Everything is under attack in Wisconsin. Will this administration ever listen to We The People? Will Gov. Walker ever stop with the devastating cuts and attacks on the working men and women of Wisconsin?
This morning The Cap Times had this lead article: Rolling Back Child Labor Laws. This heinous proposal would allow unlimited hours of work for 16 and 17 year olds. Can we see the simple horizon on this? Of course. This horrendous proposal would encourage teens to drop out of school, - how about this for No Child Left Behind?! - it would reduce the adult work force because employers would see a benefit to hiring younger workers, and take unfair advantage of younger workers. What do I see? I see an all out assault on working people in Wisconsin. Each week there seems to be some new and draconian plan for undermining the working people of the state. However, remember that Gov. Kasich of Ohio has promoted this same sort of thing in asking the state legislature to drop the minimum wage to a bit over $5.00 thereby making it more profitable for employers to hire those under 18. Or let's just say he wanted to reduce the minimum wage across the board and this was his way of doing that. Remember these folks have been at these plans for decades. And why? Because I guess the Kochs and the DeVos and the Waltons just don't have enough money.
Scott Ross at One Wisconsin Now says in the latest email that Walker "had secretly agreed to sign any concealed carry bill passed -- no matter how extreme." More of the surreptitious machinations ongoing in Walker's Wisconsin - which, when I checked with Mapquest wasn't listed in my search. Concealed carry - what a dangerous thing. And in a state with such heightened and polarized emotions. Not a good decision.
I've noticed more and more cars in this area with RECALL WALKER signs on the bumper and more signs in windows as well. This lackey for the money people is becoming more and more unpopular. Tsk, tsk. What you get for selling your soul to the company store. Recall efforts continue on both sides of the aisle though the repubs are in a bit of trouble due to their extensive lying to buy their way out of the trouble they'd be in if those senators were recalled. On the Dem side of things, unfortunately the recalls are also moving forward. The time is soon coming for an account for these seasons of discontent in the state.
Last night we watched a made-for-tv series titled The Tin Man. It seems the story written long ago by Frank L. Baum continues to fascinate us. The Tin Man is a current telling of Baum's tale with very creative updates. The scarecrow is a guy who had his brain removed because he was the good queen's engineer and he made a powerful machine. The tin man had been a captain of the Queen's own guard - he had a tin badge - and had lost his family to the wicked witch's storm troopers. The lion was an intuitive who was frightened of most things. His kind had been taken by the wicked witch and hooked to a machine so she could see the future. Dorothy was called DG and only at the end of the adventure did she find out that her aunt - Dorothy Gage - had been a revered good witch of Oz - or as it was called in the series - O Z land. Very clever
Just like the smash Broadway hit, Wicked, The Tin Man is a political and very astute satire on current situations. I got to thinking that if I applied myself I might come up with a version based on Wisconsin politics. Let's see - the wicked witch would most assuredly have to be, um, well - how about one of the Koch boys? What? Not Walker you ask? Nope, I think Walker and Fitzgerald will have to be some of the flying monkeys. Doesn't that seem much more realistic? Yeah, I think so, too.
Keep your eyes on the news - the summer is winding up!
Power To All The People!
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