The $16 million temper tantrum

Well part one of the $16 million temper tantrum in Wisconsin is under way.
How did we get here? Well it's simple.

The Democrats and their union supporters did not like the reforms that Gov.
Scott Walker put into place. These reforms curbed the power of the public
unions and gave local government tools they could use to save money; and
many local units of government used these tools to their advantage. They
were able to save money, lower health insurance costs and lower property
taxes for their taxpayers. Walker did not cave to the unionistas and the
whiny brats who call themselves Democratic party officials.

For putting these reforms in place, bringing certainty to the economy and
business Walker is faced with a temper tantrum from the unionistas in the
form of a recall, one which is being held for all the wrong reasons. The
little children known as Democrats want a redo because they didn't like how
the 2010 election turned out. Well the children need to learn that
electiosnhave consequences.

Well they need to learn to live with the results and I think this tantrum
will show them that. Barrett's craptastic record will lose him and the
whiny children this recall election. Wisconsin needs to decide between two
futures. One is the path of prosperity, lower taxes, job growth and
certainty for business. The other choice is one of higher taxes, job loss
and over regulation of business. In other words do they want to move
forward or go back to the bad old days of Doyle?

Barrett's craptastic record includes high unemployment, high crime and high
infant mortality including a high number of infant murders called
co-sleeping by the liberal establishment in Milwaukee. As Barrett is the
likely winner of the primary, does Wisconsin want someone who will lead or
do they want someone who is an empty suit? His idea of creating jobs is the
green economy and we've seen where that's gotten us. Then there's the
environmental disaster known as MMSD's dumping of shit into the lake.
Barrett has failed miserably to stopthe the dumping of shit into the lake;
and we're talking about millions of gallons of shit too.

Once this is over, the bill ought to be sent to the national Democratic
Party and the public unions, giving them 30 days to pay the bill prior to it
going to collection. Maybe that will teach the children that temper
tantrums have consequences.

What future will they choose? I can sure say one thing. I wish we had a
leader like Scott Walker here in Illinois. Maybe our taxes would be lower
than they currently are and we would have pension reform. One can hope and
pray.

Milwaukee: call it what it is, murder!

As many of you know I do listen to some radio out of Milwaukee WI. As a
result of this, I hear about some of the issues that are going on in that
area and one of them is what they are calling co-sleeping. As the title
indicates, it's not what I call it. This behavior is defined as aninfant
sleeping with an adult in an adult bed or worse, on a couch. They seem to
have a lot of these incidents, far more than we hear about in northern
Illinois.There's got to be a reason for that and I have a theory as to what
one of those reasons might be. They're not calling it what it really is,
murder.

Murder is defined as the killing of someone by another person. While this
is likely not the strict legal definition, it will suffice for this
discussion. There were two more of these "co-sleeping" or what I call
murders, this past weekend; and they were about five hours apart.

What's the definition of insanity? Doing the same thing over and over and
expecting a different result. Well in this case, not calling something for
what it really is means you will get more of it. I truly believe that not
calling this murder diminishes the seriousness of the crime so that they get
more of it. Besides that, leaders in the community don't speak out against
it either, especially in the African-American community where most of these
seem to happen.

This community has some serious issues and this is but one of them and it
points to larger issues such as drug abuse, alcoholism and children
havingchildren. It also points to lack of leadership when no one speaks out
and says,"hey this is wrong."

How many infants must die before theMilwaukee community calls so-called
co-sleeping for what it really is, murder?

Come up with a candidate GOP

As the title indicates, the GOP needs to come up with a candidate; one who
can beat Obama. This country can't afford another four years of Obama and
Stewart Barney from Fox Business News said tonight on, I believe, the Hanidy
Show that if Obama gets another four years, this country will be bankrupt.
Is that a future the GOP wants to see for our country? I know it's not a
future this Republican wants to see. We don't need to be more like Europe
in that regard.

Several candidates have come and gone. Herman Cain was once the flavor of
the day and has thankfully exited the scene. Rick Perry has taken a dive
after showing that he is not ready for prime time. Bockman and Paul both
need to exit as they're too extreme. What we're left with is Romni,
Gingrich, Santorum and Huntsman. For these last four, Gingrich has what I
believe are insurmountable problems and would do the party and the country a
favor by exiting the race now.

As for the other three, I have problems with Romni on health care. I need
to find out more about the other two but Santorum is a conservative who I
wish would catch fire. Huntsman is one who Obama will have trouble
attacking as Obama appointed him Ambassador to China. That says something
for how they get along. It also gives Huntsman some credible foreign policy
experience.

It comes down to electability and Romni is probably the most electable but
stranger things have happened. I urge all who read this to do as I plan to
do and explore the issues and look at the candidates you are interested in.
become an educated voter. The future of the country is at stake.

9/11 ten years later`

As I write this, many things are going through my head. It's the tenth
anniversary of the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil. It happened ten
years ago in three different locations; New York City, Washington D.C. and
Shanksville PA. A total of 4 aircraft were used as weapons and somewhere
around 3,000 people lost their lives just doing what they usually did on any
given day. The World Trade Center towers collapsed, the Pentagon was hit
and passengers on United flight 93 became the first soldiers in the war on
terror.

I'll never forget that day and what I was doing. My husband and I had a
habit of talking early in the morning after he left for work and I got up as
he went in earlier than I did. We had our conversation on the morning of
Tuesday September 11, 2001 as we always did. We hung up and I turned on the
radio only to find out that something awful was happening in New York city.
I immediately called my husband and told him to turn on the radio as WBBM
was taking feed from New York City for reasons I did not fully understand
when I called him. It would not be long before we understood what was going
on. It was also not long before we realized that this great nation was
under attack.

It was a cool clear morning that day. I went to the YMCA that morning and
it was quiet in the exercise room. Needless to say the T.V was on with the
coverage from New York City and other locations. It was there I think that
I found out about the Pentagon. It was definitely there that the towers
fell. It was there or later that I found out about the brave passengers on
United flight 93.

There was a national unity that had not been seen before in my lifetime and
sadly won't likely be seen again. People were thought of as Americans, not
Democrats and republicans. How I wish we had that today rather than the
hyper partisanship we have today.

We have not one but two wars as a result of that day. One I supported and
one I did not. Afghanistan was clearly related to 9/11 while Iraq was not.
We have many casualties as a result of both of these wars.

Earlier this year president Obama achieved something that eluded President
George W. Bush and that something was the killing of Osama Bin laden. That
was a wonderful thing and something that offers some closure for the
families of 9/11.

We have tighter security in airports, although not as tight as it could be.
Just look at Israel for that. There is so much we could learn from them on
the subject of airport security.

We've had some attempts at blowing up aircraft since 9/11 but fortunately
those were not successful due to vigilance and luck on our part. There was
the underwear bomber on a flight headed to Detroit on Christmas Eve 2009.
There was the shoe bomber as well.

There've been other plots that were foiled such as the one involving ink
cartridges and UPS shipments internationally. The Brits helped foil that
one.

This country has changed but I hope we never ever forget those who gave the
ultimate sacrifice that day to help those in need, our first responders. We
lost too many of them on that horrible day. You will never be forgotten.

I close with the words of Darryl Whirly from his song "Have You Forgotten?"
"Have You forgotten when those towers fell, we had neighbors still inside
going through a living hell and we vowed to get the ones behind Bin Laden.
Have you forgotten? Have you forgotten? Some went down like heroes in that
Pennsylvania field. Have you forgotten about our Pentagon, all the love
ones that we lost and those left to carry on. ...."

No and I never will.

No big surprise

Well the U.s. government finally got downgraded by Standard and Poor's
today. That should be no surprise since such a move was hinted and expected
by some earlier this week. You'd think it was a big surprise to the Obama
administration though as the Treasurery Dept. reacted with indignation about
it. Should that be a big surprise either? No it shouldn't considering this
administration has no plan to deal with the matter.

They have no plan because they don't know what they're doing. They're in
over their heads. The stimulus plan, a lot of borrowing in a hurry
according to Sen. Mark Kirk of IL, failed miserably as it did not create any
jobs at all. The unemployment rate still hovers around 9% and the
administration has no clue why either. They have no clue that all their
regulations on things like energy and health care are what is driving
business not to do anything even though they have money. There is so much
uncertainty out there and uncertainty is the enemy of business.

It has been said that if domestic energy production were opened up, several
thousand jobs would be created. How about start by lifting the moratorium
on off-shore drilling. One accident, horrific as it was, should not shut
everything down and bring the domestic energy production to a grinding
hault. This is not the way to increase our energy independence either. Oh
wait, Obama is beholden to the environmental zealots on this one as well.
Remember that he said that electric bills would necessarily go up under cap
and trade. That's another reason not to create jobs as business doesn't
know what their energy costs will be.

The biggest driver of costs for a business is personnel and there are
reasons that business wont' hire. Just look at Boeing V. the NLRB. The
administration is using the NLRB to try and tell business where they must
locate jobs. This will put a damper on any business trying to create jobs,
especially in a right to work state such as South Carolina. There's
legislation in the House to address this matter. Hopefully it will pass but
I wouldn't hold my breath on that getting through the Senate. Reid has
shown his willingness to play politics with jobs. Just look at the recent
squabble over the FAA reauthorization. Much of that hinged on a change that
the GOP wanted but the Dems didn't because it would hurt their union
buddies.

Then there's the issue of the job-crushing Obama Care legislation. They can
say all they want but it's a back door way to get a single payer system and
business doesn't know what their costs will be under this monster
legislation so they're not hiring. Costs will go up under Obama Care not
down. If this legislation were so good, why has the administration granted
over 1,000 waivers? Why don't they just give the entire country a waiver
and repeal the damn thing. By the way, when will Reid bring up repeal in
the Senate under the FY 11 budget deal? The GOP needs to hold him to this
one. If they don't then Reid will make any deal he has to and then break it
when it's convenient for him.

Given all this, is it any surprise that S&P has downgraded the U.S.
government? It's not to me and it shouldn't be to anyone else either. This
situation won't change either until Obama is kicked out of office in 2012.
Vote as if your life depends on it because it does. Maybe then we'll get
some certainty and thus job creation. Time will tell which course the
country chooses.

Can we move on

Now that there's been a compromise on the debt ceiling issue can we move on
? I sure would like to.

Did everyone get what they wanted out of the deal? Absolutely not.
Republicans didn't get the full amount of cuts they wanted. The Democrats
didn't get what they wanted on the tax hike issue either. As Speaker
Boehner said, it's not a perfect bill. It's not either. Now we'll see if
things move forward.

There will be a committee created to work on finding $1.50 trillion worth of
cuts. This will necessarily include some of the biggest drivers of the
deficit, that being entitlement programs and health care. Health care needs
to be dealt with by repealing Obama Care as this will contribute mightily to
the deficit if not repealed. It adds new mandates on insurance companies
which will increase costs to the taxpayers. Remember that much of this
kicks in after the 2012 election. How convenient for Obama.

Entitlements such as Medicare are on the table but the Democrats won't even
look at Rep. Ryan's plan for it. If we don't do anything, then there won't
be a Medicare program for future generations. It won't be there for my
nieces and nephews and certainly won't be there for my great niece. If we
do something, then there's a chance the program could still be viable.
Let's move on to deal with this problem.

Looking for villains on both sides won't help us move on either. Sometime
you have to compromise which means neither side gets everything they want.
That's just the nature of compromise. I only wish we would see more of it
in Washington.

So I say let's move on and do the business of the people.

The budget and the future

We hear a lot about the debt, the budget and deficit spending as these are
topics of major concern. They impact all of us and affect the economy,
something liberals don't seem to understand. Just look at the fact that the
Senate hasn't passed a budget and is trying to maneuver its way out of cut,
cap and balance.

What do you expect from a body that is controlled by the Democrats? More of
the same I'm afraid. They don't want to address the real issues which are
the rising cost of health care which does include Obama Care. Entitlements
are another issue they won't' address because some poor person might get cut
off and they won't be able to control that person anymore.

Make no mistake about it. This fight is about control of the people and
liberals want to control people. They will do things that will get you to
do what they want you to do. Just look at environmental and energy
regulations for all the proof you need in that area.

Then there's the overreach of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB),
telling a private business where it must locate jobs. Hopefully the House
can stop this government excess before more jobs are lost. There might
even be a budget cut there.

As for entitlements, we have to look at reform of this as the current path
is unsustainable. We can't keep throwing money at the problem. There
needs to be reform so that people are encouraged to get off programs as
these were never meant to be permanent.

Obama Care is another place to look for budget cuts. This legislation will
only raise health care costs not lower them. It does this in many ways,
including government mandates which have the added harmful effect of choking
off jobs. Decisions should be made between the doctor and the patient
without interference from the government. This would not be the case under
Obama Care. Just look at the bureaucracies created under this law. Budget
busters to be sure, not to mention getting in the way of the doctor-patient
relationship. I won't even get into the dirty deals that were hatched to
pass that law.

To say that it's time to cut the budget is an understatement. This is one
frustrated voter's view.