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From badgerblogger.com

Posted on Friday, 28th April 2006 by Patrick Dorwin

A few weeks ago, Congresswoman Gwen Moore was one of the politicians that helped to kill the plan for a Waukesha company, BuySeasons, which is listed by Inc. Magazine as the fastest growing privately held business in the state, from moving to and expanding in Milwaukee’s Menomonee Valley. The company has 150 full time employees that earn on average, $11.55 per hour, and last year they hired 218 central city residents and expected to hire even more after the relocation These seasonal employees earned between $9 and $16 per hour. But Congresswoman Moore and other local politicians argued that these “were not the right kinds of jobs” to bring to the area. This is an area where unemployment and poverty rate is sky high, but I guess these Liberal politicians prefer this blight and despair to the opportunity this would give people to climb out of the morass.

Today, Congresswoman Gwen Moore’s news letter came in the mail. The lead column is titled Poverty Harms The Whole Community, in which she talks about the struggle that people in poverty have, and how hard it is for lower skilled and less educated workers to find decent paying jobs in Milwaukee.

She then discusses the government programs that she is supporting that will encourage new small businesses, and federal tax dollars that she is bringing home to the district to stimulate the local economy and combat poverty.

Excuse me Congresswoman, but you killed real jobs just a few weeks ago, jobs that would really do the things that you hope these programs will do in the future. The jobs you killed were just what the lower skilled workers that you claim to want to help, need. These jobs would give the employees the experience they need to succeed in the job market, but you killed them, then a few weeks later you brag about all that you are doing for us… Bah!

You can read Moore’s column by clicking the thumbnail below.

Update

BuySeasons is reconsidering their decision to give up on the Vally site.

The Zoning, Neighborhoods & Development Committee is now supporting the sale of the desired land to BuySeasons. Alderman Bob Bauman still opposes the sale saying that Milwaukee is “running short of land available for industrial use, and should better protect that ’scarce resource.’” He also calls BuySeasons “a fad business,” and goes on to attack this company that wants to bring a few hundred jobs to Milwaukee… as if we had an overabundance of jobs in the area… Moron.

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