Mike Konopacki: Scott Walker’s Jobs Fraud

[hue]

http://www.bluecheddar.net/?p=30651

Actually, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s agenda is an unqualified success. Everything Walker has done over the last two years was designed to keep wages low and ensure employers a weak and desperate labor force. It’s simple supply and demand, high unemployment ensures low wages.

The March 2013 BLS statistics rate Wisconsin 44th in the nation in job creation. Wages fell by 4.1% and unemployment rose to 8.4%. Critics blame Scott Walker’s austerity policies. Walker blames the “uncertainty” of peaceful protests and recall elections.

The reality is that Walker’s agenda is an unqualified success. Everything Walker has done over the last two years was designed to keep wages low and ensure employers a weak and desperate labor force.

Walker’s claim of “uncertainty” is a lie. Wisconsin companies continue to move jobs to “uncertain” countries in search of low wages. Thermo-Fisher closed its Hamilton Manufacturing plant in Two Rivers and shipped the jobs to Reynosa, Mexico, a city embroiled in a deadly drug war. The situation is so bad that the US State Department has prohibited federal employees from personal travel on highways outside of Matamoros, Reynosa and Nuevo Laredo. Outsourcing to China continues even though Chinese workers have been striking in increased numbers against low wage, dangerous jobs. At Foxconn, workers committed suicide by jumping out of windows in the face of unbearable conditions. If drug war violence and increasing social unrest are no deterrent to Wisconsin companies, it’s fallacy to claim that peaceful protests and harmless elections have forced Wisconsin “job creators” to dive under their desks cringing in fear.

Scott Walker and his Tea Party cult have no interest in creating jobs or a prosperous economy. Their agenda is to keep Wisconsin a low-wage state and to maintain brutal income inequality. In Janesville members of Rock County 5.0, an economic development group, were caught on film celebrating the the GM plant closure because it would force down area wages. Eric Isbister, CEO of GenMet, a metal-fabricating manufacturer outside Milwaukee, fired 15 of 25 skilled new hires to avoid workers with union experience who expected to be paid more than $15 an hour. And while employers complained about a “skills gap” for welders, UW Milwaukee professor Marc Levine reported that Wisconsin has 2,000 unemployed welders for about 500 job openings and at a recent jobs fair for graduating welders only eight companies showed up.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. what I fail to understand is

WHY?

Do they think there is a set number of total jobs for America, and that as a Zero Sum problem, any job created (regardless of the means) is a job taken away elsewhere?

The irrational basis of many Tea Bagger positions is confounding to me. Can someone paint me a paint by numbers picture?

[midnight]

2. Right to work is a fraud.... And all the tea party ramble will never change those facts....

[Wellstone ruled]

3. It only taken 50 years of trying and

the big buck people finally made it happen. Experienced this shit in the 7 county area (Impact 7)in northwest Wisconsin. 3M and the Paper Companies did the same garbage in the Sixties. The Union movement was on a tare in the 50's and this crap killed it off. Used to spend our summers in that region. Seen the effect,horseshit wages,poverty up the rear,health care sucks. But,you can get a 8 dollar job at the Casino.