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WIProgressive88

(314 posts)
Tue May 15, 2012, 09:03 PM May 2012

Scott Walker Magically Turns Dismal Wisconsin Job Numbers Into A Pre-Election Miracle

From Forbes.com:

With Wisconsin suffering the worst job loss numbers in the nation for the calendar year 2011, Governor Scott Walker promised yesterday that he will reveal newly revised numbers this week that will, effectively, change water into wine on the Wisconsin job front.

And he’s done it just in time for the June 5th recall election.

So, just how is Walker about to turn Wisconsin’s dismal job numbers from lemons to lemonade?

The Governor has simply decided to ignore the system used by the Department of Labor —and every other state in the nation —to measure job growth (or loss) and elected instead to go with a different set of numbers that makes things in Wisconsin look better.
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Scott Walker Magically Turns Dismal Wisconsin Job Numbers Into A Pre-Election Miracle (Original Post) WIProgressive88 May 2012 OP
He is such a weasel. demgrrrll May 2012 #1
That's an insult to Wheesels Octavemando May 2012 #2
From what I've seen the Repubs in WI believe Walkers commercials. hue May 2012 #3

Octavemando

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2. That's an insult to Wheesels
Tue May 15, 2012, 11:00 PM
May 2012

I was raised in Green Bay, and cherish the common sense I came away with from growing up there...I even met Gov. Knowles when I was a boy... oust this man !!!!!

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