Wisconsin’s remorseless weasel governor Scott Walker has a very important theory about why his administration has failed in epic fashion to create the 250,000 jobs he promised by the end of his first term: DAMN PROTESTERS. The state is currently leading the country in job losses, you see, because the peaceful protests against Walker’s teacher union-crushing in Madison last year have sent all the business owners into hiding for fear of being eaten, by teachers. That is his argument.
First, the numbers, from Christian Science Monitor:
Wisconsin lost 23,900 jobs between March 2011 and March 2012, according to data released Tuesday by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. The state’s lead in job losses is significantly greater than the rest of the 50 states: No other state lost more than 3,500 jobs.
The majority of the losses in Wisconsin, 17,800, were in the public sector. However, the state lost more private-sector jobs, 6,100, than any other state. The only other states to report private-sector job losses in the same time period (instead of private-sector gains) were Mississippi and Rhode Island.
And now the WHINE, from an interview Walker gave to a right-wing radio program:
Well it’s interesting, look at the March to march numbers, March of last year to March of this year, there’s a reason why we had some challenges there, particularly early on. In March, April and May, people can remember what was happening, thank goodness it’s passed now, you can remember what was happening last Spring in our state’s Capitol. There was a lot of uncertainty, particularly for small businesses, I know having held listening sessions all around this state, small business owners more than anything want certainty, they didn’t see that around the Capitol last year so that was one of the biggest challenges out there.
Real mature, Scott Walker. [Right Wing Watch]
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Wisconsin needs only one more job loss, Scotty.
Pay the protesters. Problem solved. How have the Kochs not thought of this already? Pass a law in Wisconsin ordering the privatization of all public communism! It has to be at a living wage, of course. Plus government sponsored hoverounds for the counter-protesters.
ScottKochWalker ™ and his house already passed a bill that said any gathering over like 5 people would have to pay the MPD something like $500 an hour. That was their supposed workaround to protests, Oohh, and dont forget "no cameras" allowed in the Capital, but now "guns" are totally cool.
Those union machinists are pretty capable – I'm sure it would be no problem for a few of them to take guns and mini-video cameras, and presto!: a whole bunch of guns with built-in video cameras. What will the legislature do then? Can't violate people's second amendment rights!
My thought, after a couple of cocktails, was a gun with sights that records, then just sit in the gallery, (second tier,mezz seating) and point it at Walker whenever he speaks.
"point it at Walker whenever he speaks"
Or a person could do that with a regular gun.
"small business owners more than anything want certainty"
So lame. If you want certainty, get out of the private sector or ask for more central planning.
Yeah, this "certainty" thing is such a total fucking lie. If you really believe businesses want certainty, don't go around completely tearing up the social contract of your state with its people.
But as I've pointed out in the past, the last thing the finance sector wants is certainty. Without uncertainty, there's no risk. Without risk, there's no profit in the finance sector, and hence no such thing as the finance sector. Hey, maybe Scotty has a point after all, just not for the reason he thinks. Oh wait, he doesn't think, he just moves his mouth when whichever Koch brother has an arm up his ass opens and closes their hand.
Without uncertainty, the Koch Brothers empire couldn't exploit the shit out of markets worldwide.
What Walker and his similar dipshits really mean, though, is that business don't like the idea that the money they spent buying the legislature may not have a predictable return on investment and might (horrors) occasionally result in a sunk cost without any tangible return. That's the mark of a quality public servant for AFP and the Kochs – once bought, they stay bought.
Capitalists are such pussies. Everything has to be just so.
"small business owners more than anything want certainty, they didn’t see that around the Capitol last year"
DUDE! You're the Governor. Did you shoot yourself in the left or right foot with that statement?
So, basically, Walker thinks business owners are nervous nellies who see some protesters at the State Capitol building and become so frightened that they start firing their staff for no reason other than the mere existence of the protesters?
I work 2 blocks from the capital in a huge (for Madison) state office building. Yesterday I realized its turned into Fight Club around here.
I am Suds raging hope for voter turnout.
The lack of certainty is Walker's fault. He promised those business owners he'd crush the spirits of Wisconsin workers, and instead he goaded them into fighting back. Now they're insisting on being treated like human beings, not just inputs in a spreadsheet program.
Like the bully he is, Walker now blames his intended victims for being tougher than he thought.
Well fucking said.
In the Simpsons Kamp Krusty episode:
Mr. Black: I thought you said you crushed their spirits!
Bullies: We did! We did!
Mr. Black: *slap* *slap* You crushed NOTHING!!
My brother in law once got sacked by a hippy. He worked for Apple.
Carly Fiorina bought the company my sister worked for, laid off the US based employees, and sent the jobs to India.
Can't stand that evil sheep-cow of a woman. Won't buy an HP product ever, even though she's gone.
My sister in law once got a hippy in the sack. He's now the father of her children.
I once had the hippy hippy shakes. But, I am much better now.
For goodness sakes!
Scott Walker is a jerk which means he's a 'rising star' in the Republican party (translation: willing do do whatever the Koch brothers tell him to).
But Wisconsin does lead the nation in douchebag manufacturing. So there.
Brett Fer, Fah, Farve is in our Hall of Fame.
And he ain't even a native cheese brat eater.
But like Soviet era statistics in which tractor production was given in metric tonnes of production, we just made one reallllllllly big douchebag. FWIW I heard that welding scrap metal to anything to bump the productivity numbers up had some pretty hilarious results in the russian tractor business back in the day.
Sounds like somebody needs a nice skullfucking.
"Consensually"
Well, he said "nice".
Isn't that one that involves Martha Stewart, and hand-crocheted doilies?
It still wouldn't straighten that misshapen skull. If his head is this fucked up all these years later he must have absolutely *ruined* his mother, the poor thing will probably spend the rest of her existence in diapers. And on top of all the physical damage she has the knowledge that she raised the absolutely worst governor in the history of the state. His mom I feel sorry for, Scooter not so much.
"This governor job would be great if it weren't for all the damned people."
There must be a Second-Amendment Solution to this problem. I learned from the clever people at the Tea Party that it's reasonable and well and good to come to a political gathering armed like a Contra…
Spread gun or laser beam?
No snark: arm the hippies, arm the protestors, occupy the fucking NRA.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090…
This is a serious question.
Like CommieMommie?
Any small business owner that makes hiring/firing decision based on whether or not teachers are protesting in Madison is going to be out of business by the end of the quarter regardless of the choice they make, because they're clearly a total fucking moron without the first idea how to run a business.
So, net effect of protests on private-sector employment: quite close to zero. Except for the slight possibility that jobs were created in cleanup companies or, far more likely, PR hack firms putting out wild exaggerations and complete fictions about the extent of cleanup required.
You know who ELSE ripped big, smelly farts like, "I was only following orders!"?
G Gordon Libby?
Liddy. G Gordon Liddy.
D'oh!
That's what you get for commenting before you've finished the morning's first coffee.
G. Scooter Libby?
All of them, Katie.
Mongo?
George Custer?
My waitress at Olive Garden?
Maybe he needs to make a trip to Israel and "sell our state's business-friendliness" to foreign investors; and also go murmur at that whaling wall or wherever it was Gov. Christie found necessary to baptize* with some American-brand exceptionalistic hubris.
(*I believe upon exiting there Christie was heard saying "…*wheeze*…No more tears!.. *pant*")
Call me Ishmael.
"you can remember what was happening last Spring in our state’s Capitol. There was a lot of uncertainty, particularly for small businesses, I know having held listening sessions all around this state"
Scotty, let me es'plain this to you: YOU put a bunch of people out of work. They had some time on their hands being unemployed and all, so they got to protest your stupid ass. And, they also had less disposable income to buy shit at their local mom and pop stores because they had no job. So, whose fault is it? I'll give you one guess…
I would invite him to do the math, but I know the futility that would lie therein.
"Math is hard." -Barbie
The only math Scotty knows is counting the digits and commas on the Koch checks.
Actually, most of the protesters were working stiffs, anything vaguely "hippie" was poo-poo'd upon. As I recouped in a bar on the square the day fucking Breitbart showed up to scream at the urbanites for 20 minutes I saw a bagger with a sign that said " Go To Work", 5 minutes later someone had made a sign and stood right next to him that said " Its Sunday".
"I saw a bagger with a sign that said " Go To Work""
It really does take a certain atomic weapon quality stupid to tell a guy holding up a sign saying "We Want Jobs" to go to work.
"From June forward, however, well, that's just my fucking incompetence."
According to Walker-nomics, Romney and the Repubicans challenging Obama's re-election is creating national uncertainty and job losses. Um … except for all the new jobs in the country.
small business owners more than anything want certainty
I'm pretty sure they want money to feed their families first, fuckface.
If those fucking protesters would put as much energy and effort into filling out job applications and refining their resumès as they do into protesting, there would be no unemployment.
I know. Right?
that is about all i can come up with whenever this tool is discussed.
And smoking reefer and playing those damn bongo drums night and day.
Fuck this guy.
Fuck this guy.
(twice)
Chris Christy was in here Tuesday to stump for Walker.
We had to hide all our cheese and brats to be safe.
We are less obese since he left.
my actor friends and i used to have a trope. anytime any of us would go to WI to do a show or spend time we would come back 10 pounds heavier.
shorthand for putting on weight became 'i went to WI'.
(sorry, i know we're FIBs)
So, if prohibiting peaceable assembly is OK notwithstanding the First Amendment, can you trump that by carrying guns and getting a twofer Amendment protection under 1 and 2?
They want the trains to run on time.
we don't have any trains. fucking republican governors have refused all the funds.
Huh. An exposed Koch Brothers surrogate and failed governor is blaming unions for his state's economic stagnation? Who could have predicted that. In other news, "The corporate-owned lamestream media reported Walker's hypothesis with a credulity bordering on obsequiousness, while everyone else rolled their eyes and continued protesting; also, water is wet."
We scared, Massa Walka! Don' let the libruls beat us!
That's "tenets of Keynes economics".
Belief systems & ideologies have "tenets".
Apartment houses have "tenants".
Same Latin root: "tenere" = "to hold".
But not the same word.
Please don't spell like a Teabagger before I've had my morning coffee.
It brings out the Megabitch in me, and these days, it doesn't take much bringing out.
Don't be so picky. They're the same thing, for all intensive purposes.
What's all this about tents and porpoises?
I'll never forget the word "tenet" because it was the only word I got wrong on a vocabulary test in school — and yes, I also thought it was someone who lived in an apartment.
I thought "job creating" was why we give all our earnings to the Rich. So now its the mythical "small businesses" that determine job creationism?
Yes, the struggling little mom and pop companies like Exxon and GM.
From march to march, protestors are going to march all over Scott Walker. Forward!
Whatever, dick. How's that job creating train building thing going…OH, WAIT.
Dick.
Should that be "Deck", a la Kelly?
"No booty calls, Deck!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lP_BsSUXGx8
I'm pretty sure all the small businesses around the Capital that were swamped with protestors buying coffee and lunch and "Fuck Walker" t-shirts were pretty happy about the protests.
I'm certain that you are the Koch brothers' butt monkey, Scottie.
I'm uncertain if Scott Walker has a brain.
This is how the GOP has been winning elections since Nixon: do something to goad some of the people into anger, then turn around and tell the other people "Look at all this chaos. It's all the liberals' fault. Vote for us and there will be order and the damn hippies will not run wild in the streets with their sex and drugs and making things bad for America!" And damned if it doesn't keep working.
I know having held listening sessions
fuck you you corporate tool. your only fucking job in the private sector was selling warranties for fucking IBM part time in college (from which you never fucking graduated). the rest of your fucking career has been in tax payer supported jobs. we've paid your fucking salary since like 1990 and in return you fucking cut teachers' pay, you refuse health care funding from the feds, you restrict voting rights, you restrict union rights and you put your fucking cronies in other fucking tax payer funded jobs.
may your koch loving ass lose in june and may you have to compete in the fucking private sector like the rest of us.
(ok, now i feel better).
A small business owner that wants certainty is usually called "a former small business owner" because its all about risk and reward.
The certainty they were seeking, Scott, is that you would be replaced with someone competent. Now get lost!
…and yet, this turd got elected. Scary.
"there’s a reason why we had some challenges there, particularly early on. In March, April and May, people can remember what was happening, thank goodness it’s passed now, you can remember what was happening last Spring in our state’s Capitol."
Wasn't Jeffrey Dahmer also from Wisconsin? And when we was interviewed, he said about his victims, "They became deceased".
Is it something in the water there, do you guys think?
Ed Gein and Scott Walker were also both from Wisconsin.
Dahmer was from Ohio, and by all accounts was pretty severely fucked-up before he got to Wisconsin.
But yes, there is something in the cheese.
When that lady in the supermarket said, "Ow!", that caused me to run my cart over her foot.
Scott Walker is a Squid's Dick.
Funny how Republicans say Wisconsin is not losing jobs and that the jobs the are losing are due to the unions at the same time. Orwell would be prou-well, probably profoundly depressed.
Well the little Koch goblin Goblin is in the usual conservative form: take personal responsibility for your failures by immediately blaming them on people who did not contribute one iota to them. The protest groups didn't pass legislation, they didn't think smug dorkus Paul Ryan is a genius and strived to emulate him. They didn't get taken on by a prank call that if anything is tame compared to the ultra-authoritarian real David Koch. They haven't taken a horrendous fund-stripping budget and sever an anti-union measure (because heh, heh, that was all for fiscal sanity, remember) and pass it under cover of darkness with a vote so sudden it would make the supreme Soviet blush. They weren't authoritarian, weasley, corrupt little pricks who based their entire entry into public service to line their own pockets and be too obvious about it. No Koch Walker, they are not you, they are not demented fuckups with messaih complexes who in a few weeks will be out on their narrow, teabagging asses. That will be $100 for this moment of clarity, you pig fucking, cheese eating bag of suburban honkey shit.
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