Scott Walker

Does screwing consumers create jobs?

October 3, 2011 by Uppity Wisconsin

All you need to know about the latest "job creation" bill added to the special legislative session on jobs by Gov. Scott Walker:

People who successfully sue for injuries would earn a lower interest rate on their judgments than banks and credit card companies who take their customers to court, under a bill Gov. Scott Walker included in the upcoming special legislative session on jobs.

Hey, what more could be fairer?

Cut Public Spending? Not If A Conservative's Budget Is Involved

October 3, 2011 by The Political E...

Milwaukee's righty talkers were siding with Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke last week over trims to his budget proposed by County Exec Chris Abele.

Clarke is talk radio's second-favorite elected official - - Scott Walker being the permanent #1 - -  so the takeaway here is that small government and cutting budgets is absolutely, positively mandatory - - except if sought from a conservative office-holder, and that's the end of the world.

Clarke claims constitutional authority to do pretty much whatever he wants, right down to a constitutional right not to submit reports, as he said in a public letter:

He does not run the Office of the Sheriff, and I do not take orders or directives from a county executive. Case law is very clear that the sheriff alone decides how to carry out his duty and responsibility. His budget is an obvious attempt to micromanage my office. I am independently elected by the voters of Milwaukee County...

In Wisconsin, "Job-Creation" Means Rewards To Republican Special Interests

October 3, 2011 by The Political E...

More bills are tossed by the Governor and legislature into the special session on job-creating that have nothing to do with creating jobs except in corporate donors' front-offices, lobbying, law and accounting firms.

Cue the campaign fund-raising letters - - so there may be a job or two added in the direct mail houses come election time.

The Journal Sentinel headline and deck describing this are direct and jaw-dropping:

Bills limiting lawsuits added to Legislature's jobs session

Measures would cut interest rate, curb medical cases

 The Wisconsin League of Conservation Voters last week got it right:

Warming Planet Losing Its Tree Cover, Political Defenders

October 1, 2011 by The Political E...

It's all related, folks. Whether disappearing forests or polar ice, the trend is definitely in the wrong direction, and it doesn't help to have deniers and oil industry errand boys like Rick Perry still blathering on about no scientific consensus. even as his drought-ravaged state burns.

Or Scott Walker pushing anew under the misleading heading of "job-creation" for easier permissions to fill the state's wetlands.

These one-dimensional leaders are wrong, at public expense, but, t may be too late to turn it around.