Concern Voiced in Strength for Ryan’s Budget at Reid Ribble’s latest Green Bay listening session.

Mark Rahmlow, a field representative for U.S. Congressman Reid Ribble, and staff assistant Carl Soderberg sat quietly taking notes as they listened to the concerns of citizens over a recent budget proposal that would greatly effect programs from Food Stamps to Medicare.   The proposal, by U.S. Congressman Paul Ryan, would also provide tax cuts to overseas corporate profits and would give the Richest Americans another tax cut of up to $150,000 a year.  The budget proposal was cosponsored by Congressman Reid Ribble.

Many expressed dismay that while the income disparity gap has increased those getting the largest increase in wealth are also getting the largest tax cuts … again.  Tax cuts that will be paid for with cuts in services for and benefits of the lowest recipients of American wealth. With the richest Americans getting and increase of over 11% while the lower and medium received and increase of just under .05%, one must wonder where the tax cut sustainability threshold for the 99% is?  As far as paying it would be lower-income Americans who receive assistance that would cover this tax payday, a new CBPP report finds.

There were a few emotional stories told as well that I will not cover here due to their personal nature.  Those stories did display the effects of policies and decisions made by out leaders on the lives, and in some cases the deaths, of their American constituents.  Now many of those same individuals who now may not only desire but require health care will have fewer options and less to work with.  That while the future of Medicare and Social Security may lie in it’s private corporate beneficiaries who now with to take it over, obviously to maximize profits.  I hope they are feeling like good Americans today and be generous with us peasants (corporations insure their employees lives under a “peasant” clause and collect millions when their employees die, the families receive nothing), I have a feeling they won’t be soon.

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Reclaim Wisconsin Holds Massive Rally in Madison

Thousands of citizens from throughout Wisconsin gathered today at the Capitol in Madison in an expression of solidarity and continued support for the recall of Wisconsin governor Scott Walker and several other elected republican representatives.  Still reeling from the defeat of the mining bill in which corporate financed republicans tried to force a bill removing wetlands protections and allowing the polluting of Wisconsin ground water and waterways, not many GOP members were to be seen in the area to face the throngs of disgruntled voters.  Capitol Police estimated the crowd at 25,000.

On this beautiful, though windy Saturday afternoon, all roads leading to the capitol were packed to the limit with people of all colors and from all walks of life gathered together in opposition to the typical corporate sponsored, pro big money and almost exclusively White (and mostly male) republicans who have engaged on an extreme agenda that serves the interests of the richest in the country and a well connected corporate base.  As has been the case with many of these events and rallies, the crowd reflected the wide spectrum of people who will not accept having their future sold out so that the rich can get even richer. 

One thing that the GOP has excelled in is the ability to cloth the wolf in a sheep’s costume.  There are several examples of this. From the attempt to privatize prisons and correctional facilities (a disaster in a multitude of ways) to bills now pending that would replace the now educator based board of directors of the publically funded Milwaukee based technical collage MATC with an almost exclusive business person, profit driven board to a bill pending that would basically classify single parenthood as a cause of child abuse.  These bills all have hidden, profit from the tax payer ulterior motives (a theme of the GOP since the huge paydays and cash handouts for their big money supporters from the “War on Terror” and the massive budget from the effort to remove the “Weapons of Mass Destruction” from Iraq that the CIA and UN inspectors said didn’t exist). These ulterior motives usually suddenly appear in the form of a corporation that is willing to come to the “rescue” of the bad situation created by these laws, at a huge profit of course. 

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Most often these corporations and/or wealthy individuals hanging in the wings are of course well prepared (just by coincidence) for getting their operations up and running, often within days, and quickly getting that tax payer money rolling in.  Once the accounts are established and the profits are available, one will notice that it is a much different story to hold them accountable for the work or services they have (or in many cases, have not really) provided.  They will not be available for public contact or oversight (that is if they even live in Wisconsin, or even the United States) when it is discovered that they are not being entirely above board and strait with their “Marketing” claims.  It will often require armed Law Enforcement to even get an interview.  A luxury that the rest of us do not enjoy in our justice system. 

Much of this has taken root since the questionable presidential election of 2000, in which a conservative Supreme Court chose the President of the United States, and the security and economic disaster that followed and that has befallen upon most Americans since that time.  For those who support the GOP though, it has been boon times, with corporate profits and the incomes of the richest top Americans increasing at a rate never before seen in American history.  For them, the Gilded Age has returned in a big way.  At least for the time being.

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Senator Glenn Grothman wants an MATC Board takeover for the 1% and big money interest’s (Updated).

The overriding theme of the GOP, big money corporate interests, and especially US presidential candidate Rick Santorum is that a college education is a bad thing and indoctrinates students to a leftist theology. Rick Santorum called President Obama a “snob” for saying all Americans should have an opportunity to go to college.   It is true that those who are educated in science tend to be more “liberal”, as science does not always jive with  the marketing departments and publicity campaigns of Corporations and Ideologically driven organizations.

The problem is Bill SB 275,  The bill basically dismantles the current board and replaces 5 of it’s members with representatives of for-profit business types.  The bill was moved forward by the Senate committee on Agriculture, Forestry and Higher Education.  One of the republicans on the committee that voted in favor of the bill was Dale Schultz, Chair (R-Richland Center).  The same Republican senator that is stopping the mining bill from becoming law (good-good).  None of the committee members who voted to replace educator type board members with businessmen were from districts even close to Milwaukee (Sheila Harsdorf (R-River Falls), Neal Kedzie (R-Elkhorn), Terry Moultin (R-Chippewa Falls).   This is a simple take over of a Tax Payer funded College in order to once again get public money to serve and profit private big money interests.  

If this upsets you, there will be a hearing Tuesday, March 6^th of the Assembly and Colleges committee. There has been no public hearing to date … There is a bus going to Madison on this from Milwaukee at 7AM … from the Union Office on N 8th St & W Juneau Ave , Milwaukee, WI 53233

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