On BLOG on BLOGS – What is a BLOG? WHY?
Posted on March 25 at 12:46 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
John, actions speak louder than words. In this installment, it appears you are trying to salvage and reclaim some notion of objective focus of your blog. Re-read your blogs--especially the ones of the last month--and you will see your blog is nothing but pure partisan, political advocacy. Despite your urging your readers to believe your are a political scientist attempting to educate, your blogs are anything but. Your form of, "Scott Walker is untrustworthy, what do you think?" is not educating--it's partisan opinion. That's fine, but he honest about your blog that its focus is partisan advocacy--not all things politics. It's all things liberal, left-wing politics for sure, but just say so and get on with it. Do not try to masquarde your blog as objective education and debate. Your actions clearly tell a different story.
On One-year ago today, President Obama signed the HEALTH-CARE LAW!
Posted on March 23 at 11:30 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
Partisan Johnny, a careful analysis of health care reform policy leads to the "3 Cs"--three major problems to solve: 1) coverage; 2) cost; and 3) care. Obamacare only attempted to address one "C"--coverage--and did little to nothing about cost or care. That's unsustainable, and it will bankrupt the system. The US currently spends 16% of GDP on health care and is on track to spend 100% of GDP on health care by 2065. Cost and care must be placed in the hands of the patient/consumer, and we cannot have social transfer payments in the form of tax and redistribution by the government. That hasn't, and doesn't, work. Harness the power of consumers to compare and choose--an "AmazonHealth"--in a transparent market and simplify provider and insurance bills with simple consolidated invoices. These tools exist and simply need to be introduced into the health care market. But, the government has to get out of the way. Why are you not in favor of "power to the people" in the choice and delivery of health care services? Is it because the federal government could not command and control the policy and pick the winners and losers? More government = less liberty.
On Spring Election 2-weeks from today. WI Supreme Court Election KEY!
Posted on March 22 at 11:43 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
Hey, Partisan Johnny, why do you write 4-3 "leaning liberal/moderate" but only 4-3 "leaning conservative?" Should it not also be reciprocally "leaning conservative/moderate?" You've proved your assertion is correct--no such thing as non-partisan. Your deeply held partisan left wing, totalitarian beliefs, and all your alleged neutral analysis flowing therefrom, are nothing more than express partisan advocacy. Be honest, call it as such, blog your opinion.
On CULLEN has the right instincts. OTHERS should follow his lead.
Posted on March 17 at 11:41 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
More superficial anaylsis, John. Dig a little bit. Perhaps Shameful Cullen's proposal to amend the state constitution to eliminate the super majority quorum for fiscal bills is the biggest snow-job to come out of this Democrat fiasco? In future, Dems can again railroad through their tax and spend policies without worrying about the higher quorum requirement (or hearings, debate, etc. just like 2009)? Perhaps Shameful Cullen is setting the table, using this trumped-up Dem fuelled crisis, for an easy roll-back when Dems again are in the majority? Correct the record, John. Governor Walker released his staff's emails detailing the issues for compromise, and Shameful Cullen and the Dems refused to come back and debate them and yielded to the union pressure not to compromise on their side. To describe it any other way is pure fiction and fabrication. The end of collusive bargaining (awful public policy, you have to admit that) is a victory for hte taxpayers.
On DEMOCRACY is a DYNAMIC CONTINUING process! DEMOCRACY is MORE than ELECTION DAY!
Posted on March 14 at 11:09 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
Johnny-- is this continuing democracy--vandalizing an M&I bank office with anti-Walker graffiti? If nothing else, it reveals the intelligence and sophistication of the knuckle-draggers on your side of the issue. http://www.jsonline.com/newswatch/117929...
Posted on March 12 at 11:32 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
Hasty action? The Senate had three weeks to consider the bill, but the Dems chose to runaway rather than debate. Johnny, I would say Diamond Jim Doyle's $2 billion tax hike in the 2009 budget repair bill passed without debate under 24 hours as hasty. The Senate Dems, acting like children and not the stewards of the public trust, made a hasty and ultimately dead-end decision to obstruct democracy rather than participate in it. That action by them is untrustworthy. Will they run away again and suck their thumbs in Rockford over another bill they don't like? It is amazing how your entire foundational view of the structures of government get tossed to the wind when your personal political interest is at stake. You've demonstrated you put your self-interest far ahead of good policy and good government--not quite the angel you self-righteously portray yourself to be. Fitting, however, for a public educator.
On Court challenge to anti-union law begins
Posted on March 11 at 2:06 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
"Anti-union law?" Please point to the section in the law that specifically is directed at the existence of unions.
Top 10 ways to tell if you are a member of a public-sector union.
10.) You take a week off to protest in Wisconsin and your office runs better.
9.) On a snow day, when they say “non-essential” people should stay home you know who they mean.
8.) You get paid twice as much as a private sector person doing the same job but make up the difference by doing half as much work.
7.) It takes longer to fire you than the average killer spends on death row.
6.) The worse you do your job, the more your boss avoids you.
5.) You think the French are working themselves to death.
4.) You know by having a copy of the Holy Koran on your desk your job is 100% safe.
3.) You spend more time at protest marches than at church.
2.) You have a Democratic congressman’s lips permanently attached to your butt.
And the #1 way to tell if you are a member of a public sector union:
1.) You pay more in union dues than you do for your healthcare insurance....
On “BEWARE, THE IDES!” What will be the situation in WI on the IDES of March 2011?
Posted on March 10 at 9:47 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
Your rants on this issue cast yourself as a madman seething with rage, foaming at the mouth, and intermittently yelping while pounding out your screeds. You are not a lawyer, know little or nothing about the nuances of the Open Records Law and Senate Rules, yet you feel somehow competent to provide a legal opinion. Fitting. Here is a very tidy video explanation of the public employee compensation probelm vis a vis the teacher's union. You ought to be able to grasp this didactic portrayal. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kxc6kzH-...
On Is the lesson of DEMOCRACY being learned by Scott Walker?
Posted on March 9 at 12:24 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
All you have left, John, are personal attacks on Governor Walker? Enough of your flip-flop flim-flam. Perhaps have YOU learned anything about democracy? For example, collusive bargaining is anti-democratic. When elected officials and unions conspire to give unsustainable wages and benefits to public employees in return for getting re-elected but paid for by all taxpayers, isn't that a corrupt bargain that rigs the system and dilutes "we the people?" Also, isn't mandatory public employee union membership anti-democratic? A person is qualified and bright, but they can't get the job unless they join the union? Is that not outrageous? Is the right to work not a basic fundamental human right? We have the right to assemble under the First Amendment, but do we not also have a fundamental right not to be forcibly assembled? It appears your superficial analysis has been arrested at your high school teaching level and isn't quite (or you've refused) capable of digging into these matters with appropriate rigor.
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On WI Government of MEN and NOT of LAWS?!
Posted on March 29 at 11:01 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
Partisan Johnny—your own narcissistic megalomania has run amok again and is, frankly, disturbing—especially for one who is on the public dime allegedly teaching students. What are those kids paying for? A foaming–at-the-mouth, wild-eyed rant from a man with a Napoleon Complex?. Back to cognitive behavioral therapy, please. As for the Gazette, it’s continued use of funds from its corporate treasury to monetarily host your baldly partisan express political advocacy ought to be treated by the Government Accountability Board (GAB) as in-kind contributions to the Democratic Party of Wisconsin. I guess we’ll have to wait and see how the GAB rules on such a complaint.