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Originally Posted by dynalow
NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Milwaukee without Harley Davidson...??? 
About those manufacturing jobs..... 
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38561236/?gt1=43001
Somewhere I have a picture of me shaking then Governor Jim Doyle's hand at the 100th Anniversary Parade in Milwaukee in 2003.
Yo Guv, what up !!!!  |
dynalow, you ALMOST hit the nail on the head...
What you should have done is taken Doyle's hand and shoved it up his @55 instead of shaking it. Didn't you feel his other hand in your pocket while you had ahold of the other one?
HD just got slammed with some half-assed, retro-style tax ($24,000,000) that our Demo-heavy Assembly and Senate passed and "Diamond Jim" Doyle gleefully signed.
Willy G. (Who I met and personally had the pleasure of being amazed at his attentivness to minute details...story later...) and company are letting the people of Wisconsin know that $24M is the straw that's breaking the camels' back...it has nothing to do with the Union workers in Milwaukee. It's the f***ing taxes and the fact that the State feels it has the right to keep coming after those that really work for a living...and not living off the state itself. Those loans? Someone in the State Legilature must have figured that if HD is getting loans, they somehow have a right to tax that company more...'cause they have the cash available and if you're a Wisconsin-based company with the nice infrastructure in place, you're not just going to pull up tent-stakes and leave now...eh?
Someone mentioned Mercury Marine...they too, used to be a Wisconsin product...but they pulled their manufacturing processes out of Fond du Lac (fond' due lack) because of Union issues and taxes by the State. And where are they now? In some state that appriciates having tax-paying citizens gainfully employed and not asking the State to hold their hand and tuck 'em in at night.
Wisconsin knows the story of the Golden Goose...they just don't believe it.
And they're killing ANY goose for revenue 'cause they just can't say no to the lazy, the lard-oes and the Unions. And they're too stupid to figure out that you just can't keep on borrowing if you have no more PRIVATE-ENTERPRISE BUSINESSES IN BUSINESS to help pay it back. Banks can't be THAT STUPID, can they?????
Sorry to say it, but if the State legislature doesn't call itself back into session, real soon and rescind that series of half-assed taxes, there may be no HD to save AFTER the November elections...and the Dems will have no one to blame except an Out-Of-Office, Lame Duck Govenor and their up-rooted-from-their-Capital-seats Dems.. THEMSELVES.
And, as usual, the Repos will be left with the mess to clean up.
If I was working for the State of Wisconsin right now, I'd be looking for a new job in another state, or remembering what goes into the makings of a "Big Mac."