An open letter to Governor Walker.

Governor Walker:

It is time to consider changing our “winner takes all” electoral vote process.

You and our law makers have made great strides in giving voice to those that were long silenced by liberal control with redistributing.  However, for as long as I can recall, Madison and Milwaukee have determined who our votes go to, and with exception of President Regan’s second term it has always gone to the left. This is contrary, as you know well, to the way the majority of the state votes. It in fact, disenfranchises the majority of people. 

Therefore, I suggest the following distribution of our ten electoral votes. One each to Milwaukee and Madison, three to the Fox Valley and Green Bay. One for a district of southern counties except Milwaukee and Madison. One for the Eastern (Lake shore ) counties.  The rest to the Northern and Western counties.

It’s time to give voice to the people of this state, as we have seen time after time the smart, freedom loving people of this state vote conservative as is evident by your victories in the last three elections.

I look forward to working with you on this project.

Dan Lenz

Oshkosh

Wisconsin is 30 something in job creation.

I started this blog during the FAILED RECALL of Governor Scott Walker in 2012. I have only trotted it out a few times since, but I have decided to start bi-weekly posts because the low information liberals have been at it again.

Let's start with the “There are no jobs” line of BS.  As you travel around our great state, you’ll see help wanted signs all over. The liberal will say,” ya but those are low paying service jobs.” Ok, let’s look at that for a bit.

First off it was  liberals that wanted us to turn from a manufacturing based economy to a service economy.  Why? Better for the environment. They figuratively spit on the hard working people who work these jobs. But you can bet that they are the first ones to complain if their hotel room doesn’t meet their standard or their food is cold, or maybe the table at McDonalds was not wiped off.

The next argument is “These jobs don’t pay enough.  They make more on welfare.” That may be true and speaks directly to the charter and MO of the left.  The left needs this to tell them how bad the world is treating them and anyone that goes to work is a sellout. Thank God we have people that still have self-respect and work rather than collect a hand out.

Next comes the investable! “But I went to college!” So that degree in Russian Art or Spanish or Art in Ancient Rome has not paid off??? WHAT!! People don’t know how much better than them you are!!! THIS IS AN OUTRAGE!! Well not really. The failed UW system has a job placement rate of 15%, Compared to a Technical school that has 95% or better.

So this winter as you’re sitting on your parent's couch, sipping the hot cocoa they bought with the money they earned at those “low paying jobs” I envision this.  You look outside, and the guy across the street comes home from work that pays 80-120 K a year, working as a plumber, machinist, carpenter or some other skilled trade where they may have to get their hands dirty or break a sweat. How awful!!  RIGHT?? It's ok, just sit there in your footy pj’s and continue to hold out for a real job! We’ll see how well that works out for you.

Because you're educated does not mean you bring needed skills to the work force. Sorry to mess up your safe zone but if you’re going to earn a living, you’re going to have to:

1.       Get a job.

2.       Bring some sort of value or skill to that job (like showing up on time every day, or maybe a skill like counting change.)

I know that is asking a lot from someone that is an educated elite but if you want to move out of that old bedroom and live your own life like a big person you need to start some place and that is generally at the BOTTOM OF THE HEAP! Just like everyone else!

At this point in any conversation with the liberal elite, comes the name calling and personal attacks on how dumb you are and how you’re too stupid to get it and your grammar sucks and BLHHHHH, like all spoiled kids they fall back on that.

So now some facts.

Wisconsin has an unemployment rate of 4.3% with thousands of un- filled jobs. So it begs the question, why would employers create new jobs when the current ones can’t be filled? In a nutshell, every one that wants a job has one.

The fact is that under Governor Walker, Wisconsin has added as many jobs as possible in spite of the Obama economy. Yes it is Obama’s economy. He has been President for seven years and has occupied the White House for seven years and presided over the slowest recovery in the history of the Unites States!

But Wisconsin under Governor Walker has grown, and without taking federal money or expanding government. In fact he has been cutting the fatted cow in Madison pretty effectively.  Getting rid of dead weight like climate change scientists at the DNR and the Government accountability board and let’s not forget the blessings of ACT 10 and the wasted money spent on keeping the bloated state unions at bay.

So in closing I would like to wish all the hard working people of Wisconsin a Merry Christmas enjoy the season.

For my liberal friends I wish you a happy… whatever you celebrate that doesn’t up set any one.

A Veteran's Memorial Day Reflection. (This post is NOT political) The value of a bag of popcorn

Tonight,  I was making popcorn, not an unusual thing in the Lenz household in the evening. As I was making it, I reflected to February of 1991.

I was assigned to the 1157th Transportation Company and was in Southern Iraq during the Persian Gulf War. The 1157th was a very resourceful unit. We had the only ringer washers I seen in the combat zone and the only popcorn maker, as far as I knew.

Yes, you read that right a POPCORN MAKER.  Officially, it was a solvent tank and was transported in a plywood box marked as such. It was set up in the Command Post tent and generally had a  batch or two ready to be scooped out by any one that wanted to. We had several 50 LBS bags of popcorn. Soon after the cease fire was declared, as communications SGT I was tasked to find a HQ unit that could get a call home as my Commander needed to make contact to our families that we were all well.

So I located an HQ unit that had a satellite  phone and set up a time for the call. During my visit to that HQ unit,  I met a group of 6 soldiers running what we called an MSE node and got to talking to them and mentioned that we had popcorn. The SGT in charge of that node said if I could get enough popcorn for his team to enjoy for one day he would set us up with a "Bat Phone" ( It looked like the phone batman used ..kinda).   We could call home anytime we wanted to with that phone. The next day I brought them the goods, and he, true to his word, delivered a phone and we did indeed use it to call home pretty much at will. A very nice thing since we were a long way from a phone center.

So back to the premise of this story.  A solider, far from home, places value on things we all take for granted. A few hands full of popcorn made a huge difference to this small group of people serving this country in a wind swept, desolate outpost in the desert of Southern Iraq. I know our troops today have things a bit better but I am sure there are things valued as part of home.  That is true no matter what group or age of deployed soldier, there is always something they miss.

I know that those 6 troops never forgot that popcorn as long as I had contact with them. In time we were ordered out of Iraq and I didn't see the node team until I was getting ready to come home, I learned that the SGT and another member of the team had been killed in a vehicle accident while retrieving wire. That is the tragic nature of war. People die, some from bullets some from other things. None the less doing their job for their country with pride and honor.

So, every time I make popcorn I remember it's value, at least to us and a small group of soldiers far from home.

So this weekend try not to take your everyday things for granted.

 Have a good Memorial Day.

Remember some gave all.

Lawyers, Courts and the common man.

We have settled the issue of collective bargaining and if the hard working people of this state agree with the reforms our Governor has implemented to save this state.

But at best, this is only half the problem.

Did you ever wonder, why do lawyers, judges and the courts seem to run this country and this state, who said they make the rules and decide how the constitution is to be interpreted?? Answer... They did.


So I need to caveat this a bit. I count among my friends a few lawyers. They are good people and like teachers and others they also know that they suffer the stigma the vast majority of their fellow practitioners have set to them.

So to understand the problem we again have to go back to the founding of this nation. The founders knew the dangers of a ruling class, and elite, we'r better then all of you group of power holders. They lived under it. In the courts of the day, if you could not afford an attorney you got to stand in the box of the accused and were not allowed to speak and just waited until the judge and his fellow lawyers passed judgment on you. Our founders wrote a document call the constitution and afforded protections to the common man to have in the court room the same rights as lawyers.

Fast forward to today. We are almost back to the courts of the past, you can defend your self in court but as a Pro Se litigant (that mean representing ones self) you are universally hated by the court staff, Judges and of course lawyers. Why you ask?? Because your not part of the elite ruling class. How dare you stand in their presence and act like an equal!

Ok lets look at this from a different perspective. As business owner you are regulated by people that don't have anything to do with you, they don't belong to your clubs, they don't show up at your conventions (unless invited). Unless your a lawyer or judge. Lawyers regulate other lawyers. It is generally done with a wink and a nod unless it is so over the top that they can't sweep it under the rug. The regulators, Judges, and fellow lawyers are one in the same.

This ruling class with a swing of a gavel can dismantle the will of the people. They have, by their common affiliation with judges and their regulators (being lawyers) make it close to impossible for non lawyers to present their case in court and by their fees being out of reach of the under class it completes the circle.  Then by their  control of the majority of the politician's on the left they are able to influence laws, laws that they write for them self to make money and to control the great masses on unwashed non lawyers.  They stand in judgment of the others by their control of the very system that when set up was to protect the masses from this type of excess.

Until there is reform we the people are not in control of this state or country.

Cost -VS- Benefit Analysis

As all good business men must do I am looking at decisions I have made in my very small part in saving our state from the strong attempt to over throw our duly elected government in the Great State of Wisconsin.

So we need to identify the costs first and then the benefit.

Cost: Time. Since I don't charge for my personal time that is 0.

Cost: Volunteer hours. Same as above but there were a lot.

Cost: Family members that are PO'ed with me. There are several. I figured that there would be some. I hope, in time they will see the benefit of a state saved from spending itself into oblivion will bring them around.

Cost: Friends. There are many that have said they will never talk to me again and I also figured that was going to happen.

Benefit: Save the state from tyranny. The left was stopped from taking this state over, throwing out a duly elected government and likely setting up a communist state in the heartland of America.

Benefit: We saved the state from spending itself into oblivion and making commitments it could never keep. This is a big one. What was lost in the protests and all the hate from the left was the fact that the state on it's former course could NOT pay it's obligation. What came to mind to me was the pension riots of the 20's and 30's. The soldiers that served in WWI were promised a pension for their service and our government was unable to pay up. So there was violence in the street. So what is worse?? Promising something will be at the end of a long road of working, or having someone pay in to that fund a small amount and guaranteeing it??   I would think the latter..

Benefit: Proof that the squeaker wheel doesn't always get the grease. The left drummed, rang cow bells, threatened people, yelled in blow horns in peoples ears, killed dogs, damaged personal property of supporters of freedom and Gov Walker and the list goes on. But the fighting and smart people of this state said by their votes. No we will not be frightened into a corner by you we will fight and win in a non violent way, by voting AGAIN for the governor we want.

Benefit: We saved the value of our vote. This is the most important thing of all. The left by it's endless recalls and it huge fraud machine has attempted to water down the value of the vote. A RIGHT!! Fought for by many since the first shot fired in Lexington. The RIGHT to have a valued say in our DULY ELECTED GOVERNMENT is sacrosanct. Least we forget that the left was dead set on taking it from us.


So there is is the Cost-VS- Benefit. Yes the cost was high. I am saddened by the decisions made by some. Was it work saving our state and soon our republic. I think so.  

Thoughts from the front.

It is almost Memorial Day. Not just a day to cook out, it's a day to remember those that gave their life and those that have served in combat for our country. For our rights.

Still everyday, we see attacks from the left on our Veterans. Ever wonder why?
Let's look at some of their pets and compare them to our vets and our men and women serving.

Teachers: Work 30-35 hours a week, get paid 55K + a year and only have to work 180 days a year. Teachers get yearly raises and it is impossible or nearly impossibly to fire bad ones. Their performance is never to be questioned.

Soldiers: In a combat zone work a min of 15 hours a day and never get a day off. They maybe get a 3% raise a year maybe and many have to use food banks and EBT cards to support their family. In combat their performance is tied to survival, I.E. Perform or die.They maybe get a hot meal once a day and if it rains they still have to go outside. If it's cold, if it's raining steel or gas or lead they still have to go out side. They earn an average of 48K a year.

Soldiers: in a non combat zone work a min of 40 hours a week and do it year round. they get around 30 days off per year and earn around 39K a year. Oh yeah, they have to do the same as above when they deploy and they do. Their opportunities for raises are tied to performance and ability to teach, lead and is outcome based. If they don't perform they are discharged.

Inmates -V- Troops and Vets: Inmates are darlings of the left. All of them regardless of crime are victims of our society. Almost all of them them get Social Security Disability, most of them never worked and still get  SSI. It is applied for them by prison staff. No hoops to jump through, they just get it.

Our troops have to serve time as well. Like inmates it is of their own choosing,  That is where the comparison ends. Our troops see their duty for a larger purpose. They work for their benefits every day and no one applies for their Earned benefits for them. In fact, most never take advantage of them all. If you go to the VA they only give the vet the information they ask for. No one helps them past that.
The vet has to navigate the hoops on their own. No one to do it for them.

Inmates, get placed in jobs once they are discharged, vet's have an unemployment rate around 25%.

Re-callers-V- Troops: Re-callers can kill dogs, damage property, destroy businesses and threaten freedom loving people. They feel that their attempt to overthrow a duly elected government is their right and they should not be held accountable. The slander the government and it's members. and their vote counts.

If our troops were to do any of the above, they can be thrown in the brig and given a dishonorable
discharge. Here's the killer,while our troops are serving, the left does what ever it can to see that our troops vote is not counted. They either mess with the mailing of ballots in a timely manor or challenge them automatically.

So while your grilling out this weekend, enjoying the procession or what ever freedom your enjoying, think about those that are and have given you the chance to do so, and remember we are in a fight for our way of life.

            VOTE FOR WALKER ON JUNE 5th.                                

If Wisconsin was engaged in a Civil War..

At the end of the Civil War, the union sought retribution on those that rose up against the duly elected government of the republic. They were hunted down, arrested, tried and most were jailed and or hung for their treasonous actions.

Fast forward to today. The left and their candidate refers to our current recall problem a "Civil War". Yet they were the ones that fired the first shot's. Just like at Fort Sumter. So what should we seek in retribution for their acts.

It is clear that they will be losing in the upcoming June 5th election so we need to think about this. I would start with a lump sum payment for all wasted taxpayer money spent on this uprising, including the damage done to the state buildings that were damaged. Next they should pay any and all overtime paid to the police of any stripe that was paid for working the "protests" and any OT paid to any other state, county and local Government that paid even one red cent to the recall effort. Next they have one year to repay the tax payers of this state for the unnecessary recall election in full.

I am sure that none of this will happen, but if this was a civil war that would be a start. So lets look at the civil war and compare it to this struggle.

Lincoln, like Walker was faced with an insurmountably issue or so it seemed. Bold actions were needed so it was taken. In Lincoln's case he said he would not abolish slavery if he thought it would have saved the union. Walker would not have had to curb public service union bargaining if he could have saved the state in any other way. It is clear to me that both men are great and took on huge problems head on and succeeded and did so with honor and humility.

One other thing that our friends on the left don't seem to get. There is no such thing as a CIVIL WAR!
 War is not civil or civilized. But one thing is true only one side can win and has the righteousness of the people behind it.

Like Lincoln and Walker have.