Scott Walker opens up about White House ambitions

66gardeners said:

Scott Walker acknowledged in an interview Friday that he’s open to a presidential bid. Walker insisted he was visiting Iowa in May only because he was invited by Gov. Terry Branstad. But when pressed about his White House ambitions, the Wisconsin Republican said: “Would I ever be [interested]? Possibly. I guess the only thing I’d say is I’m not ruling it out.” Perhaps even more notably, Walker wouldn’t commit to serving throughout a second four-year term. He said his focus is on substance, not longevity.

“For me, it’s really a measure of what I’ve accomplished and what more I could accomplish if I was in a different position,” Walker told POLITICO at CPAC, where he’ll speak Saturday. The governor noted that he ran for Milwaukee County executive during his state legislative term and then sought the governorship in the midst of his tenure as county executive. But Walker, 45, used the question about diversity to note that the Republican challenge isn’t merely that it’s a party dominated by white males. “It goes to old white guys” he said, adding: “I’m not an old white guy.”

Read more: Scott Walker opens up about White House ambitions - Jonathan Martin - POLITICO.com

So the criteria to be a republican contender is anything goes as long as you are not an old white guy. They never seem to get a clue. How about being a man of the people - no matter what color or age they are?

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66gardeners said:

Scott Walker acknowledged in an interview Friday that he’s open to a presidential bid. Walker insisted he was visiting Iowa in May only because he was invited by Gov. Terry Branstad. But when pressed about his White House ambitions, the Wisconsin Republican said: “Would I ever be [interested]? Possibly. I guess the only thing I’d say is I’m not ruling it out.” Perhaps even more notably, Walker wouldn’t commit to serving throughout a second four-year term. He said his focus is on substance, not longevity.

“For me, it’s really a measure of what I’ve accomplished and what more I could accomplish if I was in a different position,” Walker told POLITICO at CPAC, where he’ll speak Saturday. The governor noted that he ran for Milwaukee County executive during his state legislative term and then sought the governorship in the midst of his tenure as county executive. But Walker, 45, used the question about diversity to note that the Republican challenge isn’t merely that it’s a party dominated by white males. “It goes to old white guys” he said, adding: “I’m not an old white guy.”

Read more: Scott Walker opens up about White House ambitions - Jonathan Martin - POLITICO.com

So the criteria to be a republican contender is anything goes as long as you are not an old white guy. They never seem to get a clue. How about being a man of the people - no matter what color or age they are?

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MaggieD said:

Scott Walker has proven he is a man of the people.

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Harshaw said:

Yeah, he's frequently cited as a "good guy" Republican by liberals. The overwhelming likelihood is that 66gardeners doesn't know a thing about him other than that he's a Republican.

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66gardeners said:

I know he said he thinks he is eligible for POTUS because he is not an old white guy.

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digsbe said:

Walker would be another Romney.

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Fishstyx said:

Whats the issue? The response is tailored right to the Democrat and progressive charge that the GOP is only for rich old white guys.

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Harshaw said:

Yeah, he's frequently cited as a "good guy" Republican by liberals. The overwhelming likelihood is that 66gardeners doesn't know a thing about him other than that he's a Republican.

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66gardeners said:

Scott Walker acknowledged in an interview Friday that he’s open to a presidential bid. Walker insisted he was visiting Iowa in May only because he was invited by Gov. Terry Branstad. But when pressed about his White House ambitions, the Wisconsin Republican said: “Would I ever be [interested]? Possibly. I guess the only thing I’d say is I’m not ruling it out.” Perhaps even more notably, Walker wouldn’t commit to serving throughout a second four-year term. He said his focus is on substance, not longevity.

“For me, it’s really a measure of what I’ve accomplished and what more I could accomplish if I was in a different position,” Walker told POLITICO at CPAC, where he’ll speak Saturday. The governor noted that he ran for Milwaukee County executive during his state legislative term and then sought the governorship in the midst of his tenure as county executive. But Walker, 45, used the question about diversity to note that the Republican challenge isn’t merely that it’s a party dominated by white males. “It goes to old white guys” he said, adding: “I’m not an old white guy.”

Read more: Scott Walker opens up about White House ambitions - Jonathan Martin - POLITICO.com

So the criteria to be a republican contender is anything goes as long as you are not an old white guy. They never seem to get a clue. How about being a man of the people - no matter what color or age they are?

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MaggieD said:

Scott Walker has proven he is a man of the people.

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Muddy Creek said:

RICH people. He broke the unions, has lowered wages accordingly, raised unemployment from cutting back on state employees and has yet to do anything to attract good paying jobs to Wisconsin.

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MaggieD said:

Unemployment is down in Wisconsin since Walker took office. He gave local districts the tools they need to balance their budgets. State income tax has been lowered by an average of 2.2%. Property taxes have been frozen. He is working to eliminate public sector double-dipping; has expanded the school voucher system giving parents more choice. You are wrong.

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Wisconsin Unemployed

The number of people unemployed in Wisconsin peaked in June 2009 at 287,166. There are now 84,992 fewer people unemployed in the state. Wisconsin job growth data is also available.

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BASE PERIOD:

The first four of the last five completed calendar quarters before the week you file an initial claim application for a new benefit year. The wages paid during this period of time are used to determine if you have enough wages to qualify for a claim and to calculate how much you can be paid. The following chart will help you to understand how we determine the calendar quarters in your base period. The four shaded quarters in each row are the base period quarters for a claim started in the far right quarter of the same row.

Example: A claim started in November 2007 has a base period that starts on July 1, 2006 and ends on June 30, 2007.

Example of a Claims Chart

If you do not have enough wages to qualify for a claim using the base period described above, an "alternate base period" will be used. The alternate base period will be the four most recently completed calendar quarters before the week you filed your initial claim application for a new benefit year.
LAG PERIOD:

The time between the end of your base period and the week you start your claim. We DO NOT use the wages paid during this time period to calculate your benefit entitlement. However, the wages paid during the lag period may be used in a future claim. In the prior example, the lag period would start on July 1, 2007, and would end on the Saturday before the week your claim was started.
COVERED AND EXCLUDED EMPLOYMENT:

Covered employment is work you perform for an employer who is subject to the unemployment insurance law. However, some work is "excluded" (not covered) even when performed for a covered employer. Only wages paid from covered employment can be used to qualify for unemployment benefits and to calculate how much you can be paid. (Excluded employment is one of the eligibility issues listed in Part 6 - Handbook for Claimants.)

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False: The skills of the workforce somehow dropped sharply between 2007 and 2009. Numerous studies by Nobel laureates, highly regarded economics institutes, and two former chairs of presidential councils of economic advisers all conclude that a sudden dropoff in workers’ skills over two years is utterly implausible as an explanation for massive unemployment. In the words of economist Heidi Shierholz of the Economic Policy Institute, “It is not the right workers we are lacking, it is work.”
False: There is a vast pool of high-skilled jobs waiting to be filled. As Levine commented in the report, “Even if every unemployed person were perfectly matched to existing jobs, over 2/3 of all jobless would still be out of work.”
False: Employers are trying in vain to attract skilled workers. If a “skills shortage” truly existed, employers would raise wages to attract workers with the special skills they seek. Instead, wages have fallen in Wisconsin since 2000, including in occupations like welding, where there is a supposed shortage of workers, Levine pointed out.
False: Understaffed employers must make do with the skilled workers they have. A shortage of sought-after workers would lead employers to increase these workers’ hours. However, the report says, “average weekly hours worked in manufacturing have remained unchanged since 2000, while the average weekly overtime hours have actually declined by 12.8 percent since 2000.”
False: New high-skill jobs have been created. Overall, Wisconsin retains a jobs deficit of 243,000, based on job losses since the Great Recession plus new positions needed for entrants into the labor market, according to a study by the Center on Wisconsin Strategy. Though Scott Walker came into office in 2011 famously promising the creation of 250,000 jobs during his four-year term, Wisconsin has ranked 42nd in job creation out of the 50 states.
False: Workers with advanced degrees are more highly sought-after. A pervasive skills gap would raise the demand for workers with higher skills, measured in indicators like college degrees. Instead, the percentage of college-educated workers in jobs where they are obviously overqualified—as bartenders and retail clerks, for example—has risen sharply. “College graduates comprise 25% of retail salespersons and 21.6% of bartenders in the Milwaukee metro area—both jobs classified as requiring less than a high school diploma,” the report reads.
False: The American job market will increasingly demand higher-skilled workers. Forecasts of future workforce needs show not an increased demand for high education and skills, but for occupations that require a high school degree or less, according to the report: “Of the 25 jobs projected by the Wisconsin Dept. of Workforce Development to provide the largest number of job openings in the state between 2010-2020, 22 of them require a high school degree or less and almost all require short-term, on-the-job training.”

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Wisconsin is one of 41 states where public employees earn higher average pay and benefits than private workers in the same state, a USA TODAY analysis finds. Still, the compensation of Wisconsin's government workers ranks below the national average for non-federal public employees and has increased only slightly since 2000.

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66gardeners said:

So after what Walker said we can deduce that this is the republican reality, i.e., a party only for rich old white guys?

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MaggieD said:

Scott Walker has proven he is a man of the people.

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Harshaw said:

Yeah, he's frequently cited as a "good guy" Republican by liberals. The overwhelming likelihood is that 66gardeners doesn't know a thing about him other than that he's a Republican.

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rocket88 said:

Yes, but which people? Public school teachers are people. Firemen are people.

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MaggieD said:

Scott Walker has proven he is a man of the people.

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ChezC3 said:

Was that proven when he took the "bargaining" out of collective bargaining?

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MaggieD said:

It was proven when he saved taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars.

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ChezC3 said:

Money wasn't the issue.

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