GOP Majority Leader Steineke on NOT providing UC to Wisconsinites: It "would only serve to expand eligibility to an already strained system." Yes!

Remember Steineke’s comment above, how it would “…only serve to expand eligibility to an already strained system,” yes, that’s what were trying to do! Urrghhhh!  

You’ll notice Walker focused on one thing he probably rehearsed a thousand times at home, and that’s to claim not enough people are processing claims. It wasn’t to take any responsibility for making it harder, and certainly apologize for not updating the system when the state had surplus money to fix the phone system:

When pressed on whether he would encourage his GOP colleagues to accept changes to the laws he said lawmakers could, but reiterated it’s not a solution to the backlog.

“Making changes is fine, but that’s not the hang-up. You need more state government employees to process these claims.” 

Special note: After I tweeted a criticism of Fannon’s interviewing powers, she came back strong in this interview. That’s how it’s done!

Republicans are now ignoring the sudden spike in cases and deaths, with no plans to deal with the predicted spread. 

On Neil Covuto’s show, Walker said this awhile back, and now looks the fool.

Scott Walker says there has to be a balance: Anyone see one now? Walker insists there has to be a “balance” where there is none, and back-to-work must happen now…but slowly? 

Here’s more from a May 2019 post:

Making Unemployment Insurance Impossible to Get or Keep: Walker did everything he could to discourage and drop workers from their unemployment benefits. Other states went even further. Here’s public radio’s Marketplace report exposing the scheme to lower unemployment numbers, something Scott Walker exploited:



Here’s are a few changes Walker put in place that are now being targeted by Gov. Evers for elimination or change:

1. One-week waiting period to qualify for unemployment benefits. 

2. A provision that makes people ineligible for benefits if fired for what the law defines as “substantial fault,” or failure to conform to a “reasonable” employer job policy … recent court cases found it was improperly used to deny unemployment benefits to eligible applicants. 

3. The administration has authority to define the types of job offers a person can reject and remain eligible for benefits.

4. Eliminating requirements adopted in 2015 that applicants submit to drug testing to receive jobless benefits. The most sweeping of those requirements has not yet taken effect due to federal delays.

5. If someone has more than one job and quits one of them, they are now ineligible to collect unemployment for the next year if they’re laid off from another job.