Saturday, February 27, 2010

Walker's Job Comment: The Gaffe That Keeps On Giving

Earlier this week, Scott Walker gave the Democrats and Mark Neumann a nicely wrapped gift when he made the grandiose statement of how he would create 250,000 jobs by ballooning the deficit.

Everyone had a blast with it. The DPW even created a special "Scott Walker Jobs Tracker" and produced a video, which is available for viewing at Cory Liebmann's site.

Of course, the DPW will need to tweak their site a little. After today, the will have to set the bar at 250,076 and counting.

Walker offered up the feeble defense of saying that former governor TOMMY!!! Thompson had done it, and so could he. Walker even wrote it on his facebook page:


Gosh, I almost don't know where to start.

Well, first of all, 1985-1990 spans six years, not the four that Walker said that he would do it in, just like TOMMY!!!

Secondly, TOMMY!!! didn't become governor until 1987.

Thirdly, if you look at the Bureau of Labor Statistics, from 1987-1990, the number of jobs created was about 175,871.

Well, the fact that Walker can't even count to six helps explain how he could come up with a budget proposal that was $32 million in the red and call it balanced. With the state already facing such an economic mess, do we want someone that can't even do first grade math to be our governor?

And the fact that he doesn't even know Wisconsin history shows that he is not from here and that he doesn't understand Wisconsin's progressive history.

Also, his inability to learn from history also would indicate that he doesn't learn from his mistakes, so we can look forward to many more of these gaffes in the weeks and months to come.

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