PA Bill Number: HB335
Title: In inchoate crimes, further providing for prohibited offensive weapons.
Description: In inchoate crimes, further providing for prohibited offensive weapons. ...
Last Action: Removed from table
Last Action Date: May 1, 2024
Gov. Walker: We deserve a president who will fight, win :: 08/21/2015
There are many candidates running for president who say they will fight to make America a better place, but very few have a record of actually following through on their campaign promises and winning those fights.
Everywhere I go, Americans tell me they are weary of politicians who talk tough on the floor of Congress, on the campaign stump or at political debates, but have thin records when it comes to actually fixing the dysfunction that seems inherent in government nowadays.
In Nevada and across the country, people know our nation’s capital is broken. Politicians in Washington are spending money taxpayers don’t have, placing obstacles in the way of job creation, and they aren't doing enough to keep our homeland safe. The current top-down, government-knows-best approach is not working now, and it won’t work in the future.
But simply talking about the problems in Washington will not fix them. True reform requires big, bold, comprehensive action and a president who knows how to fight for those reforms and win.
When I became governor of Wisconsin, the state government was broken. We inherited a $3.6 billion deficit. The rainy day fund was nearly drained and special interests were in charge at the state and local levels. We had a lot of work to do, and undoing the damage required bold action.
We started Wisconsin’s turnaround by passing common-sense reforms that required public employees to make reasonable contributions to their health care and retirement benefits and ended taxpayer-funded collection of union dues.
Liberal union bosses fought our reforms tooth and nail, organizing 100,000 protesters to occupy our state capitol grounds. Unintimidated by their attacks and protests, we took them on and we won.
On behalf of Wisconsin students and teachers, we began repairing a broken educational system that rewarded tenure and seniority over teacher performance. Under the reforms we enacted, the old rules are now in the history books.
Our policies are working. Four years later graduation rates are up, third grade reading scores are higher and Wisconsin's ACT scores are now second best in the country.
But we didn’t stop there. Time and again, we fought and won for hard-working taxpayers, passing a host of reforms that shook the status quo to its core and got our state moving in the right direction again.
We cut spending and fixed the deficit. The rainy day fund is now 165 times bigger than when I took office. Our reforms put money back in the hands of Wisconsin workers and families through $2 billion in tax cuts. We enacted lawsuit reform, regulatory reform and other job-creating policies that helped reduce unemployment from 8.1 percent to 4.6 percent – well below the national average.
We defunded Planned Parenthood long before videos depicting its disgusting tactics were released, and we enacted pro-life legislation. We defended the Second Amendment by passing Castle Doctrine and concealed-carry legislation. And we now require a photo ID to vote.
In Wisconsin, we weren’t afraid to go big and go bold. As a result, our state completed an impressive turnaround, and peoples’ lives are better because of it. Taxpayers of our state responded by supporting me in three elections in four years. The moral of our story is simple and powerful: if you have the courage to offer big reforms on behalf of hard-working citizens, you can achieve incredible results, and people will stand with you.
Our country faces many challenges, but it is not too late to turn things around if we go big and go bold in America. We need a president who understands that growing the economy in towns and communities across our country is more important than growing the government in Washington. We have to start measuring success by how many people are independent from the government, rather than dependent on it. We need a commander in chief who will rebuild our national defense and stand with our allies against the scourge of radical Islamic terrorism. Above all, America deserves a president who will fight and win for each and every citizen.
In the field of 2016 hopefuls, there are some who are fighters, but they have not won the big battles. There are others who have won elections but have not consistently taken on the big fights. In Wisconsin, we’ve shown you can do both. If our comprehensive conservative reforms can work in a blue state like Wisconsin, they can work in Nevada and for Americans everywhere. That is why I’m running for president.
Scott Walker, a Republican, is the governor of Wisconsin and a candidate for president.
http://www.rgj.com/story/opinion/voices/2015/08/20/gov-walker-deserve-president--fight-win/32088681/
