Reps. Fitzgerald, Suder and Vos: Statement on Senate mining proposal

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http://www.wispolitics.com/index.iml?Article=261838

2/21/2012

CONTACT: Rep. Suder, 608-266-2401

Madison – Assembly Speaker Jeff Fitzgerald (R-Horicon), Assembly Majority Leader Scott Suder (R-Abbotsford) and Joint Finance Co-Chair Robin Vos (R-Rochester) issued the following statement Tuesday after Senators Dale Schultz (R-Richland Center) and Bob Jauch (D-Poplar) introduced new mining legislation:

“We need a bill that is going to bring mining back to the state of Wisconsin and create thousands of jobs for struggling workers statewide. On its face, the Schultz-Jauch proposal is based largely on a substitute amendment that was already rejected by the Assembly because it ensures that no company will ever do business here.

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1. So high speed rail jobs that were high paying, as well, would add a burden on the tax payers?

Such a disasters loss that was... But ,somehow, bringing in this mining company that will not be responsible for the environment per their contract, and will bring with them their own high payed people, will only be creating low wage jobs... We will continue to have this type of dishonesty being placed/selected for our govt. compliments of election fraud...

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2. Most of all mining stuffs are shipped down the great lakes..not by rail.

I don't know how it will create jobs throughout Wisconsin. Maybe I'm missing something, but I've watched the "lower lakers" (long low ships loaded with iron ore) headed for Chicago most of my life.

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5. Wisconsin Gov. Rejects $810 Million, Thousands of Jobs, for High-Speed Rail Project

Ending the project could cost as many as 13,719 jobs that the state Department of Transportation says would be generated through construction, engineering, design and train manufacturing tied to the project. (Some estimates run lower).

"We're giving away $810 million that will go to some other state, and we'll be losing out on anywhere from 4,700 to well over 10,000 jobs," fumed State Sen. Spencer Coggs, who was president of an AFSCME local before being elected to the Legislature.

Over the long haul, proponents of the train project argue, the spread of high-speed rail has the potential to generate new economic development in Wisconsin and other Midwest states efficiently connected by environmentally -friendly mass-transit. This would speed economic renewal in a region that has long been in decline as capital has shifted from production to finance and jobs have been shipped to Mexico, China, and other low-wage nations.

Apart from the high-income areas of the two key financial centers of Minneapolis and Chicago, "the industrial Midwest amounts to a wasteland of empty factories, corroding cities, and crumbling neighborhoods," wrote Richard C. Longworth in his influential book Caught in the Middle, published just before the recession intensified all of these negative trends. http://www.inthesetimes.com/working/entry/6674/wis._labor_greens_unite_to_fight_gov.-elect._walkers_no-track_mind_on_/

I'm questing the motive of the mining project purpose of creating jobs by connecting back to a lost opportunity that was up and ready to roll, but was destroyed because of greed by Walker....

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3. nm

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4. I am not sure who is a more vile piece of crap. Walker or Fitzgerald.

I will toss back a Spotted Cow for each of them when they are run out of office.