Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Walker's Two-Year Jobs Failure; Do I Hear "Two More Years"?

"Two More Years!" is not much of a campaign slogan, and neither is "Hey, I'm batting .100."

Read on.

Gov. Walker is out and about telling friendly audiences in display case appearances that a top priority in the next two years is...get ready for it...jobs...though continues to have trouble with the grammar and the numbers:

"When I talk about creating jobs, jobs aren't Republican jobs or Democrat [Sic] jobs. They're Wisconsin jobs."
I'm not hearing many people chanting "two more years!," as this this is the same issue on which Walker based his 2010 gubernatorial campaign - - even very specifically pledging to create 250,000 jobs and 10,000 new businesses after one term.

I listed a year ago some of the sites and publications where these pledges were presented, even touted.

Walker's gaudy, talking point puffery gave the Emperor some snappy sound bites and shiny new campaign trail clothes, but Walker has had much the same success on the jobs front as has the Minnesota Vikings passing attack.

PolitiFact offers its most-recently updated scorecard on the jobs pledge:
The state's October 2012 jobs report showed a loss of 6,000 private sector jobs, pushing the total for the year back into negative territory. With the latest figures, our calculations show that Gov. Scott Walker has created about one-tenth of the jobs he promised that would be created by the end of his four-year term.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

That's a pretty tough nut to crack given the fear created by the POTUS economic lack of job creation experience.

Scott Walker can't print money to cover the bills. Working Americans pay for the operation of government through taxes. No tax collection, no government.

James Rowen said...

The 250,000/10,000 numbers were Walker's creation. POTUS had nothing to do with it.

Anonymous said...

Two more years!! Two more years!! Two more years!!

...... tacked on for each charge sending Scotty to prison.

Sue said...

And by 'jobs', I assume he means working with the legislature to make sure my uterus is correctly monitored and my vote adequately suppressed.

Anonymous said...

POTUS is directly responsible for national economic policy. It just so happens that Wisconsin is a state under that federal umbrella of national policy. Current economic policies by POTUS inhibit job creation. Had changes happened in Washington, Scott Walkers estimates for job creation would likely have been dramatic underestimates. We'll never know. Maybe 4 more years of high unemployment in 49 other states will give us a different direction. One thing for certain, Milwaukee's unemployment numbers will drop as social programs are reformed.

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

POTUS is directly responsible for national economic policy. It just so happens that Wisconsin is a state under that federal umbrella of national policy. Current economic policies by POTUS inhibit job creation.

Odd. I did not see that caveat in Walker's 250,000 job promise.

One thing for certain, Milwaukee's unemployment numbers will drop as social programs are reformed.

My dog just turned to look for the source of that whistle.