Mitt Romney's Job Fiction Won't Fix Scott Walker's Job Fiction
Mitt Romney claims to have a plan to create 12 million jobs in four years if elected.
That's three million jobs per year, and since Wisconsin accounts by some measures for about two percent of US economic activity - - e.g. total US workers - - it's fair to say that Romney would be creating about 60,000 jobs a year in our state.
Or 120,000 Wisconsin jobs in 2013 and 2014 - - still not enough to get Scott Walker to the 250,000 private sector jobs he said during the 2010 campaign and 2012 recall race he'd create in his first term.
From a recent posting using independent and state data and analysis of Walker's pledge:
He's than one third of the way through that four year term - - during which about 80,000 new jobs would have kept him on pace - - but he's falling far, far short, according to PolitiFact's continuing analysis:Even the Wisconsin Department of Revenue said the 250,000 number would not be met.
So far in 2012, the monthly numbers show a net increase of 2,400 jobs.
When considered with the census numbers, the state has created an estimated 21,951 jobs since Walker took office. That means the state will need to create 228,049 more jobs before the end of Walker's term in 2014 for him to achieve his goal. (Here is our graphic monitoring changes).
Enough with the fake numbers.
2 comments:
Walker will not come close to his campaign promise of 250,000 new jobs and deserves criticism and even removal.
The other party which also deserve criticism are the democrats who voted against the jobs that would have been created by the mining bill. Since Walker is not up for re-election but democrats who voted against jobs are, these are the ones who we can remove from office in November.
I fully support the concept of voting out those who voted against jobs, and the first to go should be the democrats.
The alleged "jobs that would have been created by the mining bill" were not immediate. Moreover, the mining bill was extraordinarily flawed in its lack of environmental protection for sensitive areas.
Many of those supposed jobs -- assuming that the land would have been mined, given the potential for high sulphur content -- would not have gone to Wisconsin residents, but to Minnesota and Michigan residents who are experienced using the equipment required.
The count of "mining jobs" also neglected the loss of tourism jobs (and tourism dollars) as Wisconsin's north woods become less attractive to visitors.
That bill was never a jobs bill. It was a bill written by the mining industry as payoff for political contributions. Sorry you fell for the Republican snow job.
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