#GOP #WI #PropertyTax Breaks are a PITTANCE for #Rural #Taxpayers - Individual Tax Credits Best

GOP WI PropertyTax Breaks are a PITTANCE for Rural Taxpayers - Individual Tax Credits Best ... The GOP has been doling out cash to their corporate and wealthy donors.

Why we make BAD decisions !

Deadly shark-fin trade from Central America to China is passing through Miami

BY FABIOLA SANTIAGO fsantiago@miamiherald.com

BY FABIOLA SANTIAGO

fsantiago@miamiherald.com
Deadly #shark-fin trade from Central America to China is passing through Miami

Trash, Trump and Orangutans

Orangutans are currently only found in the rainforests of Borneo and Sumatra.  They are about to become extinct.  Wikipedia

Nearly every day I walk a particular way to a coffee shop and get a little exercise.  Sometimes I change the path - a side errand, avoid the prevailing wind or simply to engage in a little variety.

One day I noticed there was a little more trash than usual on the sidewalk but mostly in the gutter.  As I continued along I thought about where the trash came from?  The city I live in, Madison WI, has a vibrant social infrastructure full of weekend events and other times as well - farmer's market, art fair, marathons, music and food celebrations and many activist events, etc.

The City, implicitly my neighbors, does a good job accommodating these events and cleaning up. Usually - this was an exception, a small one I hoped would be remedied.   Ironically this might be an occasion for "the politics of resentment".

The next day, as I took the same journey, the trash was still there - blown around and in slightly different positions.  Hmmmm!

Earlier that morning as I listened to a podcast, read an article - I was reminded of a theme I have heard often - "We make bad decisions because we are so focused on the near term and discount the future, costs and uncertainty, i.e., the future can't be known or you can't control it."

We think, when we see the trash, it will be taken care of, that it burdens us with no cost, since we are almost past it, a second time.

I looked around and tried to remember which corners also had containers for passerby's trash.  I stooped and picked up some garbage.  If I left it there I was being burdened with it's unsightly presence, everyday, as were my neighbors.

We make poor choices everyday thinking we can't affect the future and because some tell us we can't affect the future.  In a small but significant way, I can make my daily walk a lot more pleasant.

There are things we collectively care about but facts are not going to stir us to act.  We need to recognize our own nature, that we discount the future, discount the costs, rationalize uncertainty as an excuse and thus make really bad decisions.

I wonder why the orangutans of Borneo do not organize and stop the special-interests from clear-cutting their rainforests.

Why we make BAD decisions !

War on the Elderly, Rural, Middle Income and Poor of Wisconsin


#Trash, #Trump and #Orangutans #Politics #socialorder

Why we make BAD #decisions !  #Elect the wrong people!  Believe obvious liars !  > #Trump WI 1848 Forward #TED Dan #Gilbert - In our psyche. 

Foxconn, UW-Madison Leaders to Make Announcement

Leaders of Foxconn Technology Group and the University of Wisconsin-Madison are planning to make what they call a "major announcement" on campus Monday. U.S. News and World Report  Aug. 27, 2018, at 9:21 a.m.

Wonder what it is?

• Wisconsin taxpayers cough up between $3 billion and $4 billion ?
• Wisconsin localities use eminent domain to take people's property and make way for FOXCONN ?
• Maybe FOXCONN gets all the water it wants from Lake Michigan ?
• FOXCONN gets exempted from all state environmental rules and regulations ?
• Wisconsin Transportation Funds are diverted from statewide infrastructure to support FOXCONN needs ?
• Wisconsin gets 13,000 jobs -- maybe in five years ? What kind of jobs ?
• Walker gets political cover for keeping Wisconsin at the end of the line when it comes to recovery -- compare to Minnesota or Illinois ?

Nope -- those deals or promises have already been done!  Be interesting to see what really happens!

Oh! UW gets $100 million, maybe ?

Foxconn CEO Terry Gou, left, and UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank after signing a Declaration of Collaboration agreement Monday Aug. 27, 2018 at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery on the UW-Madison campus. Foxconn Technology Group announced Monday, that it will invest $100 million in engineering and innovation research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, making it one of the largest gifts in the school's history that comes as the Taiwan-based electronics giant builds a factory in southeastern Wisconsin that would be the company's first of its kind in North America. (Steve Apps/Wisconsin State Journal via AP) The Associated Press

See photo in link and story

Proof of Point --

Wisconsin DOT report shows total transportation funding has fallen under Scott Walker -- Katelyn Ferral Cap Times 8/28/18

Foxconn, UW-Madison Leaders to Make Announcement -> UW gets $100 Million as the state gives up $3 Billion ?  WI 1848 Forward

Who is Senator Tammy Baldwin running against ... big bucks!

Big question for Wisconsin U.S. Senate race focuses on mega-donor Dick Uihlein

A week after accusing a billionaire donor of attempting to buy a Wisconsin U.S. Senate seat, Republican nominee Leah Vukmir is now hoping to persuade the same Illinois businessman to open his wallet for her campaign against Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin.

Vukmir’s change of heart comes after she won Tuesday’s divisive and expensive Republican primary over Kevin Nicholson, the preferred candidate of mega-donor Dick Uihlein. He spent nearly $11 million on the race for Nicholson and now, as Republicans try to unite behind Vukmir, the big question is whether Uihlein will get involved in the effort to defeat Baldwin, of Madison.

Who is Senator #Tammy #Baldwin running against ... #GOP mega-donor big bucks!

Given GRU Indictments Isn't Putin (Reasonably) An Unindicted Co-Conspirator

Putin (Reasonably) An Unindicted Co-Conspirator - when Putin is here change it to indicted and arrest him :)

Justice Department Charges Russian Cyberspies With Attack On 2016 Election 

7/13/2018 

All Things Considered

The Justice Department charged 12 Russian intelligence officers on Friday with a litany of alleged offenses related to Russia's hacking of the Democratic National Committee's emails, state election systems and other targets in 2016.

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who announced the indictments, said the Russians involved belonged to the military intelligence service GRU. They are accused of a sustained cyberattack against Democratic Party targets, including its campaign committee and Hillary Clinton's campaign.

The GRU attackers also allegedly targeted state election systems, including government agencies and their vendors, and stole information about 500,000 American voters.

The attacks were a signature feature of Russia's active measures against the United States; embarrassing emails were passed to WikiLeaks, which released them publicly. The GRU also created other ways to pass the material it stole into the public, including a website called DCLeaks and a fake persona called "Guccifer 2.0."

Given #GRU Indictments Isn't #Putin (Reasonably) An Unindicted Co-Conspirator - #Russia

The #Trump organization offered to house the #migrant separated children in their HOTEL properties

Trump admin's 'tent cities' cost more than keeping migrant kids with parents - NBC

WASHINGTON — The cost of holding migrant children who have been separated from their parents in newly created "tent cities" is $775 per person per night, according to an official at the Department of Health and Human Services — far higher than the cost of keeping children with their parents in detention centers or holding them in more permanent buildings.

Title - Satire Warning ... because otherwise you might believe it !

"We could save the government a lot of money," Trump offered, "Oh Yeah, I am the government.  Well I could use the money too!"


The #Trump organization offered to house the #migrant separated #children in their HOTEL properties.