Unintimidated, by Scott Walker: on Welfare & Poverty


Ronald Reagan: For those without skills, we'll help get them skills

Unlike Romney, Reagan connected with the daily struggles of ordinary Americans. Reagan did not dismiss 47% of the country as a bunch of moochers. Quite the opposite: At the Republican convention in Detroit he appealed to those who wanted nothing more than to get off government assistance and find work. He promised that "for those without job opportunities, we'll stimulate new opportunities, particularly in the inner cities where they live. For those who have abandoned hopes, we'll restore hope and we'll welcome them into a great national crusade to make America great again.

"We have to move ahead," Reagan said, "but we're not going to leave anyone behind." THAT is the Reagan message Romney should have emulated.

Source: Unintimidated, by Scott Walker, p.198 Nov 18, 2013

Scott Walker: Public workers should contribute 18.4% to health & pension

The state legislature passed my budget repair bill, known as Act 10, that requires public workers to contribute 5.8% of their salaries to their pensions (up from 0 for most) and to pay 12.6% of their health insurance premiums (up from about 6%). We ended collective bargaining for everything except base wages.

Today, thanks to these reforms, the $3.6 billion deficit we inherited has turned into more than a half-billion-dollar surplus. Unemployment is down. Our bond rating is solid. For the first time in state history, we set aside money in 2 consecutive years for the rainy day fund. And WI's pension system is the only one in the country that is fully funded.

Seems like common sense, right?

Source: Unintimidated, by Scott Walker, p. 5 Nov 18, 2013

Scott Walker: Able-bodied must work or train to get food stamps

Right now, the federal government has a requirement that able-bodied, childless adults of working age have to either work or get employment training in order to receive food stamps. But in the past, 46 of the 50 states have been granted a waiver from that requirement--including Wisconsin. Not anymore.

At the end of 2012, I notified the federal government that Wisconsin would no longer be asking for that waiver. Instead, we established a training program for the 75,878 food stamp recipients in our state who are childless, able-bodied, working-age adults. Today, these individuals need to be either working part-time or signed up for one of our employment training programs in order to receive food stamps.

The new program is part of a $100 million plan to expand and revitalize workforce development in Wisconsin.

Source: Unintimidated, by Scott Walker, p.221-2 Nov 18, 2013

  • The above quotations are from Unintimidated:
    A Governor's Story and a Nation's Challenge
    by Scott Walker and Marc Thiessen.
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GA:Chambliss(R)
IA:Harkin(D)
MI:Levin(D)
MT:Baucus(D)
NE:Johanns(R)
OK:Coburn(R)
SD:Johnson(D)
WV:Rockefeller(D)

Resigned from 113th House:
AL-1:Jo Bonner(R)
FL-19:Trey Radel(R)
LA-5:Rod Alexander(R)
MA-5:Ed Markey(D)
MO-9:Jo Ann Emerson(R)
NC-12:Melvin Watt(D)
SC-1:Tim Scott(R) 		Retired House to run for Senate or Governor:
AR-4:Tom Cotton(R)
GA-1:Jack Kingston(R)
GA-10:Paul Broun(R)
GA-11:Phil Gingrey(R)
HI-1:Colleen Hanabusa(D)
IA-1:Bruce Braley(D)
LA-6:Bill Cassidy(R)
ME-2:Mike Michaud(D)
MI-14:Gary Peters(D)
MT-0:Steve Daines(R)
OK-5:James Lankford(R)
PA-13:Allyson Schwartz(D)
TX-36:Steve Stockman(R)
WV-2:Shelley Capito(R) 		Retired House as of Jan. 2015:
AL-6:Spencer Bachus(R)
AR-2:Tim Griffin(R)
CA-11:George Miller(D)
CA-25:Howard McKeon(R)
CA-33:Henry Waxman(D)
CA-45:John Campbell(R)
IA-3:Tom Latham(R)
MN-6:Michele Bachmann(R)
NC-6:Howard Coble(R)
NC-7:Mike McIntyre(D)
NJ-3:Jon Runyan(R)
NY-4:Carolyn McCarthy(D)
NY-21:Bill Owens(D)
PA-6:Jim Gerlach(R)
UT-4:Jim Matheson(D)
VA-8:Jim Moran(D)
VA-10:Frank Wolf(R)
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