Maybe Scooter should worry about the 250,000 jobs he promised. So far we got nothing about jobs,and all we got is his social agenda.(corection) ALEC,Koch brother's agenda.
Whats the first bill comming out now?? Same day voter registration!! WHERE are the JOBS????

Bob- you're suffering from what Alvin Toffler coined *Future Shock*.

The jobs won't come until the playing field is leveled and set for the reality of a 21st. C global economy that is post-peak oil. YOU are still operating in the post WWII paradigm of $20/bbl oil, full employment, America #1 manufacturer and exporter to the world with no competition.

This is not a TV sitcom - problems such as Wisconsin's don't get solved in 30 minutes. So calm down. Governor Walker made a few babysteps forward while the public unions kicked and screamed and moved Wisconsin a few steps back - now it is time to move forward again - and move the State to become fully right-to-work. The groundwork has been laid.

Please - drop the hysterics - calm, clear and rational thinking is required to keep the progress moving forward. ALEC isn't going to to hurt you, just like bad-tasting medicine - it is good for you and the anti-dote to Soros.

Richard...That's not what he promised is it? He knew we were in a recession and still he ran on a promise of 250,000 jobs. He has not put forth a jobs bill in two years!!

Politicians lie - they all do it. Get a grip. Adults can deal with it. This will take time.

Politicians don't really create jobs - they can only create the rules for the playing field. Hysterics won't move the agenda forward.

Richard these are the bills he has passed or tried to pass.
concealed carry
no smoking
voter id
defund P. P.
tort reform
and now same day regestration
What playing field did you have in mind?

Robert- is it not right to have a goal like Walker set about jobs? I know it's not normal to see goal out of Obama but adults set them. I also am surprised this is all you can try and hang Walker up on. Afterall the democrats said no to thousands of jobs.

Steve,the Dems said no to a deregulation bill that would have poluted the land and water. If the mining co.wanted to follow the regs. they would have had the mine.
BTW-it was a repub. that cast the deciding vote.

Nice spin. All democrats voted no. Our current laws do not allow for this type of mining and you have no proof they would have polluted. Michigan and Minnesota have had successful taconite mines for decades
, some just miles away from the proposed site.

Democrats are obstructing jobs in this state.

Steve..yes Mich. and Minn. have sucessful mining ops. They also have strict regs.
The mining comp. wanted to come in with their way or the highway. And they got the highway.

As a mining expert, you are only spewing propaganda n attempt to spite Walker and hold back good jobs and progress.

@Robert Merlin:
There are several errors in your presumptions.
1) Scott Walker did not PROMISE 250,000 jobs, he set it as a goal. I know when you are on the wrong (ie. not RIGHT) side of the aisle you want to make that as a campaign promise, but there is a difference. Governor Walker has given businesses several incentives to move or create jobs here in Wisconsin. Problems occur when the leadership at the federal level is doing everything it can to go in the opposite direction.

2) The mining bill introduced last summer didn't circumvent environmental agencies. Rather, it asked for a streamlined process so that a mining company wouldn't have to prove it's case over and over and over and over and over...

In other words, each agency would be available at the public hearings and ultimately provide a yes or no vote. This would include the EPA, DNR, ACE...
ANY group that would have a legitimate interest in the mine.

Governor Walker is doing the best he can working against federal policies and agencies. maybe it's time to look where the real problems are...at the FEDERAL (read OBAMA) level!!!

Michigan's public worker's pensions: not fully funded, pension payments not adjusted to the stock market as in Wi. My wages were reduced by Doyle (8 days no pay). We offered to increase our share of our medical ... a benefit negotiated in exchange for raises many years ago. Overtime is now worked by part time workers. ... while Walker gave bonuses to department heads, tried to give $60K jobs to election contributor's unqualified children, ruined jobs building high speed rail car jobs ... oh lets not forget how many underlings in his previous office are now in jail. Stealing from disabled Veterans! Unions stopped child labor, 7 day work week, safety issues .... I work every other weekend, every holiday, every other Tuesday, every other Friday. (another Walker) and next time we have a major snow storm & I work 36 hours straight I'll expect you to do the same. Women nurse aids are now making the equalilant of $11 / hour, must on 10 minutes notice work a second shift (try raising children or have a sick husband or parent with this) and now Walker has changed the definition of layoff to equal termination. Try talking to a bank about your mortgage after being terminated. Try putting that on your resume.
And now fools say i have a too strong union!
So please if you like Michigan so much, move there. Hell I'll drive you fool.

Richard Head -

"Please - drop the hysterics - calm, clear and rational thinking is required to keep the progress moving forward. ALEC isn't going to to hurt you, just like bad-tasting medicine - it is good for you and the anti-dote to Soros."

More precisely, "ALEC isn't going to hurt you..."

I am ever so happy to hear that; for a while now I have been wondering and worrying why Wisconsin was turning into an 18th century medieval state.

Thank you for all the assurance… I really do feel so much better now…

Is it 2014 yet?

Weighing in on the mine issue once again for Steve, Robert Merlin is correct. Wisconsin should have the same regulations as its more experienced neighbors to govern modern mining techniques. Barring soil composition that makes mining in the proposed area an environmental hazard, there's no reason Wisconsin couldn't have a mine. A few right-wing politicians and cronies with their heads in the wrong place messed this one up for our state, big time. Hopefully round two will include common sense.

Concerning the "250,000 new jobs" meme, this was a specific campaign promise repeatedly made by Scott Walker. With my personal knowledge of Walker's budgeting/contracting skill set (which I personally would assess at the 'don't press so hard, you'll break your crayon' level), I knew there was absolutely no data or plan that could achieve in-state job growth numbers that exceeded (at times) federal job growth overall. Have I not asked from the beginning, "Why make a promise that has no chance of being kept?" What would we think or even say about a colleague or relative who made such promises. At best we'd consider them a lightweight; at worst we'd gently disassociate ourselves as such individuals cast a negative reflection on all around. But some folks apologize and applaud this authoritarian flamboyance. I know the GOP has sensible people in its tent. Please send the Tea Party back to the nether regions and get back to solid principles. Please.

Before you start calling a generation spoiled and narcissistic, please bear in mind that the Boomers haven't collected any of the retirement entitlements they paid into all these years. Nope, we've just been paying for our grandparents' and parents' retirement without a peep and generating surpluses for the government to borrow.

Also bear in mind that it comes time for every individual to age and become 'unproductive', yourself included.

Randy: Actually, everyone pays for their own retirement. It is actuarily calculated based on the amount you paid in.
You parents funds were raided to pay for BS Government spending programs. Had the money been left in the TRUST fund we would not have any worries about Social Security.
Granted there are some people collecting who never paid a dime into the system, but that is not why SS is in trouble.

@Craig -- Then why is Richard complaining about having to pay for the Boomers retirement? Why is the government talking about raising retirement ages (which it has already) and reducing benefits?

My point still stands. The oldest Boomers have only just now begun to collect their retirement. We are hardly the problem, since we've paid in all these years.

What makes you think I am alone - Randy? We're not going to pay - and the Boomers are going to sink or swim - although we may hold their heads underwater, a little.

"As it’s revealed today’s young will be 25 per cent worse off than their parents, the Newsnight presenter says he and his fellow Baby-Boomers have bequeathed little worth celebrating..."

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2055497/JEREMY-PAXMAN-Baby-Boomers-selfish-generation-history.html#ixzz2EVV0yGO8

"What begins in arrogance often ends in shame; there are some ominous signs that the Boomers are headed down that path. Sooner or later, the kids were going to note what a mess we have made of so many things, and now, it seems, the backlash has begun."

The generational backlash hasn't begun yet. And it won't get into full swing, or have any material consequences, until more Boomers retire and the cost of maintaining them breaks the federal budget. But one thing that is already mathematically certain is that Generation X, the Millenials, and the Hispanic immigrants will not pay to support the Baby Boomers in old age. Because they cannot. The Boomers ate too much of the societal seed corn instead"

http://voxday.blogspot.com/2011/11/you-aint-seen-n-n-nothin-yet.html

We're NOT paying - the inter-generational wealth transfer schemes will end.

You're probably not alone, oh aptly named Richard Head. You merely have some brass calling any generation spoiled and narcissistic.

To your parents and grandparents who my generation's FICA supported -- You're welcome, but I do wish you'd done a better job of raising your offspring.

@Richard -- "Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2055497/JEREMY-PAXMAN-Baby-Boomers-selfish-generation-history.html#ixzz2EVV0yGO8

"What begins in arrogance often ends in shame; there are some ominous signs that the Boomers are headed down that path. Sooner or later, the kids were going to note what a mess we have made of so many things, and now, it seems, the backlash has begun.""

Perhaps you failed to notice that this moron is British? There are more than a few differences in our retirement and medical systems.

Randy, keep deluding yourself into thinking you've been paying into your retirement via social security all these years. It is a ponzi scheme. You have been duped. You have been ripped off. Your money is paid out the second it gets sucked out of your check. By any other name, it is welfare for old people. I'm your age plus or minus a few years. Not happy, but at least dont have my head (up my ...) in the sand like you. Sheesh!

Social security is a trust fund, this is not a welfare program. There is some argument that it has been made to include a form of welfare, but for most of us it is a self funded program.
SS benefits are calculated by an actuary, just the same as an annuity may be.
The main difference between the two is: an annuity is backed by the solvency of the insurance company you did business with, SS is backed by the solvency of the United States. THIS is the problem, the USA has raided the fund and our Gvt continues to spend money we don't have.
It is not a Ponzi scheme, and here is why:
The TRUST fund has been collecting a portion of every dollar you ever earned, to be given back to you at retirement if you should live long enough.
You can read your statement from SS which lists each years wages, calculate what amount of that income has been placed in the trust fund. If you die when you are 75, the Trust fund makes out well. If you live to be 100, it cost the Fund more than anticipated.

Craig, say what you want about a trust fund that was looted and now holds nothing but IOUs. Moot point. Reality is payments to current retirees are skimmed out of the paychecks of current workers, with the promise those current workers will be paid back in the future (with earnings of future workers. By definition a Ponzi scheme. So given you must be advanced age to receive this transfer payment, it can be argued it is welfare for old people. Just taking the fancy wrapping off it and calling it what it is.

@GearHead, Craig, and Richard Head -- I think you gentlemen need to have this discussion amongst yourselves as to whether Social Security is welfare, a ponzi scheme, or a program we all pay into. You also need to settle whether Social Security adds to the federal budget deficit before proposing to save money by doiig away with it.

Yes indeed, there are IOUs in the trust fund. But there are IOUs in the funds of private insurance policies and annuities that are invested in the market. Richard professes outrage at the thought of paying for the Boomers' retirement. Does he think the government will stop collecting FICA? Why should one generation be the one to have paid in, thus having fewer funds for private retirement investing, only to have the promise broken?

Please don't tell me I'm living the recto-cranial life when at least one of you (Richard) can't seem to understand the difference between an article written by a British moron in a rag like the Daily Mail and the USA system, which is not cradle to grave socialism like the UK. Even that fool's fellow Brits called the article a bunch of 'codswallop'.

Craig -

SS is NOT in any trouble.

Medicare and Medicaid are the programs, at the end of the line in this cluster, that are in trouble. Furthermore, these programs are NOT in trouble, per se, but they are in trouble because of HEALTHCARE INSURANCE COSTS. The COST of HEALTHCARE, per se, is the ROOT CAUSE of the problem here...

However, it has always been the TAP position that SS, Medicare and Medicaid simply should NOT exist, and they will use any subterfuge, lie or demonization available to end them. They have been attempting that since SS began in 1935!

It is the triumph of ideology over reason, compassion, community, and humanity…

Richard Head -

"We're NOT paying - the inter-generational wealth transfer schemes will end."

Silly, silly statement... of course you are going to pay. You may not like it, like the bad medicine that makes you well, however, you will pay.

That is, unless you grace America with you leaving...

Sorry but a Ponzi scheme involves fraudulent returns and deception. The fraud can only occur if more investors are entering the system.
If the IOU's are paid back to SS, it would remain solvent forever. (almost)
My issue with SS is this: If the US Government decides to change this drastically, what is next? I am afraid they will start taxing 401(k) funds before they are withdrawn.
Pelosi actually suggested this several years ago, so it is not impossible.

GearHead -

Are you like Rick Perry's daughter?

@John Wilson: inhaling sand is hazardous to your health.

that was after Clinton called his bluff,and shut down the government! Then and only then did the newtster give in.

Nuitari –

The “Weeper of the House” has already made a compromise(s) with President Obama and there will be many more now that DeMintster is gone and 4-Tea Party Committee members have been given their packing papers.

Read the tea-leaves; what you hear from the media is not all that is happening...

I still hold out the hope that the TAP has the ability and will to learn… but then I have been wrong before…

To be a liberal is easy. Just lie.

The DOA request says the improvements are needed because the main-floor kitchen has not been renovated since 1986 and is used to prepare food for over 15,000 visitors annually.

The request says WERF is raising money to contribute toward the project but does not give an estimate.

A release Saturday from the governor's office said fundraising by Tonette Walker and WERF will account for most of the cost.

"The Executive Residence is truly the People's House and, each year, thousands of people go there for events, meals, or tours," the release quoted Gov. Scott Walker as saying. "Tonette is committed to working with the foundation to raise the majority of the funds for this renovation project, which will make sure the People's House is in good repair and can serve all who visit throughout the year."

See kids, this is what you become when you don't go to school, a babbling ultra left wing liberal!!!!!

Steve ® -

"A release Saturday from the governor's office said fundraising by Tonette Walker and WERF will account for most of the cost."

They ALWAYS say that, and then we taxpayers end up with the bill… only you believe them…

Have you paid the taxpayers back for the $13 million it cost to hold the temper tantrum recalls yet?

Stevie ... Isn't that the same thing that Wanker said about Russell and the Vets Purple Heart Foundation ?

@Bucky...
No it's not...Get a life!

It was County Executive Scott Walker alerted the DA's office to the improprieties in the veteran's funding.

Of course you Liberals would rather turn a blind eye than acknowledge that a Conservative did the right thing!!!

"...seemed..."

Enjoying........

Bren –

Walker’s real name is Pinocchio.

I’m enjoying…

John Wilson - speaking of Pinocchio, where is the savior, er, um Obama today?

Koven - "...he certainly seems to have surrounded himself with a lot of people who are either getting indicted or are being investigated for "iffy" behavior." Um, are you referring to Obama?

"Party loyalty is one thing, but how many questionable things have to be connected with your candidate before you abandon him and say you might have made a bad choice?" Um, are you referring to Obama?

"Please confine your responses to answering this particular question."
- Are you referring to Obama?

And how many millions is Obama spending by going off to Hawaii?