From the WSJ:
Republican Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, who also faces a recall, emphasized that the unemployment rate was down and job creation is up since Walker was elected and the GOP took control of the state Legislature.
"We're going to continue fighting for jobs this coming year," he said.State Department of Workforce Development Secretary Reggie Newson said in a statement that challenges remain but it is encouraging that more people are working than a year ago and there are more than 151,000 job openings posted on DWD's website. Higher state sales and withholding tax collections also point toward more economic growth for the state, Newson said.
Two thoughts.
First, how many of those 151,000 jobs are postings for secretaries and executive assistants at DWD?
Second, how exactly does Senator Fitzgerald believe that job creation is up in Wisconsin if the actual number of people working is going down? Is it job creation if you simply say you want to hire someone? If that's the case, I'll tell my mom to put an ad on Craigslist for 100,000 people to run errands and, between that and the DWD website, Walker will have hit his goal of 250,000 jobs. Or is job creation the GOP's version of the Big Lie? Can you just say you're creating jobs and then accuse the data of lying?
Second, how exactly does Senator Fitzgerald believe that job creation is up in Wisconsin if the actual number of people working is going down? Is it job creation if you simply say you want to hire someone? If that's the case, I'll tell my mom to put an ad on Craigslist for 100,000 people to run errands and, between that and the DWD website, Walker will have hit his goal of 250,000 jobs. Or is job creation the GOP's version of the Big Lie? Can you just say you're creating jobs and then accuse the data of lying?
1 comment:
A great post. It's amazing how the GOP has lost their way. Here are the Republican talking points:
1. Things are really good, you just haven't heard about them. There is no jobs, the state created less jobs than are in a section at one game at Lambeau Field.
2. You should start a small business. Cannot get a business loan? Cannot get customers? Your problem, not mine.
3. There is thousands of jobs on the state website. However, the job obessed Walker administration can only
fund less than 35 people to help thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of people looking for a job. Wouldn't the state make out financially if they hired say 300 people to help these thousands of people?
4. If only the people in Wisconsin knew what the Governor was doing. No news blackout for the Great Job Weed Killer. Trains? Teachers? Wind power?
5. It's Working!!!!! A simple word that defines the Walker administration as out of touch. Good job, Brownie; Mission Accomplished; Hope and Change...Worst Governor of a state in the nation for job creation. See its working! Bread lines in New Berlin. Its working! Two new jobs in a month statewide. Its still working !
6. The best and brightest are running our state government. Unfortuately, the dozens and dozens and dozens of questionable appointments aren't those people.
7. None of the random polls are correct. The Governor is popular with the silent majority. The George Glass is everywhere argument. Jan Brady was right.
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