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Old 07-04-2011, 08:16 AM
 
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I would say virtually every Fortune 500 company does millions in business with various levels of government.
Now we're once again, getting somewhere.

You went from something like "most businesses" in WI to fiinally something quantifiable....."fortune 500 companies". You don't seem to know anything about business, much less economics on any level, so I'll help you out:

Here's a list of your "most companies", lol.

Fortune 500 2011: Fortune 1000 Companies 1-100 - FORTUNE on CNNMoney.com

What did I post, there are about a half a million businesses in WI?
Wonder how many are on your list?......

Thank You Gov. Walker.
WI needs more business and less madison and their money siphoning schemes. More business ==> more jobs ==> more money for all, better living conditions/standards, etc.
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Old 07-13-2011, 03:32 PM
 
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Well, I guess we can see where that went.

This is an example to all those wanting to move to madison.
DO YOUR RESEARCH....or you will be left paying the bills of the sloganeers.
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Old 07-14-2011, 12:49 PM
 
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Quality companies look for quality employees. I wouldn't worry too much about Madison. The best will stay.
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Old 08-13-2011, 05:01 PM
 
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Quality companies look for quality employees. I wouldn't worry too much about Madison. The best will stay.
You have it backwards. The best usually leave for better salaries. Madison companies don't pay that well.
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Old 08-14-2011, 01:34 PM
 
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I believe the idea of public higher education is the state helps pay the cost. In return it gets a better educated workforce that is needed more than ever. UW Madison generates a large multiple of economic activity for the shrinking money it invests in the UW. Back in the recent past the state paid about two-thirds of the cost for instate students with the students paying one-third. That was the formula for many years. The instate students will be paying 2/3 very soon. Most working families do not degrudge their kids getting a worldclass education at UW Madison. It's a way out of the manufacturing drudgery that they know too well. And that will disappear from the state more and more and it won't be just moving to the Southern USA but Vietnam and China.

Did you know that state taxpayers pay 100% of K-12 education?

What do you mean by manufacturing drudgery?
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Old 08-20-2011, 11:38 AM
 
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Ever work in a large factory? I have worked in several during summers while in college. It is usually simple tasks done over and over and over all day long. Thus drudgery--mind-numbing drugery. But the money was OK. Examples--packing 24 bags of candy into a box. Or taking those boxes and stacking them on a pallet--all day long.
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