Thursday, January 12, 2012

Are the Recalls killing jobs like Walker and the Fitzgerald brothers claiming?

The numbers don't lie.

Here’s proof that shows Scott Walker took credit for jobs created under Gov. Doyle and the Democratic legislature, and...

...here’s proof that shows the protests in the first 3 months of the Walker administration didn’t stop private sector businesses from hiring, like Republicans are complaining now.

First; how can Walker supporters go along with the claim he created jobs in January 2011, when he just took office?
Politifact: The state jobs tally started out in an encouraging fashion for Walker, beginning with the report on January 2011 job growth, issued on March 9, 2011, that showed the state added a total of 11,300 jobs that month. Walker took credit. Walker said, "Adding over 10,000 private sector jobs in January shows that Wisconsin is on the right track toward fulfilling that important goal."

Second; after the protests and just before the Republican and Democratic senate recalls, the Wisconsin economy was roaring along:
Five months of job increases followed, concluding with a report for June … the largest single month increase in jobs since 2003.  

The recalls ended, and the governors recall was still not decided, the state started losing jobs. And on the month the Walker recall started, the state lost the most jobs.  
Then on Dec. 15, 2011, the state report said Wisconsin lost 11,700 jobs in November, the steepest decline in more than two years.

So can we believe Scott Walker, the Fitzgerald brothers and now businesses who are repeating the lie that political unrest and uncertainty is killing jobs?

Of course not!

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