Gov. Scott Walker delivered the weekly radio address titled Talk With Walker on Thursday. The following is the transcript:
Hi, this is Scott Walker.
As we continue our work on the next state budget, I’ve been meeting with people throughout the state about what is important to you, and how to reach our goals.
At these events we’ve held in places including La Crosse, Green Bay and Madison, I laid out my top priorities – creating jobs, developing our workforce, investing infrastructure, transforming education and reforming government.
The input we have received so far has been great. People offered input and suggestions, voiced concerns and asked questions on topics ranging from health care to education.
What I’ve heard so far is that people want a government that operates on common sense. You want lower taxes and less waste. You want clean air and water, and reasonable regulations for business.
You told me you want an unemployment system that helps people move on and move up.
We talked about the need for more good-paying jobs, and I heard support for investment options for businesses and environmentally sound mining.
You told me you want an education system that allows you to get credit for the skills and the knowledge that you have. We talked about ways to promote manufacturing to the younger generation.
This is a great start. We have more Talk With Walker events planned and I look forward to gathering more information as lay out the financial plan to move Wisconsin forward.
The state partnered with the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association to produce and distribute brief radio address once a week. Audio files and a written transcript of this radio address can be accessed on http://www.wi-broadcasters.org and http://walker.wi.gov/Weekly-Radio-Addresses. To download an mp3 file, you can right click the radio address link and click “save link as.”
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Must be his campaign donors. I know that he's not talking to anyone out on the streets.
Governor Walker is right for Wisconsin.
Even Castro knows better: "Since 2010 more than 150,000 Cuban workers have left or been laid off from their state jobs, a concept previously unimaginable in a system that was supposed to provide all the work and all the social benefits. President Castro himself has said that the state apparatus is bloated and too conducive to dependence and corruption, and that the state must trim a half million workers. State agricultural land is now being leased in pieces to private farmers and cooperatives, and other kinds of legal self-employment are being gingerly promoted as well. Over the past two years the government has authorized 181 job-specific categories of cuentapropismo, as it’s called—the keeping of one’s own account." http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2012/11/new-cuba/gorney-text
"And there are so many good things here that people take for granted, because they were born with them. You tell me another place where a kid can grow up so safe, get his vaccinations, get his education, not be involved in gangs or drugs. " ...“I love my country,” Eduardo kept saying. “But there is no future for me here.” Over nine weeks of traveling around Cuba this year and last, I heard this particular sequence of complaints so often, and from so many different kinds of people, that it began to form a kind of collective national lamentation: I love my country and it doesn’t work. Eduardo grabbed a glass saltshaker from the table. “My whole life, the government has been telling us, Look! I’m giving you this nice full saltshaker!” he said. “But it’s never full.” Cuba - The Socialist Workers Paradise!! http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2012/11/new-cuba/gorney-text
Even the ration book—the libreta issued to all Cuban households, with its check-off columns for the state-subsidized basic foods every citizen is supposed to get each month—may be an artifact near the end of its time, Raúl Castro has said...what the priest really wanted to talk about was his libreta. “Look at this!” he cried. “Eight ounces of oil, per person, for a month! Ten ounces of beans! One package of pasta maybe every three months!” The verb luchar, which means “fight,” also translates loosely in Cuba to “transfer workplace items into one’s personal possession, which the system impels us to do because our salaries won’t cover a lousy Bucanero.” The standard lucha involves eating, drinking, using, bartering, or selling the items in question. Reform campaigns pushed by Raúl Castro have produced scores of high-level corruption arrests, but one defining quality of any attractive workplace, still, is the nature of the lucha. (“If you can’t look around and find things you can take home or resell,” a woman in her 40s from a working-class neighborhood outside Havana told me firmly, “then it’s not a good job.”) WORKER'S PARADISE!!
Richard Head, not sure I understand your post.
Cuba was the "Socialist Workers Paradise" that liberals espoused as an ideal. The truth is that it clearly doesn't work, the people under it hate it, Castro has stated it doesn't work, and Cuba is becoming RIGHT TO WORK. Cuba now recognizes that it is a failed Socialist State. Cuba is now implementing Right To Work because it WORKS! This confirms that Scott Walker is moving Wisconsin FORWARD in the right direction and that your failed 20th.C thinking is like Cuba under Fidel Castro - a thing of the past. Embrace the 21st. C reality of a RTW WISCONSIN!
I know of no liberal that believed Fidel Castro was good for Cuba. His ties with the former USSR made Cuba's proximity to the U.S. a very uncomfortable state of affairs. This shows your lack of understanding of post-WWII history, including the Cold War and does you no service. Look up the Cuban Missile Crisis in particular. A Right to Work Wisconsin, in reality (that is, based on data from other Right to Work states) indicates lower wages. How is the economy to grow if working- and middle-income households lose even more of their spendable income.