are not realities in these parts.
Reason and fact are in abundance in these parts; they’re just in short supply in you.
Well, if you believe this:
http://www.inc.com/ss/9-best-countries-start-business-right-now?slide=9
The entire US is not even in the Top 10 places to start a business. Note to Phil, but Hong Kong is.
Why is Obama’s jobs guy moving his jobs and a $2 billion investment from WI to China? Phil probably has an answer for that too.
Listen, I’m no fan of Walker, but WI has been so anti-business for so long that I’m willing to give him a chance to change that climate. If he doesn’t do it, I’ll be right there with you jumping on his ass. That, my friend, is a fact.
My $.02:
Wisconsin:
Recession is somewhat Doyle’s fault but more the result of the economic downturn since states don’t have monetary policy they can pursue to deal with recession. And with policy held in check by the need to balance the budget, it’s hard to make up for demand shortfall in the private sector. The state can issue bonds (and should be given that interest rates are so low), but the TeaOP idiots in charge don’t know economics so we cut, cut, cut. Yes, we’re living the dream of “expansionary austerity!” And it is a dream too, because it doesn’t exist in the real world.
But the current administration’s failure to respond appropriately to the state’s economic situation is completely Walker and the TeaOP’s fault. The reason we don’t have net new jobs in the state has nothing to do with regulations, abortion, guns or any of the other crap they’re wasting their time on, it’s aggregate demand and only aggregate demand! Cutting during a recession is like the old practice bleeding a patient. All it does is make us weaker.
National:
The recession is completely Bush’s fault. It began on his watch and he owns it.
His economic policies and his wars decimated the economy. The deregulation of the financial industry that happened on his watch and which caused the housing bubble and burst are 100% his responsibility.
Now, Obama has failed to push through a stimulus package sufficient to address the $2.1 trillion GDP shortfall. His advisors were wrong in their assessment of the severity of the downturn. That is clear. The initial $800 billion stimulus was too small by half. And while it kept us from a depression, it did not provide sufficient boost to aggregate demand to make up for private sector shortfalls. There were some (Krugman for instance) who advocated for a much larger package, but they were ignored and marginalized by the mainstream media.
For our current situation, I hold Obama and the TeaOP controlled congress responsible. They are making the same mistakes that were made in Europe vis-a-vi expansionary austerity. It simply isn’t real. There is no such thing. When you cut public spending in a time of recession caused by aggregate demand shortfall, you only make the recession worse. It’s not that hard to understand. And Obama has not listend to the people who know this.
Of course, the TeaOP would block any attempts to resurrect the economy because they need the economy to suck. It’s the only way one of those assclown candidates they have would have even a remote possibility of moving into 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in 2013.
Ok, maybe a bit more than $.02…
Phil, that was absolutely Reich-like. I always start out agreeing with Reich’s diagnosis, and then he ends up giving an absolutely idiotic prognosis.
But it was worth $.02 🙂
Phil, before you get your undies in a bundle, I put a smiley face after the two cents remark, but it didn’t show up on the post. In other words, my remark was in jest.
Orlin, do you support more regulation of our financial sector or less regulation? That’s not meant to be a “gotcha” question; I’m just legitimately curious.
I saw a cartoon the other day that summed up the problem, it went like this…
First Angry Character: Corporations own the government!!!
Second Angry Character: They need to be regulated!!!
First Angry Character: By Whom????
Second Angry Character: The Government!!!
The other day, Phil posted what I considered to be an important post
http://bloggingblue.com/2011/10/20/is-capitalism-dying-redux/
While his position seemed to be we need more regulation, my comment was actually from the article, which I think gets to the root of the problem.
I am not avoiding giving you an answer, it is just that I’m not going to give a blanket yes or no unless I know what the regulation would be.
Because you refuse to be honest.
Yeah Steven, I bet we can count on you to be honest and say YES, I support nilly-wiily. regulations that will cause unintended consequences, unexpected ruination of sectors of the economy, more jobs going overseas, and committing another one-half of the population to live in abject misery. Regulations are good is what I say.
Excuse me for being prudent.
Orlin, look, you’re not prudent, nor do you possess much in the way of “logic, reason or fact”.
You just seem in over your head.
I’m reminded of the Seinfeld episode where Kramer is somehow mistaken to be an employee at a big company, and given an assignment to complete. After he “completes” it, his boss calls him into his office, and says, “I don’t understand a word of this.” Kramer responds by saying, “Well, maybe I could tweak it a little bit”, and the boss says, “No, I don’t think that will help. It’s like you have absolutely no idea what you’re doing.”
Every time that I read something that you write, I feel like that boss, and that I’m looking at that report of Kramer’s.
It’s clear that you’re passionate. Why you’re so passionate about the things that you are passionate about is far less clear because what you write is as inarticulate, often to the point of incoherence, as it is.
You’re frustrating many of the people here with your inability to grasp the simplest and most basic tenets of rational discourse, and I think that it is time that we got to the bottom of it
With that in mind, and, just out of curiosity, Orlin:
(1) How old are you?
(2) How far did you get in school?
(3) What do you do for a living.
(((((HUG)))) Soooo glad you are back, Zuma! I wish you would friend me on Facebook. This is my real name! YAY!
And I concur with what you’ve written. 🙂
Excuse me for ignoring your posts, I have the “IGNORE” button in the ‘on’ position.
I am only responding now because of your condition, I’m guessing dopamine imbalance in the brain and defects in the frontal lobe.
Schizophrenia is the only condition I can think of that would cause someone to think I’m someone from Big Bang Theory, the Black Knight, whatever that is, and now Kramer from Seinfeld in the space of three days.
Please, seek help.
The IGNORE button is now re-engaged.
Let me just quote Zuma:
“Orlin, look, you’re not prudent, nor do you possess much in the way of “logic, reason or fact”.
You just seem in over your head.
I’m reminded of the Seinfeld episode where Kramer is somehow mistaken to be an employee at a big company, and given an assignment to complete. After he “completes” it, his boss calls him into his office, and says, “I don’t understand a word of this.” Kramer responds by saying, “Well, maybe I could tweak it a little bit”, and the boss says, “No, I don’t think that will help. It’s like you have absolutely no idea what you’re doing.”
Every time that I read something that you write, I feel like that boss, and that I’m looking at that report of Kramer’s.
It’s clear that you’re passionate. Why you’re so passionate about the things that you are passionate about is far less clear because what you write is as inarticulate, often to the point of incoherence, as it is.
You’re frustrating many of the people here with your inability to grasp the simplest and most basic tenets of rational discourse, and I think that it is time that we got to the bottom of it
With that in mind, and, just out of curiosity, Orlin:
(1) How old are you?
(2) How far did you get in school?
(3) What do you do for a living. ”
Just try and answer that, Orlin, and maybe you’ll get a tiny bit of respect. Otherwise, you are as significant and a postule, but hardly as difficult to get rid of.
Zuma’s baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack!
Poor Orlin.
If the metaphor fits, Big O. . .
Sheldon, Kramer, Inspector Clouseau, The Black Knight, so many apt metaphors which serve to illuminate and clarify who you are, so little time, and inclination, to explore them all.
In sum, Orlin, you are a cartoon, a clown, a truly clueless and delusional moron who overcompensates for an obvious inferiority complex with a truly mindnumbing array of coping mechanisms that leave the rest of us just shaking our heads in disbelief.
“. . .the Black Knight, whatever that is”. . .
Seriously?
Well, you do seem like you don’t get out much.
Anyway, Orlin, in the most perfect of metaphorical senses, you. . . are. . .the Black Knight. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKhEw7nD9C4)