The interesting part is most really don't, for a long time Walker had the backing of the News Media, which was understandable since the Brother Kock pretty much own the state, and have a juge amount of control over media with the amount of money they can drop at will.

The reason I am more concerned about this guy, versus say Rubio or Cruz, is he is much closer to the "Shrub" in his tactics, and he doesn't have the name recognition that those two do. Cruz in particular is up there with Trump, since his little antics with shutting down the Government that he claims when he wants his base to get all excited, and then deny's when the rest of the place tears into him.

This guy is more danerous in that he will flat lie about what he is going to do; once elected he then just rides roughshod over the little guy, who of course has little to no voice in comparison to the Brothers Kock, or other big money boys.

And with the distinct possbility that Walker will be put in place with a majority of Rethugs like himself, due to the swing of the folks upset with the democrats, its a real possibilty that we could have another Shrub in office, only one that isn't even as bright as the bush babies, and is seriously being run by the Brothers Kock. If there hand was any further up Walkers ass as a puppet, they could use their middle finger for his tounge.

Tue Jul 14, 2015 at 07:02 AM PDT

Scott Walker calls minimum wage a 'lame idea'

by Laura ClawsonFollow for Daily Kos Labor

U.S. Republican presidential candidate and Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker waves a U.S. one dollar bill as he formally announces his campaign for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination during a kickoff rally in Waukesha, Wisconsin, July 13, 2015.   REUTERS/Darren Hauck  - RTX1K98O
Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI)
What would the early hours of Scott Walker's official presidential campaign be without him explaining how he hurts workers to help them? It's unimaginable, and indeed, Walker talked to Sean Hannity shortly after his campaign announcement and returned to his favorite explanation for why he doesn't want to raise the minimum wage from poverty levels: he wants more for Americans than the piddling minimum wage.
“The left claims they’re for American workers, and they’ve got lame ideas, things like minimum wage,” Walker said. “We need to talk about how we get people skills and qualifications they need to get jobs that go beyond minimum wage.”
Walker never seems to address why we can't have both—a higher minimum wage and people getting better-than-minimum-wage jobs. Why it's some kind of lame insult to reason to do the thing you can do now—raise the minimum wage so that work pays enough to live on—to improve standards while you take on the bigger task of reshaping the American economy.

And that's the friendly reading. But we're talking about Scott Walker here. He doesn't want to improve wages or conditions for American workers! That's his brand—last fall, his administration said that $7.25 is a living wage. That blame-workers brand is why he's pinning the responsibility for getting past minimum wage on workers, in line with the giant myth that what's wrong in our economy is that workers don't have the skills they need to get good jobs. In reality:

If today’s labor market woes were the result of skills shortages or mismatches, we would expect to see some sectors where there are more unemployed workers than job openings and others where there are more job openings than unemployed workers. What we find, however, is that there are more unemployed workers than jobs openings across the board.
So, yeah. You're more likely to be unemployed or underemployed if you didn't go to college or don't have specialized skills, but there are 16 job-seekers for every 10 available jobs and many of the people left hanging, or stuck in jobs they'd leave if they believed better jobs were available, are highly educated, skilled workers.

Raising the minimum wage is super popular, which is why someone like Scott Walker who really, really doesn't want to raise it can't just come out and say "I care more about low-road employers than I do about working people." But that's what all his "lame" excuses boil down to.

Jul 16 2015

The Minimum Wage–and Other Left Ideas Washington Post Might Find ‘Lame’

Scott Walker (photo: State of Wisconsin)

Gov. Scott Walker says the minimum wage is “lame”–and a Washington Post political analyst largely agrees with him. (photo: State of Wisconsin)

Just after announcing his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker denounced the left for not having any real ideas for workers. According to Walker:

They’ve just got really lame ideas, things like the minimum wage. Instead of focusing on that, we need to talk about how we give people the skills and the education, the qualifications they need to take on careers that pay far more than minimum wage.

In his Washington Post column The Fix (7/14/15), Philip Bump largely endorsed this perspective.

If the purpose the minimum wage is meant to serve is to lift people out of poverty, Pew points out that Walker’s right: Most minimum wages aren’t high enough to do that. The minimum wage is indeed lame, in the sense that it’s relatively impotent. Earning a minimum wage in 2014 was enough for a single person not to live in poverty, but not anyone with a family–and not everywhere across the country.

Philip Bump

Washington Post‘s Philip Bump: ‘The minimum wage is indeed lame’

There are a few points worth noting here. First, “the left” has many ideas for helping workers other than just the minimum wage. For example, many on the left have pushed for a full-employment policy, which would mean having a Federal Reserve Board policy that allows the unemployment rate to continue to fall until there is clear evidence of inflation, rather than preemptively raising interest rates to slow growth.

It would also mean having trade policies designed to reduce the trade deficit (i.e., a lower-valued dollar), which would provide a strong boost to jobs. It would also mean spending on infrastructure and education, which would also help to create jobs and have long-term growth benefits.

The left also favors policies that allow workers who want to be represented by unions to organize. This has a well-known impact on wages, especially for less educated workers.

(It is worth noting that as governor of Wisconsin, Walker has targeted unions, trying to weaken them in both the public and private sectors. He has also attacked the University of Wisconsin, one of the top public universities in the country. Insofar as he is committed to a path of upward mobility for workers, these actions go in the opposite direction.)

As far the denunciation of the minimum wage as “lame,” this is a policy that could put thousands of dollars a year into the pockets of low-wage workers. For arithmetic fans, a three-dollar-an-hour increase in the minimum wage would mean $6,000 a year for a full-year worker. Since Bump seems to prefer per household measures to per worker measures, if a household has two workers earning near the minimum wage, for a total of 3,000 hours a year, a three-dollar increase would imply $9,000 in additional income. It’s unlikely these people would think of the minimum wage as “lame.”

The last point is that Bump apparently doesn’t realize that Walker’s focus on skills and education are not new, and are also shared by the left. The left has long led the way in pushing for public support for improved education. Even now, President Obama has put proposals forward for universal pre-K education and reducing the cost of college. Unions have not only supported education in the public sector, they routinely require training and upskilling of workers in their contracts.

If Walker has some new ideas on skills and education, then it would be worth hearing them, but Bump gives no indication that Walker did anything other than say the words as a way to denounce the left. In short, if Bump had more knowledge about history and current politics, he would not join Walker in his name-calling.




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