The 10^th Amendment states: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

I have reviewed the entire Constitution and find healthcare nowhere in the “enumerated” list, therein, where We The People gave the U.S. Government the authority to engage in any form of public health insurance.  I counted seventeen items in the Constitutional “list” of things WE “allowed” the U.S. Government the “privilege” to handle for us.  I find that the vast majority of the powers several Administrations and both houses of Congress from both Parties have usurped, over the course of the last nine decades, which has resulted in utter Constitutional contempt, heinous tyranny and massive spending of our earnings, by confiscation through “Federal withholding and payroll taxes”, numerous methods of other taxation and TRILLIONS of Dollars of “public debt”, are not in the list.   According to the 10^th Amendment, from our cardinal laws of the land, as We The People wrote, established and ordained on all members of the U.S. Government, that makes them scofflaws subject to at least imprisonment or prosecution of treason.

 Such despotism has lead to an economic plight for our near future as well as our children and grandchildren that are so ominous it could be termed financial devastation. 

 Being in attendance at the Congressman Kagen Marinette, WI “listening session” I have reason to believe that I am not alone in my findings.  I hope that Dr. Kagen re-reads OUR law that he is under OATH to support and defend against all enemies both foreign and Pelosi, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion.   -  – Capt. Karl

8/5/2009Thank you for listening to your constituents yesterday and Monday in Green Bay and Appleton. Listening. The operative word. Unlike media suggestions (your suggestions?), the crowds were not manufactured by shady “corporate interests,” but were caring, frustrated Americans, there to listen to you because they’re desperately fearful about the future of their beloved country – and the future we’re building here for our kids.I was moved by the passion – and I hope you were too. 300 people filled that auditorium a half hour before your meeting’s start time in both Green Bay and Appleton hearings. Perhaps next time your staff can find you a larger room, so that 300 or 400 constituents need not be locked out.As an aside sir, it’s interesting that I knew of your meeting schedule from friends and neighbors. In talking with the Steelworkers Union member (the emblem proudly emblazoned on his shirt) sitting behind me, I learned he received an email invitation from your office. You have my email sir, as I’ve contacted your office numerous times. You have my email sir, as I receive pleas for dollars from your campaign committee at the close of every campaign reporting period. Why didn’t I receive a notice of your “listening session” in Appleton?

Such passion Dr. Kagen. I’m not sure you got the message these caring and concerned constituents were sharing.

When asked how you were going to pay for any health care reform bill coming out of Congress, you said you would find $800B – $1T wasted. Wow. When asked if you will vote for health care reform if the majority of your constituents oppose the bill, you took a big sidestep – “It’s [the final bill] something that doesn’t exist yet.”

When a constituent said she heard the benefits of the medicine you and Congress are prescribing, now could you please share with us the side effects, you shrugged her off repeatedly, unable to “explain the whole thing because it will raise controversy.” Well, that surely is being honest, Rep. Kagen. Wow.

Rick Sense, writing for his “The Inside Scoop,” shares further goings-on from yesterday’s gathering.

Some of [Rep. Kagen’s] less than stellar moments included a claim that “the United States Senate is the real enemy” and that he believes it is “unconstitutional” for a pharmacy to be able to charge different people different prices for the same medication (ever buy a used car Rep. Kagen?). When asked if he would support healthcare legislation despite the majority of his constituents being opposed to it, he first replied, “Well, let me explain the legislative process to you,” later adding the cliché “these are complex issues” and ending his answer with, “I will vote for the best interest of our constituents.” At one point, obviously frustrated, Kagen yelled at a constituent, “How dare you!” during an exchange with a member of the audience on how to possibly help a different audience member facing the tough prospect of covering healthcare costs with her husband out of work.

Yes sir, the majority of your constituents understand the need for reforms in our health care system. But no sir, the majority of your district is not in favor of huge new federal bureaucracies taking over health care in America.

You are well aware of those needed changes sir – and indeed have advocated for them.

• Incentivize self-reliance and individual responsibility. More of us must understand what our health care is costing us before we care about what health care is costing us.
• Incentive individual responsibility via extensive price and quality transparency.
• Incentivize wellness
• Help us make good choices by standardizing basic health insurance policies
• Support modified community rating and yes, require that insurance be available for those with pre-existing conditions. 

Hold your ground sir. You are not beholding to Speaker Pelosi or President Obama or any of your congressional colleagues. You sir, are beholding to us. The majority of your district does not want government running their health care. The majority of your district believes HR 3200 or anything like it must be scrapped and substituted with much more basic changes that will control costs in the system and build on individual – not government – responsibilities.

Jo Egelhoff, FoxPolitics.net

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The Liberty Tree Lantern - would like to ask Dr. Kagen which prescription he is writing for himself and his family, the one he is writing for us Wisconsin citizens and our fellow countrymen across America, or the “special” one that each member of Congress and their families get?

Today Congressman Steve Kagen will be in Oconto and Marinette, WI:

Wednesday, August 5th

10:30 AM
Health Care Listening Session
Oconto Falls Senior Center
512 Caldwell Ave
Oconto Falls, WI

Note that the Oconto Falls listening session is BY INVITATION ONLY.  The Liberty Tree Lantern has confirmed with the Green Bay office of Congressman Steve Kagen, that you as a constituent are NOT INVITED and you will be turned away at the door.

6:00 PM
Health Care Forum
Marinette Senior Center
1603 Ludington St.
Marinette, WI

The Liberty Tree Lantern has confirmed, with the Green Bay office of Congressman Steve Kagen, that as of 09:21 this morning if nothing changes, constituents will be allowed into the Marinette listening session.

From Wisconsin Assemblyman John Nygren

Wisconsin’s unemployment rate has jumped to 9.2 percent in June, just under the national average of 9.7.  Oconto and Marinette Counties’ unemployment rates were worse, 12.2 and 12.7 respectively according to the most recent data.  Because of these dire numbers you would think our current leadership would be pushing policies that create jobs.  Unfortunately, they have pushed through a budget that was described by an employer in Wisconsin like this, “They’ve sure given a lot of people the impetus to get the hell out of here.”

Included in the budget is an income tax increase that will impact 4,600 small business owners who file their taxes as personal income.  As well, capital gains (personal and employer gains on investment) taxes were doubled and corporate taxes were increased by hundreds of millions of dollars.  Taxes on your garbage and small business waste were raised to the highest levels in the nation.  These changes don’t exactly give incentives to employers to invest in Wisconsin.  These budget changes actually do the opposite.

The effect of the tax and policy changes in the budget has been immediate and damaging.  Harley Davidson cut 400 jobs earlier in the year and cited tax law changes (combined reporting passed into law by the governor and Democrats) as one of the reasons.  These changes were estimated to cost Harley $22.5 million.  Briggs and Stratton recently announced they will be cutting 430 jobs in Wisconsin and moving them to Alabama and Georgia instead of moving Alabama or Georgia jobs to Wisconsin.  This move is expected to save the company millions.

On top of these announcements, Mercury Marine of Fond du Lac has been discussing the possibility of moving 2,000 jobs to Oklahoma.  The move will depend on how aggressive either state is at attracting Mercury Marine.  Oklahoma has already stated they are doing everything possible to attract Mercury Marine.  The Oklahoma legislature voted to forgive $1.2 million in taxes owed by Mercury Marine and they’re in negotiations to offer other incentives to move the Fond du Lac plant to Oklahoma.  Considering Oklahoma is a right-to-work state and in the budget that just passed in Wisconsin Mercury Marine would be on the hook for additional taxes, I am not optimistic.

By rewarding special interests in the budget with billions in spending at the expense of private employers, the Wisconsin Democrats have given no reason for an employer to stay in Wisconsin if greener pastures are available.  Companies invest in states they feel will partner with them and grow their investment.  These investments create jobs – jobs that state residents desperately need. 

We should be doing everything possible to hold the jobs we have, to provide for the unemployed through direct benefits and job training assistance, and giving employers looking for business friendly states during this economic downturn incentives to plant their roots here.

Until we do these things we will continue to lose jobs.  At best, unemployment will begin to level off and stagnate.  If this happens, revenues from private employers and working individuals will continue to drop and the schools and social services that depend on these revenues to operate will suffer. 

Because of the actions taken in the budget passed by Democrats this year, the next budget will have a deficit that will be just as bad if not worse than the $7 billion we had earlier this year.  The odds of $2.2 billion in federal ‘stimulus’ money being available to plug budget holes in K-12, Medicaid, and local aids next budget cycle is not likely.  Wisconsin is already operating under a $2 billion structural deficit that will have to be closed in the next budget.  That number will grow if Wisconsin continues to lag behind in economic growth.

Wisconsin is in a competition with 49 other states for job creation and retention.  Based on the performance of our leadership this year we are losing that competition.  There are jobs moving and being created during this recession in the United States.  They are just in other states like Texas, Georgia, Oklahoma, and Alabama.  Unfortunately, some of those jobs moved and were lost from right here in Wisconsin.

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FROM: The Liberty Tree Lantern

WE MUST RECALL DOYLE BEFORE ALL OUR SMALL BUSINESSES MOVE OR CLOSE UP FOR GOOD.

Signup as a volunteer circulator of petitions at www.RecallDoyle.com

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Our mission to RECALL DOYLE for our people of Wisconsin and our posterity will be accomplished!

WE ARE in the process of FLUSHING THE DOYLE-LETT!

We The People will make sure Wisconsin doesn’t stink!

It is self-evident, from years of budget, taxation and “special interest” pay to play issues like:
• Indian gaming facilities
• Big Unions,
• State and County public “serpents” workers with benefits we taxpayers are paying, for them, which we can’t even dream of affording for ourselves and especially
• WEAC teachers super healthcare, pension and other benefit issues are costing each one of us dearly
that the vast majority of our State of Wisconsin representatives don’t give a “crap” about us, with the exception of honorable ones like John Nygren of Marinette and a “few” others.

This RECALL is NOT a partisan issue. It is simply an UP or DOWN issue and I think it is time to stand up, pull up our britches and push the lever because either the ENTIRE State of Wisconsin, with a nearly $7 BILLION Dollar DEFICIT, is going down the crapper or Doyle is.

The vast majority of our State of WI representatives are doing NOTHING but filling up the budget and taxation DOYLE-LETT with all sorts of crap. AND, BOY, DOES IT STINK!

Diamond Jim Doyle needs to understand that the people of Wisconsin COME FIRST, We Are Number One!

We The People of Wisconsin need to pull an Austin Powers here, grab Doyle by the ankles and dunk him head first into the Doyle-lett and FORCE him to talk by asking him; “Who — does — NUMBER TWO — work — for????”

People and newspapers from our neighbor sovereign independent States, in their own private cubicles hearing the ruckus, have been calling over to us Wisconsinites; “How about a courtesy flush here?”

www.RecallDoyle.com

There are many in Wisconsin media who scoff at suggestions that our State’s survival depends on drastic measures like a recall.  But many beg to differ on this implication by such local news sources for a multitude of reasons, the least of which is a nearly $7 BILLION Dollar deficit that Jim Doyle is working feverishly to implement all sorts of fees and taxes on our citizens and our small businesses to cover.  It should be rather obvious that such massive taxation will not only drive out small business from our State but with them taxpayers who are left to foot Jim Doyle’s eminent Socialist tab and agenda which ultimately flies in the face of the intent and spirit of both OUR State and Federal Constitutions and, thereby and therefore, result  in the detriment of our prosperity producing individual liberties and freedom.

Many people have expressed great dismay with these news organizations and wonder if these outlets are trying to control political outcomes by preventing news accounts from getting out to the Wisconsin public.

Take a look at the following video and decide for yourself if any of these Wisconsin citizens, or very many of them at least, are really interested in recalling Wisconsin Governor James Doyle or whether some people are blowing such interest way out of proportion and that there are not very many but a very small fringe group that wants to be active in this recall effort.  When you see this video, perhaps you might also ask yourself whether your local newspaper is doing a good job of deciding what news to bring you and WHY they may not be letting you know about certain events that you might consider important.

• Now would you consider over 8,200 Wisconsin citizens traveling all the way to a Madison Tea Party on April 15th to scream RECALL DOYLE anything news worthy? 
• Do you know that there were MANY more Tea Parties across the State of Wisconsin, besides this one at Madison, each with thousands of people in attendance screaming RECALL DOYLE? 
• If you didn’t know that, how come? 
• Didn’t your local newspaper or local TV news let you know that there are so many THOUSANDS on top of THOUSANDS of people from MANY cities and towns across our State of Wisconsin that want Gov. Doyle recalled?
• If your local news organizations are not letting you know the news that your own fellow citizens by the THOUSANDS are MAD as Hell about Jim Doyle and his usurping, despotic, tyrannical spending policies, stealing and using our earnings in the form of fees and taxes to do it, then are these organizations not controlling and manipulating you through purposeful “lack” of news coverage?
• Are you going to keep paying for news services who don’t even let you know what is going on in your own State? 
• At the very least you should contact your local news outlet and tell them what you think for not letting you know about this.
• If you know of a local Wisconsin TV news or newspaper organization that appears intent on a blackout of RECALL DOYLE news from Wisconsin citizens, please post a comment below and we will formally publish their names after confirmation.  (Thank you!)

In the weeks to come The Liberty Tree Lantern will be naming names of local Wisconsin news organizations who are refusing to print or broadcast news on this HUMONGUS news event of gigantic importance to the people of Wisconsin – THE RECALL OF GOVENOR JAMES DOYLE. 

The first on the list of local newspapers or organizations who absolutely refuse to print anything of the Doyle Recall is:

•  THE EAGLE HERALD of Marinette, WI. 

The following local newspaper, competing in the same area however, was quick to publish an article of this importance in their editorial/opinion pages:

• The Peshtigo Times of Peshtigo, WI

It appears self-evident who, of these two local papers, is in the pocket of BIG Wisconsin tax spending Government and who is on the side of the people of Wisconsin.  Don’t let media bias keep you from the news you need and have a right to know.

In the interest of full disclosure, as posted elsewhere on this blog, the writer, Capt. Karl, is one of the original 15 Wisconsin citizens who started the www.RecallDoyle.com campaign.

 For more information that you may not be getting from your local TV news or newspaper go to: www.RecallDoyle.com

The Sons of Liberty tarring and feathering a tax collector underneath the Liberty Tree

So get your favorate Indian head dress and garb ready for one heck of a 4th of July party!  The Liberty Tree Lantern recommends not to forget to prepare your effigies in the likeness of your least favorate Congressmen like Senator Harry pork Reid or our Speaker of the House Nancy spend all the taxpayer money you can, give nothing back, Pelosi  or the head Communist in Chief himself B.O..  Of course we shouldn’t forget the creators of “The Matrix” (Our Economy that only exists as programmed into our minds, created by wealth printed out of thin air, paper and ink monopoly money), THE FEDERAL RESERVE!  We need to hang a few of them for sure! 

How about a few hanging effigy pinnatas?  Yeah we could hang them under Liberty Trees and stick them with pitchforks!   Now that’s an Independence Day celebration!

Seeing as how the first effigy of Senator Harry Reid was strung up last Independence Day at the Menominee Memorial Park in the U.P. of Michigan, which is right by the Menominee Marina, perhaps we here in the twin cities of Marinette / Menominee ought to take advantage of our area and have a few yachts setup for a mock Boston Tea Party just offshore of the Marina.

I know we have a designated Liberty Tree nearby for those who would like to tar and feather or hang an effigy of their least favorate Congressmen and women.  Bring patriotic signs and Gadsden flags to display from our Menomoninee, MI  Liberty Tree for the event.  All taxpayers are invited.  Everybody to dress up as a patriot or an Indian.

Here is some information on other Tea Parties being planned around America: http://www.reteaparty.com/2009/03/reteaparty-podcast/

Assembly Update – January 30, 2009

STATE OF THE STATE

Governor Doyle delivered his annual State of the State address this Wednesday.  He discussed our state’s economic outlook, $5.75 billion deficit, and briefly touched on his priorities for this budget.  This address comes at a time when jobs are being lost, businesses are closing, and consumer confidence is at an all time low. 

To tackle these problems, I am pleased that the Governor mentioned this is not a time for new big government programs.  I agree and think priority one should be creating and retaining jobs by putting more money in the pockets of the people instead of the wasteful hands of government.  Unfortunately, I did not hear in the address how the Governor plans on solving our economic problems while both creating jobs and balancing the budget.

Wisconsin’s deficit is fourth largest in the nation and number one per capita.  How is it that we are in the same category as such states as California and New York?  Since Governor Doyle has taken office, government spending has increased by 25 percent.  Government credit card borrowing has increased by 60 percent.  Doyle has grown the state employee workforce by 4,900 in the last year alone after promising to cut state employees by 10,000 by 2010.  This has occurred while private sector jobs have dropped by 66,000.  

In Governor Doyle’s 2003 State of the State address, he stated, “The simple fact is this: We’re spending too much – and we have been for a long, long time.”  At the time of his address, Wisconsin had a $454 million deficit and we were staring at a $3.2 billion budget shortfall.  This sounds similar to today.  Since that time, Governor Doyle has requested increased spending and borrowing of over $7 billion.  Now we face a $594 million deficit and a $5.75 billion projected shortfall.

The Governor praised some accomplishments in his address.  He took credit for Republican initiatives such as making health insurance premiums tax deductible and eliminating the tax on social security.  He also lauded himself for bringing Wisconsin out of the top-ten taxed states.  Something that would have never happened if the Republican controlled Assembly had not eliminated 98 percent of the Governor’s tax increases in last session’s budget.

The priorities of this legislative session should be addressing our economic downturn, creating and retaining jobs, and expanding business development.  By realizing how we arrived at this point, we can hopefully not repeat the same mistakes.  We should reduce spending, lower taxes, and put more money in the pockets of Wisconsin residents.  That is how we will create jobs and pull out of this economic recession.

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MAKE STIMULUS

DOLLARS TRANSPARENT

 AND ACCOUNTABLE

Wisconsin is expecting to receive billions of dollars from the federal stimulus proposal currently making its way through Congress.  When this money arrives it should be spent on projects and services that put people to work, create new jobs, and truly do stimulate our state’s economy.  To make sure this happens I joined my Republican colleagues in proposing a bipartisan legislative panel to approve stimulus spending.

This panel would make sure the money is spent wisely and keep government accountable to the taxpayer paying the tab.  This would also make the process more transparent and easily scrutinized by Wisconsin residents.  The name of the panel would be the Joint Committee on Economic Stimulus Accountability, or JCESA and would consist of ten legislative members.

The proposal to form this oversight committee was resisted by the Democratic majority and did not pass.  However, I will continue to fight for openness and accountability.  Wisconsin is expecting billions in stimulus dollars that will be paid for by future generations.  We need to make sure this money is “timely, targeted, and temporary.”  To make sure this is the case oversight is needed.  I will keep pressing for this type of accountability.

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TWO BILLS PASS

 ASSEMBLY

The legislature held its first day of session this week.  Two bills were passed.  I supported Assembly Bill 1 which was titled the “Wisconsin First Act.”  The bill sets a ‘goal’ for state and local units of government to buy a minimum of 20 percent of their goods and services from local businesses.  Republicans improved the bill by increasing the original 2 percent ‘goal’ to 20.

Even though local and state governments already purchase a large portion of goods from local businesses, setting a ‘goal’ of 20 percent is laudable.  We should attempt to purchase goods from in-state when possible and fiscally prudent.  However, this bill will not create jobs or spur business development in a way that will turn our economy around; more must be done.

The second bill brought forward by the new Democratic majority was the “American Jobs Act.”  The title sounds great, but what does it do?  The bill would require state contracts be performed by businesses operating in the U.S.  That means that Wisconsin would no longer award contracts to the lowest bidder.  This would increase costs to state taxpayers.  Additionally, our state doesn’t currently track this information which would add even more costs to taxpayers if we wanted to form a system and track this information accurately. 

The non-partisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau suggests that the “American Jobs Act” proposal may put Wisconsin in violation of the World Trade Organization Government Procurement Agreement which we are a signer of.  The passage of this bill also raises the question; why is the governor and commerce secretary traveling overseas on trade missions spending taxpayer money if we as a state have no intention of trading our goods with the goods of other nation’s?

Marinette Marine has been shedding jobs due to our recent economic downturn.  They are a subsidiary of an Italian enterprise, Saputo Cheese in Lena is a Canadian company, Carver of Pulaski and Cruisers in Oconto sell yachts throughout the world.  My point in mentioning these local businesses is that we live in a global marketplace.  This proposal may adversely affect these businesses and others at a time when we should be fostering their growth, not burdening them further.  

Our state exports totaled over $20.3 billion in 2008 according to the U.S. Census Bureau.  That is a number we should be trying to increase, not decrease which would kill more Wisconsin jobs and businesses.  If we put up walls around the state, cutting off our businesses from foreign markets, we can only expect them to do the same.  Losing over $20.3 billion is something our state businesses can not afford. 

Wisconsin needs bold and educated action to address our recession and create jobs.  These bills are neither and I hope the new Democratic majority takes a more realistic and expansive approach moving forward.  Our families deserve it.

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State Representative John Nygren
State Capitol – Room 127 West – Post Office Box 8953 – Madison, Wisconsin 53708
Telephone: (608) 266-2343
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People in Local Communities Will Not be Able to Afford Gasoline or Energy

With gasoline, diesel, heat, light, electricity and the cost impact of these things on products in general, people will not be able to afford the lifestyles we Americans are used to.  People in the cities of our region, Menominee, MI and Marinette, Peshtigo, Oconto and Green Bay, WI are being strapped financially.  Something needs to be done but our Congressmen, Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI), Representative Steve Kagen (D-WI), and Senator Herb Kohl (D-WI) refuse to legalize and clear the way for oil companies to produce the massive volumes of natural gas and oil resources that we have available domestically from our Federal lands, ANWR, and off our shores.  If they would the United States would be energy independent for many decades, perhaps over 100 years.  By the time we reached the end of our fossil fuel resources our free enterprise capitalist system will have invented a form or method of generating energy.

The primary excuse that they are using is that “greenhouse gases” will harm our environment, cause Global Warming and, therefore, Climate Change. 

I am so proud of our Wisconsin Congressmen that they know more than the over THIRTY ONE THOUSAND American Scientists that have signed a petition to the U.S. Government stating

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See: http://www.petitionproject.org/gwdatabase/Signers_By_Last_Name.php

It must take a vastly superior intellect to comprehend how important it is to financially devastate families in Wisconsin for what they have calculated, in their professional knowledgeable minds, will harm us more than not being able to drive to work, heat and light our homes, or buy food.  The one thing they do know, correctly, is that the price of energy affects our lifestyles greatly and these three and their ilk, I submit, are purposely using this knowledge against us.  I believe they are doing this to weaken us economically, financially and spiritually to prepare us for “The Final Ultimatum” (see a previous post).  Either that or I am glad that our Congressmen know better than over 31,000 American Scientists. 

With the power of the knowledge possessed by these three Wisconsin representatives the people in Wisconsin will be better controlled, oppressed and manipulated to conform to the will of such intellectual Socialist Government elites who know so much more than us surfs.  They will be able to control us, to tell us what kind and size of vehicle to buy, what size and types of homes we can buy, how many vacations we will be allowed to go on, where we can take our vacations, and even if we can “afford” a vacation at all.  They will also be able to control whether or not we can afford to drive to work or even if there is any work to be had.

Just think, they will be able to force us to sell our single family homes and make us go back to the city where they can “herd” us cattle into nice little enclosed 500 unit pens called Apartments or perhaps they will call them “energy efficiency” condos where we can walk or ride our bikes to work.  Because of the price of gasoline and energy, which they have been working to minimize the production of through legislation, so the price would go up, ”for our own good”, for thirty years, they can force businesses to move to the center of wonderfully human packed mega-cities.  Sure, just think how nice it will be to wait in lines of 100 people “each” register to buy your food that will cost vastly more than it does now.  Just think how nice it will be to be having a one hour, one way, walk, to get to work, because there are so many humans packed into the city that it is like strands of fibers in a carpet brushing against each other as we move along.  Won’t it be nice to be able to always have a neighbor in close proximity so that you constantly know what they are doing and they know what you are doing?  Think of how easy it will be for Senators Kohl, Feingold, and Representative Kagen to keep tabs on us through TV cameras placed around the city and our apartment complexes, complete with microphones, so they know every word we speak and action we make, so that they can “take better care of us” in our cattle pens and ensure that we are following Government orders.

 Why would any of us be so self centered as to want a single family home in the suburbs or, God forbid, in a wooded rural area next to a lake or river where there is individuality, privacy, fresh air, peace, quiet, wildlife, beauty and be able to be away from Government (I think they used to call that FREEDOM)?  Just think how horrible that is.  Sure, if we really understood what is best for us, we would all start walking toward the closest major city and start checking into a U.S. Government receiving station, RIGHT NOW, where our families can be assigned our stalls, oops, I mean our one and two bedroom 250 – 500 + unit mini-apartments, oops, I mean “energy efficiency” condos.  Sure, if you know what was best for you and your children, you would just forget about your FREEDOM (from Government) and The Constitution that protects our FREEDOM from the U.S. Government and just appease the U.S. Congress because they know so much better than we do what is best for us.  In fact, if we do what the U.S. Congress dictates to us, they will guarantee a roof over our heads and food on the table.   The room might only be 20’ * 15’ and the food might be processed dog food, which would be best to protect the Climate, but hey, you know that Kohl, Feingold, and Kagen only want what’s best for us here in Wisconsin.

Oh and, by the way, if we do what they dictate, they will give us “free health care”.  Sure, you might be able to see a doctor as soon as 3 or 6 months like they get to in Canada when they need emergency quad by-pass surgery, as reported in The Wall Street Journal.  Oh, hey, Kagen, Feingold and Kohl will even help you by taking even more out of your paycheck in withholding for the “Free” healthcare so you don’t have to bother writing a check.  How do you like that for service?  Yeah, if the Feingold, Kohl, and Kagen intellect is utilized for our benefit, who knows how soon we can moo our way to the tax milking stanchions of a wonderful U.S. Congressional utopian Socialist solution for our lives and the lives of our children.  Won’t that be special? 

Isn’t it wonderful to be able to vote for such intellectual Socialist giants?  See how wonderful it will be without fossil fuels and aren’t you glad that our three Wisconsin representatives know the complex workings of our environment better than 31,000 American Scientists?

Oh, yeah, you might also check into Dave Obey’s (D-WI) intellect on a previous post.  Let’s make sure that we vote him back in too.  After all, his last name stands for “obey” and we all know that it is best for us to obey the U.S. Government, do what they tell us, to live as they tell us and die of cold, exhaustion, heat, and starvation as they tell us because they are all much smarter than us and our 31,000 American Scientists.