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hue

(4,949 posts)
Sat May 4, 2013, 10:04 AM May 2013

Amid 1,000 layoffs in Wisconsin, Scott Walker gets no love from U.S. Chamber


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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker traveled to Washington, D.C., earlier this week for America’s Small Business Summit, an annual event hosted by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

There, Walker appeared on a special panel titled “How to Lead Enterprising States,” joining with the governors of Maine and Pennsylvania.

“I participated in a good discussion about what we’ve done, and what we can continue to do, to help small businesses grow and thrive,” Walker said in summing up the trip for his weekly radio address.

Unfortunately, the U.S. Chamber, in a report released at the event, didn’t share Walker’s enthusiasm.

Its annual scorecard on state economies ranked Wisconsin 44th for overall economic performance and 50th — as in dead last — for short-term job growth as measured between September 2010 and November 2012. It also has Wisconsin 39th in “business climate” — on par with the state’s ranking under Gov. Jim Doyle.


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Amid 1,000 layoffs in Wisconsin, Scott Walker gets no love from U.S. Chamber (Original Post) hue May 2013 OP
wormy walker unionthug777 May 2013 #1
What good could possibly come from Scott Walker? His words and actions Cal33 May 2013 #2
Chamber of Commerce and fascism have a long history of working together-what gives? midnight May 2013 #3
 

Cal33

(7,018 posts)
2. What good could possibly come from Scott Walker? His words and actions
Sat May 4, 2013, 12:47 PM
May 2013

are those of a first-class sociopath. Can you blame the U.S. Chamber of Commerce
for having zero trust in him?

I hope the people of Wisconsin will succeed in mustering up enough votes to throw
the bum out in 2014. I suspect there was a great deal of vote falsifications the last
time around. He'll cheat again in 2014, of course. That's the only way he can win.
Catch him at cheating, prove it in court and send him to prison. That's where he
belongs.

Our national problem is that we have too many criminal personalities holding
high positions in business and government. When will we ever begin to fight back
hard enough to keep them out of both these places, where they can and are doing
the most harm to the whole country?

midnight

(26,624 posts)
3. Chamber of Commerce and fascism have a long history of working together-what gives?
Sat May 4, 2013, 12:57 PM
May 2013

"Bankers are obliged to lose the money of their depositors to help industrial enterprises that the Government has injured by its monetary policy. Industrialists are obliged to keep their factories open, tho they are losing money by it. Shopkeepers and landlords are obliged to reduce prices and rents. The farmers must pay very heavy taxes and sell certain products at undercost prices. Mussolini threatens the common people with 'domicilio coatto' (forced residence), and the bankers and industrialists with 'nationalization of the production,' that is to say, nationalization of industries as in Russia, unless they obey him.
"Of the entire population of Italy, the only persons who can possibly have benefited from the revalorization of the lira are the small savers and State bondholders. But they can not have benefited much because of the extremely high cost of living. One can buy in Brussels with 119 gold francs as much food and goods as in Milan with 150 gold francs.
"Economic experts believe that this industrial and commercial crisis will become graver during the fall and winter, with perhaps an outbreak of public opinion against the regime occurring in the spring."

On the other hand, the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle is imprest with the reports of an eminent American economist, H. Parker Willis, who has been in Italy studying conditions:

"To Mr. Willis, Fascism seems to be permanently established. It was a crucial experiment which substituted a despotic authority for an inefficient form of parliamentary government in which some twenty warring groups made government impossible. It faces great problems, economic and political, and unrest is increasing. But its critics have nothing constructive to offer; and it has made such undeniably great improvement in conditions since the time when the structure of Italian society was crumbling into anarchy."

http://www.1920-30.com/politics/democracy-fascism.html

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