Like many places across the country, Wisconsin lost more than 100,000 jobs from 2008 to 2010. Unemployment during that time topped out at over 9%.
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The voters in Wisconsin elected me last year for the third time because they wanted someone who aimed high, not aimed low. Before I came in, the unemployment rate was over eight percent. It's now down to 4.6 percent.
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More people on unemployment benefits is not success in America, fewer people on not because we kicked them off but because they have been able to get a job in the private sector, because government got out of the way.
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You can make tough decisions that I believe voters for years have asked us to do.
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Who is in charge? Is it taxpayers or is it the special interest groups?
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I believe that smaller government is better government. But I also believe that in the areas where government does play a legitimate role, we should demand that it is done better.
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