Gov. Walker Takes Credit for 9,500 Jobs "Created" in June
This one is just fall-over funny. Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker boasted at a news conference today that Wisconsin added 9,500 jobs in the month of June, mostly in the tourism sector.
Hmmm. Wisconsin always adds tourism jobs in June, so unless he's taking credit for the existence of summer, the fact that we now have more people selling hot dogs and cleaning campground bathrooms then we did in January is not exactly a shocker.
I can tell you, the biggest boost to tourism actually created by Walker was on State Street in Madison in February and March. The shops are still selling those blue, Wisconsin fist T-shirts.
Still, this is fantastic news! With all these wonderful new jobs - cleaning cottages, flipping burgers, driving ice cream trucks, skimming baby poop out of motel pools - Wisconsin's unemployment rate rose from 7.4% to 7.6% in June!
Whoa! What? How can that be?
The number of jobs "created" would have been higher except for all the job cuts and early retirements in the public sector. You know, those jobs that paid a living wage and have, like, health insurance benefits and stuff? Those jobs that lasted more than three months.
And there are more people looking for work than before, too.
Still not laughing?
Get this. The United States added about 20,000 jobs in June according to most analysts. That means Scott Walker is claiming that almost half of all U.S. job growth occurred in Wisconsin in June. (This is my attempt at a joke, but see my note in the comment section below.)
But wait! There's more! UPDATE: I mention this below in the comments, but it's freakin' hilarious. There are right-wing sites seriously making the claim that Scott Walker created "half the new jobs" in America in June. I won't link to them but if you want a laugh, google "half of june jobs wisconsin june 2011".
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Isn't it hysterical how every time Viking posts one of his right-wing lies and distortions, he never sources it?...and if he does, it's always some nutjob site like Glenn Beck's site, "the blaze"...
He should change the thread title to: "The logic of the lies in Wisconsin...by the teabaggers."
LJ's lies again. I source 99% of the time. It was late and I missed it last night. I will go post it again. You are the most pathtic person on here. And I know that you don't understand economics, but many times jobs are created but unemployment goes up, both on the state level and nationally because many who had given up decide that it is time to start looking again especially when they see a great Governor who has changed policies and gives them hope. So, tens of thousands who gave up looking are now looking for jobs again and that brings the unemployment number up. I love when Dems show why there is no way they should be handling money.
otisptoadwater wrote: Finally a model for the national economy to follow into progress and new jobs!
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Yeah get 3.5 billion dollars in stimulus money from the fed..It can't possibly fail
It can't fail? Kinda like Obama getting $870 billion and making unemployment go UP from 7.3% to almost 10%?
Spin Liberal Spin!!
Did you actually think we were gonna go from the republican depression to a booming economy with just a couple hundred billion dollars? Obama is driving the car, he just avoided going off a cliff by slamming on the brakes and you idiots are complaining about the sudden stop
otisptoadwater wrote: Finally a model for the national economy to follow into progress and new jobs!
...
Yeah get 3.5 billion dollars in stimulus money from the fed..It can't possibly fail
It can't fail? Kinda like Obama getting $870 billion and making unemployment go UP from 7.3% to almost 10%?
Spin Liberal Spin!!
Did you actually think we were gonna go from the republican depression to a booming economy with just a couple hundred billion dollars? Obama is driving the car, he just avoided going off a cliff by slamming on the brakes and you idiots are complaining about the sudden stop
Morons
Hey idiot! The housing deregulation bill that started this recession was signed by Clinton. How clueless are you people? And Obama promised unemployment would stay under 8% with that stimulus! Did he lie or was that just another $trillion dollar mistake in his long list of oooops?
otisptoadwater wrote: Finally a model for the national economy to follow into progress and new jobs!
...
Yeah get 3.5 billion dollars in stimulus money from the fed..It can't possibly fail
It can't fail? Kinda like Obama getting $870 billion and making unemployment go UP from 7.3% to almost 10%?
Spin Liberal Spin!!
Did you actually think we were gonna go from the republican depression to a booming economy with just a couple hundred billion dollars? Obama is driving the car, he just avoided going off a cliff by slamming on the brakes and you idiots are complaining about the sudden stop
Morons
Hey idiot! The housing deregulation bill that started this recession was signed by Clinton. How clueless are you people? And Obama promised unemployment would stay under 8% with that stimulus! Did he lie or was that just another $trillion dollar mistake in his long list of oooops?
Yes Clinton started the loosening up of regulations (I would think all the cons out there would cheer that one on!) but then Bush injected the program-his "ownership society"-with a massive dose of steroids and we were off to the races. Wheeeee. But your selective memory only processes the first part of that.
Obama did not put enough money towards the stimulus.
The Viking wrote: LJ's lies again. I source 99% of the time. .
Really? Lately you have been posting lies and no sources.....and rewriting peoples posts so you can lie about that. You need to do some serious work on rebuilding your posting reputation, if that is even possible now.
The Viking wrote: LJ's lies again. I source 99% of the time. .
Really? Lately you have been posting lies and no sources.....and rewriting peoples posts so you can lie about that. You need to do some serious work on rebuilding your posting reputation, if that is even possible now.
My reputation is stellar with everyone but about 6 people on here. And do I care when I have thousands on FB who read my posts daily? Not in the least. Your little jabs don't get to me archer. But you can keep trying with nothing else to be excited aobut this next eleciton, you have to find something to entertain you.
And what was wrong with me exchanging Clinton with Republican Congress? It was all exactly the same. But libe have no commone sense, no sense of reality, and no sense of humor.
The Viking wrote: My reputation is stellar with everyone but about 6 people on here. .
Really? All but about 6 people here approve of you changing someone's posts so you could make YOUR point? They approve of you lying about what Obama said and then won't admit it?
I guess I shouldn't be surprised, apparently lying and cheating is the only way you can excuse the Republican's childish behavior, otherwise you wouldn't have to do it.
The Viking wrote: My reputation is stellar with everyone but about 6 people on here. .
Really? All but about 6 people here approve of you changing someone's posts so you could make YOUR point? They approve of you lying about what Obama said and then won't admit it?
I guess I shouldn't be surprised, apparently lying and cheating is the only way you can excuse the Republican's childish behavior, otherwise you wouldn't have to do it.
I agree Archer..The guy totaly lacks anything remotely resembling class and character...I missed his altering of quotes..Dispicable
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