The story by now is familiar: employees of Mercury Marine in Fond du Lac voted down an offer to keep 800 jobs from moving to Stillwater, Oklahoma. Realizing that they had just voted themselves out of jobs, union members began calling for another vote – but IAM headquarters in Chicago immediately shut them down.
A day late and a dollar short, Governor Jim Doyle issued a statement claiming he had done all he could to keep Mercury Marine in Fond du Lac. Doyle outlined demands that Mercury Marine create and retain 2,700 jobs and maintain a significant presence in Fond du Lac for 12 years. In exchange the state would provide unspecified financial incentives.
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Posted in Economic Collapse, Financial Crisis, Income Taxes, Marinette, Peshtigo, Public Concerns, Recall Doyle, Recession / Depression, Republic, Revolution, State Government, State of Wisconsin, WI, Wisconsin, economy, pork barrel, rights, taxation on Jul 24th, 2009 No Comments »
Wisconsin is in a competition with 49 other states for job creation and retention. Based on the performance of our leadership this year we are losing that competition. There are jobs moving and being created during this recession in the United States. They are just in other states like Texas, Georgia, Oklahoma, and Alabama. Unfortunately, some of those jobs moved and were lost from right here in Wisconsin.
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Posted in Democratic Party, Economic Collapse, Financial Crisis, Freedom, Income Taxes, Inflation, Lobbyists / Special Interests, Marinette, Peshtigo, Public Concerns, Recall Doyle, Recession / Depression, Republic, State Government, State of Wisconsin, WI, Wisconsin, economy, pork barrel, taxation on Jul 2nd, 2009 No Comments »
He has tested, serviced and sold products made by Mercury Marine, the boat-engine maker that has called this city home for decades. He worked 24 years for the company and for the last 21 years has operated the Mr. Marine boat dealership.
So, Lloyd took notice when news began to surface this month that Mercury Marine might be looking to consolidate operations, either in Wisconsin or in Stillwater, Okla.
“It would be a devastating blow here; they’re the No. 1 employer in town,” Lloyd said, calculating the potential impact of Mercury choosing Oklahoma over Wisconsin.
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Posted in Corruption and/or Public Mind Control, Democratic Party, Economic Collapse, Financial Crisis, Freedom, Government Corruption, Income Taxes, Lobbyists / Special Interests, Marinette, Public Concerns, Recall Doyle, Recession / Depression, Republic, Revolution, State Government, State of Wisconsin, Tea Party, WI, Wisconsin, economy, media-bias, rights, taxation on Jun 25th, 2009 1 Comment »
A question we need to ask anybody who says; “This is recall Doyle campaign is stupid and a waste of time and money. Wait for the election, it’s only a year + away.” It has to be getting obvious for anybody who has any minimal electrical current traveling through their synopsis that HOW THE HELL CAN WE wait for a year? Look at the financial devastation to our ENTIRE STATE of Wisconsin! Now even Mercury Marine is considering leaving from Fond du Lac, WI ! ! How many more companies have to go before the idiots in the media cease the INSANE blackout of our RECALL of DOYLE? Don’t they care about the people of Wisconsin at all? Don’t they think that the people ought to have the right to know that we can do something about DOYLE NOW?
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