Scott Walker Recall News - Is Tom Barrett Better?

Scott Walker Recall News - Is Tom Barrett Better? Scott Walker was born out of state, in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Then his family moved to Iowa and finally to Delavan, Wisconsin when Walker was 10. He later migrated to the Milwaukee area and attended the Catholic Marquette University, but never graduated. He has pretty much been a career politician since then. Did he ever have a real job? No, which might explain why he is so anti-labor. So is this a man very qualified to be governor of Wisconsin? No. He's poorly educated, rather young and inexperienced at 44. Very anti-labor maybe because this lazy guy never held a real job and doesn't relate to ordinary poor, working class, and middle class Americans. Not originally from Wisconsin, so he's happy to get two thirds of his campaign contributions from out of state billionaires, such as the Koch brothers. So a man falsely claiming to be one of the anti-union Koch brothers called the young governor's office and immediately got through and Walker, from Colorado Springs, talked to this supposed Koch brother for no less than 15 minutes. If I as a poor resident of Wisconsin, who has lived here all my life, call the governor's office am I going to get Walker on the phone at all? Probably not. The Bible has the Apostle Paul telling Timothy to be "doing nothing by partiality."


Although Walker is the son of a Baptist minister and attends a nondenominational church near Wauwatosa he acts little if anything like a real Christian. To me he seems cocky and proud, anti-poor, anti-labor. And that isn't what the Bible teaches. Walker has vowed not to compromise at all with Wisconsin Democrats. Is that what the Bible teaches? It seems Walker and his billionaire Republican buddies are trying to change Wisconsin into a right to work state. Walker admits that his strategy is to divide and conquer Wisconsin's labor unions. They're Walker's enemies. There seems to be a question as to whether Walker's policies have created any jobs yet at all. He claims (lies?) that he has created 33,000 jobs in his year and a half or so as governor. Even Republican Forbes magazine admits this claim is largely false. This may be gross jobs and not net. The US Department of Labor says that Wisconsin has a net loss of 9,000 jobs since Walker assumed the governor's office.


So how about Tom Barrett? Well, he is from Wisconsin. Born and raised in the Milwaukee area. Not from a rich family. He actually worked (unlike Walker) his way through college, working at the Harley Davidson motorcycle factory. He graduated from college (unlike Walker) with a degree in Economics. He then went on, because he was a good student (unlike Walker) to law school (not easy to get in) and worked as a lawyer for several years. Milwaukee, as a lot of big, old cities in the United States, has a lot of problems, but Barrett was elected by the people of the Milwaukee area by over 70% of the Milwaukee people and then, four years later, was re-elected, again by over 70%. So the Milwaukee people seem to like him and think he's doing a good job. The Bible says, "Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall." I think the people of Wisconsin should send the cocky Walker packing in the recall election.