Corporate Cronies get Payoff from WI GOP on Road Transportation Fixes - John Doe Pays

WisGOPs want everyday drivers to pay to fix Scottholes, but not their trucking buddies -

Jake's Wisconsin Funhouse

So people that drive light trucks every day are looking at a fee increase. But companies who have 4-5 ton dump trucks will GET THEIR FEES CUT, some by $55! And 18-wheelers won’t pay anything more than they do today, which removes a provision Evers had that would have raised their fees by 10%. 

I can't think of any reason to do this other than as payback for campaign contributions from the trucking and construction industries, and it causes a disgusting free ride for the business owners whose vehicles do the most damage to our roads. Oh, but it’s people that are on Medicaid that are the real “welfare” cases, right John Nygren?

So now I know ... Gov. Evers wanted to pay by "use" tax, i.e., raise gas tax!  Which do you think is fair?  Which lobbyists wrote the GOP proposal?


Corporate Cronies get Payoff from WI #GOP on #Road #Transportation Fixes - John Doe Pays for #Scottholes #Vos #DefeatVos #Fitzgerald #DefeatFitzgerald

#SCOTUS Beware: DredScott, Plessy v. Ferguson, Roe v. Wade

The appointment of Brett Kavanaugh as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States for it's significance was so problematic.

The controversies of his accused behavior and the examples of the behavior of our President, who nominated him, toward women is beyond ironic.

...  that we now seem certain to see the Supreme Court reconsider Roe v. Wade.

During his testimony he was questioned again and again about "settled law".  Part of his various answer(s) was to hold up the "Dred Scott Supreme Court decision" as an example "settled law" that was justifiably reversed.

This was alarming because it means Kavanaugh will use "Dred Scott" as rationalizing justification for reversing "Roe v. Wade" - bad law

Said more bluntly "The Supreme Court took a man and made him into a slave."

What "right" will supersede a "women's right to privacy" under the "Due Process Clause" of  the 14th Amendment. 


#SupremeCourt #SCOTUS Beware: #DredScott , #Plessy-Ferguson , #Roe-Wade , #Dreamers , #BLM, #Thomas #Alito , et al

#SupremeCourt #SCOTUS Beware: #DredScott , #Plessy-Ferguson , #Roe-Wade , #Dreamers > If #Trump is above the #LAW SCOTUS becomes his tool :(   #Thomas #Alito , et al 2022 

The Mueller Report or "TheGenius President is not above the law and Congress should IMPEACH and remove him from Office."

The Mueller Report or "The President is behaving as if above the law and Congress should IMPEACH and remove him from Office."

Hope I just don't let it sit there :)


MAY 29, 2019, AT 2:22 PM - How To Think About Mueller’s Statement - By Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux - Filed under Russia Investigation

...
In some ways, Mueller’s statement felt out of sync with the current political moment — particularly since it came more than a month after the report was released by Attorney General William Barr and more than two months after Barr’s much-criticized summary initially relayed Mueller’s findings. But now that Mueller has exited the political fray, it’s entirely up to Congress as to what happens next — and many 2020 hopefuls are using it in a new push for impeachment, which could complicate House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s agenda.

Here are three takeaways from Mueller’s press conference:
Mueller quietly rebuked Barr, repeating that he did not exonerate the president.

Underneath the polite, straightforward summary of his findings, Mueller poked holes in Barr’s presentation of his findings in March. In contrast to Barr, who said he had concluded that there was insufficient evidence to charge President Trump with obstruction of justice, Mueller said that if his team “had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so.”

He added that charging the president with a crime was a non-starter from the beginning, thanks to Department of Justice guidelines that bar prosecutors from indicting a sitting president. But he also stressed that he did believe he had the authority and the obligation to investigate potential obstruction. Barr, meanwhile, suggested in congressional testimony earlier this month that Mueller should not have continued his investigation if he felt he couldn’t make a “traditional prosecutive decision” about whether the evidence supported criminal charges.

Mueller — true to his reputation as a law enforcement veteran who dislikesthe public spotlight — didn’t openly engage with the political theatrics that have consumed his investigation, adding that he “didn’t question [Barr’s] good faith” in choosing to release the report publicly, and stressed that he would have nothing to say to Congress that wasn’t already in the report.

And Consider ...

TRUMP-Ukraine Impeachment Inquiry Report - Summary 1 page - Intelligence House Committee

#TheGenius and #Barr are both #Corrupt and should be #Indicted - According to "My Great and Unmatched #Wisdom" - Donald J. #Trump - #GoodCharacter or at best #Hubris ? #Putin his fellow Genius !!

The #Mueller Report or " #TheGeniusPresident is #notabovethelaw and #Congress should #IMPEACH and #removefromOffice " :: #TrumpsCriminalEnterprise #GoodCharacter or at best #Hubris ?

NYTimes: Stung by Trump’s Trade Wars, Wisconsin’s Milk Farmers Face Extinction The flagship industry in a pivotal swing state faces an economic crisis.

Stung by Trump’s Trade Wars, Wisconsin’s Milk Farmers Face Extinction The flagship industry in a pivotal swing state faces an economic crisis. NYTimes  - April 26, 2019.

KENDALL, Wis. — For decades, Denise and Tom Murray rose before 5 a.m. and shuffled through mud and snow to milk cows on the farm that has been in their family since 1939. This month, after years of falling milk prices and mounting debt, the Murrays sold their last milk cow, taking pictures while holding back tears as the final one was loaded onto a truck and taken away.

“It’s awful hard to see them go out the last time,” said Ms. Murray, 53. “It’s scary because you don’t know what your next paycheck is going to be.”

Wisconsin is known as “America’s Dairyland,” but the milk makers who gave the state its moniker are vanishing, falling prey to a variety of impediments, including President Trump and his global trade war. ....

... and another view ... for the 1% Farmers ...

Majority of Trump’s Trade Aid Went to Biggest Farms, Study Finds, Mike Dorning July 30, 2019, Bloomberg

More than half of the Trump administration’s trade-war aid for farmers went to just one-tenth of the recipients in the program, according to an analysis of payments by an environmental organization.

Eighty-two farming operations received more than $500,000 each through April under the U.S. Agriculture Department’s Market Facilitation Program, according to the Environmental Working Group, which analyzed records it obtained through the Freedom of Information Act covering $8.4 billion in payments.

Trump farm secretary: No guarantee small farms will survive

Especially when the big can lobby for rules and get subsidies that advantage them over the small.

President Donald Trump's agriculture secretary said Tuesday during a stop in Wisconsin that he doesn't know if the family dairy farm can survive as the industry moves toward a factory farm model.

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue told reporters following an appearance at the World Dairy Expo in Madison that it's getting harder for farmers to get by on milking smaller herds.

"In America, the big get bigger and the small go out," Perdue said. "I don't think in America we, or any small business, we have a guaranteed income or guaranteed profitability."

Walker implicitly organized the "rural" population with gerrymandering to vote for their own demise.  Only solution is for that group to hold their "pols" accountable.

4/16/2020 ... now Trump and Perdue are buying farmers ... probably the really big ones not the real American farmer. $19 billion for who?



Stung by #Trump ’s Trade #Wars, #Wisconsin ’s Milk #Farmers Face #Extinction - after nearly a decade of #GOP and ExGov- #Walker #Vos #Fitzgerald <- What did the pols do for you? #Perdue is a chicken ... bye bye #USDA

For Rural Low Income -Amid GOP opposition, Tony Evers says he'll fight to expand Medicaid

May 2, 2019

Amid GOP opposition, Tony Evers says he'll 'fight like hell' to expand Medicaid

Wisconsin State Journal - MARK SOMMERHAUSER msommerhauser@madison.com

Evers said Medicaid expansion is broadly popular, including among many Republicans, and would infuse more than $1.6 billion into the state's healthcare system.

Still, Evers declined to say if he will sign a state budget that excludes Medicaid expansion. GOP leaders of the Legislature's budget-writing committee announced late Wednesday that their first budget move next week will be to strip the proposal and more than 100 others from Evers' budget.

In the meantime -

"The Politics of Resentment" = Scott Walker's political rise == rural resentment against the "liberal elite"


For #Rural Low Income -Amid #GOP opposition, Tony Evers says he'll fight to expand #Medicaid - #DefeatVOS #DefeatFitzgerald

HIDDEN BRAIN: Why No One Feels Rich

HIDDEN BRAIN: Why No One Feels Rich: The Psychology Of Inequality




The Broken Ladder HOW INEQUALITY AFFECTS THE WAY WE THINK, LIVE, AND DIE By KEITH PAYNE

Additional Resources:

"Physical and situational inequality on airplanes predicts air rage," by Katherine A. DeCellesa and Michael I. Norton, 2016

"Income inequality, poverty and crime across nations," by Paul-Phillipe Pare and Richard Felson, 2014

"The performance effects of pay dispersion on individuals and organizations," by Matt Bloom, 1999

Hidden Brain is hosted by Shankar Vedantam and produced by Jennifer Schmidt, Parth Shah, Rhaina Cohen, Laura Kwerel, and Thomas Lu. Our supervising producer is Tara Boyle. You can also follow us on Twitter @hiddenbrain, and listen for Hidden Brain stories on your local public radio station.

#HIDDENBRAIN: Why No One Feels #Rich , #Inequality , #Politics , #Stress , #Rage , #DoublingDown , #Trump Dilemma  - WI 1848 Forward 

The 'Intrinsic' President Trump Mocks Physically Challenged Journalist... and later My Administration (I) Will Cancel/Defund "Special Olympics" and then change my mind?

Just one of dozens news stories  - the video is easy to find!

2015: Trump mocks reporter with disability 7,205,491 views - CNN YouTube



The Journalist responds

... from Wikipedia at the above link ...

Comments by Donald Trump[edit]

In a speech at a November 24, 2015, rally in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, presidential candidate Donald Trump claimed that "thousands and thousands of people were cheering" in Jersey City, New Jersey, as the World Trade Center collapsed.^[10]

After this claim was questioned,^[11] the Trump campaign pointed to a September 18, 2001, Washington Post article that Kovaleski had co-authored with Fredrick Kunkle, as substantiation of the claim. According to the article, "law enforcement authorities detained and questioned a number of people who were allegedly seen celebrating the attacks and holding tailgate-style parties on rooftops while they watched the devastation."^[12]

Kovaleski issued the following written statement in response to the Trump campaign's adoption of his report as an independent verification of New Jersey-based celebrations following the destruction of the World Trade Center:^[10]

I certainly do not remember anyone saying that thousands or even hundreds of people were celebrating. That was not the case, as best as I can remember.^[13]

In apparent response to this written statement, Trump said in a November 25, 2015, speech in South Carolina: "You've got to see this guy: 'Uhh, I don't know what I said. Uhh, I don't remember,' he's going like 'I don't remember. Maybe that's what I said.'"^[14] Trump bent his wrist severely and flailed his arms repeatedly as he spoke.

Trump was sharply criticized worldwide as a result of him mocking Kovaleski due to the fact that it was widely believed he mocked Kovaleski's disability. Kovaleski has arthrogryposis, a condition causing joint contracture in his right arm and hand.^[15]

[Emphasis added]  Following worldwide criticism, Trump said that he was not mocking Kovaleski's disability because he did not know what Kovaleski looked like.^[16] Kovaleski has said that while reporting on Trump for the New York Daily News, the two had been on a first-name basis and had met face-to-face on a dozen occasions, including interviews and press conferences in the late 1980s.^[16] That the two knew each other was corroborated by multiple other witnesses.^[17][18]

In a tweet sent on November 26, 2016, Trump further characterized Kovaleski's written statement (see above) as a form of "groveling" and stated that Kovaleski had "pulled back from his [original] statement."^[19]

Whether this offers perspective on President Trump's propensity to lie, or strong evidence of his values ... it is really, really sad.


The 'Intrinsic' President #Trump Mocks Physically Challenged #Journalist and the #Press ... and later My Administration (I) Will Cancel/Defund " #SpecialOlympics " and then change my mind?