nugnrose- Never liked Thompson, didn't think much of Doyle, and don't think much of Walker. Not a dem or repub. Go figure.

It's the people that "believe" that on person, either Obama or Walker, or whomever, has any real impact on job creation is what is wrong with these discussions. Corporate profits are generally at pre-2007 levels, Wall Street is back up to the same levels, yet there is a huge disconnect between the "job creators" and actual jobs being created. Why is that? It because corporate tax rates, tax breaks and greasing the wheels of industry do no create jobs, they may help to retain them, but they do not create them. Jobs are created between the interplay of demand and another's capability to fulfill that demand. Without the demand, you have nothing. That's where we are right now, and all the right wing teeth gnashing that regulation and taxes are what are keeping the "job creators" from creating jobs falls flat in the face of reality.
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Your spending is your neighbors income. If you stop spending, your neighbors income declines, or his/her job is gone. Same goes for you.
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The endgame for business is not to create jobs, but make profit, and if jobs are created along the way, great. If they can automate the entire process with robots that can build themselves, you're out of luck.

If unemployment was way down, would all the right-wingers on this site still be saying "I don't believe the unemployment numbers?"

tamrlu - "He gave and gave to the public unions"
Thompson "gave" nothing to those public employee unions, he only signed the contracts, your state legislators voted to approve them.
And if those contracts were so bad, why did he sign them?
Funny how Thompson used to be the best thing since sliced bread, the Wisconsin Repub's hero, now you want to throw him under the bus.

Thompson actually left the state in the "hole." He gave and gave to the public unions. The deficit left by Doyle was the same or a tad less than what Thompson left us with. Cigarette settlement ring any bells? History is there to look at.

how is this Obama's fault, 916? With less gov't spending than any president in the last 60+ years? Our economy is FAR better off now than we were when GW left office.
has Scooter really done enough to make our state a better place to live? no, not really; just look at the way he slashed environmental protections of shorelines and wetlands...and is the DWD keeping track of those whose benefits ran out and are still unemployed? I'd bet not...

"Maybe because it isn't working."
Did you ever consider the fact that it needs time to work? You gotta love the hypocrisy of the left. Obama has almost completed his term, the economy is still an absolute mess, and we're still hearing about the problems he "inherited". On the flip side, Walker, without even completing half his term, was being vilified by these same people for Wisconsin's job creation numbers. They just seemed to completely forget about the mess that Diamond Jimmy and the democrats left the state in......It really is funny though--the anti-Walker gang are so predictable!:)

Unemployment rates have been a twisted statistic for many years. Too many variables. The real pulse of the economy is foreclosures by bank default and tax default. car sales to some degree as well.

The recall is over companies are getting ready to move here in mob, just wait here they come....................

dogsrule1, any GOOD jobs will go to his supporters.

re-election out of the way -- unemployment creeps up. . . . surprise, surprise. where are the trickle down jobs. . . ??

The unemployment rate is based on a survey of people who say they are actively seeking work it has nothing to do with unemployment insurance! Why is it every time a story about the unemployment rate is on here someone has to say it about who is collecting benefits when it isnt.

..."show there ignorance"...

Is this a typo or ignorance? I suspect the latter. lol

bassman , you seem to forget they didnt extend unemployment benefits , while drawing unemployment might be down. the unemployed are still there . they seem to always forget to count the one s who are out of benefit s.

Wisconsin is rated # 17 in U.P in the U.S. I think we should be proud.For all of you ney sayers just being in the top 20 is damn good ! It will only get better if you give it a chance,and quit your whining ,put effort into the positive instead of the negative and we will all be better off.

Still looking for the "it's working, it's working" posts.

Maybe because it isn't working.

What's the use...

Mr. Governor, where are the jobs?

But wanker said the job creators would be busy creating jobs once he was reelected.

yada

Find a new anti Walker article, that Rick Ungar one is getting tiresome.

"Statewide unemployment for the month was 6.8 percent."

I don't see any mention of the prior month's statewide unemployment rate in the in the DWD news release narrative [ http://dwd.wisconsin.gov/dwd/newsrelease... ]. You need to drill down into the data tables to find it. It was 6.7%.

Stubby: Where did you get you WI figures on the unemployed school teachers/public workers?
Other then that the usual comments as expected from the Liberal Left.

Thank you walker. Jobs raining down on us like manna

Of the state’s 72 counties, unemployment rates declined in 36, stayed the same in six and went up in 30.

The left (yada) show there ignorance just by commenting on headlines.
You really need to get over the fact that we LIKE Gov. Walker.

Job loss numbers WORST in nation...but not with the magical math of Walker. Somehow he did it just before the recall election...lol
http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/20...

For the sake of those unemployed, I am very sorry to see this news. More competition for jobs will not help. However, you are also seeing the effects of thousands of public employees (school employees) who were laid off due to budget cuts caused by Act 10. So a few tax dollars were saved, but now we're paying the price. Hate to say "I told you so"...but....

The good thing is that now that the recall is over we are seeing that huge rush of hiring that the governor and the governor wannabe kept telling us about.

i never believe the facts about unemployment, one key reason being they count a job gained when a persons unemployment ends, even though they have not gotten a job