How come so many of you don't understand how the real world works. These corporations also happen to "funnel cash" to their employees. It's what makes the world go around, but one would need to take the blue fist blinders off to see that.

1st off i think all the name calling needs to stop. Being liberal of conservative does not make you lazy, or a bully, or a bad person.

Now to address FallsConservative.

Corporations do pay their employees, but most not very well, and if we were to make corporations pay fair bits of taxes, regulate how much they pollute, the minimum they can pay their employees is the more that goes into our economy.

Small businesses like the ones corporations drive out when they move into a new town, also pay their employees, most times better then corporations. and with small businesses they don't have stockholders they most keep happy by cutting jobs in the US for overseas jobs to make more money.

Again FallsConservative, your not a bad person, you don't have blinders on we just see the world differently which is fine. Thanks for making the good point. I look forward to reading you hopefully kind and peaceful response.

Enjoy this beautiful weekend.

Matt: Do some research about taxing Corporations on this planet. The US is by far the highest tax for Corporations. Do you think that maybe that is why all our jobs are going overseas?
Time to wake up and get your head out of the sand. Thank Slick Willy for no jobs- he gave China most favored Nation status. All them jobs are in China, and the ones left here are paying less in order to compete with the low wages in China.
A $20/ hr job here compares to $0.30/ hr in China- when everything evens out.... the wage will drop to $10/hr here and increase to $10/hr there.
And your boy Barack Hussein ain't done squat!

I'm with you on Christie. I think he's a pig - and that is, in no way, shape or form a critique of his physique. The man is rude and lacks common decency. He's a bully, bullies are intellectually weak. They're unable to make their point with reasoned and civilized debate and discussion, so they resort to intimidation and bullying. I don't think that type of disposition is going to set well with the midwest kindness and civility.

Yes, Craig, and when we're all making $10 an hour what will that do to the economy?

Randy I think we are seeing what it will do to the economy already. Lower wages coupled with a Government that has a spending addiction means paying more in taxes is an impossible task for the middle class. Raising taxes on Corporations is suicide if you look at Europe's low corporate rates. In a nutshell, we're screwed. We need a leader who is going to cut up the credit cards and stop the shopping spree. Only then will we see taxes stay put and not double.

@Craig -- What shopping spree? And where are you going to make those cuts?

Well I guess that will be the end of both parties.

So goes the Democratic party...Buffett, Rangel, Raines, Clinton Geithner and all those rich tax dodgers and Republicans party soon to follow.

Randy: The shopping spree: Borrowing forty cents on the dollar spent- if that doesn't equate to a spending problem, I don't know what would. Imagine if you could run your household budget that piss poor. Gifting money to Countries who wish us dead could stop today!

@Craig -- What have we 'bought' that we really don't need, other than the two wars. I agree with you about foreign aid to countries that go on to flip us off, but that's just a drop in the bucket.

However, I wasn't talking about the federal budget so much as the general economy. If everyone but a lucky few makes $10 an hour, who is going to be able to afford the houses and the cars and the clothing? Who will be paying the taxes?

Randy:
Huh, we both see things the same.

As a small business owner I always find it funny the hate that goes on for a corporation. You would think that I am against large corporations but they are just small business that became successful. You choose to use their products ever day. You expect them to invent product that you want even before you know you want them. You invest in them for your 401K or mortgage or loan or employment but then trash them for not paying their fair share, whatever that means, even with the highest corporate tax rate in the world.

As a start up company from scratch would think I hate them more than you, scared of them. But just like them I start small with an original idea with no competition. i know better than trash private business at this time when we need it more than ever. Government regulation or investment is not the answer. Obama did not invent the iPod or Facebook or Kleenex or even give it subsidies or grants for that matter.

A corporation is only a small business that people wouldn't stop giving money to.

If you tell her to grow up she won't understand anyways. Equal to a box of rocks, that one is.

no the liberals are happy any time his fat butt is gone from here --he is a big fat failure as a gov--just like walker he is only for the rich

Well the liberals here get all bent out of shape whenever Walker goes across the border to show how it's done. Only for the rich, haven't herd that before. Makes perfect sense.

Steve, did you watch the Ed Show last night? Governor Quinn was the interview. He brought up some Illinois facts that Walker and his benefactors have forgotten to mention, such as consensus-building over difficult decisions, partnerships, and most importantly, job growth where we are stagnant. They are also building a rail project to St. Louis, which is creating good interim jobs. And their job growth numbers are better than Wisconsin's, too.

Scott Walker is showing them "how it's done" if Gov. Quinn wants to turn Illinois into an ALEC state. Like Minnesota, Illinois doesn't seem terribly eager to embrace an ideological agenda that 13 major corporations have also walked away from.

Speaking of liberals here a resident one just showed up to say hi.

NO Bren, I didn't watch the Ed show. I was busy being a capitalist earning evil profits that I can pay to public workers, supporting the Alec agenda of freedom, reduced government spending and success. I get enough liberal propaganda here in the day time.

Steve, referring to profits as "evil" sounds Marxist to me. Perhaps you should DVR Ed/MSNBC as I do for some new insights. Just to cleanse your ideological palate, so to speak.

Bren, NOBODY watches the Mr Ed show, I had to google it just to figure out what you were talking about.

Between December, 2011 and March, 2012 the unemployment rate in Illinois went from 9.8 percent to 8.8 percent. Neither number is anything to crow about but normal regression to the mean will necessarily result in more jobs "created" for a short while (since so many of them are of the ephemeral public/private partnership variety.)

In Wisconsin the unemployment rate went from 7.1 percent down to 6.8 percent over the same time frame. Things are so bad in Illinois that even when they get a little better overall employment is still far worse than Wisconsin; they need tens of thousands of jobs just to catch up.

Walker has set the table for future employment gains with a manufacturer's tax credit that makes Wisconsin a good place to create high-wage manufacturing jobs and tax relief for businesses that moves to Wisconsin and pay at least $200,000 in wages to Wisconsin workers.

You really need a tin foil hat that says ALEC on it just in case the black helicopters are nearby.

And I suppose you are just as pretty as a picture?

Christie tells it like it is. He does not put up with any liberal nonsense.

Except when he lied about the cost of the NJ tunnel project, stopped the work, and kept the federal stimulus/taxpayer money. I understand the government has a few questions.

►He's a fat, rude, bully.◄
►his fat butt◄
►come off as bullies◄
►disgusting to anyone who loves America which clearly the right wingers do not.◄
►he does have a big fat butt◄
►but big fat butt Christie ◄

you're welcome

Hey obtw maybe because they haven't been able to prove he stole the money that now has been found. Instead of listening only to the right maybe do some research..

Money was taken from Customer Segregated Accounts. THAT WAS (and still is) A CRIME.
It's like a thief who robs a bank and then "finds" it under his mattress. IT"S A CRIME.
Difference is thief goes to jail, Corzine goes to France to buy an estate (and raise cash for Obama).

Alfred, you attempt to affix blame to Tom Barrett and Wisconsin Democrats for suburban hyper-segregation (a primary cause of reduced tax revenue)? I suggest studying a demographics map of Waukesha, Washington, and Ozaukee counties for insight.

Why didn't MKE go with ACT10 knowing that funding would be cut?
Why are they laying off teachers and closing schools unlike districts that went with Act 10?
So in the liberal mindset it comes down to race?
interesting

@Bren

I suggest you stop grasping for straws. Mayor Barrett has made Milwaukee the armpit of Wisconsin. The city now has 9 out of 10 of the worst high schools in the state.

Corruption 1930's Chicago style. Are you speaking of the unions of today?

.Can't believe all the comments from people saying he is to out spoken? Really? Telling Warren Buffet to shut up and write a check is totally awesome. Its called personal convictions, saying something and doing something that is what you believe in. Not some interest group.

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Does that $20 at the State Fair include Barrett getting beat up?

Barrett was not beat up at the fair, he came to the rescue of a young mother blocks away from the fair. But go ahead and spend your $20 to see the fat pig and the weasel.

Buckeye makes a good point: Barrett is no good at conflict resolution. But he is used to getting his ass kicked.

Mau, you are a very disturbed person.

I'm disturbed? That from someone who condones killing babies?

You do know that he plugged a $4 Billion hole left by the Doyle? Or have you forgotten? Write it down so you remember next week!

The $100 million, from Walker, is not tax money. Unlike the $100 million that Barrett is going to spend on a 2 mile long trolley.
Who's the idiot now? Yep, Bucky.
Keep going after Walker when it is your side that is out-of-control, Moron.