Then according to Janesvillian the govt should just spend a few trillion more and that will prevent the financial cliff! You know, spend money to save money.

oop t+d=g

T (taxes) - D (defecit spending) = G (government spending) Thats what fot us to the edge of the fiscal cliff

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Where does G get their money?

Lol, if those wild tales worked govt should spend all the time then there would be no problems. Errrrr, wait. They already do spend all the time, currently 40% more than they should yet the magic beans equation still fails.

wislady, the figures in this report end in June 2012, so they have no real comparison to applications for unemployment that were filed in October and November 2012. The entire country is dealing with seasonal employment changes as well as a slowdown in exports related to the Eurozone return to recession.
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jcommon, it is very simple -- when you pay employees they have money to spend and buy things. Taxes that support those employees come from a variety of sources and do not directly affect consumer demand. This is why the stimulus prevented a deeper recession -- by making sure that the government was spending money during the deepest part of the slowdown.
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The total composition of the economy, in a formula first explicated by John Maynard Keynes, is C + G + I + X - M = Y, where C is consumer spending, G is government spending, I is investment, X is exports, M is imports, and Y represents Gross Domestic Product. If you limit any single part of the equation artificially, you limit GDP. Cutting G means cutting GDP, on a not-quite dollar for dollar basis. By cutting government jobs across the state, both state workers and local government workers affected by state revenue sharing (and other) cuts, Walker pretty much did the stupidest possible thing he could have done, and nearly pushed the state into negative job growth territory. Certainly overall job growth in Wisconsin has been near the bottom of the 50 states, and this DURING a recovery in manufacturing and exports experienced by other states. The only thing that saved us, almost certainly, was the fact that 49 other states were run by governors who were not named Scott Walker.

"Government employment being down is a primary drag on the recovery in all states."

WHAT?!?! I will say it again WHAT?!?!?! Are you serious? Can you please explain this sentence? In case you don't understand, Government employees are paid using tax dollars.

Feel free to keep ignoring the fact that Wisconsin significantly lags the rest of the Midwest in job creation (Wisconsin was in the bottom five states in the nation as of a couple months ago). Midwest states are the 'peers' by which we should be measuring ourselves - they have the same limitations, and thus any difference in performance would be directly attributable to state government and not federal government. Blind obedience to a party line solves nothing.

Wisconsin, holding its own and creating jobs, in spite of Obama and the national unemployment number of 495,000.

Wisconsin unemployment falls to 6.9%

Give credit to where credit is due. It says that even government jobs have increased. So again overall growth and Walker's plan is working.

Thank you Governor Walker for keeping Wisconsin Open for Business! I will be proud to cast my vote to re-elect you again!

Well, you could start by not firing all the teachers. Government employment being down is a primary drag on the recovery in all states. (Note that this is a PRIVATE employment report -- overall job growth in the state is more like 0.25% or possibly even negative overall; I don't have the monthly figures at hand.) Cutting state revenue sharing to every community in Wisconsin is also a likely factor that cut into consumer demand and stalled any job recovery. You could have an actual statewide jobs bill authored by a legislature listening to its citizens instead of lobbyists. That's just a crazy off-the-cuff start. Essentially you would have to NOT do anything Scott Walker and the Diane Hendricks choir have done, stop pretending that so-called "job creators" are the only ones who know anything about creating jobs (which is never the objective of their business), and start listening to the people. Obviously, that's science fiction from the point of view of today's GOP.

fear, you seem to have all the answers, any ideas on how to have a higher job growth rate in Wisconsin? Sustaining jobs that is.

Better than negative growth. just think with the mining legislation, it could have been 1.55% what a difference that would have made.

Still a terrible growth rate.