Gubernatorial hopeful Walker visits Fort's ET (Jefferson County Union)

The current Milwaukee County executive on Tuesday met with more than 50 company employees of the contract electronics company, where he offered some of his thoughts on improving Wisconsin's economy.

"I've got to tell you, the people that I talk to, from one end of the state to the other, are scared," said Walker, who has served as Milwaukee County executive since 2002. "Scared about the economy, scared about jobs."

Walker utilized some of his time in Fort Atkinson by outlining the three main principles of his "Brown Bag Guide to Government" to illustrate his desire to see state government scale back its spending and influence to improve the Wisconsin's fiscal situation and help spur job growth. Those three main principles of the "Brown Bag Government" are:

• "Don't spend more than you have."

• "Smaller government is better government."

• "People create jobs, not government."

Deregulation, a concerted effort to improve education and lower the tax burden, as well as a strong infrastructure, are some of the catalysts that can jump-start Wisconsin's economy," Walker said.

Government, he stated, is what is holding back economic growth around the state.

"What's failing us is not our people or our places," he said. "What's failing us is our government."

The issue of protecting small businesses such as Electronic Technologies International eventually came to the forefront of Tuesday's meeting.

According to Walker, to protect small companies, government has to make it affordable for those companies to do business.

"You lower the cost of doing business," said Walker. "Lower taxes, ease regulation, reduce the cost of litigation."