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He made clear that - just like his jobs promise - he meant a net gain in businesses: "As we create those new jobs, we will be able to add 10,000 new businesses."Umhoefer goes on to show that even the number of new businesses that Walker is reported creating is meaningless, as there are a number of ways that it could be explained away, for legal and business reasons.
Now that Walker has more than a year under his belt as governor, we thought it was a good time to check the progress on this pledge.
We checked in with the state Department of Financial Institutions, which Walker and business-formation experts say is the best tracker of this data. The department registers new business entities - and dissolves those that become inactive or go out of business. They calculate a resulting number of existing "business entities."
The change in that number represents the net difference, up or down.
The score card: After one year of the Walker era, there were 9,485 fewer businesses than at the end of 2010, Gov. Jim Doyle's final year in office.
It's improved somewhat in recent months, but the total of existing entities was still down 4,338 as of April 30, compared with December 2010.
The picture is worse if you look only at Wisconsin business entities doing business here, and exclude out-of-state businesses that must register here to transact business.
Those "domestic" business entities were down 10,189 after Walker's first year, and down a total of 5,741 after 16 months.
So the numbers have gone backward.
To be sure, it's a small drop off in the big picture: As of April, there were 360,031, compared with 364,369 as Walker took office. That's a 1% drop.
And thus, we have Walker's newest slogan: Scott Walker - Not only can I drive jobs out of Wisconsin, but I drive the businesses out too!
And people support him why again?
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What a horrifying picture of Walker! I need some brain bleach!
ReplyDeleteOtherwise, great post, as always. :)
Great work Cap your the best!
ReplyDeleteBut you left this out: "Of course, he set this out as a four-year goal." So...lets revisit this in two and a half years.
One question I would like to ask, could you please breakout the numbers for just the city of Milwaukee?
Oh, and they cite politifact as their source, I cant remember, what is your take on politifact?
A) He said per year.
DeleteB) The numbers came from Walker's administration. What's your position on Walker again?
It will be fair to raise these concerns when his term is up. Right now, even the reporter conceded "The first quarter of 2012 showed progress".
ReplyDeleteI support taking a different path than Michigan did (Google Detroit government) and Illinois is currently taking. Therefore, I have no choice other than Walker. I can tell you this, Barrett wont have the courage to put his political career on the line for any ideology, whether it be yours, or mine. he has proven that already. He will be back on the side of a milk carton and we'll both be unhappy. And your conservative fathers taxes will go even higher. Not to mention the fee increases we can expect at the state level with Tom. Since your union already said it would have conceded the co-pays you already have, I would think you would be happy that, thanks to him, their aren't more layoffs and fears of whole cities, or counties going bankrupt.
Notice how I answer your questions?
All that I notice, as is usual with you, imustberacist, is that you must be illiterate. You cannot read and comprehend the story but continue to just make up your own "facts" that are not those that Walker set and said.
DeleteWhy do you continue to so distrust Walker that you have to make up stuff that he never said? That tells me that you don't really trust him, either, but you just can't bring yourself to admit it.
Would be better if you pointed out the errors I made, but if it makes you feel better go ahead and use your ad hominem.
DeleteEven if your right, I cant find a reason to vote otherwise.
Imustbearacist you are all rw talking points and that's it. Have you read walkers budget? If you have you already know it adds fees and raises taxes. Now. Not in the future. Now. You are paying more.
ReplyDeleteIt's all talking points with you imustbearacist. It truly is. When I hear Michigan and Illinois, that's a TP. All we hear from rw is how they don't want to be those states. Well, truthfully speaking, those states are so much different than we are, it's not a comparison. Nor it should be. Illinois has Chicago and industries in the southern part of the state that are much more diverse than wi. Michigan has a ties to the biggest manufacturing base in our country and prides itself on diverse industries as well. Just because we are close geographically doesn't mean we ate going down their road, whatever that may be. Plus, WRS us fully funded. No problems there. But all of sudden if we get Barrett we go down the road of IL? That's crazy.
ReplyDeleteWalker looks like shit and if you use your intuition and really look at this picture you can see he is really beat down. He is pale and tired. Karma is around the corner.
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