The Bucknuts Hot Spot

A lesson to all, don't vote for idiots like that in the first place! Want to end social programs,unions and pensions for all Americans. Let the market dictate for all people.

The 1 million who signed the petitions are not actual people because they disagree with you?

Millions are "not that bright" because they disagree with your synopsis of what things are like in their state. Really?

Wisconsin is currently dead last in the US for job gains( a huge promise of Walker's was job gains).... good post, Tim...guess the truth hurts....

Up vote for you Schaef. You two not bothering to post at all - period, would teach her an even better lesson!!

Go for it guys!!!

Really? What it says is that there 10 Cons running their mouth on this Board. Walker said the recall will "give him a chance to get his story out". BWAHAHAHA!!!!. That's hilarious. Why do you think there is a recall coming, because everyone knows his story!

It's called trolling.

She is a Troll. She even resembles one in real life, it's truly uncanny

that Cro Mag1 gets his proaganda from very, very reliable sources.......LOL

Wisconsin lost private-sector jobs for the sixth consecutive month in December, the same period in which the nation added jobs.

According to data released Thursday by the state Department of Workforce Development, the state lost an estimated 3,900 jobs in the private sector in December from November. The United States showed a gain of 212,000 for the month, outstripping expectations of most economists.

Both sets of data are seasonally adjusted to strip out recurring fluctuations due to weather and holidays. Both sets of data are also preliminary and subject to revision.

Most of the jobs were lost in service sector industries as well as hotels, restaurants, leisure and hospitality.

State employment was essentially little changed, with an estimated loss of 200 jobs. City and county employers showed job gains in the month. Total non-farm employment, including private and all forms of public-sector work, fell 1,700.

The unemployment rate, which the government derives from a separate survey of households, fell to 7.1% from 7.3% in November, which mirrors a national decline in the same month to 8.5% from 8.7%.

During the recession and recovery, it's been common to see a divergence in the trend between the payroll employment numbers, which are extrapolated from a survey of employers, and the unemployment rate, which is derived from a separate survey. Economists attribute the divergence to a lack of clear trends in the recovery.

Walker is doing a great job of adding jobs.... NOT.....

Those in the private sector are making record profits, tax rates on corporations and the wealthy are near modern day record lows. But wanting the field tilted even more in their favor the corps/wealthy are having their GOP sock monkeys whine for more tax cuts and less regulations because that is why they cannot create jobs - BullShit.

Given that cons, the GOP, corporations, and wealthy individuals are in the process of perpetrating one of the greatest Cluster Fucks of all times on we the people, I wouldn't be worrying about "a nice little ménage à trois" if I were you.

Demand is the only thing that creates job. Cutting taxes and cutting regulations just increases profits - not to mention that they also lead to things like the meltdown of our economy, Deep Water Horizon, Love Canal, etc.

How can cons perpetrate a clusterfuck on anyone when it is a Democrat who is sitting in the White House?

Okay, so I'll re-word my original question to fit your reply. So I'm guessing you believe more union power, more regulations and higher taxes on businesses and individuals will create more sustainable demand, and therefore jobs. How so?

Healthy, sustainable demand, not artificially stimulated demand like what this administration has favored, is what this country needs. When sustainable demand exceeds any company's ability to serve that demand jobs are created. The company can no longer economically justify satisfying that demand through more overtime, alone, or has also run out of fixed capacity. If it's economically justifiable to grab some of that demand, before another company does, the company will hire more people and/or increase capacity. This starts the virtuous circle where growth leads to more growth because those new jobs or that capacity expansion create an econmic ripple in the economy. Conservatives tend to believe that temporary stimulus through wealth redistribution does not create sustainable demand.

Unfortunately we still have a fairly large crisis of confidence in any sustainable demand in this country, with too many memories of 2008/2009. That's why companies are not investing in a significant way or expanding capacity, and are socking the profits away, as are individuals with disposable income. The left's only solution, as it always is, takes more of that money and lets the government re-distribute it, but how does that create any sustainable demand? Through companies like Solyndra? Any business person knows the government does not create jobs, so we're then left with the question of how does the government create an environment of sustainable demand?

In many areas of the economy we still have excess capacity, with housing as the supreme poster child. Unfortunately housing is also the poster child of an industry that has the ability to create the strongest ripples in the economy, which is why it gets so much attention. The government, bless its heart, only wants to "artificially" stimulate housing through re-distributive programs like loan re-writes, debt forgiveness, etc., but how does that create sustainable growth. The real issue is the overall crisis of confidence. No company will hire if it lacks confidence in the sustainability of the demand, and no one will buy a house without a solid job. That's why temporary or contract labor rates are a leading indicator of economic growth - we need to see strong growth in this area before permanent jobs will be created because no company wants to hire if there's a probability they'll need to lay that person off in the near term.

So the key question, and primary difference between liberals and conservatives, is how do you create sustainable demand? I argue it's not through wealth re-distribution because that simply takes money from one part of the economy and puts it somewhere else - this does not lead to sustainable growth, vis-a-vis Obama's failed stimulus programs. The only thing that creates sustainable demand is a healthy economic climate, where companies and individuals are not overburdened by tax rates and unncessary regulations.

So I again ask you the question - how does more union power, more unnecessary regulations and higher taxes on businesses and individuals create more sustainable demand, and therefore jobs?