Walker's irrelevant since your buddy Obama was elected, right? I mean, obviously all those crazy quasi-marxist far-left policies have revived the economy to levels not seen since Eisenhower was POTUS.

/sarc

Come on, John! You are supposedly an educated man. I suspect you consider yourself a reasonable man. Do you fill your students head with the idea that economic growth is to be had in a matter of mere weeks or months? Or do you try to lead them to understand why it’s impossible to expect such instant growth? By ANY governor. I hate to think you are of the same ilk of so many of my prof.s of the ‘70s who, rather than teach THINKING, merely spew their own version of truth in order to produce more lemming-like minions for their Party!
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Do you think, John, that replacing one Governor with a recall surrogate is likely to encourage any company to locate its operation in Wisconsin? You and your disciples of gloom cannot expect major businesses or industries to settle here over night. Or, perhaps, to expand, even. And some...not all of the delay in business growth is thanks to the perceived hostile business climate that’s sustained by so many of you Dissenters that abound.

RustyRotor, where in my comment do you see any mention whatsoever of "throwing more money" at education? You don't. However, what your response does is reinforces the myopic perspective of people that fixing education is only done by spending money. Your constricted thinking is large part of the problem.

Poobah - are you asking us to throw more money into education? We have done that year after year after year and what have we got?

John, I think America must realize many of the jobs, particularly manufacturing jobs, that were won by overseas companies are not coming back. There is a story about an exchange between Steve Jobs and President Obama at a business dinner last February with many of the top Silicon Valley leaders. As Jobs was speaking about the manufacturing of the iPhone, Obama interrupted him and asked why those manufacturing jobs couldn't come back to America. Jobs replied, quite bluntly, "Those jobs aren’t coming back." There is a great piece written by Charles Duhigg and Keith Bradsher of the New York Times about this meeting and why these jobs are not coming back. You can find the story at: [ http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/busine... ]
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Another piece you may find informative, if not a bit optimistic as is his usual style, is the speech given by Thomas Friedman to the US Conference of Mayors last week. Friedman ties the issue of the jobs back mainly to a failure of the education system. That video is available on C-Span at: [ http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/Fried... ]
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With the moves of Walker that will decimate education in this state, and similar moves in other states, I don't see that America has the will or desire right now to improve the educational system to a point required to compete for the jobs lost and being lost. We've not yet reached that level of direness that I think is going to be required before people quit bickering and take the necessary steps.

dustyd, I see, since I'm a conservative and choose to quote Fox News I am therefore inferior to you.
No point was proven.

I am no fan of Obama's, but you cant deny he inherited the worst economy since the 1920's. Three years into his term the economy is improving by every measure. Also, dont fool yourself into believing that tax breaks for corporations create jobs. Demand creates jobs. To create demand you have to get money into the consumer's pockets. Trickle down economics has been proven to fail.

When you quote Fox News you prove my point.

Dustyd, Quote "Obama has, upon review, weakened more regulations than Bush, especially environmental rules" end quote
Just last week:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/afontevecchi...

Fox News Opinion:
"With the news that the White House is definitively rejecting approval of TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline, a project that has the potential to employ 20,000 Americans almost immediately, the president has made clear that he’d rather placate a small group of environmental radicals than offer real relief to unemployed Americans struggling to pay constantly rising gas prices."

dustyd Jan 23, 2012 at 11:05 a.m.
Gee, if you could only quantify that. Less doesn't mean less restrictive.
BTW you lose credibility with statements like Quote "dutifully repeated right-wing propoganda again,..." End Quote

thirdeye: Sorry to let facts get in the way of your dutifully repeated right-wing propoganda again, but Obama’s White House has approved fewer regulations than Bush at this same point in their tenures, and the estimated costs of those regulations haven’t reached the annual peak set in fiscal 1992 under Bush’s father. In addition, Obama has, upon review, weakened more regulations than Bush, especially environmental rules, to the dismay of many in his party. The "regulatory uncertainty" slogan for why businesses aren't hiring is a Republican anti-Obama talking point, not a fact. The reason businesses are not hiring is because they are not selling enough of their products and services to justify the cost of new employees.

Thank you, Gazette staff Kyle, for dealing with this issue so promptly!

I find it funny that Walker gets blamed for everything wrong in Wisconsin including anything that was done prior to him being elected but when you bring Obama's name into the mix it comes down to it was all Bush's fault and Obama can't get anything done because of the party of "NO"! So am I mis-informed when I note that Obama had an open checkbook the first two years of his presidency with absolutely no checks and balances and still didn't get anything done except take the national debt to an all time high. He passed Obamacare that they don't know exactly what they passed but held a secret vote to keep what they currently had. Great slogan from Obama and Pelosi, "We don't want it but you are going to love it"!

MadCityDad Jan 23, 2012 at 9:58 a.m. Could you help us by pointing out the policy or policies enacted by Governor Walker that have kicked in to prevent job growth.

What has happened in the last month that may scare potential employers away from Wisconsin?
That's right! The Walker recall.
So Mr. Eyster, you site last months stats that are skewed by the political upheavel that you applaud.
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Another observation in regard to some previous posts:
What has happened in the last 3+ years that may scare employers from hiring new people?
That's right! The misguided over regulatory policies of the Obama Administration.

"The jobs that were gained under Walker--in the beginning months of his administration-- occurred before his policies had a chance to take effect."
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It seems a shame to spoil such good republican party propoganda with facts.

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It is sad that, while the rest of the country is adding jobs, under Governor Walker here in Wisconsin we lost jobs for the sixth month in a row. The jobs that were gained under Walker--in the beginning months of his administration-- occurred before his policies had a chance to take effect. While the Governor's billboards can tell us that he is "creating jobs," all the unemployed folks know the facts.

The Gazette needs to BAN whoever posted with my username....it was created today. Clever, though, using a miss spell on the name to create the account.

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Wow,
I was not aware that people could hack and use MY name for comments....

"made significant strides in balancing the budget"
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I think not.
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http://thewheelerreport.com/releases/Jan...

Again you didnt state all the facts Eyster, overall for the year it is a substatial gain. And why unlike the other bloggers you have to write a book. You have the biggest ego of anyone I have ever known.

Dear gazette editors: If you are gonna encourage us to read this crap, could you please have someone at least edit it. For an "educator" (bull&&&& cough), the writers use of the English language is embarrassing.

CURL: The truly dismal state of the union

"There is one person — one American among the 300 million of us — who is not to blame for the state of the union. Everyone else, each of you, in some small or large way, bears some share of the blame, but not this guy. Not one little bit."

"The unemployment rate when Mr. Obama was elected was 6.8 percent; today it is 8.5 percent — at least that’s the official number. In reality, the Financial Times writes, “if the same number of people were seeking work today as in 2007, the jobless rate would be 11 percent.”

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012...

TOMORROW is the State of the Union. Obama will paint a rosy picture of the jobs he has created and an unemployment rate of 8.5% (saying, "it could be worse"). Wisconsin has a rate of 7.1%.

TOMORROW is day 1000, and the democratic senate has FAILED to pass a BUDGET.

John perhaps I missed your posting on the jobs lost under Doyle and Obama, if you have the time could you point it out for me, thanks.

Let’s see, we still hear Obama blaming Bush for the fact that he can’t manage to get anything done. Why, just look at the mess he inherited, is it any wonder he can’t meet any of his campaign promises? Three years of blame Bush! Walker has had two less years and has made significant strides in balancing the budget and fixing some of the messes Doyle left behind. And yet you focus on one month of jobs data. Maybe we should give him his full term, and then judge? You may also remember that for the last couple of months, rather than running the state, he’s been busy with this moronic recall effort. Did you expect anything significant to get done?

“Once these people get the TRUTH, they choose to be FREE of the department which is coping with expectations by Walker which are IMPOSSIBLE.” Most lefties keep asserting that Walker is packing his administration with crooks and lackeys. Yet you assert that his people are so conscientious and upstanding, three have resigned over “expectations”. So, which is it, crooks or paragons of virtue? And, oh by the way, how exactly do you know their motives? Do you have some facts, or are you just making up a bunch of silly stuff again? Thanks for a real New Year’s belly laugh.

Sigma: It feeds eysters ego and makes him feel superior to everyone else.

What is the relevance of this blog to anything?

Johnny - why provide the numbers for one month yet fail to provide overall numbers for the year? At least the JS had some sense to do so.
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"For all of 2011, Wisconsin gained 13,500 private-sector jobs, double the number from the previous year and the most since 2006..."

John, is your job taxpayer funded ?