From my email inbox comes Democratic gubernatorial candidate (and current State Senator) Kathleen Vinehout’s third priority if she’s elected governor in the recall election.
I will put in place a New Economic Game Plan for Wisconsin.
To make our communities thrive and bring jobs back to Wisconsin, we need a New Economic Game Plan: a game plan that invests in our human potential; improves the infrastructure that supports all economic activity; and addresses the major problems faced by businesses that want to expand. This New Game Plan recognizes that the private and public sectors are not enemies. Each needs the other. For the economy to thrive, each must support the other.
Our current economic plan is to starve the public sector. The theory goes this way: if taxes are reduced, regulations are eliminated, and programs are slashed, the private sector will be set free and thrive. The facts don’t support that theory.
Two years ago Des Moines, Iowa, topped the Forbes list of ‘best places for businesses and careers’ and also topped the Forbes list of ‘best places to raise a family’. The common ingredients for making Des Moines both the ‘best place’ to raise a family and the ‘best place’ for business were products of the public sector — good schools and a well educated labor force.
Government puts the fertility into the soil out of which jobs grow. Our job in government is to make the soil rich, educate our children in quality schools we are proud of, make our communities safe, train our workers in the latest technologies, keep our environment clean and healthy, modernize our transportation and communication networks, and support a quality of life we enjoy.
If the soil is rich, the economy will grow.
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