While Tea Party Gets Away with It… the Elderly Get Arrested… Ryan Jokes

To follow up on the post about what contempt looks like here we have Paul Ryan joking at his recent town hall after a 71 year old constituent calls him out on his destructive perspectives on Medicare and Social Security only to be arrested by local police. Somehow all the Tea Party vitriol of the [...]

The right calls for the uninsured to die…

In this amazing video from the latest Republican debate the audience applauds letting someone die because they don’t have health insurance. [...]

This is What Contempt Looks Like:

Here is video of paul ryan(R-Wall St.) and his wife getting ready to walk in the labor day parade in Janesville, WI. A constituent comes up to pink slip paul and asks a legitimate question.

Q: Do I need to work for $1 an hour to be competitive with China?

paul ryan: Would you [...]

Cudahy elementary teacher: “Special Needs doesn’t mean special treatment.”

“Special Needs doesn’t mean special treatment.”

So says a Cudahy elementary school teacher, if right-wing extremist blogger Randy Hollenbeck is to be believed.

If that quote is in fact accurate, I hope that teacher never comes near my son while he’s a student in Cudahy’s school system. A “one size fits all” approach to special [...]

Black Men Can’t Get Into Oz

Black Men Can’t Get Into Oz Written by former gubernatorial candidate Tim John

53.3 % of metro Milwaukee’s working-age black males were not employed in 2009: either unemployed, or, for various reasons (including incarceration), out of the work force, Dr. Marc Levine of the UW-M Center for Economic Development reported.

Black male jobless rates [...]

Supervisors Jursik & Haas to hold community meetings on mass transit

From my email inbox comes news of two community meetings to be held in Cudahy by Milwaukee County Supervisors Pat Jursik and Jason Haas to discuss the Milwaukee County Transit System.

Here’s the details.

SOUTH SIDE/SOUTH SUBURBAN SUPERVISORS TO HOST COMMUNITY MEETINGS ON MASS TRANSIT

State cuts mean difficult decisions are ahead for policymakers [...]