Walker scrubs 100,000 jobs from talking points

Wisconsinites know well the history of Scott Walker's signature, first-term failure to create 250,000 new private-sector jobs.

Here's a link with 2/23/2010 information from his then-campaign website recovered archivally, as other links to it produce nothing:

Scott Walker Unveils Plan to Bring 250,000 Jobs and 10,000 New Businesses to Wisconsin by 2015

Walker repeated the pledge throughout his 2010 gubernatorial campaign, the Journal Sentinel used it as the lede for its endorsement editorial that year, and Walker reaffirmed it during his 2012 gubernatorial campaign, too.

But Walker's boast never materialized, the Journal Sentinel rated it a promise broken, and Wisconsin still lags the country in new jobs added, data show.

So how does Walker, having had almost unbroken control of all branches of the government, and having used every tax-cutting, targeted spending, subsidy-offering trick in the GOP playbook to boost employment confront the true facts as tries to sell his record to national audiences?

And how does he mask that jobs added in Wisconsin on his watch are in low-wage categories, and when matched with his signature on 'right-to-work' legislation, and his refusal to boost the minimum wage, means the state workforce and the outlook are more or less permanently mired in recession-era reality?

Just change that 250,000 number to 150,000 and brag on that.

As he did on Twitter today to unsuspecting, less-informed readers:

Scott Walker @ScottWalker · 2h2 hours ago

Wisconsin job growth realized. Positive #jobs growth in Wisconsin starting on Day One. #Forward - TW

 

And, oh - - about those 10,000 new businesses which he promised and has said he wants credit for creating?

Turns out Walker is counting personal LLC's, and even non-profits, like Girl Scout troops, birdwatchers and Little League teams, records and published reports have shown.