Category: Government Waste

Senator John Fetterman (D – PA) has stirred up a hornet’s next in the US Senate for his unconventional dress…so much so that the Senate dress code was repealed and later reinstated all while the US Government is about to shut down due to a lack of a budget. Just…

It is not unusual for the federal government to reach its legal spending limit. It has done so four times in the past six years…three of those times in the previous administration. Those three times the limit was raised with few qualms and little quarrel. But every once in a…

So we all know that Scott Walker and Donald Trump gave away the farm…or several farms if you look at the impact of eminent domain in Racine County…but Foxconn never kept their part of the bargain. And the facility in Mount Pleasant WI is a fraction of the promised investments…

Everyone including Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos (R) admit that the state revenue sharing formula isn’t working. I discussed this a bit a few weeks ago. Milwaukee now has a new generation of leadership and they don’t have the divisive political baggage of their predecessors. So Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson…

As we continue to see the angst and concern about Social Security being emoted around Capitol Hill, maybe a first baby step would be a bill to deny social security benefits to electeds who retire with more than adequate and generous federal pensions. Not sure if the feds can enforce…

I tried Google but I don’t see any trace of the US House of Representatives reading the US Constitution as its first official act as promised by compromised and gelded House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. If you have a link to the 118th Congress reading the USC, please post it in…

You should remember, it was just a month ago. One of Ron Johnson’s three main campaign platform planks was…we needed to re-elect him so he could fight to solve inflation. Well, it’s just been a month after his narrow victory over Wisconsin’s Lt. Governor Mandela Barnes, and it’s investigate, investigate,…

So the feds have passed a bill to encourage and subsidize the manufacture of computer chips in the United States. And the president has signed it. Besides increasing manufacturing opportunities in this country, the secondary goal is to solve some of the supply chain issues that are vexing any number…

I have gotten used to the GOP lies and misinformation and misdirection…and then moments later moving in the other direction when they sense a wind shift. But it’s always amused me when they go on and one about cancel culture while they are doing precisely that. This article is behind…