Class Warfare Walker To Working Poor: 'No Increase For You.'

Say you earn a poverty wage of $7.25 per hour bagging groceries? 

Then that's where your wages should stay - - even though Wisconsin's poverty rate has increased under Walker, data show - - and anyone trying to boost your earning power should just shut up, Scott Walker told a special interest audience the other day, and it sure didn't sound like a former Eagle Scout or current compassionate conservative speaking: 

Walker was addressing a friendly crowd at a meeting of the Wisconsin Grocers Association, a group that opposes increasing the minimum wage...  

"I think it is nothing more than a misguided political stunt," he said of Democrats' efforts to raise the wage. Doing that will only lead to the elimination of entry-level jobs and cut pay for other workers, Walker said. 

"If you want to put a buzz saw on the economic recovery we've seen in this state, you just start piling on regulations like increasing the minimum wage," Walker said. Later, he called it "little more than a political grandstanding stunt" advanced by people who want to claim they're helping workers when they're really not.

And as to the fiction that minimum-wage jobs are for teens in training for better jobs?

70% of burger flippers are adults.

So who's pulling the political stunts?

Like throwing an anti-regulation bone to that crowd and accusing others of grandstanding? 

And that recovery Walker claims? Here's how WISC-TV in Madison framed it, with facts, in December, as Wisconsin ranked 37th in job growth:  

New numbers released Wednesday show private sector job growth in Wisconsin is below the national average.

Wisconsin ranks 37th in private sector job growth over the 12 month period that ended in June. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics says from June 2012 to June 2013 private sector job growth went up by about 1 percent. The rate across the country is 1.9%, nearly double Wisconsin's rate.

Wisconsin gained 23,963 private sector jobs in that time. Governor Scott Walker has promised to add 250,000 private sector jobs by the end of next year. 

Even Walker could do no better at PolitiFact than "False" when explaining who is working for the minimum wage. 

Our Governor's is a poverty of ideas and facts.