Scott Walker's Dismal Failure on Jobs

Lie, lie and deny.

Some call it spinning.

Scott Walker's continuing failure on jobs is met with celebration by Republicans and Tea Baggers.

Reports Rick Romell:

'These are exciting times in Wisconsin,' Assembly Speaker Robin Vos (R-Rochester) said in a statement. 'Our economy is back on track and jobs are being created across the state.'

Assembly Minority Leader Peter Barca (D-Kenosha) and other Democrats pointed to Wisconsin's job-creating record compared against other states - 44th by the most recent data available.

'If Republicans spent half as much time creating jobs as they do spinning lackluster job numbers, Wisconsin might not be falling so far behind in job creation,' Barca said in a statement.

Wisconsin's economy is back on track?

Right, and Scott Walker's friend, Tim Russell, is an avid veterans' advocate.

Cognitive Dissidence has the story, and it's not so "exciting," if a healthy economy is considered stimulating.

The following two graphs illustrate Scott Walker and the Republicans' dismal jobs reality—reality, that liberal, empirical world so frightening to the minds of the GOP.

Scott Walker's Broken Promises

Not working

"[E]very initiative that's undertaken and every program that's administered will be examined for its effect on jobs. Every decision must be considered in the context of what it means for job creation and economic recovery."
- Scott Walker's 2010 Campaign Site

A reformist Wisconsin press committed to good government, holding politicians accountable, and reporting the truth would be giving Scott Walker failing grades in fulfilling campaign promises, accusing him of deceit or incompetence on a massive scale.

But don't look at the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel's PolitiFact's "Walk-O-Meter: Tracking the promises of Scott Walker" for such a scale.

Politifact is a scam, a newspaper gimmick flacking for Walker's most important promise: 250,000 new jobs, rated by Politifact as "in the works."

Walker's 250,000 is constantly spun by this dishonest administration, and Walker's performance is found wanting.

Here's the Capital Times database keeping track of the 250,000 jobs mark. Wisconsin is bringing up the rear among our neighboring states.

Such data should be kept by every media outlet.

In fact Wisconsin has dropped down to 44th in the nation in creating private-sector jobs.

Walker also made a promise to "(s)trip policy and pork projects from the state budget," another broken promise that even some Republicans are calling Walker on, as noted by Bill Lueders in Isthmus.

Consider taxes. Walker hiked taxes on seniors and working families by nearly $70 million, as noted by Melissa Baldauff.

Education, check out Walker's 2010 site; in fact pick any issue and Walker has failed miserably.

But the jobs promise is the most egregious of Walker's broken promises, aka lies:

Presenting Scott Walker's 68 Page Plan to Create 250,000 Jobs

After Scott's big primary victory, he has been traveling the state to spread the word about his plan to get government out of the way to allow the private sector to create 250,000 jobs during his first term. ...

One could talk about Walker's secret agenda as well.

About that "Cline Group’s Wisconsin-based subsidiary Gogebic Taconite’s proposed $1.5 billion open pit iron mine in the Penokee Range south of Lake Superior in northern Wisconsin’s Ashland and Iron counties."

That's one hell of bomb to drop on the Wisconsin people.

Scott Walker Credibility Dropping

Gov. Scott Walker is expected to introduce his 2011-13 biennial budget on Tuesday.

Typically a boring, fiscal affair, Walker will instead act in the shining spotlight as his personal credibility has sunk like a brick these past two weeks.

Highlighted by the news of the Walker-David Koch tapes revealing Walker schemes to use Wisconsin families as political pawns, and showing Walker discussed planting agents provocateur among families protesting his budget plans, 10,000s of Wisconsin citizens have poured into the streets to object to Walker's secretly formulated rightwing agenda.

On April 29, 1974 President Richard Nixon, aside a stack of tape transcripts, delivered an address to the nation about Watergate and Nixon's defiance of the House Judiciary Committee's subpoena looking into illegal conspiracies.

Nixon was at his nadir; his address revealed to the nation a sad, lying man.

More and more, Walker [while attempting to portray a sunny appearance] is resembling Nixon during his lowest days.

But no matter how many flags Walker drapes himself in, seniors, women, the disabled, working families and students see Walker for what he is: A corrupt, dishonest man trying to steal from Wisconsin families, some 60 days into his service regarding the governor's office as a mere step for his personal career.