Standard of Living – Madison, Wisconsin

Read the latest on the incompetence of government bureaucrats in Wisconsin.  Summary: government worker practicing law in Wisconsin is too incompetent to pass a simple bar exam that all private lawyers have already done.

Also, the article explains that the pathetic governor, Jim Doyle, who has allowed unemployment to soar and created untold losses of wealth in Wisconsin, is now hoarding large amounts of extortion cash from special interest groups as he makes his exit from Wisconsin politics.  I no longer wonder where all the money in Wisconsin has been going all this time.

Read the full story of government incompetence and theft.

With Doyle out of the races for governor in the next race, Wisconsin will get the spectacular choice between a hard-headed incompetent Republican bureaucratic idiot and a much-the-same incompetent Democrat thief.  Your choice is limited to two morons in Wisconsin politics!  Fortunately, there is a better way.

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AIG employees under their bad breath are thanking Wisconsin Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin that she voted to pull money out of the hands of Wisconsin workers, children and elderly to reward AIG for its excessive greed and corruption.  Thanks to Tammy Baldwin, AIG employees will get $165 million dollars in fun money for their hard work in keeping the company’s corrupt business going.  The bonuses likely would not have been paid out if there had been no bailout approved by Tammy Baldwin.  No bailout = No bonuses.  Simple math really.  Anyways, $165 million to have some fun in the sun!  Woo-hoo!  I need to start applying for jobs at companies that Tammy Baldwin is taking cash from the elderly in Wisconsin to bail out.  I wanna get my hands on some of that free cash!  It’s all free money!  Free, free, free!!!  I’ll have to get a list from her of her future bailouts using Wisconsin cash.

Other grateful recipients of Wisconsin cash thanks to Tammy Baldwin are Germany’s Deutsche Bank ($11.8 billion) and Britain’s Barclays PLC ($8.5 billion) for money which they received through AIG and hence through Wisconsin’s workers, children and elderly.  Tammy Baldwin apparently has gone international!  You go girl!

Associated Press:  “Taxpayers unlikely to be fully repaid in AIG mess”

2010 is right around the corner and time to replace the local Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin.  I mean, how much cash do you have?  Another vote for Tammy Baldwin is like you taking your wallet to the Mississippi river and opening it wide and watching your hard-earned money catch a fast-flowing current to another state.

Well, thank the Norse god Odin that he has provided a replacement for the terribly corrupt international bankster puppet—Tammy Baldwin.  Again, since discovering Dr. Tim Nerenz, I have been extremely happy.  I was expecting some goofball like Peter Theron to run against Tammy Baldwin again.  No ma’am.  We have ourselves a PhD with an excellent handle on economics.  Guess what his prescription for economic recovery is?  No it’s not robbing Wisconsin’s workers, children or elderly and handing their money to criminals in New York—Tammy Baldwin’s prescription.  Check his prescription out for yourself.

Dr. Tim Nerenz’ campaign website

Tim Nerenz’ blog

Tim Nerenz on Facebook

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Predatory legislator, Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis), of the 2nd Congressional District of Wisconsin, is an example of high-powered finance capital funding a puppet politician in order to benefit themselves economically at the expense of the public.  In the last campaign, Tammy Baldwin ran against Peter Theron.  In that race, Baldwin received 277,914 votes (69%) and Theron received 122,513 votes (31%).  This was a close race in terms of votes, but NOT in terms of dollars.  Apparently, organizations and individuals that have a stake in plundering the public have such a high pay-off from it, that they are willing to pay Tammy Baldwin a LOT of money to do so.  As we know, Baldwin recently voted to enslave the next generation with an additional $1,000,000,000,000 in debt payments which apparently brought money into the hands of the politically-connected in the nation.  The cost breakdown to keep Tammy Baldwin voting “yes” to predatory legislation like this breaks down as follows:

Tammy Baldwin:

Campaign contribution totals:  $1,471,218

Number of votes:  277,914

Dollars per vote:  $5.30

Now compare how Tammy’s competitor achieved votes from the public despite NOT raising money from the politically-connected:

Peter Theron:

Campaign contribution totals:  $27,430

Number of votes:  122,513

Dollars per vote:  $0.22

The results are mind-numbing when you begin to realize that Tammy Baldwin has donors willing to spend $5.30 per vote to keep her in office and keep the public’s money flowing to them through Tammy’s voting to enslave the public with massive debt to fund corporate welfare payments.  Peter Theron represented the politically un-connected and was a populist candidate since he obtained votes by obtaining a mere $0.22 per vote and still was approved by 31% of the voting population.  Theron apparently appealed to individuals that are sick and tired of Baldwin and her predatory legislation and so voted for Theron as a protest vote or truly liked Theron’s agenda.

Luckily, in 2010, there will be a candidate from the Libertarian Party, Tim Nerenz, who will be advocating for individuals and not special interest groups like Baldwin does.  Tim Nerenz appears to be a moral individual who cares about future generations and doesn’t want to enslave them to debt payments that they never agreed to.  Tim appears to be an individual that doesn’t want to feed the politically-connected like Tammy Baldwin does.

I do like that Tammy Baldwin has defended the social liberties of individuals in the Madison area, however; individuals who want all that and respect for the human right to freedom from unwanted debt should start looking at Tim Nerenz to represent you in 2010.

Luckily, given the overwhelming results of candidates running against Baldwin in terms of dollar-per-vote statistics, overthrowing the tyrant Tammy Baldwin won’t require much money—just individuals’ passion for BOTH social liberty AND economic liberty.

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Visit: Tim Nerenz’s blog

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David Sirota is a journalist fighting an imaginary war of “the left vs. the right” in understanding the Great Depression.  In his imaginary war construct consisting of only two forces in the world, the left and the right, David Sirota succumbs to a force of nature called bias that has lead him to develop a strange strain of anti-intellectualism.  David Sirota’s strain of anti-intellectualism shows “hostility towards intellectuals and intellectual pursuits that have arrived at conclusions that counter leftist/progressive understanding of the Great Depression”.  This is what happens when an individual like David Sirota creates a strawman scenario to do battle in, such as his imaginary “left vs. right” war, so as to relieve oneself of the necessity to participate in reality.  Well, times are tough these days for some, so I guess some will always look for an escape from reality.

David Sirota says of his recent appearance on FOX News:

Fox News is starting its campaign to stop Obama’s big spending plan by stating – as assumed fact – that “historians pretty much agree” that Franklin Roosevelt prolonged the Great Depression, and that therefore, Obama shouldn’t try another New Deal.

[...]If the right wants to try to stop a serious economic recovery package and financial regulations by trying to vilify one of the most popular presidents and popular policy programs in American history, then I’ll say what George Bush once said: Bring it on.

Then Sirota quotes Daniel Gross of the New York Times to help beat down the imaginary forces of the right:

The argument that the New Deal’s efforts “perhaps had prolonged, the Depression,” is a canard. One would be very hard-pressed to find a serious professional historian–I mean a serious historian, not a think-tank wanker, not an economist, not a journalist–who believes that the New Deal prolonged the Depression.  (emphasis added)

David Sirota continues:

[...]these are not “normal people” – those making these arguments are right-wing automatons whose claim that we shouldn’t look at actual data, we should simply accept the truth of their claims because they insist “it’s in the books!” or they’ve supposedly seen “all kinds of studies and academic work” that proves their hysteria true.

Well, Madison WI individuals, here are those professional historians that Sirota and Gross say don’t exist.  This list was provided here by David T. Beito, professor of history at the University of Alabama.  They are professors with doctorates in history from top-ranked universities that according to Beito are “serious professional historians who would probably argue (and argue strongly) that the New Deal prolonged the Depression.”

1. David T. Beito of University of Alabama
2. Jonathan Bean of Southern Illinois University
3. Brad Birzer of Hillsdale College
4. Brad Thompson of Clemson College
5. Jeffrey Hummel at San Jose State University
6. Larry Schweikart of Dayton State University
7. Michael Allen of the University of Washington of Tacoma
8. Ralph Raico of Buffalo State College
9. Burton Folsom of Hillsdale College
10. David Mayer of Capital State University in Columbus
11. John Moser of Ashland University in Ohio
12. Paul Moreno of Hillsdale

And as regards an understanding of the Great Depression, there is no war of the “the left vs. the right“.  David Sirota’s use of a bullshit left-right paradigm is a resort to the False Dilemma fallacy.  I am an individual that is neither a Republican nor from the right (nor the left) but believes after much research that FDR’s New Deal prolonged the Depression.  Sirota is saying that anyone who believes as I do is from the right and are just taking the right’s side in his fantasy “left vs. right” war.  This is false.  David Sirota is the poster child of Great Depression anti-intellectualism and promoter of a false dilemma between the “the left or the right” in understanding the Great Depression.

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