On Thursday, Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch delivered the weekly radio address titled Small Business Summit. The following is the transcript from her address:
Hi I’m Lieutenant Governor Rebecca Kleefisch.
This week marks the end of October as National Manufacturing Month. You probably already know we lead the nation in making cheese, and you definitely know the Packers will always be at the top. But did you know that Wisconsin still ranks first among the 50 states in manufacturing jobs per capita? That’s right! And we’re making strides to improve our business climate and improve our workforce to make Wisconsin even better for manufacturers, other small businesses, and our great citizens.
We’re doing this by listening to you. At last year’s small business summit in Green Bay, that’s exactly what we did. The governor and I handed the microphone to our job creators and they told us how to put government back on track. Get out of the way of the private sector creating jobs, help to develop our workforce, transform our education system, invest in our infrastructure, and reform government to work more like a business.
One year later, we’ve made significant progress. But we’re ready for more. On Nov. 8, the Governor’s Second Annual Small Business Summit will be held in La Crosse. On behalf of the governor, we look forward to turning the microphone back over to the job creators so we can build on these successes to move Wisconsin forward.
For more information on how you can participate in this year’s summit, please visit us at www.wheda.com.
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.”
Too many people think that the economy is based on wealth accumulation. This is untrue. Economists call invested money dead money. US Corporations are currently sitting on 1.8 trillion dollars in cash and they do not plan on hiring anyone soon. In fact, they are demanding further tax cuts. The disconnect between Corporate America and the US populous has not been so glaring in years.
It's one thing to choose to purchase a luxury item and pay the higher cost; health care is not a luxury and that's what it has turned into. This is going to be a long, tough battle but it must be engaged to restore sanity to the process. If rates and coverage were reasonable, there would be less reliance of government. More people could pay their bills, and hospitals and doctors would get paid. I know a number of people who don't go to the doctor when they should because their monthly insurance premiums and deductibles are so high they can't afford it. There's something just a little wrong with that.
Yes Bren, but tell me, when the government FORCES you to take children to age 26 AND people with pre-existing conditions AND removes lifetime caps, what happens to the cost of insurance? It goes up, and since those costs can be justified, the expense to deal with it gets passed along to us. BOcare did NOTHING to address the real costs of rising health care. Rather,it just added a higher burden to the system WITHOUT providing options to lower costs (Unlike Governor Scott Walker who had to remove millions from state aid to schools, but offset that with tools for local governments to balance their budgets) I just went to the ER for one of my kids where, because of a temporary clerical error, I received a bill of $3,000 from the hospital. We got it squared away with the insurance company, but how could the 2 hours we spent in the ER cost that much? The doctor was in the room for about ten minutes, x-rays were billed separately, and the nurse spent maybe a half hour on and off. THAT'S where B.O. and his Democratic cronies should have focused their energies.
Look, we can get this through on a partisan effort. But I would rather come up with REAL solutions to solve this. Keep that in mind as we work to solve this problem. Instead, B.O. just rammed it through, which shows the lack of leadership he has!
Remember Romney was labelled a felon? Remember Romney had millions hid in the Caymans? Remember the Benghazi attack was a protest gotten out of hand? Remember "I will cut the deficit in half in four years"? Remember "You didn't build that"? And that's just a start!
Can you imagine how funny it would be if Kleefisch posted here and insulted your intelligence while confusing "there" with "their"??? Boy, would she look stupid. Imagine the irony!!!
You've spent the last two damn days insulting the intelligence of various people. As someone with no small amount of experience with psychometrics, I would really like to know what your IQ score is. After that, I would like to discuss the reasons you feel the need to do that.
Romney = Winner
As far as my I.Q., that is something that I am not going to share. I will say that it is at least two standard deviations above the mean. However, as you know, that is only one measure out of many. Political opinion has nothing to do with intelligence, there are so many other variables determining social positioning. The only correlation that I find between high intelligence and social position is that of religiosity. They is a strong correlation between high intelligence and agnosticism and atheism.
Regardless if you want a National Health Care Plan or not, ObamaCare is a horrible hybrid version. Anyone who has had a problem with a bill knows the red tape is a bitch. Call the Dr. regarding a bill and they blame the insurance; call the insurance and they blame the Dr. Imagine fitting Gvt into this- another contact that will give you no answer, if you can even get a human voice on the phone. ObamaCare keeps insurance Companies in the mix, which will cause higfher rates for most of us. Insurers are FOR PROFIT, and to demand by law that we MUST buy from them is going to embolden them even more. Anyone who thinks this is a solution to medical costs going higher please explain it to me, I'd love to hear from you. Many of my friends who own small businesses are actually looking at the cost savings to drop their Health plan and pay the "tax". If small business is considering this, don't you think major Corporations with hundreds or thousands of employees will follow suit? When this happens, the costs will skyrocket and the consumer will not know because the Gvt. will be paying the premiums. Insurance Companies will need to add staff to deal with the Gvt red tape- this cost will be passed on.