Paul Ryan on Obama’s Push for Welfare State

By: Brian Fraley (Diary)  |  August 4th at 11:12 AM  | 

Potential Romney vice presidential pick, Congressman Paul Ryan, offers a concise and devastating rebuke of the Fabian Socialism advanced by the current Administration. We risk hitting tipping point in our society where we have more takers than makers in society. Where we will have turned our safety net into a hammock. That lulls able-bodied people into lives of dependency and complacency. Which drains them of | Read More »

Wisc. Gov’t Unions’ Favorite Candidate May Not Make it Out of the Primary Tuesday

By: Brian Fraley (Diary)  |  May 3rd at 12:08 PM  | 

Incredibly interesting things going on in Wisconsin (so what’s new?). Public employee unions have already spent more than $8 million in their effort to recall Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker (R) according to campaign finance reports reviewed by the MacIver News Service. There are 5 weeks until the June 5 general election when it is expected that Governor Walker will face either former Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk | Read More »

Wis. Gov. Scott Walker Touts $1 Billion in Savings from His Labor Reforms

By: Brian Fraley (Diary)  |  April 23rd at 11:05 AM  | 

The success of the labor and fiscal reforms in Wisconsin continues as total savings exceed a major milestone. From today’s MacIver News Service report: [Madison, Wisc…] One billion dollars. That’s how much the state, school districts and local governments in Wisconsin have saved thanks to the budget flexibility provided by Act  10, according to the Governor’s office. “This is a significant milestone—more than one billion | Read More »

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker Launches Campaign to Fend Off June Recall

By: Brian Fraley (Diary)  |  April 10th at 03:10 PM  | 

For months Big Labor and their Democratic allies have been taking shots at Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker. After failing, for the most part,  to stymie implementation of the new labor law through the courts, they’ve triggered a recall election this June (the Dem Primary will be May 8th). On Tuesday, Walker was joined by his Lieutenant Governor Rebecca Kleefisch as they kicked off the campaign | Read More »