Data Show Start-up Business' Stability, Successes During Burke-Doyle Years

That Wisconsin led the Midwest in the survival of start-up businesses from 2002-2012 knocks the stuffing out of GOP Gov.Wrong-Way's persistent attacks on former Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle, who served as Gov. from January, 2003 to January, 2011,

Ditto for Walker's attacks on his Democratic gubernatorial opponent and businesswoman Mary Burke, Doyle's Commerce Secretary for two years, between 2005-2007.

What, you say? Something good was actually happening on Doyle's watch? Talk radio and Walker only tell you it was hell on earth back then here.

Those are the same propagandists who also tell you Wisconsin is moving in the right direction - - well, OK, right, as in right-wing - - when data collected in the very manner Wrong-Way has praised show the state's economy is stalled and job growth here trails the rest of the Midwest and two-thirds of the country.

More details, here:

Of business establishments opened in Wisconsin in 2002, the SBA reported, 41% were still open 10 years later. That was the highest rate in the Midwest. It was also 6.5 percentage points above the U.S. average, and 10 or more points above such states as New Mexico, New Jersey and Florida.