What they don't tell you is that the bulk of those workers include teachers, firefighters and police officers.
But there are other things that they don't tell you either, but Milwaukee News Buzz does:
The study from the Council on Children and Families (using seasonally adjusted jobs data) found that between November 2009 and October 2010, manufacturing jobs outnumbered government ones in seven out of 12 months. This is the sort of data that alarmed the Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce in late 2009 when government positions first exceeded those in manufacturing.
“This is a very disturbing development,” WMC vice-president of government relations James Buchen said in December 2009. “An economy that has more government jobs than manufacturing jobs cannot be sustained for the long-term … Wisconsin needs to turn this trend around quickly.”
The Council argues that this concern – echoed by Republican candidate Leah Vukmir this fall in her successful race to win the state senate seat representing Wauwatosa – is overblown since the vast majority of states have, for decades, had more government than manufacturing jobs. And in the first 10 months of this year, only two states, Wisconsin and Indiana, averaged about a 1 to 1 balance between these two employment sectors.
If this balance “is a useful gauge of a state’s economic vitality, then we should all celebrate the fact that Wisconsin is #1 and is far above most other states,” the Council’s paper remarks. The national average, it says, was slightly less than two government jobs for every manufacturing job.
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Yes, by all means, more government jobs. What a way to grow an economy.
ReplyDeleteYes, by all means, more government jobs. What a way to grow an economy.
Of course, you would like to claim its about more cops and firefighters, but in reality, it’s about more pencil pushing bureaucrats that force decisions about cutting the services people actually need, want and think they are paying for.
In other words, getting rid of your job should be on the top of the list, but nobody even knows what you do, so if cuts are required, no one bothers with you.
Man-up. Your job has little to do with cops and firefighters.
We can keep them and get rid of you.
He's not disparaging cops and firefighters. He's making the case that "the bulk of those workers (public sector) include teachers, firefighters and police officers." You know, "real Americans" like you and me. Idiot.
ReplyDeleteI detect a badgerblogger.
i detect a bitter person with a crummy job. what do you do maybe we can get rid of you too.
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