http://www.drudge.com/user/2008 New links and comments. en-us http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Wordzilla/0.58 10 http://www.drudge.com/news/165835/scott-walkers-flagship-agency-loses-track http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/10/18/1146608/-Uh-Oh-Scott-Walkers-Flagship-Agency-Loses-Track-of-8-Million# 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. 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. <p>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. Fri, 22 Feb 2013 11:31:57 -0500 2008 http://www.drudge.com/news/165835/scott-walkers-flagship-agency-loses-track#discuss tag:drudge.com,2005:weblog.165835 discussion, 0.5 daily 165835 http://www.drudge.com/news/165765/satire-gitmo-prisoners-receive-gi-bill http://www.duffelblog.com/2012/10/guantanamo-prisoners-to-receive-gi-bill-benefits/ In a controversial move praised by the international community as a promotion of human rights, the Department of Defense has begun allowing prisoners at Guantanamo Bay to seek Post 9/11 GI Bill benefits. While these benefits have traditionally been restricted to veterans of the United States Military to use in pursuit of a degree, the Pentagon has seen fit to begin allowing GTMO prisoners to enroll in the program.DoD Spokesman Wesley Manheim said that it was all a matter of fairness.<p> "Praise Allah," said prisoner TK421, who plans on possibly pursuing a degree in Homeland Security from American Military University. ... Although emotions surrounding this news have been mostly positive from the prisoners, the news has its naysayers. "This is bullshit!" cried prisoner SA15-2-12. "I filled out all of the forms like they said and mailed them to my regional office in Spokane, Washington. I was enrolled in school and they said it was fine if I didn't pay up front. Now I've just been dropped from all my classes because my claim hasn't been processed yet and the school hasn't been paid! I'd rather be force-fed pork and be sprayed with a fire hose than wait for the VA to process my claim!" The program will also be prorated just like the Post 9/11 GI Bill, but based on an detainees' time behind bars instead of active duty time for service members. <p> Wed, 20 Feb 2013 12:43:34 -0500 2008 http://www.drudge.com/news/165765/satire-gitmo-prisoners-receive-gi-bill#discuss tag:drudge.com,2005:weblog.165765 discussion, 0.5 daily 165765