Scott Walker: Only 282,148 jobs short of creating 250,000

[hue]

http://borderlessnewsandviews.com/2012/06/scott-walker-only-282148-jobs-short-of-creating-250000/

I am fortunate enough to be on the E-update list from the Desk of Scott Walker. It’s been illuminating. Good times.

Now, grant you, Scott Walker was not recalled; on the other hand, Dems regained control of the Senate chamber. And in better news, even as Wisconsinites were re-electing Scott Walker, President Obama won over Romney in the exit polls. It was a message that caused no small amount of consternation on the right, as they attempted to spin the Walker recall election as a referendum on President Obama’s re-election chances.

Now, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker promised to create 250,000 jobs in his first term in office. The actual number up there was 12,500 – unfortunately, it was 12,500 in the opposite direction; during Walker’s first year in office, the state lost 12,500 jobs. So, net, Walker has to create 262,500 jobs to meet his campaign promise – and in addition to those lost jobs, a University of Wisconsin economist predicts that Walker’s budget will cost the state an additional 21,500 jobs over the next two years.

Since Wisconsin is second to last in the nation (higher only than Missouri, which placed dead last) in job creation, Walker needs a new, bright, shiny, revised campaign promise: ”Wisconsin is still open for business, and that business includes creating 33,000 jobs to get back to the point where I promised to create 250,000 jobs. Oh, and don’t worry about those 21,000 jobs Wisconsin will be losing in the next two years thanks to my budget. We can fudge the numbers some more and fix that right up.”

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1. This is for all the union members who voted for Walker

I have to wonder why they like this kind of information.

[mysuzuki2]

2. oh it's not that bad -

if you count all the kids mowing their neighbors lawns or setting up Koolaid stands in frot of their house, we're only about 245000 jobs behind!

[inchhigh]

3. Statistical confidence game

Wow. Is it possible that Wisconsin has just "walked" the g o p into an incredibly brilliant trap?

If I'm reading the linked article correctly it seems to say that walker can only claim these job increases because of a change in the statistical formula that decreased the number of jobs that had been claimed in the past. This new formula will be applied to the entire nation and of course when it is the gop will cry foul saying this is an election year ploy to make Obama's employment numbers look better. Of course, their new most fortunate son will have already accepted these new numbers by touting them himself ahead of the release. And fox news jumped right on the bandwagon without realizing the parade was headed in the other direction.

Now I can't wait for the 28th (partly because it's the day my wife begins her trip home from Tanzania) because it's the day that this trap will be sprung.

[Rochester]

4. ZING!!! Funniest headline I've seen all year.