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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The real question is, “Who is hurt by the Wisconsin state budget shortfall?” The answer is anyone that depends on this monopoly known as the state.  From the Wisconsin State Journal in an article on Nov. 15th titled, “Who’s to blame for state budget shortfall?“, here is a section of it:

“If Gov. Jim Doyle and Republican and Democratic lawmakers now find themselves in a $5 billion budget hole, it’s because they’ve all done part of the shoveling, budget experts said. At least $1.6 billion of the state’s massive budget shortfall stems from a spend-now, pay-later attitude pervasive in both political parties in the state Capitol, these analysts said.”

All politicians are faced with guaranteed termination within a few years of getting into office as re-elections are mandated. So these individuals know their time is short and they must spend all the money they can while they are in. These individuals are parasites that feed on the citizens’ money which was stolen through the corrupt practice of collecting involuntarily paid taxes.  I never consented to paying any taxes.  And if I don’t pay, I go directly to jail.  Taxes are involuntary.  Governor Jim Doyle is an example of a parasite. There are special interest groups he must feed.  There are campaign contributors that he must feed.  There are his close friends in Wisconsin communities that must receive special considerations.  He must receive name recognition now and in the future through grandiose schemes he must concoct funded by large sums of stolen tax money.  He must not care about costs.  He must not care about the future, he must only care about now.  There may be no next term for him.

The other problem is that these parasites continue to spread their tentacles into Wisconsin communities and the state apparatus becomes a monopoly over many of the services that are vital to citizens for their daily life.  The state parasites also snuff out any competition for services and thereby destroy jobs.  Trash collection, road maintenance, security services, schooling services, retirement planning, and on and on and on.  Instead of community individuals socially cooperating in the decentralized free markets to make arrangements for services that are sustainable, they rely on central planners like Jim Doyle and his gang to coordinate this.  However, the state is a monopoly that doesn’t produce anything in order to fund itself.  It relies on the only trick it has for funding—steal from taxpayers and enforce the theft with the guns and firepower of the police-state.  This dark practice comes to light though when tax revenues are down such as now.  What trick do central planners like Jim Doyle have now?  Nothing.  They can only hand out what they previously stole from others.  But as lucrative as their unethical game is they are faced with admitting that the game of theft and spend is a roller-coaster ride fraught with instability.  It’s not organic.  It’s artificial.  It’s a scheme not unlike the one Ponzi came up with.  In the end though it’s the citizens who have been depending on this central planning regime and its artificial scheme that are hurt the most.  Imagine the possibilities for improving our lives and making them sustainable if instead of funneling 1/3 of our income through central planning bureaucratic parasites we instead had an open market where multiple choices were available with much lower costs and better quality.  We would buy and sell services to and from community members that have a stake in their reputation and future with fellow individuals.  They aren’t here today and gone tomorrow.  Life would be much more stable in a downturn.  In an organic market system the only people out of a job would be the unproductive boobs in government now.

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