Happy Days Are Here Again — It’s Just That the GOP Is Refusing to Tell You That
Former President Trump did not hand over a robust economy as when he took over from Barack Obama in 2016.
Supporters of Trump tend to overlook the reality that his mismanagement of the pandemic in 2020 created the economic issues we now face. Had the Biden administration not invested in recovery efforts, we could have experienced a prolonged economic downturn. Right now the rest of the world continues to dig out of the economic ditch and they look to us with some level of envy.
Trump significantly increased the national deficit. He spent trillions in a failed attempt to stabilize the economy, yet Republicans consistently ignore that tax cuts for billionaires contribute just as much to the deficit as increased spending does.
Let’s also acknowledge the several trillion dollars that Biden deemed necessary to revitalize the country.
The difference lies in Biden’s approach: he strategically allocated funds to improve infrastructure, nurture a burgeoning green energy sector that promotes genuine energy independence, bring manufacturing back to the U.S., and fund research into technologies that will drive future innovation, along with job training to ensure the workforce can come along for the ride with these advancements.
The Microsoft Research Center in Kenosha offers a glimpse into this promising future, unlike Scott Walker's retrograde FOXConn project.
While some may not see immediate benefits, the ongoing growth presents opportunities for all. Electing Trump would pull the brake cord on this momentum while Kamala Harris would keep this ball rolling in new directions.
The Facts about Unrest in Kenosha
Governor Evers' campaign has recently posted a website responding to attacks on Evers' actions as the unrest in Kenosha unfolded. Here's the opening paragraph:
"Republicans are trying to mislead Wisconsinites for their own political gain. Despite their arguments, the facts show the state authorized additional law enforcement support the first night of unrest in Kenosha and that Gov. Evers ordered up the Wisconsin National Guard within eleven hours, continuing to expand the Guard’s presence each day. The truth is, local law enforcement and leaders from both parties praised Gov. Evers’ response."
Read the whole piece debunking the lies the GOP is telling.
THE PARTY OF MEDIOCRITY
A suggestion to you all.
What has the GOP done for this country? You'd have to go all the way back to, believe it or not, RICHARD NIXON!
Be totally honest with yourself.
Can you name any achievement that this party has pushed or enacted? And no, fat-cat tax cuts, stuffing the courts with unqualified corporatist judges, or a brutal border policy that ignores the suffering these people are fleeing do not count as anything that benefits us.
It's time we start calling the GOP the Party of Mediocrity to help wake up voters to what this tribe is doing to our country and this state.
Back in Wisconsin, the Party of Mediocrity failed to do anything to address the COVID crisis. And don't count on them passing anything beneficial -- including funding the police -- because, god forbid, that would mean taxing their wealthy donors.
The Judge Brown-Jackson hearings when it came to the GOP members of the judiciary committee was a Mediocrity Circus. It had everything from Lindsay Graham asking what the Judge's religion is from to Dixie Disaster Marsha Blackburn asking Brown-Jackson asking her to define what a woman was to the GOP's OANN obsession over seven cases around the sentencing of child pornographers.
And don't forget. The Party of Mediocrity got us into this recession and let the pandemic rage, which Joe Biden is struggling against the Party of Mediocracy's obstruction. Yet, yesterday's unemployment numbers show this to be the lowest since Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid was on the screen.
We have to ask voters: Do you want this country to not only be what it can be but put into power a party so mediocre that they have to engineer their one-party rule to stay in control?
2022 GRNS Annual Meeting-School Boards Under Attack
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Mark Gennis - Letter to the Editor of MJS
Court plans few map changes”
I was dismayed but not surprised that our Supreme Court voted 4-3 to basically maintain the current legislative district maps. The most specious argument seems to have come from Justice Rebecca Bradley who contended that the justices must make as few changes as a way to “respect the past choices lawmakers have made.” Where was the respect shown to all of the lawmakers ten years ago when the maps where drawn behind closed doors using computer algorithms known only to a few, to maximize Republican’s advantage? Where was the respect shown to the voters of Wisconsin who have repeatedly voiced their desire to eliminate partisan redistricting?
Justice Bradley further contends,”Claims of political unfairness in the maps present political questions not legal ones.” She further states that the questions, “must be resolved through the political process and not by the judiciary.” How can the voters use the political process when the current political process has essentially been stripped of meaning?
Is not the right to vote a legal question? Is not the right to have all votes counted equally a legal question? How can issues so fundamental to our democracy not have the weight of a “legal” question to this Court? The outrageous maps created ten years ago removed any chance of reform through the political process. The Wisconsin Supreme Court has just placed our democracy on very thin ice for another ten years. With global warming, it is unclear just how long this ice will even last.
Mark Gennis
Mequon