First, I have to say a word to President Trump. Dude, the next time you’re in Wisconsin, I’d like to interview you for Wisconsin Right Now. Have your people call my people.
I have to disclose that the last time I met Trump, at a hotel in Milwaukee, and I went through the security check point inside the garage with my pickup. The secret service dog alerted on the bed of my pickup, and I found myself with a few guns pointed at me. Fortunately, the German shepherd alerted on the dog food in the back, to which the secret service found themselves laughing and I found myself wetting myself. (Well, not that last part.)
In order to enjoy Labor Day weekend, you probably had to pay twice as much for a lot of goods and services. I literally saw one sign this past weekend that said “buy 5, get 1 free”. Now that’s inflation! No more buy 1 get 1 free deals.
Komrade Harris is now touting a $50,000 deduction for startups – as a distraction from her inflationary policies… ahh, hello, dummy, startups already get to deduct their startup costs…yes, over more time, but since startups incur losses the first year or two or longer, more deductions just go unused. Clearly she just reads what her handlers give her without thinking about it.
I’m not an alcoholic or a drinker, but the cost of liquor has gone up too. At the Saturday Badger game, it was reported that one can of hard seltzer cost $13. I think inflation hit the team too, except it was deflation – much of the Badgers’ home games season is against high school teams, err, I mean, little known teams.
I see the athletic department decided to sell alcohol to the students at the game now. I’m not sure which is better, having the students showing up late to the game pre-inebriated or showing up at the start and then getting drunk there. I guess the idea is that if they’re going to get drunk, the athletic department wants its share of the proceeds. At least in the past students couldn’t drink at the game, so they behaved themselves better. We’ll see how this turns out. Watch the head count on how many people get thrown out of the games this year vs. the last few years.
And if you can believe this, the UW’s pre-canned announcement about starting alcohol sales is “A portion of the revenue from alcohol sales will provide financial support for existing and future campus-led efforts to promote student wellness and to encourage responsible behavior around the use of alcohol, such as offering alcohol-free programming for students and supporting students experiencing challenges related to high-risk behaviors.” So did you get that? Alcohol sales are going to promote student wellness, and encourage responsible behavior – you know, after they tear down the stadium in their drunken stupor. (Remember when dozens of students died or were injured when the students crashed the field?)
And speaking of inflation, inflation must have hit the City of Madison and the Madison School District – bringing on referendum season again. You know, that season that occurs every year or two when the school district launches its usual marketing campaign to get another referendum approved. Madison wants $22 million and the school district wants half a billion, yes, billion with a “b”. Stunning and disgusting. Of course, they don’t tell us how much the referendum comes to per house (or apartment), they just throw out a massive number. Of course the whole idea of the Biden-Harris policy of pushing temporary money out to the local governments and then cut it off is to get them hooked on the spending – so they won’t be able to stop. At least in Wisconsin, thanks to the Republicans, local governments and school districts can’t spend more without getting a referendum approved by the voters. But you know Madison, the libs here are just dumb enough to keep voting for more and higher taxes.
But wait, can they be that dumb? No. Actually, the deal is that libs who work in government vote for the higher taxes under the implicit agreement that later the government will increase their wages by the same increase, so net-net the libs in government are no worse off, but you suckers in the private sector, including seniors on fixed incomes, you have to pay more, more and more.
Step 2 – They threaten to cut the most popular services, starting with police and fire. Then, they move onto other popular services – in the city it’s the Goodman pool and in the school district it’s the usually the gifted and talented programs or teachers who actually teach. (I’ll agree with Dave Zeifel of the Crap Times, threatening to close down the Goodman pool is like slapping kids across the face. It’s also racist since the pool services a lot of kids of color. And where else are they going to go if the pool is closed? Like all kids of any color, they’ll be bored and start looking for trouble.)
Note they never, ever, never threaten to cut the DEI positions that they added at six figures each, or the sustainability coordinators, or the equal opportunity department that focuses on extorting companies with threats to sue them unless they cough up $50,000 each or more.
Nope. Why cut the hundreds and hundreds of useless administrators in the school district that do nothing more then create more paperwork and red-tape burdens on real teachers? Nope. They usually threaten to cut music and band. Likewise, the city and school district never take care of their buildings and facilities. Nope. They figure why spend operating dollars on operating their own buildings – when they can dupe voters into another referendum to cover routine maintenance costs. They should have a capital reserve for capital improvements and repairs (like a roof replacement), but they never do. They could have borrowed the money (requiring a referendum) when interest rates were one-third what they are today, but nope. Now they proposed to take on more debt at triple the rates.
I say Republicans should pass a law that says if you can’t operate your city or school district within budget, then the top dog, the mayor or superintendent or whatever, gets their pay cut. Period. Wham. Bam. That’ll stop this non-sense. Every time you want a referendum approved, the top dog looses some income to help fund the extra spending.
Step 3 – After threatening to cut vital and key programs, the next step the school district takes is to chum the waters to attract the sharks (that’s the part where they rev everyone up to turn them out to protest the cuts of their favorite programs), then, and only then,
Step 4 – they tell everyone who doesn’t want their vital programs cut to vote for the upcoming referendum. Step
5 – Spend, spend, spend, until the next referendum election. Note that referendums pile on top of each other… accumulating. Poor seniors and apartment rents and home owners on a budget – they’re the ones who can’t afford this non-sense, but hey, you dumbass liberals keep voting for these scams – instead of saying NO.
So when that next referendum comes up, think about how you’ll vote.
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