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Wow! 12, 900 jobs created for the month of June, but wait! The employment rate in the same month of June rose from 7.4% to 7.6%. Numbers can be deceiving depending on the motivations of the presenter, or writer in this case, but numbers do not lie.
Let us paint a clearer picture with the numbers missing from the article. The 7.6% figure represents a significant rise in the unemployed out of the total workforce in the State Wisconsin. Wisconsin workforce estimated at 3,071,886, and 7.6% unemployed rate equals 5,679 joined the ranks of the 227,000 plus unemployed in the State during the month of June (figures from http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/surveymost ).
Therefore, the headline should have read, New Employment Practically Tit for Tat” with New Ranks joining the Unemployed in the State of Wisconsin, during the month of June. However, this headline does not paint such a rosy and deceptive picture does it? Why because politics dictates “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder,” or Scott Walker and his regime of Republicans controlling the legislation in Wisconsin. Granted, Democrats play flip - flop politics just as well as Republicans. Likewise will not mention swaying statistical data that goes against whatever message in their political agenda also.
The move by Governor Scott Walker to visit Milwaukee appeared calculating to this viewer. It seemed timed to diminish the apparent division between Republican State Legislators, which control the Senate and Assembly, differences in the resolution to extend jobless benefits. "It is due to incredible incompetence or coldhearted calculation that we are It's time we recognized that the workers in . . . delaying passage of this bill Wisconsin (who) have lost their jobs are not toys to be played with," Senate Minority Leader Mark Miller (D-Monona) said at a news conference outside the Senate chamber (http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/125960558.html).
The division appears to have embarrassed Scott Walker in his efforts regarding developing Wisconsin commerce. Maybe he sees it as a slap in the face when the agenda is to paint a growing conservative business atmosphere in the State of Wisconsin that lures business development to the State.
Good ideal Governor Scott Walker to lure new business development in the State, but this writer believes in the old saying, “A house divided will soon fall.”
