Holy moley!
Scott Walker was out with his "miracle math" jobs numbers yesterday in public and with a campaign ad talking about how Wisconsin gained jobs in 2011 (Big, Fat, Smelly Lie) to get ahead of another really official report on how Wisconsin lost jobs again.
Wisconsin lost an estimated 6,200 private-sector jobs in April, according to preliminary data released Thursday by the state Department of Workforce Development.
April showed the second consecutive month of job losses in the state.
After losing more jobs than any state in the nation in 2011, we had slight job gains in January and February of 2012, but March again showed major losses and that has repeated.
Earlier in the week, Gov. Scott Walker released fourth-quarter employment data - not due for formal release until June 28 - showing Wisconsin added over 23,000 public and private sector jobs last year.
It was an unusual step for Walker because the numbers had not been fully vetted by federal authorities at the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The new figures from the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages - which is collected from 95% of the state's private and public sector employers and deemed reliable by most economists - contrast sharply with more than a year's worth of monthly employment surveys, which suggested that Wisconsin lost 33,900 jobs last year, ranking it last among the 50 states.
While the accuracy of the monthly data has been called into question in the past, they were never shown to be off by a magnitude of 57,200 in a single year.
Walker has shown he'll lie, distort (remember those millions of dollars in "damage" they said protesters caused?), exaggerate, attack, invent, and propagandize in order to get and maintain power. He promised 250,000 new jobs and delivered job loss after job loss.
The only job Walker is concerned about is his own.
Walker's actions drew attention to the unusually wide margin of error that accompany each month's state unemployment report. On any given month, the margin of error for the net change in Wisconsin employment can be off by 9,340 jobs in either direction, according to the BLS, which compiles the figures for the nation and each of the 50 states.
I remember distinctly Walker also promising full transparency in his budgeting process and to end the use of "phony" statistics. Both absolute lies proven by his actions.
"We expected when the national numbers came out and they were down from what we hoped, that usually has an effect on us as well," Walker said Thursday morning.
Yeah, Snotty. That's why you used contortive Rovian Math to cook up your own balony numbers and sell them before the real, legitimate information came out (and had a slick campaign ad already on the air with those "government numbers").
He MUST NOT PREVAIL in the recall.
I know you've given til it hurts, but the national Democrats "don't get it". If you have a bit to give you can give it to the Wisconsin Democratic Partys Act Blue site.
Thanks.
Update: Scribeboy found Barretts new ad:
Update 2: Perpetual Walker Water Carriers, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, just updated the title of their article:
From:
State Loses 6,200 Private Sector Jobs in April
To the more Walker Friendly:
Controversial Survey Shows Estimated April Job Loss of 6,200
Of course, they had no similar reservations about hailing (and not questioning) Walkers funny numbers "we didn't lose jobs" made up report yesterday.
Shameful, as always. Can their endorsement be far behind?
Update 3: Yet another title change! Now it's:
Disputed Survey Shows Estimated April Job Loss of 6,200
You gotta be kidding me. How long before they change it to:
Totally Unreliable Survey Shows Job Losses, But You Should Really Believe Scott Walkers Jobs Gains Numbers That He Totally Made Up (Vote for Walker).
The shame never ends.
Update 4: Even the conservative-leaning Wisconsin State Journal has it right in their article headlined:
Report: Wisconsin lost nearly 6,000 jobs in April
"Even under the governor's rosiest possible scenario, he has missed opportunity after opportunity to put people back to work," Assembly Minority Leader Peter Barca, D-Kenosha, said in a statement. "And he has broken his promise to the people of Wisconsin to focus like a laser beam on creating 250,000 new jobs."
Walker's state spokesman, Cullen Werwie, and his campaign spokeswoman, Ciara Matthews, didn't immediately return messages.
Of course! They don't want to talk about actual, real numbers; just their phonied up jobs numbers they released yesterday to confuse people.
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