Scott Walkers Flagship Agency Loses Track of $8 Million

Friday, February 22, 2013

For more than a year, the state's flagship jobs agency failed to track whether businesses are repaying loans from state taxpayers - leaving the public in the dark about how much they are owed on a total of $8 million in past-due loans to 99 businesses.
The blunder - only the latest in a whole series of problems at the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. - began at nearly the same time as the quasi-public authority championed by Gov. Scott Walker took over for the state's previous jobs agency.

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As Scott Walker declared on election night, 2010, "Wisconsin is open for business". Yup. Shady business. Like his fellow Republicans, Walker thinks government sucks. Of course, like fellow Republicans he spend his entire career as part of that sucky government, collected government paychecks, and did his damndest to get elected to run an entire state government that he though sucked. Maybe if the GOP wants to know why government sucks they should just look in the nearest mirror or or other reflective surface.

Since government sucks, in his not so humble and GOP shared opinion, Scott Walker dissolved a decades old Wisconsin state agency, the Department of Commerce and created his own - The Wisconsin Economic Development Corp which would be a hybrid of government and private business with a board primarily composed of businessmen. It's been a pile of misery since the start and continues to be an ongoing disaster.

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walker is a sleazebag who surrounds himself with sleazebags. he is destroying wisconsin with his inept, corrupt management.

#1 | Posted by badgerwest at 2013-02-22 05:55 PM | Reply | Flag:

#1 its what the People voted for.

#2 | Posted by ClownShack at 2013-02-22 05:56 PM | Reply | Flag:

sad but true...

#3 | Posted by badgerwest at 2013-02-22 05:59 PM | Reply | Flag:

Wisconsin and Florida are both screwed because of the Tea Party.

#4 | Posted by ClownShack at 2013-02-22 06:08 PM | Reply | Flag:

Not much of an article. Not fact-checked. Not even spell-checked. Who posted this turd?

From the "article": "Imagine a bank losing track of even a small loan, much less $8 million of them. Regulators would be parachuting in. Not so much with this bunch."

Hysterical. In the age of TBTF, a bank would consider themselves lucky to be short even 10 times that much.

#5 | Posted by uglyblinddate at 2013-02-22 06:08 PM | Reply | Flag:

That said, these agencies shouldn't exist in the first place. Nowhere.

#6 | Posted by uglyblinddate at 2013-02-22 06:32 PM | Reply | Flag:

Watching Walker Wednesday as he delivered his budget address, three thoughts crossed my mind.

The first was that Governor Walker appears to sincerely believe in what he was saying. Which is actually sad. He lacks the ability to realize what he is advocating is not going to work and in fact will have very negative consequences for Wisconsin.

The second was that while all politicians to some degree reward their friends and allies and slight their foes and opponents, this man has, in both of his budgets, has acted this way at a level not seen in Wisconsin since the nineteenth century.

Thirdly he reminds me of line by Paul Johnson, that Scot Walker is "a man of boundless ambition, second rate intelligence and no sense of proportion."

#7 | Posted by SLBronkowitz at 2013-02-22 07:12 PM | Reply | Flag:

he is destroying wisconsin with his inept, corrupt management.
#1 | POSTED BY BADGERWEST

By balancing the budget, lowering taxes and reducing unemployment, how simply evil.

#8 | Posted by paneocon at 2013-02-22 09:46 PM | Reply | Flag:

Of course, like fellow Republicans he spend his entire career as part of that sucky government, collected government paychecks, and did his damndest to get elected to run an entire state government that he though sucked.

The very reason why Republican=hypocrite by definition.

#9 | Posted by jpw at 2013-02-22 10:07 PM | Reply | Flag: