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I did read the article, Jack. I guess the difference between you and me is that I have the capacity to comprehend what I read and am not completely baffled by rudimentary explanations of statistical modeling.
Either Gov. Walker and the state GOP are lying and attempting to mislead, or their reading comprehension isn't so good, either.
By the way, California created over 28,000 jobs in June. I guess that means that their Democratic Governor and Democratic legislators are better at creating jobs than is Wisconsin's Republican Governor and Republican legislators, right?
No you're willingly swallowing the bullshit being fed by the government. Make believe you are a rational, logical person. Just for grins and giggles.
The government, says there are 18,000 new jobs created this month. With me so far? OK, now that same government who gave you that statistic, also tells you that Wisconsin created 9,500 jobs last month.
Now what does a logical person conclude? Well, that Wisconsin created half of the total number of jobs created last month. Pretty obvious to most people with a working brain.
Problem is the government isn't apparently run by logical people. The total number of jobs created was something like 69,000 or thereabouts from your cite. That's the number we get by adding all of the jobs produced by all 50 (not 57) states. Yet the government ignores that number and reports a total of 18,000 instead.
If you want to consider seasonal employment, or whatever else they do to come up with that number, fine. What you do to one side of the equation, you do to the other. There should then be a number for each state predicated on the 18,000 total not the 69,000 figure that the government would have us ignore, despite having provided it to us.
But that would actually be a rational thing to do. God forbid the government do that!
























