Monday, September 28, 2009

Obama and Doyle Lie Together

Words cannot begin to express my complete and utter disgust with the liberal members (of both parties) in the Wisconsin State Legislature and this thieving governor, and the regressive members of the US Congress and the lying president.

There could be easy solutions to health care but the elected officials cannot stop lying about how awful it will be without their hand in it as they salivate over even more money coming into government for them to use as their personal expense fund to travel, accessorize and bribe silence and loyalty to “the cause.”

As long as any government entity has anything to do with health care the taxpayers are going to continue being financially raped in greater increments by these greedy, incompetent scum. If you are looking for an example of what they would do if they were in charge of the other 50% of health care in this country look no further than Medicaid and Medicare.

As for Wisconsin, in 1975 physicians, hospitals and other health care professionals came up with a unique way to keep malpractice insurance low. They worked with insurance companies and started a patient compensation fund. Any physician practicing in Wisconsin pays a mandatory annual fee to the fund to be used to compensate patients or family members for any mistakes in their medical care.

For over 30 years the system worked well. Every year money came into the fund from the medical community and every year money was paid from the fund to patients who had medical incidents. As long as there was enough money in the fund insurance companies kept malpractice fees down.

Then Governor Doyle, who earned the name of Diamond Jim though his extravagant spending of taxpayers money and special deals with the Indian Tribes, needed more money.

All his high living left the state over budget again. He had already raided other funds so he turned to the Patient Compensation Fund. This, despite the “ironclad” agreement by the legislature that the fund would never be touched except for the purpose it was set up for in the first place.

How much did he take? 200 MILLION DOLLARS! The physicians in charge of the fund sued to keep him from stealing the money but too many judges in this state think they can make law too. Another law suit for return of the funds is in court now. Unfortunately, even if they win, the coffers have been sucked dry by Diamond Jim and the liberals in the legislature.

Will the state ever return the money that came not from taxpayers, but private citizen donors? Do pigs reside in the state and federal legislative seats? Oops. Bad analogy. The money will be returned when the pigs get out of government.

This crop of slime legislatures in the Federal and Wisconsin legislature have already left the country in dire financial straits. Diamond Jim is not running again, there is no money left to steal and his poll numbers are low. But he has already dug the hole for the taxpayers, once again, to try and fill until the next “progressive” comes along

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Alisa Wilson: You Are Not Alone With Your Outrage

This letter was sent to the Wall Street Journal on August 8, 2008 by Alisa Wilson, Ph.D. Of Beverly Hills , CA . in response to the Wall Street Journal article titled "Where's The Outrage?" that appeared July 31,2008.  A friend sent it to me.  This is exactly why Tea Parties are growing. 

If you feel like Alisa Wilson, get up and get going.  We need your voice!
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Really. I can tell you where the outrage is. The outrage is here, in this middle-aged, well-educated, upper-middle class woman. The outrage is here, but I have no representation, no voice. The outrage is here, but no one is listening, for who am I?

I am not a billionaire like George Soros that can fund an entire political movement. I am not a celebrity like Barbra Streisand that can garner the attention of the press to promote political candidates. I am not a film
maker like Michael Moore or Al Gore that can deliver misleading movies to the public.

The outrage is here, but unlike those with money or power, I don't know how to reach those who feel similarly in order to effect change. Why am I outraged? I am outraged that my country, the United States of America , is in a state of moral and ethical decline. There is no right or wrong anymore, just what's fair.

Is it fair that millions of Americans who overreached and borrowed more than they could afford are now being bailed out by the government and lending institutions to stave off foreclosure? Why shouldn't these people be made to pay the consequences for their poor judgment?

When my husband and I purchased our home, we were careful to purchase only what we could afford. Believe me, there are much larger, much nicer homes that I would have loved to have purchased. But, taking responsibility for my behavior and my life, I went with the house that we could afford, not the house that we could not afford. The notion of personal responsibility has all but died in our country.

I am outraged, that the country that welcomed my mother as an immigrant from Hitler's Nazi Germany and required that she and her family learn English now allows itself to be overrun with illegal immigrants and worse, caters to those illegal immigrants.I am outraged that my hard-earned taxes help support those here illegally.

That the Los Angeles Public School District is in such disarray that I felt it incumbent to send my child to private school, that every time I go to the ATM, I see "do you want to continue in English or Spanish?", that every time I call the bank, the phone company, or similar business, I hear "press 1 for English or press 2 for Spanish". WHY? This is America , our common language is English and attempts to promote a bi- or multi-lingual society are sure to fail and to marginalize those who cannot communicate in English.

I am outraged at our country's weakness in the face of new threats on American traditions from Muslims. Just this week, Tyson's Food negotiated with its union to permit Muslims to have Eid-al-Fitr as a holiday instead of Labor Day. What am I missing? Yes, there is a large Somali Muslim population working at the Tyson's plant in Tennessee . Tennessee , last I checked, is still part of the United States . If Muslims want to live and work here they should be required to live and work by our American Laws and not impose
their will on our long history.

In the same week, Random House announced that they had indefinitely delayed the publication of The Jewel of Medina, by Sherry Jones, a book about the life of Mohammed's wife, Aisha due to fear of retribution and violence by Muslims. When did we become a nation ruled by fear of what other immigrant groups want? It makes me so sad to see large corporations cave rather than stand proudly on the principles that built this country.

I am outraged because appeasement has never worked as a political policy, yet appeasing Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is exactly what we are trying to do. An excellent article, also published recently in the Wall Street Journal, went through over 20 years of history and why talking with Iran has been and will continue to be ineffective. Yet talk, with a madman no less, we continue to do. Have we so lost our moral compass and its ability to detect evil that we will not go in and destroy Iran 's nuclear program? Would we rather wait for
another Holocaust for the Jews - one which they would be unlikely to survive? When does it end?

As if the battle for good and evil isn't enough, now come the Environmentalists who are so afraid of global warming that they want to put a Bag tax on grocery bags in California; to eliminate Mylar balloons; to
establish something as insidious as the recycle police in San Francisco. I do my share for the environment: I recycle, I use water wisely, I installed an energy efficient air conditioning unit. But when and where does the
lunacy stop? Ahmadinejad wants to wipe Israel off the map, the California economy is being overrun by illegal migrants, and the United States of America no longer knows right from wrong, good from evil. So what does California do? Tax grocery bags.

So, America , although I can tell you where the outrage is, this one middle-aged, well-educated, upper middle class woman is powerless to do anything about it. I don't even feel like my vote counts because I am so outnumbered by those who disagree with me.

Alisa Wilson, Ph.D. Beverly Hills , California

**There are a lot more out there who think just like, Alisa Wilson, the only difference, she put her thoughts in an email that will reach thousands. I would like to keep this going and see how big it gets**

Sunday, September 20, 2009

Milwaukee Tea Party- September 19 - Was Huge!



10,000 American Patriots came to the beautiful  Veterans Park on the shores of Lake Michigan to protest the greed and corruption, the wreckless spending and lying by our elected officals.  It was equal disgust for the group in the Madison and Washington D.C. Capitol.

Scott Walker was one of the speakers. Click the link to watch.


Grandma is Not Shovel Ready

                                     



A few pictures of the angry mob, astroturf, racist, nazi group enjoying the program and the beautiful day.



  Obama would like us all to shut up and go away but that is not going to happen.  There were 8,000 people at the Madison Tea Party on April 15th to protest the obscene taxes in Wisconsin (plus hidden fees of everything we touch) on top of the obscene taxes from the Feds. This rally was 10K.  Just keeps growing.

The union thugs are not happy either.  Here is what they sent out to rally their pawns to counter us.
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Don’t let the tea baggers take over Milwaukee!

The tea baggers are throwing a major tea party at veterans park. What they fail to realize is that corporate greed is not a family value. it is critical that labor responds and shows support for workers and families. Come show your support for an economy that works for all and make sure we move our country forward not backwards.

We hope the members of the AFL-CIO Don't also Believe in What the Liberal Group One Wisconsin Now Has said about the thousands of Americans that have attended Tea Parties

"... racism and ignorance have surrounded the teabaggers and their events across the country"
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On the sign:  THESE PEOPLE CAN NOT POSSIBLY BE THAT  STUPID --- SO  THEY MUST BE THAT EVIL!!!!!

I wonder if the 9 AFL-CIO lackey counter-protesters were having as much fun on the outside as we were on the inside. Sure did not look that way.  Actually, there were several thousand union members there, only they were inside the tape cheering with their fellow Americans who are all concerned by the greed and corruption of state and federal government, and whose partners are the Union Thugs in Chief Leadership.  Part of Obama's private army he spoke about. He said they should be as big and strong as the US Military.

Below is part of a "news release"  sent out by the unions.  I just love their tolerance, their grasp of the Constitution that allows ALL SIDES freedom of speech.  Oh that's right.  As part of Obama's private army their job is to supress opposition speech and peaceful assembly.  And, if given the chance they do it with their unique style; standing in front of voting places complete with clubs and beating up conservative black Americans attending tea parties.
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One Wisconsin Now: Teabaggers' latest 'Republican rally for failure' fueled again by partisanship, racism, ignorance

9/18/2009
Contact: Robert Doeckel
Phone: 608-204-0677

Anti-Immigration 'Anchor Baby' Malkin Among Events Lowlights

Madison -- The latest "Republican Rally for Failure" hosted by the self-identified "teabaggers" is scheduled for Saturday in Milwaukee. The "Failure Rally" will feature numerous incendiary speakers, including fact-challenged Michelle Malkin, who will join other partisans to try and defeat the agenda of President Barack Obama.

"The latest 'Republican Rally for Failure' is just another partisan event financed by the corporate anchors of the Republican Party to defeat President Obama," said Scot Ross, One Wisconsin Now Executive Director. "It is partisanship fueled by racism and ignorance."
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They cannot seem to get anything right.  The truth is this is not a Republican rally. We are not all that happy with most of them either. This is for all Americans of all political stripes, religions,genders and ethnicities who are fed up with their non-representing officials and their partners in corruption; the unions for example, who are getting mighty rich at taxpayers expense.  They will make a ton of money if the sick bill passing for "health care" goes through. 

By the way, I met up with my union friends I first met at the Madison rally and we had a great time! Seems they have joined a citizen's action group (which are springing up like fresh water) to fight for America's freedom from the corruption of government and their cronies.

The reason the Union heirachy has it in for Michelle Malkin is that she is smart, witty and certainly has all the facts on these thugs.  She was great - as were all of the speakers.  She reminded us of Obama pointing his finger saying if "you" tell lies about his programs (you mean like the death panel that wasn't there which is why it was taken out of the death to American, physically and financially, make America sick bill) "I will call you out!"

Ms. Malkin went through a list of Washington elected officials and czars, gave a litany of charges of their corruption and at the end of each person pointed her finger and said loudly and boldly, "We're calling you out!  I highly recommend her new book; Culture of Corruption.

We will keep on going. Across Wisconsin, across the country.  Forming groups, reminding our elected officials they work for us.  It's a hard concept for them to grasp since they don't read the document they take an oath to "protect and defend," either. Lying comes so easily to them.




CAN YOU HEAR US NOW!  and WE HAVE HIT BOROCK BOTTOM


We are all mad as hell and we will not take it anymore. See you at the next Tea Party.  Keep the letters and calls going to your elected officials, local, state and national.  This is our country but we have to fight to keep it free. As one mother, whose son is in Iraq, the brave men and women are fighting for us, the least we can do is fight here for our country.

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Progressives: Promoting Group Racism

Putting people into groups and turning them against each other is the regressives (there is nothing progressive about these people) way to keep citizens in line and distracted. When groups are fighting each other, they are too busy hating neighbors to notice the regressives in government (and selected useful idiot enforcers) are playing them.

Regressives are in a position to teach their designated victim groups how to provide a better life for themselves, but chose to keep them as pawns to serve their own insane desire for power and money.
They put people into ethnic and or racial groups, convince them only they can get them out of their inner city, rat infested, sub-standard housing. Their children attend failing schools while progressive, and union teacher's children attend private schools.

They encourage abortion for birth control that teaches young women life is expendable if it interferes with their fun. But if they want to collect more money from the government by delivering their crack baby (though not enough to get out of their hell hole) that is okay too.

Regressives give just enough from the tens of billions of dollars spent for their designated group's betterment, to keep them firmly ensconced in their hapless and hopeless life of anger and dispare while putting most of the money in their own pockets.

These groups are taught by religious and community organizations to blame conservatives for the situation they are in.  If the conservatives are black, they are scorned at traitors.
Regressives encourage any and all deviant behavior by refusing to allow any moral standards to get in the way because no one is allowed to judge any aspect of their wisdom about these things.

Regressives discourage even a modicum of responsibility from these groups because they are designated victims and could not possibly do for themselves.

Regressives are protective of the groups they created as long as they serve a useful purpose. They are protective of fellow regressives as long as they serve a useful purpose.

Anyone who says, or some regressive dyed red headed writer imagines they said, anything against one of their own, calls for the harshest penalty possible. They would make an exception to feigned outrage of water boarding if a conservative (gasp) spoke out. Even if he apologized.

Any conservative questioning any regressive might even cause an antisemitic peanut farmer, who is trying to make himself relevant after his disastrous presidency, speak out with his pearls of irrelevant stupidity.

By calling everyone with whom they disagree a racist, or try to shut someone up by calling him a racist, they are in essence crying wolf.

Monday, September 14, 2009

Continuing the 2nd Revolution to Stop Fascists


The problem is not that Obama and the other Regressives in congress do not hear us.  It is that they do not care about what the vast majority of we the people think.  They are on their fascist agenda to control every sector of our beautiful America and this is the best chance since the movement started in the 1920's. 

ALL THESE AMERICANS AND THEY LEFT THE GROUNDS CLEAN!
The National Park Service said that the 9/12 gathering in Washington DC was the largest in the history of our country.  A British newspaper put the number at well over one million people.

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What a week-end.  Starting with 9/11.  I thought of things to write about the commemoration of an act of war by the Islamoterrorists,  but the images, the heroism shown that day by people who downed the plane, rescue workers losing their lives trying to save others and regular Americans reaching out to their neighbors, left me in tears.  Tears of rage at the Islamic Terrorists, tears of pride for the heroic Americans, tears of sorrow for the people who died and the families and friends they left behind.

I am appalled at this president's decree to try make 9/11 be remembered for anything other than what it is; "a cowardly act of terror," as President George Bush said.  Thank you Mr. Bush, and your administration, for keeping your eye on the ball and keeping America safe for seven years.

I was vocal about my problems with many of President Bush's programs such as spending and amnesty for illegals. But you, Mr. President, in our hours of fear and dis pare, you rose to your office as commander in chief.  You stayed steady though daily spewing of hatred from radicals in the media, hollywood and members of congress. 

You did not take polls about what words to use, what couse of action was popular.  You did not  impugn your opponents. You did what it took to keep our country safe from Islamoterrorists. 

You are not president anymore so it is up to us, we the people, to follow your example and not waiver from our mission; keeping our country safe from the government leaders trying to destroy it.
Thank you to every person who takes the time, spends their own money and stands up against this government who is the enemy destroying our constitution and our country from within. We the people will never give up, never waiver in our fight to preserve the constitution.

Saturday, September 12, 2009

Obama's ACORN Nuts are Cracking

Obama was an ACORN trainer. He was a community organizer that worked with ACORN.

Many people think, as I used to, that ACORN is simply a corrupt organization that specializes in Voter Fraud.

The corrupt part is correct, the simple is not. This organization has at least 270 affiliates that all operate out of a single address in Louisiana. Voter fraud is a tiny part of their vast organization.

67 Republicans have called for an investigation into ACORN. Arlan Spector was a Republican when he added his name to the list.

1 democrat, 80 year old John Conyers, Representative for the 14th District in Michigan for the past 44 years, called for an investigation but quickly withdrew the idea when Pelosi, who protects ACORN, “talked” to him.

ACORN has received nearly 60 million taxpayer dollars from the Federal Government in Grants for their corrupt programs that exploit the poor, not help them. When they are caught they fire these pawns calling them rogue employees.

The investigations never seem to get to the top of ACORN.  Congress rewaards them. They are to receive at least 8.5 billion dollars more from Obama's stimulus bill.

Glenn Beck did a fantastic job digging into ACORN. He had the ACORN 8, a group of whistle-blowers who were thrown out of ACORN after asking for explanations of some of ACORN's corrupt doings, on his program regularly. Nobody in Congress wants to talk to them.

It took 25 year old James O'Keefe and 20 year Hannah Giles to bring more ACORN corruption to the front burner. From an interview on FOX News (most left wing “news organizations” did not want to cover it), Hannah said she did some investigating on her own and came up with a plan. She asked James, an independent film maker, to help her.

A clean cut, girl next door type, Hannah posed as a prostitute and James as a pimp. They went into 2 different ACORN offices and filmed workers telling them how to commit several felonies under the radar of law enforcement.

They said they wanted to start a prostitution house that included bringing 13 year old girls from Central America. James said they made the story more outrageous on the spot but the ACORN workers never batted an eyelash.

These two young people got the Census Bureau to cut ties with ACORN from “helping” with the census. It was Obama's idea to bring them in. He wanted to run the census count out of the White House where all his thug Czars could help too.

On June 19th Representative Steve King wrote an article, “Democrats Continue to Protect ACORN.”
King is a member of the House Judiciary Committee that Conyers chairs. In 9/10 press release said the video of ACORN workers at two different offices confirms the need for an investigation of ACORN.

If Congress and the President continue to engage in and protect corruption, we the people, like Hannah and James and the hundreds of thousands of the Americans who showed up in DC and across the country today, will have to remind them who they work for at the ballot box.

Thursday, September 10, 2009

David Horowitz: An American Patriot

David Horowitz is a former 60's radical. He had the insight to know their way was destructive to America and dropped out to become one of the staunches defenders of American freedom.

The polar opposites are the 60's radicals who went into politics and are now running our country. Along the way they have picked up acolytes (President Obama) to help continue the movement.

These people are now helping Obama to change our country (many from congressional seats) as he said he would. It is one of the few things about which he is not lying.

If this is not a wake up call for people who assumed his change would move the country forward and not destroy is, you will never believe what you can now see, read and hear from their own mouths.

As you can imagine, Horowitz is despised by the left. As much as they hate people who do not think as they do, they hate people who have turned their back on their cause even more.

In his magazine, Front Page Magazine, Howoitz writes a powerful piece, Lessons of the Van Jones Affair: Democrats Are Comfortable With Communists, Racists and Anti-Semites. It is a lesson we cannot afford to ignore.

Mr. Horowitz works tirelessly to bring freedom to the colleges across the country.  Because the new generation of progressives (code name for all the "ists") have so much respect for free speech, they do everything in their power, verbally and physically, to keep him from telling the truth.

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Obama Health Care Take 22

I admit that President Obama, who arrived almost 15 minutes late for this “speech of the century,” had me going for a minute.

He lost me when he said he had to have a public option even though he said it in a way that almost made it sound reasonable. That is a game changer right there.

He says it has to be done as a means to an end. The end he wants. That is what he has always wanted and that is why he will do whatever it takes to get it done.

Government care is not competition, government care is not choice. It is the law of the land unless you are in congress or are wealthy (not mutually exclusive) enough to pay for private insurance.

People from Canada and Europe ( who progressives here are trying to emulate as they are trying to get out of their socialized everything mess) are screaming at us not to go down the government care path.

For every story Obama can tell of people who fell though the cracks and did not get treatment for a disease, they have hundreds.

Although he said he will not insure illegals he keeps using the number of uninsured that includes illegals. Of course he thinks there are 57 states so I'll give him a pass for the moment.

And why does an insurance exchange program have to be set up by the government instead of just allowing Insurance Companies to sell insurance across state lines?

The frosting on the cake was when he said that he would protect Medicare by cutting the waste. Then why is the 500 billion dollars cut in Medicare still on their site.

He, and the democrat controlled congress, has had almost nine months to at least start the process of cutting waste. Obama has a czar for every piddly thing but to my knowledge there is no czar in place to cut fraud and waste in medicare.

Surely he has another czar like the self avowed communist and revolutionary, the recently departed Van Jones, ready to step into his inner shadowy circle.

Now I know he is lying when he says that government cannot solve all the problems. In fascist governments, government is the only thing that progressives put their faith in to solve the ills of the world. As long as it is they, the progressives, in charge.

He did get a big laugh when he admitted he did not have all the details. This is his modes operandi. Lofty rhetoric, empty words (far to many). Same old, same old.....

As Dennis Miller said, All I want the president to do is roll out the eggs at Easter, light the tree at Christmas and save the turkey's neck at Thanksgiving. That's about it.

Rep Charles Boustany, a heart surgeon, gave the response. Go to healthcare.gop.gov for the Republican plan which you will not hear about in the liberal media.

Obama gave lip service to parts of the plan in his speech but is to common sensible to be considered seriously by the progressives. It does not include government at the helm.

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

The Inmates Are Running the Asylum

If the hypocrites in government make you want to scream, try picking up the phone and calling your elected officials relentlessly. Join a group to become active in the future of your country.

Following is just the tip of the iceburg as to how out of control the government is.

This article is from the Washington Examiner.

These are just the headlines from the DRUDGE REPORT. The stories are sureal- it must be a alternate universe.

UN wants new global currency to replace dollar...
(This would certainly fit into our current leaderships plan of ruling the world - start with the money, make us one and Nancy will be queen)

China alarmed by US money printing...
(As well they should be considering we own them so much money that if they called in the debt, China could be running our country).

Switzerland topples America as most competitive economy...
Weakening...

(What surprises me is that we were still near the top - add government heath care, cap and trade, higher taxes and doing what BO wants - see next headline - we will not even be in the top 50)

Obama Asks Senate To Increase Debt Ceiling...
(If anybody still has doubt about the intentions of this man to gut our country and rebuild it in his facism image, you are in denial)

And the latest one: DEM PLAN: $3,800 fine for failure to get health insurance.
(These people are insane with power).

And from FOX NEWS: With 8 doctors, 11 nurses and a $38M budget, the U.N. clinic should be able to meet any emergency, but in the event of a medical crisis workers are offered this advice: Don't call us. Call 9-1-1.

(Whom do you suppose is the major payer of the 38 million dollars? And after government care goes into effect, just who is supposed to answer the phone? There would be no point since we will not have enough doctors left to keep emergency doors open. Maybe the 8 doctors at the UN would be willing to help out).

Monday, September 7, 2009

Government & Unions: Destructive Partners

Today the President speaks to leaders of the AFL-CIO in Cincinnati. Like government officials, union leader's are paid by working people who are forced to “contribute” money, whatever the leadership deems necessary to fund their lavish lifestyles, without having control over how it is spent.

Inevitably, the promises to get elected fade as the officials spend the rest of their time consolidating their power, intimidating those they are supposed to represent and support each other to strengthen the other.

While unions are losing members (except in government) the government is trying to find ways to boost union numbers (expand government) and regain lost power with Card Check, or, I get to see how you voted so I can come and threaten you and/or your family if you voted against the union.

The union workers at Mercury Marine, a manufacturer of high end boat motors headquarter in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, in a third vote, accepted a new contract that includes a pay and benefit cut. If they had not voted in favor, Mercury Marine would have moved their operation to Stillwater, Oklahoma which is a right to work state.

Businesses put up signs thanking union members for saving, not only their own jobs, but a reported 11,000 peripheral jobs as well.

It is Mercury Marine who should be thanked for putting up with the union thugs and their stupid games of chicken. After the first vote failed (can you imagine people voting to put themselves out of work when there are hundreds of thousands of unemployed people who would take their place in a heartbeat)
it was business people and reasoned elected officials who got an agreement for a second vote.

When the arrogant and sloppy union dragged their feet to finish the second vote by the agreed to deadline, that was it. Except Mercury was persuaded to allow a third vote and it passed.

Some long term union workers, who still voted no, grumbled about their retirement benefits; it was all about them. Good union sheep until the end. They were none to happy either that Mercury Marine, that evil business who only exists to give malcontents jobs, got incentives to stay.

It was reported that before Thomas Industries left Sheboygan, a state senator (Republican) from that area, and other officials talked to management. Things seemed to be going well but management wanted to talk to the Governor personally for assurance.

Unfortunately, Governor Doyle was in Spain buying cars for his light rail train(the over the top priced cars to use on tracks to nowhere). There is a business in Wisconsin that could make the cars but were never given an opportunity to bid because in this no bid deal.

It is probably illegal but that has never been an impediment to progressives who have no compunctions about doing whatever it takes to get what they want.

Nevertheless, businesses are struggling and looking for some relief. When none is offered they move to a friendlier business climate. For Thomas Industries, it was Louisiana, a right to work state.
Predictably, unions whined about corporate greed.

But to Wisconsin organizations who try to woo businesses to the state, they hope the latest departure will shock the state government into making laws that lessen taxes, regulations and litigation. The Wisconsin democrat controlled legislature is no more likely to do anything to make a better business climate than the democrat controlled DC congress does.

They prop up failures and punish achievers.

So, today, I salute the millions of people who struggle and work endlessly to keep the dream of owning their own business alive. It is you who provide the majority of jobs in this country because, even though you may have been afraid, you took the risk.

It is because of you our country is still working against all the odds and power of the evil twins, government and unions.

Friday, September 4, 2009

Drug Cartels Cash Crop in US Forests

Though it is reported that travel will be down from last year, this Labor Day Weekend a lot of families and friends will be heading to state federal campgrounds. It could be at their own peril.

According to an article in the September 3rd Wall Street Journal the forest service is concerned because families are not the only people who will be hiking through the forests.

It is time to harvest the “Pot Plantations” that are being grown in 61 national forests in at least 16 states, a more than 20% increase over last year and up from 3 sites in California in 1995.

These pot fields are connected to the Mexican drug cartels but they are no longer confining their crops to the southwest. Northern states from Washington to Michigan and Southeastern states also have Mexican drug cartel marijuana crops growing.

Since the crackdown of drugs at the southern border, growing pot in the US has become more attractive. These are not a couple of guys growing a few plants but a sophisticated operation complete with armed guards or traps.

According to the article, in the past year 487 pot farms have been destroyed and 369 pot farmers have been arrested.

The number of pot fields is growing every year and it is easier to get away with it because the number of federal agents is being cut. In this economy it is easy for the drug cartels to find “foreign national” workers to guard and tend the fields. These fields are large enough for “tens of thousands of plants.”

If the Wall Street Journal knows about this one might think elected officials do too. At least those living in California where it has been a “serious” problem for over a decade.

Instead of continuing to point fingers at Afghanistan for growing poppies as a good cash crop in a very poor country of limited resources, perhaps the finger pointers should take note of our own growing problems first.

Ironically, it is reported their poppy crops are actually shrinking as we pour resources into helping Afghan farmers change crops.

Instead of putting billions of dollars into pork projects why not take a few of those dollars to hire more federal agents to battle these drug cartels in our own country? Gee, this government actually creating jobs.

The drug cartels have sophisticated weapons and have proved they are not afraid to use them, even on some unsuspecting people stumbling across their pot crop while hiking through the forest.

If our elected officials spent less time on schemes to feather their nests and expand their power and gave some concern to their oath of office they would put the resources needed to keep our country safe instead of trying to undermine it.

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Obama's Day One Educational Indoctrination

For the first time in the history of the United States, the President, true to his roots as a community organizer, is going to give a little pep talk next Tuesday to students on what for many, is the first day of school. Of course the government schools will carry it live.

Will they do the lesson plans the Department of Education is sending out to go along with the pep talk? Among other things, it includes a part that asks students to write a letter to themselves about how they can help the president during these trying times for him.

Correction. I could not even finish this before the word got out and people started questioning whether this was “indoctrination” so the Fed. Ed. Department pulled back on this section. Not to worry. The government schools are experts at indoctrination in many areas.

They are so rabid about their religion, environmentalism, they sent school children home crying because the kids got the impression from the al gore progressive religious movie that the world is going to burn up from the man made myth of man caused global warming. Good job!

To digress a moment. I have a nagging suspicion that this little pep talk, and, or, the government “lesson plans” will somehow include the need for community service to be done on September 11th to keep student minds off the anniversary of the Islamofacists attack on our country that killed 3000 people in the United States.

The Fed. Ed. Department also has a video contest where students have two minutes to to talk about the importance of education. Will drop outs, incarcerated kids and kids who do not speak English be able to participate? Can they video as a gang or only as individuals? Will the teen moms appear with their baby(s)?

Who is going to run this contest in Milwaukee when there is a battle as to whom is going to run the government school system that is sucking up a disproportional slice of the state budget while achievement results continue to spiral downward.

According to Mayor, Barrett (D), “The Milwaukee schools have the largest racial achievement gap in the nation.” He also says the students have a hard time meeting the standards of No Child Left Behind.

The Mayor wants to take over running the schools. The school board does not want him to run the schools. Governor Doyle (D) wanted Barrett to take over the schools though now it seems as if he has backed off and says that Barrett at least should be the one to appoint a new Superintendent of Schools.

"I do think we have to conclude the current structure is not getting us where we want to go and with clear lines of authority we can make and build a strong modern school district," Doyle said.

Not as long as we have the same people running the system no matter how they are stacked.

Is it a coincidence that, according to a 2006 US Census Bureau American Community Survey, of the top 10 cities with the largest poverty (Milwaukee ranks 8th) these cities have not had a Republican mayor in the past two to ten decades and in some cases, never? The last Republican mayor in Milwaukee was 1908.

To anyone not stuck in the liberal loop of doing the same things with the same failed results and continually whine for more money when the per student spending is through the roof, the obvious answer to student improvement is to make drastic changes in how children are educated.

Get them out of all government schools that have failed, are failing and will continue to fail. Ban anyone who has been a part of institutionalized failure from going near any place where there is any type of educational activity.

Then, bring in successful people from all walks of life who understand real achievement, (except lawyers, people who point their finger and cry “racism” at every person who does not agree with them, elected officials and community organizers) to run failed schools. In other words, the private sector.

Great for job creation, great for the economy and best of all, great for the students who will have a far better chance of becoming part of the producing community than being stuck on depending on government largess (welfare) or in another government institution, prison.

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Obama's Sick Fixation on Change

Obama and his group of communist and radical czars and drooling toadies want to change 9/11 from a day of mournig to a day "of service."

They believe that focusing on what really happened (the radical, fanatical Muslim terrorists attacked the United States and killed 3,000 of our citizens in New York and Washington DC) gives and advantage to Republicans.

It would have been more except for the heroic actions of fellow Americans on a plane they made crash in a field in Pennsylvania rather than let these evil people kill more Americans.

And THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES want to divert our attention to something else because he is making this political and it might help the Republicans.

What kind of sick mind would make 9/11 political? These were human beings who were murdered by terrorists and this president wants to make it a trivial event.

If anything, we need to watch the horrible pictures of the towers in flames and never forget there is true evil in this world.

In the name of God, can we not be united Americans for just ONE DAY?

We need to remember prayfully these innocent people, men, women, children of many races, religions and nationalities who went to work and could never again go home to their family and friends.

So who are these radical groups who want us to forget about those nasty terrorists who did something these people think we deserved?

The on-line magazine,The American Spectator, has a good account of Obama's radical friends and the groups he supports.