And what is it that the Governor has done to create jobs? The economy is going to create a certain amount of jobs on it's own, but what has Walker done to create jobs or protect the ones that we've already got? Last I checked we were pretty much in last place among the states for job creation.

Let's see Johnny. Governor Walker has:
A) balanced the budget without raising taxes, thereby making Wisconsin more attractive to business looking to build/expand.
B) Passed legislation that allows local governments to balance their budget without raising taxes thereby making those communities more attractive to businesses looking to build/expand.
C) Passed legislation giving businesses incentives to hire.
D) Passed legislation giving business incentives to move to Wisconsin.

Good god, this is what's sinking the whole country- political partisanship that is so convoluted that people will fall in love with a turd so long as it was excreted by someone from their own party.

There are two main things to judge Walker on- the budget and jobs. He did a fine job with the budget, and he failed miserably at creating jobs. 50% right is an F.

Wisconsin is in the bottom 10% of all states on job creation right now. For one thing he rejected around 2billion$ in stimulus money that would have created countless jobs and got things moving here again. We still have to repay the 2billion, we just didn't receive it. Say what you will about the railroads, but even $2billion wasted would have had benefits so long as the money was spend in Wisconsin and not Illiniois or California where it ended up. We will be repaying that money for a generation, and were denied any possible benefit in having received it.

Legislation giving businesses incentive to hire? What exactly is that and how is it helping? Business only hire when there is a justifiable need to do so. I own 2 businesses and will certainly not hire anyone due to any government incentive. I will hire someone when there is enough new work coming in where my existing staff can't handle it, regardless of whatever that "incentive" to hire may be.

Legislation isn't going to make anyone to come here either. They will come when there is demand for their service (i.e. employed people are buying from them).

Let's drop a few zero's off the end of it so the $'s are easier to understand regarding the rejection of the stimulus funds for railroad. The stimulus was $2bil and the railroad was going to cost $5mil a year to maintain.

Say you've been part unemployed for a while and improving the situation has been beyond your control. Then the city decides to get you working again by paying you to $200,000 to build a swimming pool in your own yard. You get to keep the pool, plus $100k of the 200 goes to you for your labor, but you're going to have to pay $500 a year to maintain it after it's built. They also tell you that you're on the hook for it eventually, but it's going to be a while and nobody has decided yet at what point you're going to have to pay for it.

You can either take the $200k to regain your employment and build the pool and keep it, or you can reject it, stay partially unemployed and the money goes to build a pool for somebody in Mequon instead. But you're still on the hook for paying it back at some unnamed date in the future, just the same as if they paid you and you build it yourself in your own yard.

Walker rejected that money and you still have to pay it back... But you just bought a pool for somebody else and they got paid the $100k in labor to install it. Your situation is worse now isn't it?

People keep getting dumber. Politicians aren't dumb, but they're going to keep doing what they have to, to keep the dumb people voting for them.

Well said Tansandy !

The multi trillion dollar deficit came from two terms of the Bush administration plain and simple. The two wars were the main factor and you keep denying that fact. Wake up!

Well said.

Please explain how "(which cuts available discretionary dollars from the state's economy)" comes into play. Is it not discretionary spending if it is spent by the employees of the road builders or even by the tax payer in general? Why do you need to tax me more so the teachers can spend my money, for it to benefit the state's economy?

The race to the bottom is being won by states like Illinois and California, that seem to have taken the opposite path Wisconsin did. The "go move there" statement is just plain childish.

The only jobs that the special session is intended to save is the jobs of the obstructionist Democrat Legislators. They had a full session to present jobs legislation, they will have another full session as scheduled. Why do the Democrats require a majority to do right by the people they represent? Don't you think the majority will last?
As for the post recall hiring wave, do you have any clue how jobs are created?

Why is that? What did they put you through? Protesting for their rights, and your rights as well?

I would hope that if rights you valued were overturned without opportunity to comment or respond, you would protest as heartily and as peacefully.

ps: Way to change the subject. I guess nobody is going to comment about Walker increasing spending, maintaining the deficit, and sucking it up on the jobs numbers in spite of every other nearby state keeping right along with the national average.

Collective bargaining was never a right. Like I said you can not be trusted.

@Steve ... Stevie took it up the azz long before the blue fisters , and loved it !