Monday, March 25, 2013

The Walker Agenda Is Still Working! Part CLXIX

(Cross-posted at Wisconsin Soapbox)

While Capper is gone, I suppose I will have to pick up the mantle. Back in September of 2012, Capper wrote a post titled "The Walker Budget Keeps Working! Part CXLV" about Brillion Iron Works laying off almost 200 workers. As noted then, with just two days warning, nearly 200 people's lives were thrown into turmoil.

Well, consider today's announcement that the same company in the small Northeast Wisconsin community of Brillion is laying off another 46 workers as an addendum to that posting. Some in the media are trying to sugar coat this story, talking about how the jobs seem to always "come back." Don't buy it! (Media bias is fake, right?) Actually read quotes from the company's Director of Public Affairs:
"We still have not brought those employees back. Orders are still fairly weak,” said Weir. 

You can view a report from Green Bay TV Channel Fox 11 about the closing:

8 comments:

  1. According to the article, the problem is weak international sales.
    And this is Walker's how?
    But then when you have an unhealthy Walker hate, we expect really stupid posts like this one.
    But then I am sure the 2 brain cells Wisconsin Soapbox has, thinks he has a winner on this issue.

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    1. I see Dan, so let me see if I have this straight. If we assume that weak international sales is in fact the reason for the layoffs, are we to understand then that you are emphatically stating that demand is what drives job gains and losses and not tax rates? That would be anathema to the Walkerbot mantra. Nearly all of his policies are predicated on the fantasy that tax cuts, deregulation, and public money funneled to his corporate financiers, not demand, stimulate jobs. After all, it's his policies that siphoned $750 million worth of demand out of the state's economy while promising 250k jobs. How's he doing towards that goal incidentally?

      You should probably write to him explaining how dissatisfied you are with his fundamental misunderstanding of economic principles and the resultant damage they've caused to the state. I'm sure you won't though. No, you'll probably instead go to some other blog and vomit up a bunch of Walker fluffing nonsense there as well. If I may borrow your rather, um...eloquent phrasing; After all, when you have an irrational Walker fetish, we can expect really stupid posts like this one. Thanks for trying, please come back when you have a cogent point.

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  2. Ah Danny- You think weak exports are really the issue? Silly Bagger.

    Go check out Scotty's half-baked plans for manufacturing and upcoming visit to China, and you'll see this isn't that surprising

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  3. To blame weak international sales is laughable. Here's the bigger reason why. Teahadists have made it a point to drastically cut infrastructure spending. Roads, especially in cities, would require a lot of what Brillion Iron works makes. But thanks to the great patriotic teahadists, many of those jobs related to that type of work have continued to dwindle. Of course, the mouth breathers will yammer about the government not creating jobs, blah blah blah.

    Maybe they should look at many of the flowages in the state of Wisconsin, and ask themselves how they came to be, and what entity funded those. Numerous highway projects after the Great Depression also helped to lift us out of that debacle, albeit through government created jobs.

    Unhealthy Walker hate? That really is an oxymoron. Any hate, much like disdain for Walker is well deserved, and very healthy. Not having a hate for Walker would mean you're either not breathing, or capable of cognitive reasoning.

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    1. Don't get me wrong here. I dislike walker and hope he has an unhappy life after the crap he's pulled on working families......but it wasn't road projects, it was simply world war 2 that got us out of that debacle.

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    2. "but it wasn't road projects, it was simply world war 2 that got us out of that debacle."

      Care to elaborate on what, exactly, you mean by it was "simply" WWII that got us out of that debacle? How did the war "simply" extricate us from the great depression?

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  4. Very funny but seriously uneducated responses.
    Typical of the supporters of liberal policies spouted here.

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    1. Well, that was utterly unconvincing. No proof, just repeating your mantra of morons.

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