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midnight

(26,624 posts)
Mon Apr 30, 2012, 01:25 AM Apr 2012

Walker Blames political unrest for job losses! Big business now repeating talking point.

To make any sense out of Scott Walker's theory about job creation, we first have to get rid of the notion that 70 percent of our economy has anything to do with consumer demand. Consumers are the real job creators, but forget all that.

Walker believes business certainty, something that never existed before and is impossible to obtain in a free market, is for real. He also believes that last winters protests stopped businesses from hiring workers because...they were worried that poor Scott Walker was in political trouble?

You'll notice that Walker is basing his economic plan on just what businesses are telling him about the political climate. Heck, the Milwaukee Business Journal and "other entities" pretty much said it was true, and they've got nothing to really gain from all this, except maybe a lot of power and money.

Mike Gousha didn't seem to want to mess around with Walker's well rehearsed answers. So he started by asking why in the last year of the Doyle administration, the state gained 30,000 jobs, and under his administration he lost 24,000 jobs? "How do you explain that?"http://democurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2012/04/walker-blames-political-unrest-for-job.html

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Walker Blames political unrest for job losses! Big business now repeating talking point. (Original Post) midnight Apr 2012 OP
Koch + ALEC + Americans for prosperity + Walker = successful recall...one can hope nt msongs Apr 2012 #1
Here's a clickable link to the video Mister Ed Apr 2012 #2
Thank you Mr. Ed. midnight Apr 2012 #4
This is how the Repukes roll! They spin their answers any way to fit their needs. hue Apr 2012 #3
Ed show talks to Ruth Conniff from progressive magazine about Walker's job loss spin midnight May 2012 #5

hue

(4,949 posts)
3. This is how the Repukes roll! They spin their answers any way to fit their needs.
Mon Apr 30, 2012, 07:55 AM
Apr 2012

As M. Scott Peck would say in His book about evil, they are "People of the Lie."

midnight

(26,624 posts)
5. Ed show talks to Ruth Conniff from progressive magazine about Walker's job loss spin
Tue May 1, 2012, 12:26 AM
May 2012

Ed Show: Walker's Economy Worst In The Nation:

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