This is for the comment on "democrats fault for job losses". Seems to me Walker cut jobs. The unions wanted to bargain with him and he said "NO." He wanted to bust the unions to make them powerless. Does anyone see any of congressmen taking pay cuts, pay for their own health insurances, wanting to pay for their own medicare/medicaid like they want us to do? Does anyone see any cuts to the top? I believe they are the 1%. Why do we have to pay for their mistakes? I believe the loss for jobs starts at the top. Any cuts there? Its a joke, how about cuts at the capital and whitehouse. How about cuts at the White House? Do we need all of them? They are making way too much money with all the benefits? They need to see how it is to live like we do. Maybe, there will be more jobs. Walker, no you have not done a good job. You have lost jobs. You cut deep into the middle classe/poor. Why not leave us alone and cut some jobs at the top?

wislady, gas prices and Libya don't seem to be creating enough of a distraction from Walker's failure to deliver on his 250,000 jobs promise. I have an idea for a new approach for you. Walker said he would, "get government out of the way of employers ... who will then help Wisconsin create 250,000 jobs by 2015, and as we create those new jobs, we will be able to add 10,000 new businesses.” He didn't say where those jobs and businesses would be created. You could always give credit to Walker for the half-million jobs created in all OTHER states over the last couple of months. After all, Walker does seem to spend more time in other states, albeit at fundraisers, than he does in Wisconsin. Promise kept!

cynicaleye your far left attitude is as bad as the right. The recalls are keeping buisness out of Wisconsin. You all need to open your eyes, Left and Right.

Don't blame Walker for the unfair tax laws. Blame the liberals including Thompson, Doyle and the farmer controlled assembly.

" walker and his administration have painted a much brighter economic picture than these numbers suggest"...a little more whitewash over here Tom Sawyer !

ithappens: That's right, blame it on the recall. The recall has nothing to do with it. It has to do with the Republicans and their policies in Madison. They have done NOTHING about jobs since they took over the capitol.

Bye, bye Scott!

No company will ever come to this state with all the recall crap going on. Why would you bring a company to a state with such a crappy attitude. WE will be recalling elected officals forever.

"In January of 2009 when Obama was sworn in, gas was $1.85."

Well, if you want to blame Obama for the rise in gas prices, I suppose you'll also be giving him credit for the DJI going from $6,600 to $13,000?

What I;ve gained from lots of reading and lot's of conversations is that business is scared of hell of WI. The climate is volatile and unstable. Many corporations have seen the protesting at the capital and want nothing to do with this state. The way they see it is if they move here and happen to take any form of incentives they will be protested. If they come here and are non union or against organizing in their company they will be protested. The have no idea of what their future taxes look like due to how volatile the politic are and no stability.Can you seriously say if you were a company manager that you wouldn't think twice about coming here?

As usual, when wislady can't dispute the facts in an article that may make Walker look bad, s/he creates a tangent. Gas prices have nothing to do with the lack of jobs in Wisconsin. Nevermind that every other state also has higher prices, yet Wisconain is the only state losing jobs. Gas prices? Libya? Obama? That's laughable. Keep it up!

I think its time for everyone to start ignoring Darlene. She has lost all sense of whats reality and whats republicanland, time to move to Walkersha!! Maybe you already live there. Not very bright when it comes to supply side economics, huh??

ya darlene is reaching more and more every day getting more and more desparate. Relating a lower Unemployment rate to sucess? She knows the rate means nothing other than the amount of people collecting benefits, nothing more.
I for one hope that Wisconsin gains jobs in every month, I am not rootin for Walker to fail for some kind of political scoreboard watching. I(unlike darlene winklady) always want the state country to prosper no matter who is in control. Walker and his cronies are the ones failing and they have no one to blame. They have had both houses and complete control, blaming the climate in some kind of fantasy world for these people is just a bunch of BS. Businesses have been offered 2 years tax free to come here and they aren't coming, theyre leaving.
Barak Obama is not the cause of high fuel prices, FACT. So many free-market conservatives claiming so is very funny to me. Making false claims based on political hate doesnt make your claims true, it just makes you look silly. Gas prices are high because demand globally is skyrocketing(India, China, etc....) Supply and demand economics 101, take a class, my lord!! enough already.
I also find it funny that Walker is now trailing in some polls despite all of the money being spent. I for one will be voting against him in the primary and voting for the Irish farmer that voted for himin 2010, that is now posing a primary challenge. THe best part is that recallers have 2 chances to get this punk out of office, primary and general elections, so if he wins we have no one to blame but ourselves. IF he does survive, he will no longer hold total power because the senate will in all likelyhood be changing hands, thank God. Time to govern, not dictate.

wislady said, "Go ask the people in Illinois, they would love to have our governor."

Most everyone in Wisconsin would love to give him to Illinois, or any other state that would take him! You finally came up with a brilliant solution, wislady!

Anyone who reads the Gazette letters to the editor knows who wislady is.

It's just fun playing the cat and mouse games here on the gagzette extra.

"What are you going to do when Walker wins the recall, burn down the Statehouse?" If this should happen, we will likely go back to your “good old days” or perhaps your “glory days” of the great depression.

wislady does not have her head in the sand – she is most likely a paid Republican operative.

"Walker declined the newspaper’s interview request, but he and his administration have painted a much brighter economic picture than these numbers suggest, the Journal Sentinel reported."from story

Another lie from Walker. :(

We can always count on wislady to inject some humor at our darkest moments.

Thank you GCB.

wislady-Gas price is really high also right now in my home country...is that also Obama's fault?? I don't think so.

Has anyone checked on that "non war" that is still going on in Libya...the one that never got Congressional approval?

In January of 2009 when Obama was sworn in, gas was $1.85.

Go ahead, continue beating your drums. What are you going to do when Walker wins the recall, burn down the Statehouse?

Wislady is just another person with their head in the sand. It's a known fact this state of fitzwalkerstan has been hemoraging jobs for the last 6 mths. The recall didn't start untill enough people, including many who voted for walker, said enough is enough and started this. Walker will get his just desserts as well as both Fitzgeralds, and the rest of his cronies. Where's those 250,000 jobs at? Anywhere but here. Can't wait till the recall and I can call this the great state of Wisconsin again.

wislady - gas prices are less than $2.00/gallon when Obama took office. We were also losing 700K jobs per month. Banks refused to lend any money to anyone as they absorbed the TARP that was provided under GWB. Markets were plunging to 60% of their peak value as people lost there jobs, lost their homes and lost their retirements and life savings. Want to talk about that also? Want to go back to that? Great job that your grand old party did when they had control, losing jobs, record gas prices before the economy tanked, turned a record budget surplus into a record deficit and created a record structural deficit in only 6 - 8 years of control, and you want to go back to the “good old days”. Let's talk about the whole pictures here. OK? You must get paid a bunch to writes some of the junk that you put out.

And remember: "Deficits don't matter" and "It's our due" - Draft dodging war-mongering Dick Cheney (apprenticeship under Richard Nixon). I see where you are coming from now with your blind support of Walker and his cronies - they will bring your "good old days" home to Wisconsin.

wislady, peruse this: Obamma has no control over gas prices. It was our war mongering previous administration that got us into this mess. By invading Iraq under false pretenses, we have raised the hackles of Iran, making oil trade difficult to maintain.

nemesis wrote: "All this union talk, threats and protests are scaring away companies in the private sector."

And who is most responsible for the current climate? Public union members did not cause the Great Recession, yet they were chosen (though not all of them, interestingly enough) to take an 8% pay cut to help balance a budget that, it turns out, really wasn't balanced. Walker and his lemmings in the legislature chose their method and timing to cram down their agenda of breaking the public unions, and severely underestimated the resistance. Unions represent a small percentage of all workers, yet he has managed to further polorize the electorate, instead of bringing them together. He has not created a welcome environment for outside business development, fancy slogans aside.

Hey lady - let's not forget that the prices of oil and gas were both much higher than now during the Bush administration. My point is that the President has very little to do with the price of oil or gasoline. The Dow's drop on inauguration day has been followed by some pretty decent years, in case you haven't noticed, but when you cherry-pick your statistics, things like that tend to go unnoticed. Meanwhile, Wisconsin continues to be the aberration in the data when it comes to job creation for the past 6 months. Why? The evisceration of public sector jobs has taken hundreds of millions of dollars out of the hands of middle-class families and the economy, and placed the money in the hands of corporations who spend it out of state. Epic fail, Scooter. His "fix" has us all in a "fix" now. Lack of middle-class disposable income is the death knell of any economy. So be glad your public employees are paying more for healthcare and their pensions, because that money is being socked away in pension plans and given to big insurance companies instead of being spent at your (and my) business. That's dollars out of our pockets. Sure- you may have saved $20 or so on your taxes, but after you're value meals for the family one night, what is left to help stimulate the economy?

If the politicians did what was best for the people of the State, everything else would fall into place. Trust me.

coffeeman

The rising price in gas is a result of the failure of Obama, caused by the increase in cost of all commodities and the unemployment.
He is the "food stamp" president.
The fact that the Dow plunged on his inauguration day was a real tip off.

The few Wisconsin businesses that are hiring are finding it difficult to get enough skilled workers. Walker has cut $792 million in aid to school districts, $71.6 million from technical schools, and $250 million from the university system. That's not encouraging for any business looking to relocate here who need skilled labor.

Oops, sorry bassman. Honest mistake. I can fix spelling, yet there is no cure for stupid!

Wislady, Obama to blame for high gas prices? How about the speculators? Gas was $4.11 a gallon in May of 2008. Was Obama President then??? I think not. How short the memories.

Scotty has done such a horrible job, unless what you want is a down-trodden, third-world state. We're rushing to become Mississippi as fast as we can. Oh, and he didn't even balance the budget.

Bassman - I have my boots, but, no one is hiring. Tough to pull them up when there is no one hiring me to do any work for them. Rugged individualism has long been a myth established by the elite to help control the masses. If it didn't work for Hoover in the 1930s then why do you think that will work now?

Love the new website where you can check by zip code. Milton teacher used the high school as his home address, why?

MADDOWS BLOG

http://maddowblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/20...

Jobs & Unemployment (Updated Monthly)
http://badgerstat.org/2011/jobs/

Madow used chart number 3 on her show....she did NOT use chart number 4, wonder why?

Unfortunately, most democrats are still trying to use the November numbers from the Feds (which had a 75% error of 9,000 job losses). Wisconsin did NOT lose 9,600 jobs in November.

Obama,you have got to be kidding me ? By the way your intentional misspelling of my name shows me you are a moron and really need to grow up. Like I said babies,If you want a socialistic country move to China,with obama it wont be long he is working very hard to make this country depend on him and his views,you can't see ? come on !

A hearty congradulations to the Recall Walker organization. You deserve all the credit.

wislady-when walker gives you the kool-aid, DRINK IT!

Jvlhomeowner
If you don't like my views, don't read it. You don't like the figures by the DWD, I guess you prefer the inaccurate numbers put out by the FEDS. It has been show that they have consistently been reported wrong for most of last year (I wonder why). If that is what the democrats are going to use for campaigning...good luck with that. Doyle had 8 years, Walker has been under attack since the day he was sworn in. The plan to recall started before he was sworn in no matter how good Walker did.

Thank you Scott Walker.

The rising gas prices (thanks Obama), have caused decreased buying power for everyone.

Legalize marijuana...that sounds like a real plan. Everyone will be broke, but no one will care.

Obama's plans are working? Where?

donnaw - Here's a simple idea. How about we stop the partisan politics. When asked in front of our US Congress why he's doing what he's doing, Walker claims "non-partisan politics doesn't always work". Yeah, that philosophy is working out really well.

Decreasing buying power from public employees ? Give me a break,that is beyond belief,what paying a little more or any for something you should have been paying for in the first place,unbelievable as usual,adjust your budget like the rest of us.So sick of the whining little babies,pull up your boot straps, and move on and welcome to the real world.

1) End "personhood" for corporations
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2) Term limits at the federal and state level
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3) Public campaign financing
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4) In sum, give this state and country back to its people

donnaw,
For starters, invest in education. It's the best thing we can do as far as a long term strategy for stable and productive job growth.
Second, listen. It's that simple. Listen to everyone. Don't assume you have all of and the only right answers. Show outside employers that Wisconsin a team committed to success.
Third, be innovative. Get people to invest in Wisconsin, not the other way around.

Lastly, my personal favorite (unrealistic as it may be) I would push for the decriminalization of marijuana, or at the very least, the legalization for medicinal purposes. The marijuana plant has a great number of uses and there is a lot of money to be made if it were legalized.

To reiterate, investing in education would be my first step. The second step is to bring Wisconsin together, in unity there is strength. The third step, innovate.

Donnaw - I wonder if decreasing the buying power of a couple hundred thousand public workers has anything to do with the slow growth. You can offer as many tax incentives you want but no company wants to relocate to a state were it's middle class is scared to spend it's money.

Okay, anti Walkerites what would YOU do to add jobs? Offer companies incentives to relocate here or current companies to grow here? The current business environment here is awful because no one knows what will happen. Tell me, what are your ideas! You poopoo anything Walker does but add no ideas of your own. You want him to fail so you are happy our economic climate doesn't encourage growth for jobs. What a bunh of cry babies!

I have read these comments for months now, and no matter what the subject, Wislady continues to ignore the facts, no matter what they are,or who has posted them,and spew the Walker line, posting obscure blogs and websites run by the republican party as gospel truth.
I have come to truly believe that she is being paid by Walkers cronies to put the Walker spin on any of these stories, posted in this newspaper.
We tried his way, it isn't working, time for change.
Bring on the recall!

The mine would add alot of jobs ,but the whiners are holding it back.

wislady, Illinois would not "love to have our Governor". DWD?? As duly noted, a Walker appointee tows the line. The sheer facts are that the policies enacted by Walker and his legislative brethren have done absolutely nothing, and in fact may have hurt Wisconsin workers in both the long term and the short term. Congrats.

<GASP> What a SHOCK! No one saw this coming! (Well, no Republicans...)

All this union talk, threats and protests are scaring away companies in the private sector.

How can anyone believe this?

Go ask the people in Illinois, they would love to have our governor.

Statement by DWD Secretary Newson on Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Report Showing Improvement in State’s Average Annual Unemployment Rate

http://dwd.wisconsin.gov/dwd/newsrelease...

Way to go Scott Walker! The sooner your destructive behind is removed from office, the better off the State of Wisconsin will be.