Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce (WMC) Survey Missing

Each year WMC conducts a survey of its members. Last year we analyzed the survey WMC Membership Survey An Eyeopener: Outright Liars which was linked here   WMC Survey 2006:

WMC has reached new heights (or is that depths?) in disingenuous press releases. With their own survey in tow showing that their business members rank taxes at the bottom, they publish the document with an introduction that is simply false.

This past month I waited for the 2007 WMC survey. While links to previous years' surveys are here, all WMC reveals about this year's survey is a press release on May 1, 2007, Wisconsin Manufacturers Confident About Economy .

Unable to examine the survey to provide you with the usual sound analysis and insight you expect from Waxingamerica, the best I can do is provide excerpts from their press release along with my pithy comments:

• Wisconsin manufacturers are expressing confidence in the state’s economy . Pithy comment: After years of bashing the Doyle Administration, we finally get a shred of honesty from an organization that delights in attacking hard working people who are making the economy better for everyone, not just a few.
• WMC conducted the online survey of 400 manufacturing CEOs from among its 4,000 members to celebrate May is Manufacturing Month, with 68 completing the survey at www.wmc.org. Pithy comment:  68 out of 4,000 members participated in this survey.  That represents less than two percent of their membership and certainly less than 1% of all Wisconsin's employers. Maybe we ought not to take this survey so seriously.
• Over 55 percent report involvement in education and training partnerships in their communities. Pithy comment: I hope that includes supporting both worker training and development as well as public education.

Comments

[Jack Lohman]

I'd like to see WMC query its members on their support for a single-payer health plan, specifically the Miller-Benedict plan that would cover 100% of our state's population and reduce their benefits costs from typically 15% of wages to just 3.3% of wages.

It would of course eliminate the insurance bureaucracy that consumes 31% of health care costs, and thereby is the rub. WMC not only enjoys the membership of insurance companies, but they also sell employee health insurance to their members!

If I didn't know better I'd say that one segment of their members is ripping off the other members.

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