Wisconsin Needs More Jobs
Yep.
Wisconsin has lost 155,200 jobs since the December 2007 start of the recession, according to a paper to be published Monday by the Center on Wisconsin Strategy.
Researchers at the nonprofit think tank based at the University of Wisconsin-Madison document the recession’s impact, as well as longer-term job trends, in a biennial survey, “The State of Working Wisconsin 2010.”
“On this Labor Day, the economy provides little to celebrate for working Wisconsinites,” the report’s authors write.
The report found that one in four manufacturing jobs in the state was lost during this decade.
While the state’s unemployment rate stood at 7.8% in July, researchers said that fully 15% of the labor force was underemployed. The underemployment figure includes the unemployed, those who have given up the job hunt and part-time workers unable to secure full-time employment.
African-American unemployment reached 23.5% - more than three times the rate of whites - while Hispanic unemployment was nearly 16%. Those numbers are from 2009, the most recent year such figures were available.
But have no fear!!!
President mulls new measures to spark economy
Just what the union force wants to hear today, more road paving projects, frankly its Obama purchasing more votes with public money.
Read the fine print incorporated into these recovery projects and tell me these contracts are not leaned. Does anyone have numbers of all the recovery money spent to date on infrastructure what percentage went to unions?
It did not work last time why would you try it again? TRy building something not just repaving roads, oh thats right typical building construction (not roads) only account for a 14% average of union workers, that wont buy many votes.
This is the long waited plan of attack? the salvation of a nation, man we are screwed.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on September 06, 2010 at 0931 hrs
What…he’ll “fund” 155,000 new teacher-jobs in Wisconsin?
Posted by dad29 on September 06, 2010 at 1001 hrs
I’ve often wondered why the main decision between doing business here or China is the cost of labor?
What happened to the land of opportunity, the pursuit of happiness, Independence and justice for all?
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on September 06, 2010 at 1013 hrs
What happened to the land of opportunity, the pursuit of happiness, Independence and justice for all?
One Word.
Progressivism.Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on September 06, 2010 at 1411 hrs
Anyone think that Obama is going to use the already allocating, remaining,unspent stimulus Dollars for this non-stimulus, stimulus package?
No, of course he’s not, because those checks are in the mail… Promised to committed Democratic boosters and organizations.
The cronyism continues.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on September 06, 2010 at 1414 hrs
Labor Day wishes to all the laborers that built America. Hopefully businesses will start to show their gratitude and patriotism by eliminating the out sourcing of jobs to other counties
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on September 06, 2010 at 1414 hrs
Sentence one: allocated, not allocating.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on September 06, 2010 at 1415 hrs
Hopefully businesses will start to show their gratitude and patriotism by eliminating the out sourcing of jobs to other counties
And put themselves out of business, by putting themselves in a position which requires them to kowtow to the entitlement mentality of the American workforce? Sounds like wishful thinking to me.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on September 06, 2010 at 1417 hrs
And put themselves out of business, by putting themselves in a position which requires them to kowtow to the entitlement mentality of the American workforce?
You’re disrespect of the American worker is shameful and unpatriotic. That’s why I’ll never patronize your business.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on September 06, 2010 at 1437 hrs
“We don’t kowtow to the American worker.”
That would make a great business advertising slogan.
You should hang a sign reading that outside your store.
Your business being down 8% from a year ago would pickup in no time.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on September 06, 2010 at 1515 hrs
You’re disrespect of the American worker is shameful and unpatriotic. That’s why I’ll never patronize your business.
It’s not disrespectful, it’s an honest generalization. You do not have to patronize my business… That’s one of the great things about the United States of America, you have freedom of choice.
Just realize, that by not patronizing my store, you are potentially putting American workers out on the street…. Huh, imagine that.
At any rate, we were talking about manufacturers, not retailers. I, for the most part, have great employees, and retail employees in general do not have the same type of expectations as manufacturing employees…
“We don’t kowtow to the American worker.”
That would make a great business advertising slogan.
You should hang a sign reading that outside your store.
Your business being down 8% from a year ago would pickup in no time.
Nice. Typical progressive intimidation and alienation tactics.
I treat my employees as well as I can. They work for me at their own discretion. If they can do better somewhere else, I have an obligation to do what I can to retain them if I feel their retention would be of positive utility to the business. If I cannot offer enough to retain them, then I am proud to have been a part of their resume, and I wish them the best.
I am not in a position to outsource my employees, obviously. I have a brick and mortar storefront, and I am expected to provide customer service in a face to face manner. Your jackassish jab is a patent liberal mischaracterization, and a sad, lousy attempt at misdirecting focus from a problem that your ideology has caused.
If I were a manufacturer, I would do my business entirely within the confines of the United States, but I can assure you that I would not operate a union shop. I suppose my previous slight of American workers should have been better defined as the “union labor movement” workers.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on September 06, 2010 at 1536 hrs
Your jackassish jab is a patent liberal mischaracterization, and a sad, lousy attempt at misdirecting focus from a problem that your ideology has caused.
Sorry, not a liberal here. But also not a phony conservative.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on September 06, 2010 at 1539 hrs
You’re disrespect of the American worker is shameful and unpatriotic.
Are we summoning the political spirit of Dick Cheney here? Jeez… You lefties are really coming apart at the seams.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on September 06, 2010 at 1543 hrs
Sorry, not a liberal here. But also not a phony conservative.
Right.
Anyway, I’m just another American worker. Call me whatever names you wish… It doesn’t change the fact that I am going to go to work tomorrow (as I did today) and fight to keep my business afloat, so that I can keep paying my employees.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on September 06, 2010 at 1548 hrs
But also not a phony conservative.
Funny…
So then you are obviously a “real conservative”, right?
Tell me then, with a straight face that the average college graduate today doesn’t expect the world, immediately. (Do you know how many times I have heard my peers say things like “When I graduate I am gonna be making like $80K a year man.”?)
Tell me that you haven’t heard a single person say that they “make more on unemployment” after being laid off from their factory or construction jobs “than they would working a menial job at McDonalds or Home Depot”.
Tell me that the United States government has not saddled our manufacturing economy with nearly unbearable environmental and tax regulations.
Tell me that companies aren’t moving jobs out of Wisconsin becuase of the onerous business environment….
That’s what I thought. Your post put the blame for manufacturing moving away squarely on the shoulders of business… Why didn’t you say this instead?Labor Day wishes to all the laborers that built America. Hopefully the government will reconstruct an environment in which companies can start to show their gratitude and patriotism by eliminating the out sourcing of jobs to other counties
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on September 06, 2010 at 1557 hrs
Your post put the blame for manufacturing moving away squarely on the shoulders of business…
I put the blame on Fair Trade bill brought to you by Bill Clinton and Republicans.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on September 06, 2010 at 1606 hrs
I put the blame on Fair Trade bill brought to you by Bill Clinton and Republicans.
Progressives and Statists…. Almost every one.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on September 06, 2010 at 1613 hrs
Furthermore, the Fair trade Bill was the work of government, was it not? Yet you expect business to take it on the chin to bring the employment back? How about going to the source, and demanding that the government make it easier to do business in this country, as a symbol of patriotism?
Nah, you’d rather level personal attacks, against me and my employees.
Why? Well, because that is easier than admitting that the government has created a difficult environment for business, and that the American worker has become ornery and entitled….
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on September 06, 2010 at 1617 hrs
Nah, you’d rather level personal attacks, against me and my employees.
Strawman
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on September 06, 2010 at 1648 hrs
Really?
Huh….
We’ll all note that the entirety of your response is the simple deflection:
“Strawman”
Typical.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on September 06, 2010 at 1657 hrs
You’re disrespect of the American worker is shameful and unpatriotic. That’s why I’ll never patronize your business.
And the proof…
Your attack of me, as “unpatriotic”, and of my employees by saying “I’ll never patronize your business.”
A position you took in this thread, as opposed to your simplistic deflection…. the mythical “strawman”
anything else you’d like to make up?
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on September 06, 2010 at 1708 hrs
Did you want to refute anything that I have said, or would you rather carry on with the side arguments… I mean really, moving those goal posts all the time must get tiring.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on September 06, 2010 at 1712 hrs
Your attack of me, as “unpatriotic”, and of my employees by saying “I’ll never patronize your business.”
I’m sorry, but you’re the one who showed a unpatriotic lack of respect for the American worker. My original post praised the American worker on this labor day. I didn’t attack your workers. But I won’t patronize your business. It has nothing to do with your employees, but has everything to do with you. I will patronize a business who’s leader show’s a little more respect for the American worker. You have no one but yourself to blame. You open your mouth and say something stupid and your workers pay the price by the loss of a customer.
It’s the American worker that has built and made America great. They are the middle class. The middle class that the economy of the United States depends on. Without them the economy will never get better. I’ll hang my hat with the worker of America any day versus with someone who disrespects them.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on September 06, 2010 at 1953 hrs
Furthermore, the Fair trade Bill was the work of government, was it not? Yet you expect business to take it on the chin to bring the employment back?
The government, Republican and Democrat, is big business. This country is controlled by an Oligarchy. Big business loves Fair Trade. It removes competition from smaller businesses here in the States. It makes them bigger, richer, and more powerful.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on September 06, 2010 at 2023 hrs
It’s the American worker that has built and made America great. They are the middle class. The middle class that the economy of the United States depends on. Without them the economy will never get better. I’ll hang my hat with the worker of America any day versus with someone who disrespects them.
I am a middle class American worker… I have every right to criticize my peers. I’m sorry you have a problem with that.
While it is the American worker that built this country, it is also the American worker who has stood by and voted for the progressive movement, who has shipped their jobs overseas among many transgressions.
As I said, you are welcome and free to choose whichever business to patronize as you wish. I’ll defend your rights to do so to the end, but don’t ever call me “unpatriotic” because I am willing to exercise my rights to “call ‘em as I see ‘em”.
As far as the loss of a customer… Have you ever been to my store? Am I actually losing a customer, or am I losing “the notion that you might ever stop in”?
If you have been to my store, you’d be able to tell me how many American flags are displayed within 20’ of it’s front door. You’d probably also be able to tell me my father’s name, and how long we’ve been in business… Most of my regulars know all of the above.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on September 06, 2010 at 2045 hrs
You’d also possibly know my grandfather and grandmother’s names… They started the business, back in the day, and my grandmother worked in the store until the early 90’s…
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on September 06, 2010 at 2050 hrs
Wow, 15 out of 26 posts from djmamayek.
Man, get a life.Posted by Charlie Hillman on September 06, 2010 at 2226 hrs
I am always seeking for informative articles about machines!
Cheers,
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