Walker Likes Kicking People When They're Down
When Scott Walker was running for governor of Wisconsin in 2010, he pledged that he would create 250,000 jobs by the end of his first term. He barely made it halfway to meeting that pledge, and that was mostly because of the policies of his predecessor and from the national recovery headed by President Barack Obama.
In other words, Walker's record of job creation is worse than if he had nothing at all.
In 2015, Walker and his fellow corporate sockpuppet Republicans have trashed the state's economy so badly that by June, the number of layoffs had exceeded all of those in 2014. Currently, the number of layoffs for the year is around the 10,000 mark.
In just the past few days, it was announced that Target is closing two stores in the state because they were losing so much money. Also, Joy Global and BouMatic announced closing operations leading to another 110 layoffs.