The Horrible Jobs Record Of The GOP's Favorite Governor

Business Insider ^ | 05/14/2012 | Joe Weisenthal

[SeekAndFind]

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is the GOPs favorite governor for two reasons.

1) He's taken on public sector unions/workers/pensions.

2) He's hated by public sector unions/workers, which means he gets brownie points for being disliked by the right people.

It's just too bad that from an economic standpoint, he's not a good governor.

Menzie Chinn at Econbrowser takes a look at his record on private sector job creation, and it turns out that not only is he well behind his own goals, he's just generally bad at it.

This chart showing Wiscon's actual record of job creation vs. his stated goals when he took office is telling.

Econbrowser

Got that? Not only is Walker's record on private payroll employment far below his stated goal (it's not even close) but he's barely up since the beginning of 2011, when he took office.

That might be forgivable if private payrolls were doing badly overall over the last 16 months, but in fact the national scene is much different: Private payrolls are doing well, while state and local layoffs (like the ones pushed by Walker and his fellow Republican governors) are bringing down the headline numbers.

Anyway, just to make things clearer, here's a look at total employment in Wisconsin (red line) vs. total national employment (blue line) since the beginning of 2011, when Walker took office.

It's pretty clear that Wisconsin is lagging badly under his tenure.

This looks similar to the scene in the UK, where the economy started trailing off badly once David Cameron took office with a push for austerity.

[jimt]

The Bullshit Insider scores another brownie point for fostering commie propaganda. They sure as hell don’t do news.

[JayAr36]

More crap being regurgitated by those who feed at the trough of Liberalism. Watch this:

http://www.620wtmj.com/blogs/charliesykes/151378565.html