MADISON, Wisconsin (PNN) - August 3, 2012 - Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, who came into office last year, blew out a multibillion dollar state budget deficit with his cost cutting measures, fought off a recall, and watched as his state soared in popularity among business owners as its unemployment rate plunged, has some advice for Washington.
“I hate big government,” he said. “But I really hate a government that doesn’t work. When they say we either have to raise taxes or cut core services, it’s actually a false choice.”
Walker, whose accomplishment in turning the ominous fiscal and economy situations in Wisconsin around, where his state soared from the mid-40s among attractiveness to business people to No. 20, said, “In education, they say either property taxes have to go up or we’ll have poor education - that’s a false choice.”
Walker, who was elected in November of 2010, said, “It’s not just about elections, it’s what happens after elections that matter to your children and my children.”
His concept is simple: “People create jobs, not the government. Government should enforce common sense, not bureaucratic red tape.”
At a recent dinner he enthused the crowd with what would normally be dry statistics, when he explained that historically Wisconsin has been in the bottom 10 states for economic health, and in just two years it has broken into the top 20.
He said employers were surveyed just before his reforms about the direction of the state, and only 10% thought the state was headed in the right direction. Less than two years later, a recent survey shows that a whopping 94% of employers now say that the state is headed in the right direction.
“Being a competitive guy, I want to know what’s wrong with the other six percent of the employers,” said Walker.
His final statistic was explaining how Wisconsin went from having a $3.7 billion deficit to presently having a surplus two years in a row as a result of his comprehensive reforms.
