Walker fires back following Obama criticism of right-to-work
Source: AP
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker says President Barack Obama should look to his state as an example of how to improve the economy, rather than criticize his signing of a right-to-work bill into law.
Obama issued a statement Monday night after Walker signed the bill, saying right-to-work "will weaken, rather than strengthen workers."
Obama says Walker, a likely 2016 Republican presidential candidate, should do more to help working-class Americans "by taking meaningful action to raise their wages and offer them ... paid leave."
Walker says in his statement that the law prohibiting private-sector workers from having to join a union or pay dues gives them the power to choose and provides the state with "one more tool to encourage job creators to continue investing and expanding."
Read more: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_RIGHT_TO_WORK_WALKER?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
safeinOhio
(32,706 posts)in right to work states with other.
And while your at it, how about a Right to Vote bill?
scscholar
(2,902 posts)is defending right to die. They want us to die. That is their ultimate goal.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)he knows exactly what he is doing- making sure his eventual retirement will be well funded by the likes of the Koch brothers.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)SoapBox
(18,791 posts)Needs to be posted repeatedly.
Raine1967
(11,589 posts)FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)Jeff Murdoch
(168 posts)Scuba
(53,475 posts)Knowing what he did to Wisconsin, and also observing his utter lack of any personal quality that could be called "warmth" or "charm" (honestly, what IS his appeal, even for RW voters ?), I'm just astonished (not to mention worried) that he's gotten as much apparent traction as he has.
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adieu
(1,009 posts)and had the educational chops to know how to preserve his wealth (while trashing others' for his benefit).
Walker has no educational chops and is just a pawn of the wealthy (read: Kochs), who want to basically have someone else do the dirty work of what Romney did: vulture capitalism.
jmowreader
(50,561 posts)He's not religiously insane enough to appeal to the teabaggers, his state's economic performance isn't good enough to steer the Koch Brothers his way and he doesn't have the old-money ties that will interest the Boston Brahmins and other "classical" Republican constituencies. His claim to fame is antilabor, which just puts him on the side of the rest of the clown car.
All kidding aside, we are probably looking at Jeb Bush as the GOP's 2016 candidate. Jeb is just as evil as the rest of them, he's religious enough to attract the teabaggers but not quite religious enough to scare off the establishment, and Bush money is some of the oldest in the world.
lobodons
(1,290 posts)But then after looking at Wisconsin, Obama should then look to Walkers neighboring state Minnesota and compare the two states and the policies of each to reinforce their effect on the economy.
Cosmic Dancer
(70 posts)did you even look at Walker's economic record in the posting above? What is he "partly correct" about?
lobodons
(1,290 posts)So he knows what NOT to do!! (look at MN as to what to do)
riversedge
(70,264 posts)be a lovely smack-back to Walker. How stupid of him to say--look to WI economy. whow what an idiot.
vkkv
(3,384 posts)economically after the Bush recession than Walker's state!
Look it up!
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,783 posts)And, strangely, next door in Minnesota, which is not a right to work state and is mostly controlled by Democrats, there is a budget surplus and much lower unemployment than Wisconsin. http://blogs.mprnews.org/newscut/2015/01/minnesota-economy-beats-wisconsin-7-charts-1-table/
Raine1967
(11,589 posts)Good on Minnesota.
Every damn time someone tries to lift up Scott Walker, they need to contrast it with Governor Mark Dayton and what he has done.
This is proof of the polarity of the two economic systems.
colsohlibgal
(5,275 posts)These plutocrats just want to bust unions so workers can go back to being paid peanuts with pitiful benefits if any.
With Walker we already know he's a Koch head from that great phone prank a couple of years ago.
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)That the employer has all the rights, as into hire and fire at will.
"Right to Work" was explained to me by my employer in AZ, when I took a job there in 1984. We got subpar wages and benefits...I got the hell out in 2 years and would never work there again.
Snotcicles
(9,089 posts)lower standards of living.
Kingofalldems
(38,466 posts)Well paid workers do not, even though it's proven that they do.
project_bluebook
(411 posts)and you will soon be living in a 3rd world cesspool.
ananda
(28,870 posts)..
project_bluebook
(411 posts)the republicon virus keeps spreading do to ignorant voters with fox news lobotomies.
Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)and then compared to Minnesota, such that Republicans only ever get 1% of the vote ever again.
Historic NY
(37,452 posts)let Walker train them.....
Geronimoe
(1,539 posts)Wisconsin as a wholly owned subsidiary of the Koch Brothers is doing poorly.
There is a giant sucking sound of jobs and fortunes leaving the State.
One can imagine the laugh the Koch Borthers have regarding Walker's political aspirations, realizing all he'll have after gutting Wisconsin, is a very short stint on Fox News. Another Joe the unlicensed plumber moment.
Walker doesn't realize the hypocrisy of his talking about job creators, as he is the job destroyer. Can't help but wonder if Walker and Paul Ryan go to the same school of cheese head economics Ayn Rand 101.
riversedge
(70,264 posts)Teamsters ?@Teamsters Mar 9
Scott Walker signs right-to-work bill at company that ships jobs to Mexico http://teamsternation.blogspot.com/2015/03/scott-walker-signs-right-to-work-bill.html?spref=tw #wiunion
Monday, March 9, 2015
Scott Walker signs right-to-work bill at company that shipped jobs to Mexico
http://teamsternation.blogspot.com/2015/03/scott-walker-signs-right-to-work-bill.html?spref=tw
Wisconsin job-killer Gov. Scott Walker signed a right-to-work bill today at Badger Meter, a Brown Deer company that moved Wisconsin jobs to Mexico in 2009.
Badger Meter, which makes products for water utilities, may even have more employees in Mexico than in Wisconsin.
The company's shop floor workers were not allowed to attend the bill-signing event, but dozens of legislators and business leaders were. Outside, protesters picketed with signs that said right to work is bad for workers, according to the Milwaukee Business Journal.
Wisconsin Teamsters fought with all their hearts against the bill, which was rushed through the Legislature once Republicans knew they had the votes.
Wayne Schultz, President of Teamsters Joint Council 39 in Milwaukee, issued a statement denouncing Walker:
Gov. Walker has done a great disservice to every working man and woman in the state of Wisconsin today. This fight does not end today we will continue to fight in any way [we] can to rid our state of this destructive law.
Hong Kong Cavalier
(4,573 posts)Sincerely,
Hong Kong Cavalier, Minnesota (You know, that state to your west that's actually doing very well?)
lutefisk
(3,974 posts)Nice timing.
It's not just right-to-work driving Hoffman's decision, he said. The possibility of repealing the prevailing wage, as some Republican lawmakers have indicated, also has him concerned, as does the level of bonding proposed in Walker's transportation budget.
"This isnt a political decision, it is a business decision," Hoffman wrote in his response to Garofalo. "I understand the MN Governor & Legislature are debating a funding INCREASE for transportation investments, while the Wisconsin Governor has proposed bonding (i.e. credit card) to solve the transportation funding problems. That, combined with Right to Work and proposed repeal of Wisconsins Prevailing Wage statute lead to my plans to relocate a portion of our business to Minnesota." ....
.... "'Our Company is Our People' thats our company motto," Hoffman wrote. "I am a fourth generation family owner and am proud to say we have 5th generation workers. We are a union shop by choice, with agreements with the Operating Engineers local 49 and the MN Laborers unions. Over time, Right to Work legislation interferes with my companys ability to have access to skilled, productive workers which I depend upon when I submit my bid to the DOT."
LINK to Cap Times story
cstanleytech
(26,306 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)He has declared war on the middle class and has no business going after PBO. Other than what his Koch masters tell him to do. And he WILL recieve more Koch dollars to win the office of the Presidency in 2016 than any other candidate.