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Gov. Walker: Job Gains Continue

Scott Walker: Wisconsin created more than 37,000 private sector jobs from March 2011 to March 2012, including a gain of 12,138 jobs in the manufacturing sector.

 

The state partnered with the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association to produce and distribute brief radio address once a week.  Audio files and a written transcript of this radio address can be accessed on http://www.wi-broadcasters.org and http://walker.wi.gov/Weekly-Radio-Addresses.  To download an mp3 file, you can right click the radio address link and click “save link as.”

Thursday, Gov. Scott Walker delivered the weekly radio address titled Job Gains Continue.

Hi, this is Scott Walker.

This week the federal government verified the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages for the first quarter of 2012.  It showed Wisconsin created more than 37,000 private sector jobs from March 2011 to March 2012, including a gain of 12,138 jobs in the manufacturing sector. 

Wisconsin’s continued private sector job growth is good news.  I am particularly pleased with the gains in the manufacturing sector, which makes up a huge portion of our state’s economy.

The quarterly job count data shows, yet again, the monthly job estimates are not accurate.  I am hopeful that the state Department of Workforce Development will be able to work with the federal government to bring the monthly estimates back in line with the actual job numbers. 

The fiscal reforms we put in place coupled with reforms like reducing frivolous lawsuits and bringing certainty and accountability to state regulations, have established a strong foundation for job growth.

Moving forward, we will continue to find ways to make it easier for the people of our state to put Wisconsinites back to work.

Related Topics: Scott Walker and Wisconsin Jobs
How do you feel about Wisconsin's job growth? Tell us in the comments.

James R Hoffa

1:37 pm on Saturday, October 6, 2012

Scott Walker is the man with a plan! Best Governor in the nation!!!

And we should all do our part in helping by voting for ROMNEY/RYAN/THOMPSON/VOS on November 6th!

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Bren

1:40 pm on Saturday, October 6, 2012

Right on track for creating 250,000 new jobs by the end of your first term if your first term ends 50-60 years from now. Perhaps a bit more time working on the job you were elected to do instead of continuous road trips for ALEC and the GOP? But based on your work as County Executive, even if you did sit at your desk all day, we'd still be facing legal and budget issues because of your expertise. Perhaps its better this way after all.

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Richard Head

4:55 pm on Saturday, October 6, 2012

Bren's hamster is in overdrive again!! Please don't use logic, reason or facts.

"Reverse Frontostriatal Connectivity" is the neurobiological term for the Rationalization Hamster:

Women and men differed in the brain mechanisms that enabled self-controlled decisions. During self-control men showed a stronger decrease in some limbic regions than women. An increased frontostriatal coupling helped men to control immediate reward desiring. Women showed the reverse frontostriatal connectivity during a ‘desire-reason dilemma’.

Translation: Men use reason to override their feelings. Women use feelings to override their reason.

This would help expain why it is difficult to utilize logic to convince a woman of anything. The more you succeed in convincing her, the more she will be inclined to amp up her feelings in order to counteract that success. Applying logic to the science, this suggests a more successful strategy would be to simply skip the logical process entirely and go straight to making an appeal to her emotions."

That's our Bren!

http://alphagameplan.blogspot.com/2012/08/men-and-women-difference.html

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Nuitari

5:58 pm on Saturday, October 6, 2012

Hey Idiot Bren, how's Obama's 100,000 teachers coming? You do know he could have even hired 2,000,000 with all that green energy money he blew?

And what legal issue? I have yet to see a formal charge from John Jizzzzum'.

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Lyle Ruble

6:47 pm on Saturday, October 6, 2012

@Richard Head...I don't think I would be to quick to agree with the conclusion. Most of the research has been done with frontostriatal connectivity with regards to ADHD. This is the first study, I am aware of, done on reverse reverse frontostriatal connectivity. There may be other explanations that would explain why women have other mechanisms to control impulse and emotive responses. The study this is related to is a rather small sample and will need to be replicated many times before such conclusions are valid.

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Bren

7:01 pm on Saturday, October 6, 2012

Mr. Hoffa, oak creek-am I incorrect in suggesting that Gov. Walker may not meet his goal of 250,000 new jobs by the end of his current term based on current trends? Am I incorrect in pointing out that much of Gov. Walker's time is spent promoting his ALEC-penned "bold initiatives" around the country, and now doing campaign work for the GOP? Am I incorrect in pointing out that Mr. Walker left Milwaukee County with budget and legal problems ($55 million deficit, millions spent in back-pay for illegally fired and furloughed county workers, contract errors, etc.). I'm not incorrect. If Walker were a Democrat would the two of you be so accepting?

Richard, you've copied-and-pasted this same post elsewhere on patch, why? There are several questions based on your post, primarily why you believe this data is relevant to Scott Walker's taking credit for an abysmal job creation record (based on his own campaign promise). If you have a better link to the research please present it as the data tables do not open and I'm not a SciVerse subscriber. The connectivity studies I have read relate to memory retention primarily, so this is potentially interesting. Thanks,

Nuitari, always a pleasure. ; )

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The Anti-Alinsky

11:09 pm on Saturday, October 6, 2012

Actually Bren, the math works out to about 6 1/2 years. Again, you Liberals and your fuzzy math.

And yes, you are incorrect with all the ALEC bashing.

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Richard Head

5:25 am on Sunday, October 7, 2012

Bren - the post is relevant because it explains your liberal views and why truth and logic don't work on you. People on this board are always arguing facts and logic with you - and get nowhere - and this post explains why.

This is only the second time I posted it - NOT several.

Hoffa's post is perfect for you!

HATER! (oooh, correction) LIBERAL HATER!

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Bren

12:27 pm on Sunday, October 7, 2012

Anti, please explain your analysis in terms of national trends and projected state job growth during the rest of Walker's term? Because I'm not seeing it.

Richard, I confirm that this was a simple re-hash of your initial post, I recalled it several times because I revisited that thread more than once, apologies. However, in attempting to re-direct your post now at me you have made several fundamentally incorrect assumptions. Based simply on the material you presented, I agree with Mr. Ruble about the isolation of the test results. I'd also like to analyze the tables of data that I can't access through your link, please share. And actually, I'm a moderate independent. These days, guys like Dick Nixon, who started the EPA, and Ronald Reagan, who raised some taxes, look more blue than red. Interesting.

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The Anti-Alinsky

12:43 pm on Sunday, October 7, 2012

Bren, your quote was: "Right on track for creating 250,000 new jobs by the end of your first term if your first term ends 50-60 years from now. "

Implying that at 37,000 jobs per year it would take 50 to 60 years to create 250,000. But simply math (250,000 jobs divided by 37,000 jobs/year) brings your wild estimate to 6 years and 9 months. Of course, that doesn't factor in the improved business environment Governor Walker and the Republican's are creating.

Sure beats the bad old days when Diamond Jim Doyle was running businesses out of the state by raising taxes and buying choo-choo trains.

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john the truth seeker

12:54 pm on Monday, October 8, 2012

How can you call him a hater looks to me like he is the only one telling the truth, after all the worst Governor in wisconsin history did say in 4 years he would create 250.000 new jobs in 2 years so he has 2 more years to create 213.000 more

Randy1949

6:38 pm on Saturday, October 6, 2012

At last -- some job figures the GOP won't question.

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James R Hoffa

8:21 pm on Saturday, October 6, 2012

@Randy1949 -

Hoffa admits - that was a good one ;-)

Always Watching 262

7:19 pm on Saturday, October 6, 2012

Walker - best thing since sliced bread. Oh wait, I'm a baker...

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Keith Best

9:52 pm on Saturday, October 6, 2012

Jobs will skyocket in Wisconsin, and across the entire country when Obama is removed.

Obama/ Biden is the disease...Romney / Ryan are the cure.

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Michael McClusky

6:05 am on Sunday, October 7, 2012

@Keith Best Jobs will sky rocket when median household income goes up. The stronger the demand, the more jobs there will be. The ball is in the private sector's court, not the politicians'.

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john the truth seeker

12:56 pm on Monday, October 8, 2012

well that won't happen for 4 more years

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Dorothy

3:37 pm on Saturday, December 8, 2012

Great comment Keith! I agree with you all the way!! Get that OBAMA OUT AND SEND HIM TO CHICAGO!!
Dorothy

Annie Nominous

2:53 am on Sunday, October 7, 2012

Scott Walker, Paul Ryan, Reince Priebus, Ron Johnson, along with many others in Wisconsin, have not held back in expressing their conservative principles and have prospered because of this.

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Bren

12:32 pm on Sunday, October 7, 2012

They have, perhaps. But what about the people who lost their access to Badgercare, or lost jobs and wages because of budget cuts in the public sector/education? Or the kids whose educational opportunities have been diminished because of those budget cuts, the results our community will suffer from for a generation? Or every one of us, who are going to have to help pay off the extra $20 million in interest that Scott Walker's pre-recall debt restructuring gave us? I'm frankly more concerned about life for the average Wisconsinite than I am about Ron Johnson, for example. His wealthy wife will make sure he's always got a clean shirt and three meals a day.

Richard Head

5:20 am on Sunday, October 7, 2012

It's not for government to create jobs!!!

Government isn't supposed to be in business!!

Government creates and administers a fair playing filed for all and provides the infrastructure, via taxation, to make it all possible.

Governor Walker miscalculated and didn't go far enough. The public sector needs to be union-free, taxes dropped 50% or more, retirement age pushed to 65, pay and benefits slashed, and cronyism ended.

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Randy1949

11:26 am on Sunday, October 7, 2012

@Richard Head -- You seriously want a 64 year old firefighter carrying you out of a burning building?

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Steve ®

12:33 pm on Sunday, October 7, 2012

If he is too stupid to move into an office or administration type position natural selection will weed him out far before the age of 64.

Mike

7:18 am on Sunday, October 7, 2012

Bren complains about Gov Walker taking continuous road trips. Much of the road trips can be attributed directly and indirectly to the lefts failed recall attempt. While you're being critical of Walker and his road trips let's hear your biased opinion of the President and his constant campaigning since his election more than three years ago. HIs whole term has been constant campaining. I have never seen anything like it!.

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Bren

12:35 pm on Sunday, October 7, 2012

Mike, last week Scott Walker was in New Hampshire to keynote that state's GOP convention. There was the cross-country victory lap after the recall, and some other trips in between. So that's not quite true. If you were expecting him to settle down and do his job after the recall I'm afraid you will be disappointed. Haven't you figured out that he's not exactly a legal, number-cruncher, analysis-type of guy.

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The Anti-Alinsky

8:19 pm on Sunday, October 7, 2012

Yes, that's so terrible Bren. Governor Walker has shown that you CAN make a change without destroying the state, that you can balance the budget without destroying education, and that you can make state government responsible again.

Is it any wonder that people want to hear how he was successful?

Steve ®

12:34 pm on Sunday, October 7, 2012

Good thing we have that job creating mine up north libs. Wait. Minnesota just started up a new one sorry carry on I was confused.

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Bren

12:39 pm on Sunday, October 7, 2012

Steve, I think we could have had our very own mine if we brought all involved parties together, shared soil sample analysis, and didn't introduce legislation that attempted to redefine scientific terminology.

As it was, the entire mine leadership team was from out of state. From what I was able to learn, the so-called permanent jobs were the dangerous ones, and there was no guarantee that all of those jobs would go to Wisconsin workers who probably didn't have that type of experience.

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Steve ®

1:04 pm on Sunday, October 7, 2012

Bren. I have schooled you on this mine in the pAst. You had zero support for it and would find any excuse to dismiss its positive economic impact. You have zero experience in the mining industry yet use products daily that are mined from planet earth.

These lost jobs are because far left libs like yourself are clueless and hypocrites. The loss of this mine was political, not environmental.

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Lyle Ruble

6:45 pm on Sunday, October 7, 2012

@Steve...I know about mining and the evidence and your position from before just didn't cut it. There's no reason to short circuit the process, especially on a fifty year mine.

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Steve ®

12:15 pm on Monday, October 8, 2012

And what evidence would that be? What experience does Bren have to defend your position all knowing expert Ruble?

You may be surprised at how much Steve® knows about drilling holes.

Mike

5:35 pm on Sunday, October 7, 2012

Remember, Bren knows all.

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Merry Ziefle

11:07 am on Thursday, October 11, 2012

its hard to take some of these comments seriously, what with the juvenile tone to them.

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Dirk Gutzmiller

1:35 pm on Friday, November 2, 2012

What is the bragodoccio Walker going on about now? Seems Wisconsin is being swept up in the rise in number of jobs nationally. All Walker has to do is sit back so he does not screw things up and let the Obama job tide raise Walker's dinghy out of the mud flats..

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