Heather while I agree that supply and demand do generally run the market, right now that is not so much the case. Right now workers are being over worked, production from our workers is at an all time high. That sounds good and in some respects it is, but it also means that companies have plenty of work to be done and they are just relying on less people to do it to try and make some cash back from the recession. Only problem is you really ruin the workforce when you strain it so much like has been seen over the last year.

@Jay - I hear you! I think I remember watching a TV news report not too long ago (ABC?) that said it has been decades since the American worker has had this big of a work load without a corresponding wage. So yes, there are jobs out there that aren't necessarily "new," I agree.

Businesses also have a choice to make when they expand to create new positions. The expanded facility can be built in Wisconsin, or they can be built somewhere else. If tax incentives cause more jobs to be created in Wisconsin instead of somewhere else, I think that is a good thing and well worth it.

I just don't like the game-playing, is really what I'm saying. Jobs are created because there's a need, not because government offers a tax credit. Washington, Madison and Sturtevant can offer all the tax credits they want, but if there isn't a need, the jobs won't happen.

Don't get me wrong - I think Sturtevant, the County and the State did the right thing to keep the jobs here. I just don't like that it was a game of who's package would be bigger and/or better, pitting one state against another.

Of course the media will be on the validity of the recall signatures ... it's a huge story with major implications for the state.

Amen Dirk.
It's about time someone in our state starts holding the media accountable for providing thoroughly researched data and facts prior to reporting to the general public. Also, they need to start reporting unbiased opinions that are overwhelming skewed to the left.

God I get tired of the claims about the left media, the media is run by the right. Please read a book written by a republican called the Republican money maker. They own almost all the media.

Jay, I agree. Who owns the gigantor media conglomerates? Multinational corporations. People who watch Fox are being spoon fed Australian Rupert Murdoch's (News Corp) far right political views. News Corp in the U.K. is being investigated for hacking into crime victim and celebrities' cell phones and there could well be the same here. I can't imagine U.S. Fox viewers have been told this. This is why I read international papers. A lot of information is sanitized or withheld from the American public. They rely on us to be lazy.

So please Dirk, don't believe for a moment that the U.S. media is "leftist." It takes a lot of cash to run a media empire.

Is there a point here or are you mimicking the liberal media with your assumptions and left leaning bias

@HRG -

First off, the campaign promise was for a full four-year effective term. Walker's barely done with his first year, and you already want to judge him on this promise? Not to mention the fact that much of his time in office was met with extreme resistance via the Capitol protests, the Dems fleeing the state, frivolous lawsuits, recall elections, etc. So, in all fairness and reality, the man has probably had an effective 6 months of actual governance at best.

Also, isn't it a bit hypocritical the way you use the term "claimed," to preface the job creation numbers from July, but don't use this same qualifier when referring to the job losses number - despite both sets of numbers coming from the same suspect source using the same suspect and inaccurate/incomplete/inconclusive methodology?

Not to mention the FACT that by those very same numbers, the state is still ahead by "20,100 net new private-sector jobs added since Walker took office in January."

At least be fair when applying your critique of equally weighted and credible evidence. Otherwise, you're allowing your partisanship to get in the way of logic and reality, which greatly diminishes the credibility of your conclusions.

There is a huge difference between the impact State and Federal government can have over jobs (which is little to nil) and what a county or local level can have. Attracting and keeping business is a vital part of the local unit of government.

@Chris - I think you're right about the differences in impact. The incentives offered Ruud made a real and immediate difference; by next fall there will be new employees working in that addition. All told, at least 469 people will find work as a result. That is awesome. What we need is more measurement to really see how these packages work so tax credits/incentives are more targeted to produce/attract the jobs as designed.

@JRH - you and I are going to beat this drum, I promise, until someone does something about the state tax code!

@Heather A. -

Don't you know it!

It's such an obvious, I don't know why no one is willing to tackle this. Do you think all of the politicians have been bought off by the tax attorney lobby?

Ben
Lighten up. the kids will be happy.

spsenski Steven P. Senski
Remember: Tomorrow is St. Nickolaus Day, when children in Waukesha County awaken to find ballots in their shoes. #recallwalker

@Resident of O.C. Paul -

You raise many valid points, however, there is little that state governments can do regarding foreign competition/trade - as such falls largely within the purview of the federal government. And it doesn't help the situation when we have a President who's pushing for 'made in the U.S.A' during his jobs speech while only a couple months earlier ordering his motorcade tour busses from Canada instead of giving the multi-million dollar contract to American based Thomas Built or Bluebird, does it? How many jobs could Obama have kept here instead of giving our tax dollars and jobs to a foreign competitor? Obama = do as I say, but not as I do = HYPOCRITE!!!

To answer your question, as you must have missed my earlier post, Wisconsin is still ahead in job creation by a "net 20,100 net new private-sector jobs added since Walker took office in January" according to the official numbers sanctioned by both the state and federal government.

@Nudy -

Yeah, and the Democrats are totally different. Obama promised and campaigned on having the most transparent administration in the history of our nation. And yet, his signature piece of legislation, Obamacare, was largely hammered out behind closed doors in secret. Anyone who wants to recall Walker because of his alleged non-disclosures during his campaign regarding public sector union collective bargaining privileges should also want to see Obama impeach for perpetrating a fraud upon the American people during his campaign, right?

Don't be a partisan hack!