50 Million Burgers, 1.7 Million Dental Appointments Monthly –
What it would take for Scott Walker to fulfill his promise of 250,000 new jobs?
As the deadline draws near, Governor and Republican Presidential hopeful Scott Walker’s pledge of 250,000 new Wisconsin jobs created by 2015 appears to be a greater and greater failure of his already controversial tenure in the State’s top job. As Walker attacks other Presidential hopefuls, will he take responsibility for his own failures?
The most recent state jobs report, issued Thursday, reveals that Walker is roughly one-third of the way to fulfilling his primary campaign pledge of 250,000 jobs being created in Wisconsin during his four-year term that ends in 2015. Estimates suggest that 97,000 jobs have been added since he took office, leaving over 150,000 jobs to be created in the 14 remaining months in his term. To do this, Wisconsin would have to average around 11,000 new jobs a month, every month, if the Republican Governor is to keep his word.
SOME PERSPECTIVE ON GOVERNOR WALKER’S FAILING JOBS PLEDGE
The numbers are astounding of what it would take for Governor Walker to keep his word, assuming a 40-hour work week and that he was pledging 250,000 cumulative jobs created.
4 million patient visits. If nurse practitioners see about 20 patients a day, the people of Wisconsin would need to schedule 4 million more patient visits each month than the month before in order to create enough new Nurse Practitioner jobs to fulfill Scott Walker’s promise.
That’s a lot of bad colds, Governor Walke.
7 million new checking accounts. Assuming it takes about 15 minutes to open a checking account at a bank, Wisconsinites would have to open an additional 7 million checking accounts every month, cumulatively, for the rest of Scott Walker’s term in order to create enough bank teller jobs to fulfill Scott Walker’s promise.
That’s a lot of debit cards, Governor Walker.
1.7 million visits to the dental hygienist. If your Dental Hygienist cleans eight sets of teeth every day (one set an hour), it would require 1.7 million more dental hygiene appointments than the month prior, every month, for the rest of Scott Walker’s term in order to create enough dental hygiene jobs to fulfill Scott Walker’s promise.
That’s a lot of mouths to be cleaned, Governor Walker.
Over 50 million Big Macs. Assuming it takes just under two minutes to prepare a Big Mac to be served, the good people of Wisconsin would have to order 58 million more Big Macs than they did the month before, every month, for the rest of Governor Walker’s term in order to create enough fry cook jobs to fulfill Scott Walker’s promise.
That’s a lot of dieting to do, Governor Walker.
To make good on Scott Walker’s jobs pledge, it means each of these examples would have to build on the previous month’s increases. The numbers are striking, Governor Walker’s record on jobs is nothing more than broken promises.