Issue of the Week: Where Are the Jobs?
Plus Hero of the Week
So how are they doing?
Well, Walker has been touring small employers in the state—while making himself unavailable to the public—to tout small job creation measures. He's added some state funds and tax breaks for job creation. The job market has shown some improvement, part of a national trend.
But all of that is overshadowed by his decision to gut public employees' collective bargaining rights. And that, of course, will do nothing to create jobs. However, if the controversial bill is implemented as law, it will help to tamp down wages not only for public employees, but for all employees, since employers will benefit from a more-desperate workforce.
Instead of creating family-supporting jobs, Walker and his fellow Republicans are focusing all of their efforts on social issues that won't help the state's workforce or economic climate one bit. Implementing concealed carry, expanding school vouchers, enacting an onerous and expensive voter ID policy, killing off regional transit, rejecting federal funds for rail projects, pulling state support for family planning services for low-income women, refusing to defend the state's domestic partnership registry, gutting consumer protections for nursing home residents, slashing funds for public education from kindergarten to graduate school, placing the future of BadgerCare in doubt, repealing the Earned Release Program, weakening environmental protections—none of these measures will create a single job, period, although they may help Walker and Republican legislators get airtime on FOX News and raise campaign dollars from deep-pocketed conservative donors like the Koch brothers.
Walker should take a tip from his alleged hero—former Republican Gov. Tommy Thompson—and steer clear of the most divisive social issues and focus instead on policy. Although we clearly did not agree with all of Thompson's ideas, he at least had the wisdom to see the benefits of family planning, BadgerCare, high-speed rail and collective bargaining. Walker, unfortunately, isn't as smart or as reasonable.
Heroes of the Week
Health Care for the Homeless Physicians, Staff and Volunteers
Health Care for the Homeless of Milwaukee (711 W. Capitol Drive) strives "to ensure that men, women and children in the greater Milwaukee area who are homeless, or at risk of homelessness, will receive the quality health care, housing and supportive services they need in order to live at the highest possible level of self-sufficiency."
Founded in 1980, the nonprofit offers primary medical and dental care at multiple locations. Health Care for the Homeless of Milwaukee also provides HIV testing and case management, substance abuse services and prenatal care coordination. Staff members also provide assistance with housing issues and referrals to external resources.
For more information, or to donate much-needed basic hygiene or medical supplies, call 414-374-2400 or visit www.hchm.com.
I thought 109 new jobs somewhere in Racine Co were announced this week. Of course, only 30 will be filled by the end of this year! What good does that do when MPS and many other school systems are laying off workers because of the massive budget cuts??!!
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The TEA (Taxed Enough Already) Party folks are in power, due to liberal and moderate apathy. They need votes to get their agenda through. What better way to get votes after an economic crash than the issue of job creation. The hook!
My understanding is that ANY political party that spouts money issues, is really about anything else but money! It's how to handle the money that is already out there, it's about social structure ideals. I don't care if you talk Scott Walker, Tea Party, Paul Ryan, even Libertarians.
The "US Taxpayers Party" eventually was renamed as the "Constitution Party". I met some of those guys right about the time the name changed, had some ideological discussions. This party was really a Fundamentalist Christian party, pretty clear if oyu read their party platform planks. Do you think they would get your vote if they told you that up front? People read the headline, the cover of the book, they do not read the contents inside.
The TEA party is not about reducing government deficit and reducing government spending, reducing taxation like they say they are. It is really about the silent majority "taking our government back" from all the liberal causes that changed how life was lived, how government intruded on business and on our day to day lives. I say "majority" loosely, for in a segregated environment, "everyone you know" has the same opinion, must be a majority!
Business does not really care about the social issues, but they will go along with the TEA party if it serves to make business more profitable, less government power to regulate and tax business.
First order is to reduce government spending, (they need that to reduce taxation). It's no surprise that they cherry pick certain government spending to end... only those that are associated with those liberal "redistribution of wealth" services, not the other services we like... roads, water and sewer, police and fire protection.
Public schools is a redistribution of wealth service, it was "made worse" by the civil rights reforms of the 50's and 60's. Back then the issue was money. White schools had the money to put together good libraries, science labs, vo-tech clasrooms. Black schools did not have the money, therefore could not educate their youth as well, thus their graduates could not compete in the job market. All fine and dandy to a bigoted racist on the "good" side of the dividing line.
Public Schools could have been fixed if the federal government could have forced states and cities to "redistribute" school spending, but they could not do that. The other way was to force integration of the students, and busing to redistribute the students from black schools to the white schools. THAT is a major intrusion on a segregated way of life. "Can't make them move the money, so we will make them move the students".
Welfare was another way to redistribute wealth, we know how we hate that. Store owners actually liked welfare, it kept those shoppers coming in. Anti-discrimination laws was another equalizing measure, you know how you hate that as well, just more government regulations intruding on how you did business, who you hired, who you allowed in the door.
Environmental regulations also intruded on how you did business, now we got to clean up after ourselves, whereas we used to make money by not spednig the money to clean it up, not spend the money to protect our workers from toxic effects. Workers were expendable anyway, why do they need to be protected?
Gun Control (or lack of). What better way to keep the enemy out of my neighborhood than to allow me concealed carry, no license, not even a government record that I am carrying? Oh, how "secret army" like the KKK. The police are only there to take the report after the event (let's not call it a "crime" if I am self-defending my right to remain pure white). Segregation is coming back!
Regional Transit Authorities (RTA's). Got to keep them buses from crossing those lines. The best way to shut that down is to cut off the money that feeds that system. If I can't keep from hiring that colored person, then I will move my workplace out to where the buses cannot go. As soon as that dark workers car fails, I got him off my staff!
School Vouchers. Another attack on those damned public schools that are currently integrated by federal law. Cut off the money to public schools, take back that $7000 per pupil redistributed tax dollar, give out a $2500 per pupil voucher to a private school. While you are at it, put blinders on them, no tests, no enforcement of teaching liberal politics, global warming, evolution, or the arts. Sports matters, not those damned arts, crafts, environmentalism.
Voter ID. As long as the majority is poor, then the majority wants "one man one vote" to out-vote the "one share one vote" corporate way. Once enough people are raised up to the privileged share-owner class, they soon realize that they do not want the poor people voting. Corporate leaders wanted us off of pensions and onto 401k's to turn the rest of us into shareholders, now we can vote to preserve the same Wall Street that keeps them well fed, even in times of jobless recovery. Now, we got to stop those non-taxpayers from voting. (students, unemployed, non-invested retirees).
I realize that I went overboard in most of my statements above, but you got to start with the small stuff that can hide behind money before you attack the big issues, like civil rights. Once the minority vote is eliminated, the courts are stacked, then they can wipe out the civil rights gains, the working class gains.
Just remember that civil rights is not just a pure black vs white thing, it is a have vs have not thing (life is easier when black equates to have-not). The game has always been to keep the non-empowered class to agree to stay in their place.
The civil war was not fought over "slavery of blacks", it was fought over "does a worker have a right to quit and go work for someone who pays more, has better conditions". Take that away, and the employers need not pay well, need not provide benefits, need not keep things nice and safe.
Jobs are always and everwhere all the time. Typically a person has to make an individual effort to get a job. The government should not be responsible for creating make-work jobs for the convenience of people. Only lazy cowards are unemployed for an extended period of time. There brave people getting up everyday and are out there going to work, creating jobs for themselves while the whining cowards at the Shepard Express ask the stupid question "Where are the Job?" Obviously there are no jobs for people who refuse to learn basic skills, practice proper dress and hygine, and follow the rules of our society.
Some government job creation I don't have a problem with. We should replace welfare and food stamps with hard labor. Perhaps make someone pick up a ton of litter before receiving any cash or food stamps. Our inner cities should like like suburban parks. The work should be so hard, people will opt in to the mainstream labor force rather than choose welfare.
Maybe I should write a book on easy ways to get a job, find a job or "fire-proof" the one you have.
"Hard Labor" David? Since you don't like "make work", so you would do the Ron Johnson Pacur thing of taking away an honest persons job to have them done by prisoners at low or no pay? The free market economy would have provided the workers for those jobs to those who decided to bust their asses and work hard (your way). But you would knock even those people out of the way, harness a convict who we are trying to punish.
You had best make sure those are jobs that no citizen wants to do at any price! Otherwise it is like a forced pay-cut for that type a job.
And what if us taxpayers and voters who like low-cost governement services need some more of the hard laborers to get all the services done, are you going to go out an arrest and convict some more? And will you use racial profiling (or "political profiling" these days) to meet your needs?
That's called slavery, David! And who is to be the judge of what class of people you take advantage of this way?
Oh no not slavery. People should always have the right to choose a life of sloth. Howver they should not be receiving government assistance to support that life.
It doesn't matter if those are jobs citizens want or not. We always have a labor shortage at all times regardless of what you see in the press. Its just people don't go fill those jobs and claim unemployment. There is always room from my Iphone App creaters, inventors of high tech gadgets, or even someone to wipe grampa's butt.
Jobs are always and everywhere all the time.
Wauskesha guy - racial profiling? Really. What if I just hauled off and said that "are you going to wear your pointy white hat every time you make a comment? Gee Waukesha Guy, are you in the Klan?" You wouldn't like that.
Waukesha Guy, you are truly insane. David said nothing about prisoners- he said that welfare should be given in return for difficult "make-work" jobs. He said nothing about race. YOU DID!!
We all judge the class of people we interact with every day. Waukesha Guy, what right do you have driving up to a gas station, flaunting your car and your nice clothes? Don't you realize that you're hurting the feelings of the clerk behind the counter, because he can't afford a car and is wearing jeans his older brother wore before him? Have you no heart? You should have to find your own oil and refine it into your own gasoline so that you do not offend anyone who makes one red (oops, racist) cent less than you with your extravagant lifestyle. Car, indeed. Khakis and a button down shirt- you bloated piece of bourgeois trash!
David simply said that there are no jobs for people who "refuse to learn basic skills, practice proper dress and hygiene, and follow the rules of our society." You take issue with even those minimal, basic requirements for acceptance into our economy as a producer. What are your bottom-line requirements for a job candidate?
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