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, Income Taxes, Marinette, Peshtigo, Public Concerns, Public Schools, Recall Doyle, Recession / Depression, Republic, Revolution, State Government, State of Wisconsin, WI, Wisconsin, economy, pork barrel, rights, taxation on Jul 20th, 2009 No Comments »
From the left, the Center on Wisconsin Strategy published its annual report in late 2008 with this unhappy summary:
“The national economy has grown more rapidly than Wisconsin’s, leaving the state’s per capita income more than $2,500 behind the national [average].”
From the center, the non-partisan Competitive Wisconsin group reached a similar conclusion in its 2008 benchmark report: “Wisconsin has moved further away from the national average in per capita income, number of new jobs created and number of new private businesses.”
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Posted in Marinette, Peshtigo, Public Concerns, Recall Doyle, Recession / Depression, Revolution, State Government, State of Wisconsin, WI, Wisconsin, economy, pork barrel, rights on Jul 15th, 2009 2 Comments »
Survey Results as Reported by Wisconsin Assemblyman John Nygren
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Posted in Democratic Party, Economic Collapse, Election, Financial Crisis, Freedom, Government Corruption, Health Care, Income Taxes, Lobbyists / Special Interests, Marinette, Morality and Virtue, Peshtigo, Public Concerns, Public Schools, Recall Doyle, Recession / Depression, Republic, Revolution, State Government, State of Wisconsin, Tea Party, WI, Wisconsin, economy, media-bias, pork barrel, rights, stimulus bill, stimulus package, taxation on May 22nd, 2009 1 Comment »
This RECALL is NOT a partisan issue. It is simply an UP or DOWN issue and I think it is time to stand up, pull up our britches and push the lever because either the ENTIRE State of Wisconsin, with a nearly $7 BILLION Dollar DEFICIT, is going down the crapper or Doyle is.
The vast majority of our State of WI representatives are doing NOTHING but filling up the budget and taxation DOYLE-LETT with all sorts of crap. AND, BOY, DOES IT STINK!
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