Trump Really Doesn’t Understand Immigration
One of the primary driving forces behind economic growth in the United States over the past 200+ years has been legal immigrants. They have filled in the gaps in employment and taken jobs Americans can’t or won’t do (like now with agricultural work). They have been the driving force around many small local businesses (like […]
Where Is The Democrats Single Payer Option?
Back in 2009/2010, right or wrong, the Obama Administration decided that the nation wasn’t ready for a single payer health care insurance plan. So after a lot of internal hand wringing and self inflicted concessions we ended up with a Romney-care look alike called the Affordable Care Act. It was less that perfect out of […]
I don’t care if was the Russians or Chinese or North Koreans or the proverbial 400 pound boy in his mother’s basement. I don’t care what Robert Mueller finds or the Senate committee or the FBI.
Where is the outrage around something happening to our 2016 election cycle? Around hacking local election boards? Around […]
What IS Wrong With Obamacare?
So what really is wrong with Obamacare, aka, the Affordable Care Act? Well there are any number of fundamental things that could be fixed or overhauled that would make it work far better than it does today. But what is the basic affliction that keeps it from being successful? The Obama Administration didn’t market it […]
Under His Plan, Walker Would Have Cost Marquette Money
One of the items included in Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s proposed 2017 – 2019 budget is a slush fund for the University of Wisconsin. I believe the amount is $42 million and in order to get a slice, each campus needs to meet a set of criteria. Some of these criteria include x% of incoming […]
The Bay View Compass is the local monthly print newspaper in the Bay View neighborhood. And the June addition has a very notable feature on well know Bay View fixture, Hans Billerbeck. Mr. Billerbeck ran a high quality personal service tailor shop in Bay View for like ever…always great service and I wish him […]
Historians and pundits have often said America owned the 20th Century and that if not careful, China would come to own the 21st. Well China has been resolutely working towards that end while cornering the market on rare earths, raw materials in third world countries, enhancing their position in the South China Sea and of […]
During his recent visit to Europe, President Donald Trump decried those bad bad Germans for putting the United States in a trade deficit and exporting those millions and millions of cars to the US. And of course there are no Chevies in Germany. Well there are a dozen things at play here that are wrong […]
Don’t Have A Natural Disaster During the Trump Regime
It is certainly an expected function of the federal government to come to the aid of Americans and local governments that need exceptional aid as the result of natural disasters: tornados, earth quakes, flood and hurricanes for example. But while draining the swamp, President Trump apparently lost the memo. In the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew, […]
Yes or No on Walker budget items #8
In a piece at Urban Milwaukee, Steve Walter posits 12 Key State Budget Decisions with brief descriptions from Governor Walker’s 2017-2019 biennial Wisconsin budget and asks if we are for or against. I will take a stab at each one…one at a time:
8.Required hours of instruction: Walker wants to repeal requirements that public-schools […]
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