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The Spectacle Blog
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker whipped a CPAC ballroom crowd into cheers Saturday morning, to the point that he had to shout the end of his speech over the applause.
Walker told the audience that real reform doesn’t happen in Washington, D.C., but in Republican statehouses and governors’ mansions all over the country. He walked through the 2011 battles with labor and teachers’ unions that rocketed him into the limelight, and he said that “in the states, to be successful, we have to be optimistic; we have to be relevant; and most importantly, we have to be courageous.”
“All too often in politics, we talk in phrases like sequesters, debt limits, and fiscal cliffs,” Walker said. “I don’t know about all of you, but the people I talk to in Wisconsin, they talk to me about things like, ‘Is my neighbor down the block who’s been out of work for 6 months going to be able to find a job? Is my son or daughter who’s a year out from graduating from college going to be able to find a job in our state or our community and stay here? Are my grandkids going to be able to afford the debts that are being passed on to them by our federal government?”
Walker also discussed “the dignity of work,” and efforts to reform his state’s food stamp program and reduce government dependency.
“I don’t want to make it harder to get government assistance, what I want is to make it easier to get a job,” he said. “We have a moral cause: It’s not just about balancing budgets. It’s not just about getting the economy going again.”
When pundits discuss the shortlist of potential presidential candidates for 2016, Walker is mentioned behind such stars as Marco Rubio and Rand Paul, if he is mentioned at all. But the governor told Politico on Friday that he has not ruled out a White House bid.
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RJ| 3.16.13 @ 3:34PM
Yes, the Republicans in America need to keep their eye on Scott Walker. He is a man that doesn't just make a good speech; he has made long-needed fundamental reforms in government. He could be a fine President.
Brubaker| 3.16.13 @ 4:23PM
I agree completely. Walker has shown that he has a clear understanding of the problems facing his state and this country. Unlike far too many Republicans, he also has the courage to fight for resolution of those problems.
Just the thought of liberal Democrat's response to a Walker presidential run brings a smile to my face.
Joellen| 3.16.13 @ 7:50PM
I've said this before - Christ Chistie is a lightweight compare to Governor Walker.
He set the bar as to how to deal with the mob union.
Right on RJ - he would be a fine president indeed.
Gary B| 3.16.13 @ 11:28PM
He's been tested by fire.
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Dimitry_Aleksandrovich| 3.16.13 @ 9:52PM
Governor Scott Walker and his ilk who sum up the hardline anti-labor stance of today's Republican Party have done more than any other Republicans in the past to completely turn me against the party. The working class no longer has a voice in either party. There is the liberal elitists that run the Democratic Party and there's the Wall Street/Global Free Market elitists who run the Republican Party. I used to think there was a better of two evils, but I do not anymore. The liberal elitists and Wall Street elitists are cut from the same cloth and have little or nothing in common with the average American.
Gary B| 3.16.13 @ 11:32PM
Dimitry, The best answer to helping the working class (and everyone else) is a robust economy. The Democrats and old guard Republicans holed up in DC have only helped themselves. These new arrivals have already made a difference and it looks like they're just getting started. They fully understand James Carville was correct: it's the economy, stupid.
Dimitry_Aleksandrovich| 3.17.13 @ 12:45AM
I have a lot of respect for former Congressman Ron Paul and for former Presidential Candidate Pat Buchanan, the jury is still out on the younger Senator Paul but I appreciated his spirited defense of the Constitution on the issue of the use of drones. My economic ideas are closer to Buchanan's then Ron or Rand Paul's as I believe we most definitely need economic nationalism and cannot continue our almost religious devotion (from both sides of congress) of globalist free trade policies in a world where our main economic competitors use economic nationalism and use the WTO and US free trade agreements to dump their cheap products on our shores and destroy American industry and with it American jobs. My devotion as a trade unionist to the ongoing American Labor Movement has a simple and conservative explanation. The American working class have made up the bulk of the American working class since the end of WWII and to allow that large group of Americans to fall economically into the ranks of the working poor or the unemployed will sooner or later brew radicalism from within their ranks that will most certainly be divided among the extreme left and the extreme right and in recent history such divides have led to bloody internal conflicts and the end of democratic republics. Demagogues arise in such socio economic conditions. Carville was right..."it's the economy, stupid".
Arnie| 3.17.13 @ 6:25AM
Dmitry, you hit the nail on the head. The obsession of Democrats and Republicans to free trade is a wonder. All it really benefits are the big banks and corporate behemoths that stand to benefit from massive profits, and in the end have more influence over national governments.
Please watch this interview from 1994. This Englishman is prophetic. This is not a liberal/conservative, Dem/Rep battle. This is the simple truth.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PQrz8F0dBI
Gary B| 3.17.13 @ 6:56AM
Dimitry, I understand your point of view, but the freedom genie is out of the bottle. Most of the old controls on economic, social and business activities have been swept away by technology. For example, news is not controlled by the elites any more. In almost every case, the truth gets out to everyone's benefit. Same goes for manufactured products. The Internet has allowed anyone to get quotes from anywhere on the globe. With regard to dumping, American consumers have benefited from the lower prices. People are always free to go up the price chain for better quality. American cars used to be rattle traps and foreign competition was killing them. To retain market share, they had to improve. There is no such thing as an American car any more. Cars assembled here are built from parts imported from all over the world. Now, the quality of American cars is very good. Regardless of how we feel about it, the global economy is here to stay. I don't think there was ever any way to hold it back.
GobBluthe| 3.18.13 @ 12:35PM
And yet Walker got more votes in the recall than he did in his original election. Walker by the way doesnt oppose private sector unions where most "working people" reside. He took on the public employees union that are stacked with overpaid liberal elitists.
Oldefarte| 3.17.13 @ 12:40PM
You represent the stupidity of the American public that caused the election of these domestic terrorists now in control of this country. Yes, at one time the labor unions achieved needed reforms regarding the mistreatment of workers, but no longer [there are numerous and sufficient laws on the books that now protect the American worker and unions are no longer needed]. Labor unions today are controlled by Trumpkaish thugs and Democratic Party operatives that brainwash/indoctrinate their typically stupid union members into block-voting for the sleezeball/corrupt Democrat Party candidates, ie 11/4/08 and 11/6/12. Unions are what cause the election/re-election of this POTUS and should be outlawed due to same. Union members are mindless, stupid and incapable of thinking for themselves; and rely on their handling union leaders to tell them who/what to vote for. It is this stupidity that is the cause of this country's misery/pain presently. Additionally, the labor union wage rate is the sole cause of the American manufacturers offshoring their operations to India and China in order to not have to become bankrupted by unions' excessive wage scales!!!!!
Dimitry_Aleksandrovich| 3.17.13 @ 3:08PM
OF...when there's a socialist or fascist revolution in this country because the elites both liberal and conservative have disregarded the needs of the average American then we will see how stupid I am.
Oldefarte| 3.17.13 @ 3:17PM
When? Try understanding 11/4/08 and 11/6/12 and that your "average American" [by voting according to the dictates of his Trumpkaish handlers] have economically and socially F**KED themselves!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oldefarte| 3.17.13 @ 3:19PM
PS: Trumpka and Putin have much in common regarding this issue!!!!!!!!
Oldefarte| 3.17.13 @ 3:25PM
Oh as an example of my above, explain how labor unionists now are screwed out of hundreds-ofthousands of good paying jobs from the construction of the Keystone Pipeline from Canada to the Gulf Coast etc due to their mindless political support of this POTUS. Go stage your "revolution" over that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dimitry_Aleksandrovich| 3.17.13 @ 3:35PM
That's an example of the domination of the liberal elite in the Democratic Party. Any blue collar element left in the Democratic Party supports the Keystone Pipeline.
Dimitry_Aleksandrovich| 3.17.13 @ 3:34PM
Do you remember the "Reagan Democrats" the very conservative, very patriotic union members who voted for Ronald Reagan in 1980 and many of them stayed in the Republican Party after the Reagan era. They've gone back to the Democrat Party not because they wanted to because they have little in common with the uptown liberal elitists who now dominate the Democratic Party, but because the Republican Party might as well be called the political wing of corporate America and has taken a hard line anti-labor stance at every turn in recent years completely alienating American trade unionists (even those that hold deeply conservative beliefs). The Republican Party has no one but themselves to blame for their defeats to Barrack Obama in 2008 and 2012.
GobBluthe| 3.18.13 @ 12:37PM
No the Reagan Democrats have died off. They averaged 45 years old in 1980 and are today retired or dead.
Dimitry_Aleksandrovich| 3.17.13 @ 3:40PM
I am a union member and I completely agree that union members must break the chains with the Democratic Party. They don't represent the American worker anymore than the Republican Party does they simply wave the union banner for Democrats in election and our so-called labor leaders (who are juiced in to the establishment) support them for the sake of the scraps off the table (known as legislative pork). It is my opinion that a strong and independent (of both the Democratic and Republican) American Labor movement will better serve its members and the American working class as a whole and we would get our piece of the pie instead of scraps from the table.
Arnie| 3.17.13 @ 6:54PM
Dimitry, I completely agree with you. It would be nice if the US had a Labor Party. But I think the larger problem is that there has been a massive campaign to bash unions publicly going back to Reagan, but definitely worse with the current crop of Republicans. And of course, they undermined them. My point is, many people in America don't know the benefits of a union, and have inaccurate bad impressions of them. In Germany for example, I do not experience bad attitudes towards unions, and even many professional white collar workers are members of them too. The American public needs an education on the history of the labor movement, and why organised labor played such an important role in building the middle class following WW2. Having a channel like FAUX news that bashes unions 24/7 doesn't help. The employees of retailers, factories, clerical workers, fast food...all those service jobs of huge corporations need to get unionised and demand a bigger piece of the pie that THEY create. Also, for a long lasting labor movement in the States, the laws have to be changed so workers actually have decision making abilities, or simply participation rights, of corporate management. Workers need to be a part of the decision making process, and not simply only investors,or are mostly rich anyway, and don't care about labor.
Quartermaster| 3.18.13 @ 12:59PM
Why should an owner, or stockholders who are the owners, allow people with no real skin in the game to decide what is best for their beusiness? You can claim they have their labor in the game, but that labor is what they sell to teh business so the business can make money. Labor is an expense like it is with material or office supplies.
You may not like the facts as they are, but a union must hold a hostage, or lie, to get their "piece of the pie." We've seen a lot over teh last 30 years as to what Unions do to business in this country, and it hasn't been pretty.