Anyone looking to take advantage of the federal food stamp program in
the state of Wisconsin may soon have to pee in a cup before rushing to
the grocery store each month for their taxpayer subsidized sugary
beverages and assortment of Hostess baked goods. As the StarTribune
points out today, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker took steps earlier
today that could eventually make his state the first to require drug
tests for able-bodied adults applying for food stamps.
Gov. Scott Walker moved ahead Monday with his plans to make
Wisconsin the first state to drug test able-bodied adults applying for
food stamps, a move blocked by the federal government or found to be unconstitutional when other states have tried.
Wisconsin's plan was approved by the Republican-controlled
Legislature more than two years ago, but it languished because it
conflicts with federal rules prohibiting states from imposing additional
eligibility criteria on food stamp recipients.
Walker approved a rule change to implement the screening and sent it to the Legislature for review Monday. Walker spokesman Tom Evenson said the governor believes he has the authority to implement the rule.
The Legislature has four months to review the rule and it could take a
year after its approval before the testing would begin. Lawsuits by
those who oppose the drug testing are expected once it's implemented,
assuming the federal government doesn't step in and block it in the
meantime.
Eau Claire is using TIF districts to hand millions of dollars to a
private developer in order to build a new performing arts center and
other buildings in its historic downtown district. TIF districts have
become the favorite tool of crony capitalists to pay off well-connected
business owners while making it “look” like taxes aren’t being spent.
TIF districts were created by the legislature to permit cities to deal
with truly run-down dumps by permitting those cities to borrow against
the growth in tax revenue that development of such blighted areas would
bring. But cities are first supposed to make sure that (1) the area is
truly blighted, and (2) development wouldn’t happen in the area without
the TIF district.
In Eau Claire, neither of those two things happened – the government
officials merely reached those conclusions without actually seeing any
evidence that they were true. On behalf of Voters With Facts, a group
opposed to the project, and dozens of local property taxpayers, we sued
to challenge two TIF districts.
The circuit court dismissed our case, concluding that the plaintiffs
lacked standing (despite case law stretching back a hundred years
permitting taxpayers to challenge the unlawful expenditure of tax
dollars) and that it would be improper for a court to “second guess” a
city’s decision to create a TIF district.
We appealed, and the appellate court partially reversed. The court
agreed that the plaintiffs lacked standing, under a different theory
than that used by the circuit court – that the plaintiffs were wrong on
the merits and therefore lacked standing. However, the court also
concluded that our alternative claim for certiorari review could
survive.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court granted a petition to hear the case,
which will be scheduled for oral argument in the first half of 2018.
When Scott Walker was elected governor in 2010, Wisconsin
was one of the worst states in the country in which to do business.
Since then, we have seen bold and impactful reforms, and
Wisconsin has made great strides. It has clawed its way to 15th
place in the CNBC Global CFO Council ranking, from 29th in
2010.
Still, much work remains. Even in the CNBC ranking, Wisconsin
remains below the national average in friendliness to business
and cost of doing business. According to the Kaiser Family
Foundation, in 2014, Wisconsin’s state and local spending per
person ($7,797) was 43 percent higher than the national average
($5,457) despite an average income below the national average.
Even after $2 billion in tax cuts, Wisconsin’s working families
bear the highest state and local tax burden of any Midwestern
state, much higher than Minnesota, and higher than any state
except New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and California—all
states with significantly higher levels of income. Even after several
years of outperforming the nation in economic growth, Wisconsin
still lags behind the national average in both per capita income
and family income, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. http://www.will-law.org/non-education-policy-reports-main/center-competitive-federalism/
Cindy
wanted me to ask Village President David DeGroot what was the
significance of the yellow/black striped tie he wore at the Foxconn
Contract ceremony?
Please view the attached image:
The juxtaposition of yellow on black has an actual history, in regards to SNAKES:
Red Touch Yellow, Kills a Fellow. Red Touch Black, Friend of Jack
DeGroot Blames Village President Supporters In Egging Home, No Arrests Made
Mount Pleasant
Trustee David DeGroot circulated a press release Friday March, 10
alleging that supporters of village president Jerry Garski egged his
house in a politically motivated attack, though investigators are not so
sure. https://www.racinecountyeye.com/egging-no-arrests-made/
I
am now asking that, in accordance with Cindy's request - that you
provide me with a list of names of those who you believe were
responsible. You do have some people in mind? - Right?
So what did the review of the video capture? Since according to RCE: DeGroot captured the incident on a surveillance system that he
finished installing only the day before. He turned the video over to
Investigators. Lt. Detective Scott Geyer with the Mount Pleasant Police
Department is investigating the incident. Asked if police had any reason
to believe it was politically motivated, he responded, “No, I wouldn’t
make that leap.” There are no suspects at this time, Geyer said, but investigators are still reviewing the video.
Dave - in your opinion - did those Investigators do their due diligence?
Or were they LIBERAL SLACKERS?
Perhaps malfeasant in their duties to capture the culprits who egged your house?
According to Mr. DeGroot: When DeGroot was asked why he waited 10 days to circulate the
release, he said he wanted to wait until he had all his facts in order,
“I couldn’t say that I turned the evidence over to the police.” He was
still figuring out how to get the video out of the system. When asked why he assumed the attack was politically motivated, DeGroot responded, “Why would it be anything else.” The above aren't facts -
It is merely speculation and hearsay. Dave - what do the voices in your head tell you?
Please tell us - because some of us are worried that you may be.... in need of medical attention.
Are you FIT to be Village President?
According to the JT, Governor Scott Walker signed 8 bills at a Racine COP house,
including:
Senate Bill 308 — The bill increases the
penalty for patronizing a prostitute to a felony for persons convicted
of a third or subsequent violation, with a maximum sentence of 3.5
years, a fine up to $10,000 or both.
While an indirect challenge to the
Foxconn MTP politician overreach and land grab, WILL is directing a
challenge against the City of Eau Claire:
The $10 billion Foxconn
factory in Racine County could be “imperiled” by a lawsuit challenging
an economic development project in Eau Claire, according to the state
Department of Justice.
At
issue is whether local economic incentives can result in cash payments
to a private developer or company — which in the Eau Claire case include
$1.5 million, but in the Foxconn case total $100 million.
The
state is seeking to intervene in support of the Eau Claire project in a
lawsuit brought by the conservative Wisconsin Institute for Law and
Liberty on behalf of local taxpayers who say Eau Claire abused
Wisconsin’s tax incremental financing (TIF) law.
The
case, Voters with Facts v. City of Eau Claire, is now before the state
Supreme Court after both the district court and an appellate court ruled
in favor of the city.
Rick Esenberg, the lawyer for
the plaintiffs in the Eau Claire lawsuit, is arguing that the $1.5
million direct payment plus half of the redevelopment payment are an
illegal property tax rebate for the property owner, which would violate
the state Constitution’s requirement that property taxes be assessed in a
uniform manner, known as the uniformity clause.
Esenberg
said it’s possible the argument could also apply to Foxconn, though he
hasn’t studied the Foxconn project in depth. He said the lawsuit isn’t
challenging the use of TIF districts, but is more narrowly focused on
the cash payment to developers.
“If
the uniformity clause prohibits payment to a taxpayer, and we think it
does, then if you want to do the Foxconn deal you’ve got to do it
without making a payment to a taxpayer out of a TIF district,” Esenberg
said.
Please join Cindy and I is JUST SAYING NO to allowing Governor Scott
Walker, Representatives Robin Vos, Cory Mason & MTP President David
DeGroot to violate the Wisconsin Constitution (and their Oath of Office)
by granting special rights to Corporate interests, stealing people’s
property, destroying multi-generational Farms alongside an entire long
established Community, loosening environmental protections, permitting
heavy metals water pollution, instituting slave labor wages, providing
taxpayer subsidies to multi-billionaire Corporations, and politician
overreach.
I am so sorry this is being posted late today. I was busy taking care of another project I have going for a Christmas present. So many things going on this time of the year for me. I have been out taking Christmas decorations too and we will be going to Candy Cane Lane to get pictures. Here are your questions.
1) How are you handling the cold weather that has jump out at us?
2) With the cold weather are you going to hibernate?
3) What is the coldest temperature that you will go outside?
4) Do you like this cold weather or would you prefer the warm weather?
Please join Cindy and I is JUST SAYING NO to allowing Governor Scott
Walker, Representatives Robin Vos, Cory Mason & MTP President David
DeGroot to violate the Wisconsin Constitution (and their Oath of Office)
by granting special rights to Corporate interests, stealing people’s
property, destroying multi-generational Farms alongside an entire long
established Community, loosening environmental protections, permitting
heavy metals water pollution, instituting slave labor wages, providing
taxpayer subsidies to multi-billionaire Corporations, and politician
overreach.
Of course not,... (but Scott Walker did approve Industrial Hemp - which makes excellent ropers.
With the gang of four in control of MTP - Degroot - Havn - Hewitt and Honorary Trustee Anna Marie Clausen -
The future will be Golden - or maybe NOT!
So Governor Scott Walker along with Representatives Robin Vos and Cory
Mason want to violate the Wisconsin Constitution, steal people’s
property, destroy generational Farms & a Community, loosen
environmental protections, and provide taxpayer subsidies to
multi-billionaires and their Corporations – YOU CAN COUNT US OUT OF
THEIR CRIMINAL REVOLUTION AGAINST THE PEOPLE!
Hi, gang. So sorry to be late. I had a, er, medical procedure performed this morning and things got a little harrier than expected. I punched out two orderlies before they realized that something was up. So they had to hold me while the orderlies decided whether or no they wanted to press charges. I reminded them that if they pressed charges, their children will be ugly, and stupid (like their parents).
So they finally let me go. I told the orderlies not to forget what I had told them. Grr. I think one was afraid, and the other one is always drunk.
If you have a problem, give me a holla. I can only make it worse. I love you all.
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I’m Art Kumbalek and man oh manischewitz what a world,
ain’a? Listen, I got a confession to make. Let me tell you, when I
started to see Christmas kaboodle in some stores before Columbus Day for
crying out loud, I got to admit that I started to look a little forward
to the holidays, what the fock. But now with the holiday season heating
up big-time but good, I must confess that I’m sitting here with not a
thing to celebrate but my own failure to deliver the goods I had on my
list this week for you’s. Here’s why.
I thought for sure by now at this late date in the season, I’d have
this holiday song I’ve been working on for years ready for your preview,
’cause if you hear what I hear this time of year every year, you know
damn well that the creaky seasonal canon needs new ammunition. Yes sir, I
believed that “Every Day’s Just Another Focking Holiday” not
only would hit the charts Numero Uno with a big ol’ bullet but it would
be the first holiday tune in human history that could be played each and
every day of the year. And then some hotshot impresario would turn it
into a Broadway musical and I’d be a millionaire, I kid you not.
But I’m having troubles working out the bridge to the tune, such that
I feel like jumping off a bridge like a regular George Bailey, and it
definitely is not a wonderful life. Not when you’re flirting with the
iron maiden of deep, dark despair on account of another failure—that
being my inability once again to get the Art Kumbalek Mistletoe Belt
Buckle to the holiday market. This really blows.
And I tell you, based on the number of queries I field throughout the
year as to the availability of this fine gift idea, the Art Kumbalek
Mistletoe Belt Buckle is also a million-dollar moneymaker waiting to
happen. You may recall that the AKMBB is conceptualized to be so much
more than just a focking stocking-stuffer gag gift, in that the belt
buckle is designed to be compatible with the Art Kumbalek Big Boy Belt.
Modeled on Batman’s ultra-handy utility belt, the snazzy Big Boy Belt—to
be available with the Mistletoe Belt Buckle for only an additional buck
two-eighty—would sport all kind of clips, loops and high-tech doo-dads
so as to hold practical items like a can of beer, Bowie knife,
Chapstick, flask, carton of Pall Malls, an extra pair of socks; so that
you could cart this stuff around the town and maintain accessible
convenience.
But alas, again with the production problems in that this Santa can’t
locate a decent sweatshop. I found that a lot of these Fourth World
elves are looking to make 14 cents an hour and I simply can’t do
business if I have to focking fork out blue-chip Third World wages like
that. Hey, who could? You tell me.
It just occurred to me that some of you’s right now may also be
feeling failure and disappointment this time of year even as I write and
you read, and the least I could do is give you a handy tip since I got
experience in this area. You know what I do when I get disappointed cum
out of whack? Nothing, not a goddamn thing that’s what, ’cause why
bother? Just suck it up and steady yourself for the next load of dashed
desire due down the pike any second. And never ever forget that your
crap casserole might not be some other knucklehead’s filet
mig-focking-non; so what makes you think you’re so hoity-toity special
you can’t have some disappointment once in a while? You tell me.
And then I’ll tell you to remember this: “No man is an Iland, intire of it selfe; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; if Clod bee washed away by Sea, Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as well as if a Mannor of thy friends or of thine owne were; any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankinde; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.”
I got to tell you, those old farts who wrote stuff a couple hundred
years before TV couldn’t spell for crap. I had to read the above a
couple, three focking times until I understood that the important thing
not to forget is that every time a bell tolls, an angel gets its wings
’cause I’m Art Kumbalek and I told you so.
Seems like everyone is fighting over a slice of the pie that hasn't even been produced - much less baked.
SO what does Racine County Executive Jonathan Delagrave have to say about this?
Should Milwaukee annex part of Racine County for Foxconn-related housing?
If state and local authorities
aren't willing to invest in transportation options to ferry low-income
Milwaukee workers to the proposed $10 billion Foxconn plant in Mount
Pleasant, Milwaukee Ald. Bob Bauman has another idea.
What
if, Bauman suggests, the city annexed a piece of land in Racine County
and helped build a neighborhood of affordable single- and multi-family
homes where transplanted Milwaukee workers could live?
That's
one of the ideas the 4th District alderman would like his colleagues on
the Common Council's Zoning, Neighborhood & Development Committee
to consider at its Dec. 12 meeting. Bauman has asked the city attorney's
office and Department of City Development to weigh in on the
feasibility of creating what he calls a "satellite community" for
Milwaukee workers near the planned Foxconn plant.
*WOW*
Just *WOW*
Concerned Residents of MTP can only hope that David DeGroot is a one
term President - like Donald Trump - and kicked to the curb by informed
voters in the next election - along with Havn and Hewitt.
Please join Cindy and me in JUST SAYING NO TO the unconstitutional counter-revolution promulgated by Scott Walker & Co.
So Governor Scott Walker along with Representatives Robin Vos and Cory
Mason want to violate the Wisconsin Constitution, steal people’s
property, destroy generational Farms & a Community, loosen
environmental protections, and provide taxpayer subsidies to
multi-billionaires and their Corporations – YOU CAN COUNT US OUT OF
THEIR CRIMINAL REVOLUTION AGAINST THE PEOPLE! https://concernedracinecountyresidentsjustsaynotofoxconn.wordpress.com/2017/12/03/the-boom-bust-lessons-of-williston-nd-will-prove-to-be-a-bitter-pill-for-scott-walker-and-se-wi-to-swallow/
Sincerely,
Tim & Cindy
Village administrator looks to ‘fix’ finance department
MOUNT PLEASANT — In her first Village
Board meeting as administrator, Maureen Murphy presented some bold
moves for Mount Pleasant.
Having
only been on the job officially for a few days, Murphy told the board
on Monday that there are “some issues with our payroll taxes getting
paid.”
“There is just no time to go through our
normal procedure, which would be a committee report,” Murphy said. “The
year is ending and I am immensely concerned, so with your permission, I
will proceed to fix the finance department.”
After
trustees Gary Feest and Jon Hansen raised concerns about the same
auditing firm also organizing the village’s books, Murphy told the board
she would bring in a different company.
“I’ve
gotten the message from the board and the concerns you’ve addressed,”
Murphy said. “I will use a different auditing firm for this. I don’t
want there to be any doubt in what we’re doing.”
Murphy also proposed that the board hire an assistant village
administrator, which would be paid for out of funds from the village
administrator budget for 2018. http://journaltimes.com/news/local/village-administrator-looks-to-fix-finance-department/article_0919717d-1d33-523a-9691-cd32584e0d3f.html FACEPALM! The
words that come to mind concerning the Village President can only be a
bumbling, stumbling, mindless, clueless - Tea-party (er) .
Perhaps
Village President David DeGroot would like to tell Resident Taxpayers
what exactly is in that TEA - that allows Village finances to wildly
careen out of control - like a drunken Sailor on shore leave!
And now - ANOTHER Village Employee (see COST CENTER) will be required to sort out the David DeGroot Disaster.
Please
- allow me to provide some direction here - especially to Havn, Hewitt
and DeGroot and honorary Trustee Anna Marie Clausen -
You need to
END the creepy cyber -stalking of/ devotion to/ time spent at/providing
Insider information to - the author of the hate-speech blog: http://letsmakeabettermtpleasant.com/
Mt. Pleasant burns while you fools fiddle with Cyber Hate and REVENGE!
Concerned
Residents of MTP can only hope that David DeGroot is a one term
President - like Donald Trump - and kicked to the curb by informed
voters in the next election - along with Havn and Hewitt.
Please join Cindy and me in JUST SAYING NO TO the unconstitutional counter-revolution promulgated by Scott Walker & Co.
So Governor Scott Walker along with Representatives Robin Vos and Cory
Mason want to violate the Wisconsin Constitution, steal people’s
property, destroy generational Farms & a Community, loosen
environmental protections, and provide taxpayer subsidies to
multi-billionaires and their Corporations – YOU CAN COUNT US OUT OF
THEIR CRIMINAL REVOLUTION AGAINST THE PEOPLE! https://concernedracinecountyresidentsjustsaynotofoxconn.wordpress.com/2017/12/03/the-boom-bust-lessons-of-williston-nd-will-prove-to-be-a-bitter-pill-for-scott-walker-and-se-wi-to-swallow/
Sincerely,
Tim & Cindy
SHARESAround mid-November, Human Rights Watch (HRW) issued a shocking report detailing China’s gay conversion problem.
Powerful first-hand accounts expose how state-owned hospitals are using electric shock machines and medication to convert gays back to some form of 'normalcy'. The practice is an open secret in China, where a majority of gays are forced by their families into hospitals, because the culture labels it as a curable-disease.
Even the World Psychiatric Association has come out denouncing the practice as “unethical, unscientific and harmful”.
It’s been rumored that prisoners at Guantanamo Bay have received
better treatment than those in China, who have been put through the
conversion process.
With that being said, the Chinese knew the rest of the world was going to figure out about the inhuman treatments to literally shock the gay out of you; and so, back in 2015, the Government approved a research team at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou to study the effects of spraying oxytocin up the noses of homosexual men to see how it affects their sexual orientation.
Oxytocin has been best known for its roles in the female reproduction system.
Recently, scientist have been investigating oxytocin’s role in various
behaviors including, orgasm, social recognition, bonding, and maternal
behaviors. The article says it’s also known as the ‘love hormone’ or the
‘cuddle hormone’ because levels of oxytocin are increased during hugs
and orgasms. Oxytocin’s connection in love and sexuality is not well
understood, which spurred the scientist’s two years clinical, to spray
the natural hormone up gay men’s noses.
Please join Cindy and me in just saying NO! to Governor Scott Walker along with Representatives Robin Vos and Cory
Mason violating the Wisconsin Constitution, stealing people’s
property, destroying generational Farms & a Community, loosening
environmental protections, and providing taxpayer subsidies to
multi-billionaires and their Corporations – YOU CAN COUNT US OUT OF
THEIR CRIMINAL REVOLUTION AGAINST THE PEOPLE!
As the case for impeachment
against U.S. President Donald Trump grows - so does the case against
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker.
Being involved in
unconstitutional activities, violating the rights of the people, and
granting privately held corporate interests superior rights to that of
the natural person - IS A CRIME, and an offense against nature.
Yesterday in The Internecine Deep State Conflict Moves to Stage Two I suggested that the conflict was heating up,
a move confirmed by former Trump advisor Michael Flynn's guilty plea
that he lied to the F.B.I. regarding his contact with Russian officials.
The case for impeachment now becomes clear: prosecutors
will attempt to prove that Trump made contact with the Russians in
violation of the Logan Act, which forbids private citizens from dealing
in matters of state with foreign governments.
According to the Wikipedia entry on The Logan Act, To
date, only two people have ever been indicted for violating the Act's
provisions. However, no person has ever been prosecuted for alleged
violations of the Act.
(There are of course other potential charges, which we will learn more
about as legal commentators across the spectrum weigh in.)
