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Barack Obama: "For the first time since 1990, American manufacturers are creating new jobs."
President Barack Obama packed an upbeat job statistic for his visit to the Master Lock plant in Milwaukee. "For the first time since 1990, American manufacturers are creating new jobs," the president said on Feb. 15, 2012, as he praised Master Lock for bringing jobs back from China. "American manufacturers are hiring for the first time since 1990," Obama said in repeating the claim two days later at a Boeing plant in Washington state. The remarks got wide media play. The claim of recent growth ...
>> MoreMark Neumann: Says the federal government could save $175,587 by eliminating a study of the "connection between cocaine and risky sex habits of the Japanese quail."
When the federal government gets ridiculed for doing a study on what seems like a wacky phenomenon, it always sounds like the research was concocted by Leno or Letterman. Then Uncle Sam goes and funds another study that sounds even crazier. Spending tax dollars in this way amounts to juicy red meat for budget hawks such as Mark Neumann, one of the Republicans running for a U.S. Senate seat from Wisconsin in 2012. On Jan. 26, 2012, the former congressman put out a list of 10 federal programs ...
>> MoreKathleen Falk: Says Scott Walker enacted "the biggest cuts to education in our state’s history."
Democrats searching for the right combination of punches to drive Scott Walker from office have focused on joblessness, schools, tax fairness and leadership style. One of the jabs they throw repeatedly centers on cuts Walker’s 2011-’13 budget made in state aid to local school districts. Kathleen Falk, the best-known Democrat so far in the likely 2012 gubernatorial recall election, tried to land a roundhouse right as she became the first announced candidate. The former Dane County executive told a Feb. 8, 2012 audience in La Crosse that Walker has ...
>> MoreScott Walker: A 10-year state program that created 202 jobs at a cost of $247,000 per job was approved by former Gov. Jim Doyle.
Issue No. 1 in Madison: Jobs. Gov. Scott Walker and lawmakers of both parties say the state should be doing more, with much debate centered on proposals to boost companies poised for rapid growth. The idea is for the state to use millions of dollars to "seed" venture capital funds -- pools of money that are invested in young firms with high growth potential. But legislation has been bogged down by a debate over whether or not to use state certificated capital companies, or CAPCOs, to handle the investments. A ...
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- Barack Obama: "For the first time since 1990, American manufacturers are creating new jobs."
- Mark Neumann: Says the federal government could save $175,587 by eliminating a study of the "connection between cocaine and risky sex habits of the Japanese quail."
- Kathleen Falk: Says Scott Walker enacted "the biggest cuts to education in our state’s history."
- Scott Walker: A 10-year state program that created 202 jobs at a cost of $247,000 per job was approved by former Gov. Jim Doyle.
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