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Category Archives: Rail System
Walker’s tantrum about trains proves he favors economic treason over Wisconsin jobs
Walker is at it again with wanting to show just how petulant and hypocritical he is regarding his childish actions against providing Wisconsin with jobs and infrastructure improvements with upgraded rail transportation. Proving that economic treason is enough to have him recalled, he is allowing Talgo Inc., who build trains… Read the full story »
Posted in 2012 Recall, Environment, Rail System, Wisconsin
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Gogebic Taconite reveals itself as a company that acts like a spoiled child when it can’t get its way
It was always a suspicion that Gogebic Taconite only wanted to get their way or would act like a spoiled child that would have a tantrum if anyone dared to amend the environmental impact study sections for the AB426 legislation written by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). Although they… Read the full story »
Posted in 2012 Recall, ALEC, Assembly, Environment, Gogebic Taconite, Mining, Rail System, Republicans, Wisconsin
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Minnesota waiting for Walker recall while Illinois and Michigan improve high speed rail systems
Illinois is using hundreds of millions of federal dollars to connect a fast rail system from St. Louis to Chicago. Michigan is connecting a fast rail system with the Detroit-Chicago line. Minnesota is trying to figure out how to connect to Chicago with a fast rail system, but since Walker… Read the full story »
Posted in 2012 Recall, Fitzwalkerstan, Rail System, Wisconsin
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Besides all other reasons, Walker should be recalled for committing economic treason by stopping Milwaukee-Madison rail project
In 2009, President Obama had announced that there was Wisconsin funding as part of an $8 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 stimulus program for rail projects throughout the United States. Wisconsin funding would be $810 million for an 85-mile Milwaukee-to-Madison route, with stops proposed at Brookfield, Oconomowoc… Read the full story »
Posted in 2012 Recall, ALEC, Fitzwalkerstan, Koch Brothers, Rail System, Wisconsin
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Walker defends losing Madison-Milwaukee rail project based on his own incompetence
With a combination of abject ignorance and a side dish of economic treason, Scott Walker proved that being a half-witted college dropout indicates how factually ungifted he really is. Walker was recently in LaCrosse to ride the Holiday Express train line and “defended” his first big failure to reject $810… Read the full story »
Posted in 2012 Recall, Fitzwalkerstan, Rail System, Washington DC, Wisconsin
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Thanks to Walker rejecting $810 million for trains, taxpayers will pay millions to upgrade Milwaukee-Chicago train line
If you needed yet another example why Scott Walker and the Fitzwalkerstan Cult need to be voted out of office by recalls and other means, this is another glowing example of foolishness and abject stupidity: The Wisconsin Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee today agreed to spend $31.6 million to improve the… Read the full story »
Posted in Rail System, Wisconsin
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May 9, 2011-Thanks to Walker, $150 million requested for Milwaukee-Chicago train line is rejected
Thanks to Scott Walker’s carelessly insane policy of turning down $810 million in funds to connect the two largest cities in Wisconsin, Madison and Milwaukee, and losing the thousands of jobs and improving the state’s infrastructure, his request to improve the existing train line between Milwaukee to Chicago have been… Read the full story »
Posted in Fitzwalkerstan, Rail System, Taxpayers, Wisconsin
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Walker approves of Hiawatha rail project that would cost 16 times more that Madison-Milwaukee rail project he rejected
In the continuing head-scratching saga of just what the hell he is thinking and how incredibly hypocritical he is, Scott Walker is now backing funding for the Hiawatha rail project that connects Milwaukee to Chicago. Let’s see what Scott Walker said in a blog where he was getting all Walker-wanked… Read the full story »
Posted in Rail System, Recall, Wisconsin
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Walker’s rail rejection and economic treason will help get jobs and rail for Iowa and Illinois
When Walker turned down $810 million of federal money to build the 70-mile link between Madison and Milwaukee, he knew it would cost thousands of jobs. Those jobs, for the most part, would have been union jobs. We can see now how he wanted to commit economic treason for the… Read the full story »
Posted in Rail System, Recall, Unions, Wisconsin
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Walker’s train rejection has Wisconsin losing out big on high speed rail
It was announced that $8 billion was going to be spent on high-speed rail across the United States over the next eight years. While Walker calls his rejection of jobs, business opportunities and improving infrastructure for Wisconsin a “victory”, it is all but certain that he lost the gamble and… Read the full story »
Posted in Jobs, Rail System, Wisconsin
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U.S. Conference of Mayors report indicates that high speed rail projects create more benefits than costs
It’s a basic assumption that Republican Fox News watchers like Scott Walker don’t want facts to get in the way of distorted opinions when it comes to many issues, especially regarding issues related to science. The ignorance becomes even more sordid when it comes to trying to trash the promise… Read the full story »
Posted in Jobs, Rail System, Taxpayers, Wisconsin
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Picking apart the lies and distortions Scott Walker makes in his Op-Ed regarding ending the Rail Project
Scott Walker has an op-ed column where he attempts to explain away his ill-thought ideas on destroying chances for a high-speed rail project in Wisconsin. Let’s pick apart his “logic” for this monumental mistake. Walker writes: Spending hundreds of millions of our tax dollars on building a new, so-called “high-speed”… Read the full story »
Posted in Jobs, Rail System, Wisconsin
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Minnesota still on track with high speed rail solution despite Walker’s folly
Minnesota had to deal with anti-rail extremist Republican Governor Tim Pawlenty while Wisconsin’s governor Jim Doyle was trying to continue moderate Republican governor Tommy Thompson’s vision of a modern high-speed rail system in the past years. Now the roles and perceptions have switched. Minnesota governor-elect Mark Dayton wants to sensibly… Read the full story »
Posted in Jobs, Minnesota, Rail System, Wisconsin
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Minnesota legal battle with Wisconsin over high-speed rail is a distant possibility
The adults in the room know what Scott Walker’s childish decision was to lose millions of dollars and thousands of jobs due to being a college dropout with a paranoid vindetta against “liberal” Madison and a campaign promise that concluded that economic treason was good for votes from extremists. Minnesota… Read the full story »
Posted in Jobs, Rail System, Taxpayers, Wisconsin
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Walker’s decision to lose over 11,000 jobs also impacts Madison’s economic future
You would figure that Scott Walker would have had the slightest feeling of responsibility for job losses when he foolishly and cluelessly threw $810 million out the window with the rail project. When Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood told Walker that his wish to use the Stimulus money for roads… Read the full story »
Posted in Jobs, Labor, Rail System, Taxpayers, Wisconsin
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Train manufacturer Talgo makes it official they are leaving Wisconsin
Talgo has made it official that the train manufacturer is leaving Wisconsin, thanks to Walker’s decision to stop the rail project. Talgo Inc., the Spanish train manufacturer, will close its Milwaukee manufacturing operations in 2012, since the federal government has announced that it is cancelling the Milwaukee to Madison high… Read the full story »
Posted in Rail System, Taxpayers, Unions, Wisconsin
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Just how clueless is Walker on job losses from losing $810 million for rail projects?
It might get some spitty guffaws and chuckles at a knuckle-dragging tea party event in some hillybilly outpost church parking lot during his campaign, but the reality really sets in with the myopic stupidity that Scott Walker displays when he commented on Wisconsin losing the $810 million to build a… Read the full story »
Posted in Jobs, Rail System, Stem Cell Research, Taxpayers, Wisconsin
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California is very happy that Walker is such a fool
Mark Twain had a great quote about fools: Let us be thankful for the fools; but for them the rest of us could not succeed. – Mark Twain It could be more aptly applied to both Scott Walker and John Kasich in their quest to be fools who care more… Read the full story »
Posted in Jobs, Rail System, Taxpayers, Wisconsin
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Madison Mayor Dave Cieslewicz calls loss of rail funds “a black day for Wisconsin’s economy”
Madison Mayor Dave Cieslewicz let it all be heard in his reaction to the buffoonery that Governor-elect Scott Walker displayed with his high-stakes failure to use $810 million for the rail project and redirect the money to fix Wisconsin’s crumbling roads and bridges. After repeatedly been told that it’s not… Read the full story »
Posted in Jobs, Rail System, Taxpayers, Wisconsin
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U.S. Department of Transportation High-Speed Rail Funds Breakdown
Here’s a breakdown of where the money squandered by Governor-elect Scott Walker and Governor-elect John Kasich will go now that they decided to throw the money out the window. “High-speed rail will modernize America’s valuable transportation network, while reinvigorating the manufacturing sector and putting people back to work in good-paying… Read the full story »
Posted in Jobs, Rail System, Taxpayers, Wisconsin
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Thanks to Walker’s stupidity, Obama administration is announcing that Wisconsin and Ohio money for rail projects goes to other states
We can thank the absolute idiocy and myopic, economically treasonous behavior of a theocratic college dropout who will be the governor of a state that is headed for being a flyover outpost for tossing away jobs, money for Wisconsin’s citizens and possibly derailing other rail projects in the region. Thank… Read the full story »
Is Walker looking at screwing over the poor because he’s a phony reborn Christian?
It’s not any news that Scott Walker is a generic reborn “Christian” of the ilk that thinks that the poor are mostly people to ignore, to cut the necessary funds of programs that allow them to barely survive and do all he can to be anti-science when it comes to… Read the full story »
Posted in Health Care, Jobs, Rail System, Taxpayers, Wisconsin
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WISDOT high-speed rail meeting on Dec. 7 now at new location
Please attend the WISDOT high-speed rail meeting if you can: When: Tuesday, December 7, 5-7pm Where: Crowne Plaza Hotel 4402 East Washington Avenue Madison, WI Here’s the official news release: Meeting on high-speed rail study scheduled for Madison – LOCATION CHANGE December 3, 2010 Open house meeting to focus on… Read the full story »
Two out of three Americans would definitely support high speed rail if it was available
The Stop the Rail Crowd, using dubious, uneducated talking points to support their phobia against the future, would probably find another excuse for a recent poll that indicates that two out of three Americans would “definitely use” a high speed rail system if one was put in place. Nearly the… Read the full story »
Posted in Jobs, Rail System, Taxpayers, Wisconsin
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