Scotty Walker, yes him again, lost another 1200 jobs in Wisconsin, says "let's not point fingers".

[Augiedog]

While the emperor fiddled Madison got burned. The,now Heinz owned, Oscar Mayer meat processing factory in Madison Wisconsin will close in January 2017 eliminating 1200 jobs. They are building a new state of the art facility in Davenport Iowa, which for those of you who may be geographically challenged is right next to Wisconsin. Governor Walker was on the presidential campaign trail touting his failed ideas and pretending to have an engaging reason to be ignoring His constituents at home while this was developing.
This announcement that the Oscar Mayer facility would close came as a total surprise to the Walker administration. It was no surprise to most other residents of Madison Wisconsin seeing as how Heinz made it clear that the massive factory's future was undetermined months ago when they purchased the company. But this, like many things, got past the republican wizards in the state capital. It did not get past the people who run the state of Iowa or the city of Davenport. They offered financial incentives that drew the new factory to them.
As irony would have it the very notion that the Walker administration didn't know what was going on seems a bit of a stretch. This giant meat processing facility is a five or at most ten minute walk, yes WALK, from the governors mansion. It's not in a remote part of some obscure community in a distant part of the state where Scotty could say, "huh? Who? Where?". He probably saw the facility, without actually noticing it, every day.
But hey, it's only 1200 families that will be losing their source of income, they were probably lazy anyway. I had a conversation with myself and one of the topics that came up was that perhaps there was another reason the Walker administration didn't act, payback. Payback for all the Madison residents he hates so much because he thinks they were primarily responsible for his suffering through a recall election. Hmmmm, have to stop talking to myself, I'm starting to make sense.

[TBF]

1. And it's not like that's a new facility - it's been there

a very long time. I remember seeing the Oscar Mayer Mobile driving around while I was in college there (30 yrs ago). I think the plant has been there much longer. That's a huge loss for Madison.

[Augiedog]

6. Almost 100 years....

but if you company was in a state that was trying to destroy higher education and refused to act rationally towards health care and thought infrastructure was something that should fall apart, where would you want to have your new state of the art facility? Certainly not in a state that is headed back to medieval status and its own version of Sharia law.

[TBF]

10. Oh I agree -

and it serves him right. He is destroying the state I grew up in.

[a kennedy]

2. AND he's begging for money to pay off his campaign debt.......

http://host.madison.com/ct/news/local/govt-and-politics/election-matters/scott-walker-looking-for-donations-to-pay-back-presidential-campaign/article_ad656a05-c84b-5469-8497-8cafb2fa6fb3.html


I JUST DESPISE HIM.

[Vogon_Glory]

3. Wasn't Scotty Supposed To Grow The Wisconsin Economy?

Didn't Scott Walker campaign on the premise that his deregulation and tax cut programs would cause the Wisconsin economy to grow and flourish, to the detriment and embarrassment of Democrat-controlled neighboring states?

Well, like Cuba after five years of Castro, Venezuela after years of Maduro and Chavez, here is the Wisconsin economy under Comandante Scotty. It doesn't seem to be growing that much, does it?

I am old enough to remember the mockery heaped on Michael Dukakis for the purported poor showing of the Massachusetts economy when he ran for President.

I think the yawning chasm between Comandante Scotty's promises and reality deserve to be explored at length and in depth.

[Myrina]

4. ... and ok'd drug tests for unemployment bene's

... to add insult to injury. Seriously how is this fucker & his sadistic group of toadies not run out of the state on a rail?

[spanone]

5. that's probably what you say when all the fingers are pointing at you

[gratuitous]

9. Yep, no pointing of fingers until Walker names a scapegoat

I'm guessing it will be Obama, unions or liberals. Or some combination thereof.

[Wellstone ruled]

7. Here is another one,

R.C.Johnson the Glade/Fabreeze and Pest control people just announced 175 people mostly Research folks are out the door.

[LittleBlue]

8. Scott Walker

And he wanted to be president

[Scuba]

11. Hey, Squatty, you were sure pointing fingers two years ago ...

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/walker-blames-sluggish-wisconsin-job-growth-on-2011-union-protests

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) on Friday blamed the state's sluggish job growth on "uncertainty" due to the mass-union protests triggered when his administration essentially ended collective bargaining for most public employees in 2011.

"The first year we had a lot of protests in the state," Walker said, according to the Journal Sentinel. "We had two years', almost, worth of recalls. A lot of employers here I think can relate to the fact (that) uncertainty is one of the biggest challenges for employers big or small or anywhere in between. There was a lot of uncertainty. The good news is that's passed."

What's your excuse now, asshole?