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Their wealth pales in comparison to the wealth they created for millions and millions of other Wisconsin families. Those with an appreciation for the immeasurable contributions of Wisconsin’s industrial icons of 1910 will find the list of Wisconsin’s top ten employers of 2010 appalling:
Walmart, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Milwaukee Public Schools, U.S. Postal Service, Wisconsin Department of Corrections, Menards, Marshfield Clinic, Aurora Health Care, City of Milwaukee, and Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs.
This is what a century of progressivism will get you. Wisconsin is the birthplace of the progressive movement, the home of the Socialist Party, the first state to allow public sector unions, the cradle of environmental activism, a liberal fortress walled off against common sense for decades. Their motto, Forward Wisconsin, should be changed to Downward Wisconsin if truth in advertising applies to slogans.
There is no shortage of activists, advocates, and agitators in this State. If government were the answer to our problems, we would have no problems. The very same people – or people just like them – who picketed, struck, sued, taxed, and regulated our great companies out of this state are now complaining about the unemployment and poverty that they have brought upon themselves. They got rid of those old rich white guys and replaced them with…nothing.
FAILED LIBERAL IDEAS
Liberal ideas are a lot of things: dangerous, wasteful, unconstitutional, even socialist at times.
Liberals love to call themselves compassionate. So why do their ideas so often end up with catastrophic results on the people they're intended to help?
Start 1. The War on Poverty
In their compassion for the poor, liberals earmarked $50 billion in 1964 to provide medical care, housing, cash transfers, and food subsidies to ease the plight of the disadvantaged.
.
Answer;
Hatched by social engineers who cooked up President Lyndon Johnson’s "Great Society," the War on Poverty spawned a welfare mentality that has trapped the poor in a web of dependency, spent $16 trillion—without making a dent in the poverty rate—and will burn through another $10.3 trillion over the next 10 years. Throwing good money after bad: It just doesn’t make sense.
. 2. The U.S. Department of Education
President Obama……… proposed a new education reform package called "Race to the Top," which includes increased federal funding to states whose public schools improve student performance.
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Answer;
The U.S. Department of Education has spent trillions of tax dollars growing a bloated, top-down bureaucracy, but American public education still lags behind other countries. Now,…………… President Obama …………wants to bribe states with billions more if they give in to additional federal interference in their schools: "If states show that they’re serious about reform," says President Obama, "we’ll show them the money." If these ideas are so good, why do liberals have to pay people to use them?
. 3. The U.S. Department of Energy
Created in the 1970s as one of President Jimmy Carter's bright ideas, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has seen its mission evolve from basic research and development to spending billions to commercialize technologies that aren’t yet viable—and might never be.
.
Answer;
Despite funding numerous projects that never get off the ground, the U.S. Department of Energy has seen its budget grow by more than $11 billion in the last 10 years—a 76% increase! Because our nation is looking for spending to cut, the DOE might be the place to start. Instead of focusing on opening new sources of energy, the DOE pushes politically correct pet projects that are expensed to the American people. Some of these ideas . . . like mood rings and polyester pants . . . are better left in the 1970s.
. 4. The Community Reinvestment Act
Liberals created the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) to encourage private lenders to meet the needs of borrowers in low- and moderate-income neighborhoods.
.
Answer;
The CRA spawned sub-prime mortgage lending, which boomed starting in the mid-1990s under President Bill Clinton. When the bubble burst, millions of sub-prime borrowers—the low-income people the CRA was created to help—found themselves owing more than their homes were worth. This set off the foreclosure cascade, tipped the economy into a prolonged recession, and plunged many families into poverty after they lost the homes they couldn’t afford but that Washington induced them to buy. Ignoring the law of unintended consequences: It just doesn’t work.
. 5. 'Comprehensive' Immigration Reform
Senate liberals' latest immigration proposal offers multiple "paths to citizenship" for foreign nationals who are in America illegally.
.
Answer;
They’re touting their …….Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2011………. as the complete and real solution to America’s immigration problems. Hoping Americans will ignore history, though, liberals’ current manipulation is as catastrophically irresponsible as the amnesty law Congress adopted in 1986, which more than quadrupled the population of people here illegally. Doing the same thing and expecting a different result: That’s not going.to get us anywhere.
FAILED LIBERAL IDEAS
Liberal ideas are a lot of things: dangerous, wasteful, unconstitutional, even socialist at times.
Liberals love to call themselves compassionate. So why do their ideas so often end up with catastrophic results on the people they're intended to help?
Start 1. The War on Poverty
In their compassion for the poor, liberals earmarked $50 billion in 1964 to provide medical care, housing, cash transfers, and food subsidies to ease the plight of the disadvantaged.
.
Answer;
Hatched by social engineers who cooked up President Lyndon Johnson’s "Great Society," the War on Poverty spawned a welfare mentality that has trapped the poor in a web of dependency, spent $16 trillion—without making a dent in the poverty rate—and will burn through another $10.3 trillion over the next 10 years. Throwing good money after bad: It just doesn’t make sense.
. 2. The U.S. Department of Education
President Obama……… proposed a new education reform package called "Race to the Top," which includes increased federal funding to states whose public schools improve student performance.
,
Answer;
The U.S. Department of Education has spent trillions of tax dollars growing a bloated, top-down bureaucracy, but American public education still lags behind other countries. Now,…………… President Obama …………wants to bribe states with billions more if they give in to additional federal interference in their schools: "If states show that they’re serious about reform," says President Obama, "we’ll show them the money." If these ideas are so good, why do liberals have to pay people to use them?
. 3. The U.S. Department of Energy
Created in the 1970s as one of President Jimmy Carter's bright ideas, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has seen its mission evolve from basic research and development to spending billions to commercialize technologies that aren’t yet viable—and might never be.
.
Answer;
Despite funding numerous projects that never get off the ground, the U.S. Department of Energy has seen its budget grow by more than $11 billion in the last 10 years—a 76% increase! Because our nation is looking for spending to cut, the DOE might be the place to start. Instead of focusing on opening new sources of energy, the DOE pushes politically correct pet projects that are expensed to the American people. Some of these ideas . . . like mood rings and polyester pants . . . are better left in the 1970s.
. 4. The Community Reinvestment Act
Liberals created the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) to encourage private lenders to meet the needs of borrowers in low- and moderate-income neighborhoods.
.
Answer;
The CRA spawned sub-prime mortgage lending, which boomed starting in the mid-1990s under President Bill Clinton. When the bubble burst, millions of sub-prime borrowers—the low-income people the CRA was created to help—found themselves owing more than their homes were worth. This set off the foreclosure cascade, tipped the economy into a prolonged recession, and plunged many families into poverty after they lost the homes they couldn’t afford but that Washington induced them to buy. Ignoring the law of unintended consequences: It just doesn’t work.
. 5. 'Comprehensive' Immigration Reform
Senate liberals' latest immigration proposal offers multiple "paths to citizenship" for foreign nationals who are in America illegally.
.
Answer;
They’re touting their …….Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2011………. as the complete and real solution to America’s immigration problems. Hoping Americans will ignore history, though, liberals’ current manipulation is as catastrophically irresponsible as the amnesty law Congress adopted in 1986, which more than quadrupled the population of people here illegally. Doing the same thing and expecting a different result: That’s not going.to get us anywhere.
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