Wisconsin: A Leadership Gap, Not a Skills Gap

[Scuba]

[ewagner]

1. Typical Repub tactic

blame the workers instead of your own stupid policies....

I am especially irritated over the "skills gap" nonsense that the DWD is trumpeting....it works like this:

"There are plenty of jobs out there, Wisconsinites just don't have the skills to get them."
Yeah...right...after you SOBs cut funding for education at all levels and primarily by cutting Tech school funding by something like 30%, AND you pay musical chairs with the Directors of DWD then you blame students, teachers and displaced workers for not being "retrained".

[BeaverDem]

5. I guess the free market doesnt work ^_^

If those jobs paid a wages that would warrant the training then people would spend money / Time for the school. We can incentivise school all we like but if they arent desireable jobs then people won't bite. These WMC people want to have their cake and eat it too. They want to drive wages down, but then expect people to be so desperate for work that they will invest their own money to train themselves. So yeah whenever I hear "Skills Gap" I hear "Wage Gap"

[reteachinwi]

2. C'mon now, it's working.

Transfer of More Wealth to the 1%

Governor Walker insists the state is broke and justifies denying public employees their fundamental freedom to collectively bargain in order to address the deficit. It is now clear that the deficit was exaggerated for political purposes, because massive new tax breaks for corporations and wealthy investors passed since January 2011 will cause an additional loss of nearly $2.4 billion in revenue to state government over the next 10 years. These new tax breaks were enacted despite the fact that two corporate-funded studies show: (1) that businesses in Wisconsin already pay less in taxes (income, property and sales taxes) than the national average; and (2) Wisconsin has the 4th lowest effective tax rate (taxes actually paid) in the country for new business investment.

http://scottwalkerwatch.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Losses-to-Working-Families-Under-Governor-Walker.pdf

[midnight]

3. Wisconsin workers are on their own.... They better hang together...

[hue]

4. K&R!!!