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ewagner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-06-11 11:02 AM
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Walker's "unfortunate" slogan:
Edited on Sun Mar-06-11 11:09 AM by ewagner
Remember when Governor Walker proudly signed those tax cuts for businesses immediately when he came into office?

Remember the slogan he crowed about when he signed them?

WISCONSIN IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS!

Turns out that phrase was used before....in a most unfortunate sense...by Viceroy/Ambassador Paul Bremer ....

in Baghdad in 2003!


As recounted by Naomi Klien in Baghdad: Year Zero:
The tone of Bremer's tenure was set with his first major act on the job: he fired 500,000 state workers, most of them soldiers, but also doctors, nurses, teachers, publishers, and printers. Next, he flung open the country's borders to absolutely unrestricted imports: no tariffs, no duties, no inspections, no taxes. Iraq, Bremer declared two weeks after he arrived, was “open for business.”

So.....is Scott Walker the Wisconsin version of Paul Bremer? and......is this WISCONSIN: YEAR ZERO!? Another Neocon wet dream?
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postulater Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-06-11 11:41 AM
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1. I also remember during the election that the recurring slogan was Jobs! Jobs! Jobs!
Isn't looking so good now.
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CatholicEdHead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-06-11 01:15 PM
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2. He has been doing nothing but cutting jobs
From what I observe from afar. The train jobs, now public union jobs. So much for job creation.
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TxVietVet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-07-11 04:38 PM
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4. Walker's first official act was to stop the Light Rail project.
Which deleted hundreds of jobs.
What is hilarious, his main talking points was how many thousands of jobs he was going to bring to Wisconsin. Well, when Walker's opening act was to eliminate jobs, giving tax breaks to corporations that are not going to create jobs in the US, then trying to bust public service unions, I'd say that he's on a course of having lots of problems in Wisconsin.

The bozo that beat Feingold isn't much better. Johnson opened a plant with HIS WIFE'S FAMILY MONEY, doesn't really have any large amount of people working for him EXCEPT convicts. To give their families benefits, he has them use Badger Care which is health care for those who either can't afford it or are turned down for pre-existing conditions.

That's the conservanazi's of Wisconsin. Wait until Johnson starts running his pie hole. He's a conservanazi winner that really hasn't done anything in life except to marry wealth.
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undeterred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-06-11 01:28 PM
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3. Jobs! Jobs! Jobs! There They go!
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