In the trenches of WWI in 1915 was the first mass use of hand grenades by British troops. Our dough boys had to be trained to use them for what they were intended for. The first thing they teach you is once the pin is pulled, the grenade is NOT YOUR FRIEND. But your ok until.. you let go of the spoon (handle on the grenade that starts the fuse) Then you have three choices. 1. Throw it at you enemy, 2. Drop it and run or 3. Hold on to it and let it blow up in your face.
The recall is like this for the left. Unknown to the average recall petition signer, they have pulled the pin and let the spoon fly, by opening up the door to the voiding of votes cast.
They have DE-valued the process that so many have fought and died for.
They have opened the door by their temper tantrum. Putting us on the road to losing the one thing our republic has had at it's heart since it's birth. The consent of the governed.
The United States of America is the only place on earth that before the recall lived with the benefit or mistake of it's elections. Except in the cases of high crimes, we stood buy our decisions right or wrong. I wonder if those dough boys, as they scampered for their life across no mans land, would have ever, in their wildest dream, thought someone would make their one vote worthless. Those that backed the recall have.
You see we voted once. In November of 2010. We thought it counted. Guess we were wrong.
Now back to the grenade. You see the left that pulled the pin, popped the spoon and has no place to run. The enemy is well entrenched! So hang on tight! It is going to blow up in your face!
Monday, April 30, 2012
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
The blessings of Act 10 in Wisconsin.
It's about the kids.
Based on my research, in 23 school districts that have used the blessings of Act 10, they have realized 558.00 of new found money for 79,475 students. While the 3 largest districts in Wisconsin have refused to make reasonable and prudent concessions to save some 1000+ education jobs.
Remember Governor Walker hates teachers.
Yet under his Act 10 thousands of jobs were saved in school districts that used the blessings provided them by making teachers contribute to their retirement and health insurance. Yet they complain as they cash their very nice paychecks. Still more districts across the state have rejected the WEA trust as the conscripted health insurance and have found less costly plans on the FREE market. There are those two words the left hates so much.
It's about seniority not the kids.
In the districts of Milwaukee, Kenosha and Janesville, the teachers being laid off are not being let go because they are poor teachers but because they have not been their as long as others. So it's not about keeping the best to teach our kids. So the whole teachers argument is not about the kids! If it was they would have welcomed the 558.00 per student. Their small contributions to their benefits would have realized.
Act 10 didn't end collective bargaining for state employees either. They did it to themselves.
They could have collectively bargained for raises and wages, but they de-certified their unions. So even if they were to overthrow Governor Walker in the "Recall" it is not really a recall it is an overthrow of a duly elected Government. If they were to overthrow him they would not have anyone to collectively bargain for them. All they had to do was get 1/3 of the work force and they could have kept the union. But they failed to get even that many to sign little cards to keep their privilege to bargain. (Collective Bargaining is NOT A RIGHT!!) Not only that, they gave up a chance to bargain for cost of living. Something state employees have not had since the 1970's. Yet they complain they want their "Rights" back. It's their own fault. Now they have no agent for the state to recognize even if they were to reverse the blessings of Act 10.
So Wisconsin, Count your blessings.
Based on my research, in 23 school districts that have used the blessings of Act 10, they have realized 558.00 of new found money for 79,475 students. While the 3 largest districts in Wisconsin have refused to make reasonable and prudent concessions to save some 1000+ education jobs.
Remember Governor Walker hates teachers.
Yet under his Act 10 thousands of jobs were saved in school districts that used the blessings provided them by making teachers contribute to their retirement and health insurance. Yet they complain as they cash their very nice paychecks. Still more districts across the state have rejected the WEA trust as the conscripted health insurance and have found less costly plans on the FREE market. There are those two words the left hates so much.
It's about seniority not the kids.
In the districts of Milwaukee, Kenosha and Janesville, the teachers being laid off are not being let go because they are poor teachers but because they have not been their as long as others. So it's not about keeping the best to teach our kids. So the whole teachers argument is not about the kids! If it was they would have welcomed the 558.00 per student. Their small contributions to their benefits would have realized.
Act 10 didn't end collective bargaining for state employees either. They did it to themselves.
They could have collectively bargained for raises and wages, but they de-certified their unions. So even if they were to overthrow Governor Walker in the "Recall" it is not really a recall it is an overthrow of a duly elected Government. If they were to overthrow him they would not have anyone to collectively bargain for them. All they had to do was get 1/3 of the work force and they could have kept the union. But they failed to get even that many to sign little cards to keep their privilege to bargain. (Collective Bargaining is NOT A RIGHT!!) Not only that, they gave up a chance to bargain for cost of living. Something state employees have not had since the 1970's. Yet they complain they want their "Rights" back. It's their own fault. Now they have no agent for the state to recognize even if they were to reverse the blessings of Act 10.
So Wisconsin, Count your blessings.
Friday, April 13, 2012
Our Checkbook doesn't balance!!!
Lets look at the numbers.
Total income: 14.5 Trillion.
Total debit: 15.579 Trillion (at the time of this writing).
Difference: 1.079 TRILLION!! That is 12 zeros folks. 1,079000000000000.00
Katie bar the door!!
This doesn't, however, tell the whole story. Most people I know would love to spend a thousand on themselves just for the heck of it. Yet under the current regime (Obama),we the people spent $800,000.00 on government employees from the GSA to go to Las Vegas for an all expense paid vacation. Hospitality rooms, contests, and a lot more.
It came out of that never ending pot of money, called government spending. They spent 800K for a good time in Vegas, while real unemployment is at 14.5%. Folks are worried about where they will live and how they will eat. Yet, we the people pay for spending with abandon under the Democrats.
At least in Wisconsin, we have taken some steps to curb this, the left hates it. That's ok. It's like taking your wife's credit card away when she went hog wild at a sale at Penny's. Well, you get the idea.
The left acts like it is entitled to our money even though they don't bring any to the table. They are unions, PAC's and committee's. We the people represent the money earned by and paid in by us to be used to pay for the services we use. Not for teachers to have 90 day's of sick leave.
Speaking of teachers and liberal boards of education, let's see how those that rushed to "protect" their teachers and settled their union contract's and failed to use the blessings of Act 10 have done.
In Kenosha WI, 250 teachers will be laid off to fill a 28 million budget shortfall. So teachers that have been there and sucking up benefits will be kept. Not based on their performance, because they have been there for more time than others. "IT'S FOR THE KIDS!!" NOT!!
Here's one for the ages. The Milwaukee public school system. Pay's it's teachers 55.83 per hour that's a first year teacher. Right out of the box!! But that's not the whole story. When you talk to people about teachers they always say "they went to school, and they have to go to school to keep up to date." True but they don't pay for it. The district pays for it,to the tune of 163,311.00 a year.
This list of things the tax payers in the Milwaukee school district pay for and the savings that could be realized. It would plug the hold in the budget, this along with merit pay. We could save job's.
Make teachers cover their own contributions to pension system $28 Million
Suspend automatic, annual salary increases for one year $5.5 Million
Cancel the 3 percent lump sum raise for teachers $10.4 Million
Make teachers pay 10 percent of their health insurance costs $12.8 Million
Postpone sick day reimbursement payouts for one year $709,036
Ask teachers to cover for absent colleagues without extra pay $1.3 Million
Ask teachers to monitor lunchrooms without extra pay $2 Million
Ask teachers to monitor bus loading without extra pay $90,781
Suspend contributions to health reimbursement accounts $225,684
Suspend reimbursements for college tuition $164,311
Total savings $61 Million.
Source EAG news.org.
It's for the kids??
So??? Any wonder why the left is fighting every step of the way as we try to bring sanity to our spending??
Speaking of teachers and liberal boards of education, let's see how those that rushed to "protect" their teachers and settled their union contract's and failed to use the blessings of Act 10 have done.
In Kenosha WI, 250 teachers will be laid off to fill a 28 million budget shortfall. So teachers that have been there and sucking up benefits will be kept. Not based on their performance, because they have been there for more time than others. "IT'S FOR THE KIDS!!" NOT!!
Here's one for the ages. The Milwaukee public school system. Pay's it's teachers 55.83 per hour that's a first year teacher. Right out of the box!! But that's not the whole story. When you talk to people about teachers they always say "they went to school, and they have to go to school to keep up to date." True but they don't pay for it. The district pays for it,to the tune of 163,311.00 a year.
This list of things the tax payers in the Milwaukee school district pay for and the savings that could be realized. It would plug the hold in the budget, this along with merit pay. We could save job's.
Make teachers cover their own contributions to pension system $28 Million
Suspend automatic, annual salary increases for one year $5.5 Million
Cancel the 3 percent lump sum raise for teachers $10.4 Million
Make teachers pay 10 percent of their health insurance costs $12.8 Million
Postpone sick day reimbursement payouts for one year $709,036
Ask teachers to cover for absent colleagues without extra pay $1.3 Million
Ask teachers to monitor lunchrooms without extra pay $2 Million
Ask teachers to monitor bus loading without extra pay $90,781
Suspend contributions to health reimbursement accounts $225,684
Suspend reimbursements for college tuition $164,311
Total savings $61 Million.
Source EAG news.org.
It's for the kids??
So??? Any wonder why the left is fighting every step of the way as we try to bring sanity to our spending??
Friday, April 6, 2012
It's a Fish Fry everyone!!!
It's Friday, End of the work week, for many of us. The deep fryers are coming out, for some plans are being made to go out to eat tonight. In Wisconsin and the UP of Michigan Fridays are "fish fry night". A night of good food and drink's and lots of fun.
For some.
You see the real unemployment rate is 14.5% according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Admitted down from 22.5% at the height of the Obama Depression/Great Recession. Still those on the left side of this fight would have you think it was 8.2%. I guess, I can see that figures never lie but liar's do present numbers.
Lets look at this from a more local perspective, In Wisconsin. Our general unemployment is 6.9%-7%. We fell below the national threshold for long term compensation. That's good over all, but not for those that have had their backs turned on them. You see, their elected democrats voted against their hope for a prosperous future. They voted against the mine in the far North of this great state.
Unemployment in Hurley WI is 18.7% . Deep in the hart of fish fry country folks are going without, without all kinds of things.
So today, when you bite into that golden brown, beer battered goodness, remember what the left did to those good people. Because on Monday, many will be begging their land lord not to throw them out in the street.
Bottom line.... Average income in Hurley 14,000.00 Average mine job income...60,000.00.
I think I'll eat at home tonight.
For some.
You see the real unemployment rate is 14.5% according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Admitted down from 22.5% at the height of the Obama Depression/Great Recession. Still those on the left side of this fight would have you think it was 8.2%. I guess, I can see that figures never lie but liar's do present numbers.
Lets look at this from a more local perspective, In Wisconsin. Our general unemployment is 6.9%-7%. We fell below the national threshold for long term compensation. That's good over all, but not for those that have had their backs turned on them. You see, their elected democrats voted against their hope for a prosperous future. They voted against the mine in the far North of this great state.
Unemployment in Hurley WI is 18.7% . Deep in the hart of fish fry country folks are going without, without all kinds of things.
So today, when you bite into that golden brown, beer battered goodness, remember what the left did to those good people. Because on Monday, many will be begging their land lord not to throw them out in the street.
Bottom line.... Average income in Hurley 14,000.00 Average mine job income...60,000.00.
I think I'll eat at home tonight.
Sunday, April 1, 2012
The lefts vision of the future.
So the question is, how far will the left go to move their ideology forward? To understand what we are to face we need to explore the past.
I will chose the three main ideologies they draw on. First, the communist revolution of 1918 in Russia.
I am sure you know the story, Russia mired in a war, food shortages and an uneducated populace and.. Lenin. Hero of the left. He brings total workers paradise and prosperity to a repressed people and a loaf of bread on every table, right?? Not so much.
What Lenin did was set up "committees" who's main job was to control through fear and intimidation the local non party members. They did this by "reporting" you to the party, and then you, your family and relatives all are sent away in the middle of the night or shot in Gorky park.
Next, we have Adolf Hitler. Yes Hitler was a leftest. National Socialist party ring a bell??
Hitler rose to power by force, taking over the the German congress with his minions. His, too, was a "workers" revolution. In the vi mar republic a loaf of bread cost more than a week's wages. They undermined their own money by printing more and more. So Hitler took over by the use of the labor unions. He used his brown shirts to control the non party members and to be a member of a union you had to be a member of the party. For that matter, to do anything you had to be a member. If you weren't a member eventually you too went away. We know how that ended.
Next we have the likes of several far leftest's. All did similar things. We can, for our purpose, group them together.
Che, Castro and Chavez. Took over either by force, or by setting up an election. All are responsible for unspeakable acts of violence against the people they ruled. All heroes of the left.
So what can we take away from this.
1. The left sees violent take over as good. Although they won't admit it, just look at their heroes.
2. They want to emulate their heroes and will use what every means to reach their ends.
So.. What is the means to the Wisconsin Democrats end? Killing family dogs, keying cars that have Walker bumper stickers, doing damage to homes and businesses and threatening kids that support Gov Walker.
Is this the Wisconsin we want?? I think not.
WAKE UP WISCONSIN!! WAKE UP AMERICA!!
I will chose the three main ideologies they draw on. First, the communist revolution of 1918 in Russia.
I am sure you know the story, Russia mired in a war, food shortages and an uneducated populace and.. Lenin. Hero of the left. He brings total workers paradise and prosperity to a repressed people and a loaf of bread on every table, right?? Not so much.
What Lenin did was set up "committees" who's main job was to control through fear and intimidation the local non party members. They did this by "reporting" you to the party, and then you, your family and relatives all are sent away in the middle of the night or shot in Gorky park.
Next, we have Adolf Hitler. Yes Hitler was a leftest. National Socialist party ring a bell??
Hitler rose to power by force, taking over the the German congress with his minions. His, too, was a "workers" revolution. In the vi mar republic a loaf of bread cost more than a week's wages. They undermined their own money by printing more and more. So Hitler took over by the use of the labor unions. He used his brown shirts to control the non party members and to be a member of a union you had to be a member of the party. For that matter, to do anything you had to be a member. If you weren't a member eventually you too went away. We know how that ended.
Next we have the likes of several far leftest's. All did similar things. We can, for our purpose, group them together.
Che, Castro and Chavez. Took over either by force, or by setting up an election. All are responsible for unspeakable acts of violence against the people they ruled. All heroes of the left.
So what can we take away from this.
1. The left sees violent take over as good. Although they won't admit it, just look at their heroes.
2. They want to emulate their heroes and will use what every means to reach their ends.
So.. What is the means to the Wisconsin Democrats end? Killing family dogs, keying cars that have Walker bumper stickers, doing damage to homes and businesses and threatening kids that support Gov Walker.
Is this the Wisconsin we want?? I think not.
WAKE UP WISCONSIN!! WAKE UP AMERICA!!
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