Some Random Thoughts

Sorry for the lack posts….I know my readers expect more from this cutting edge report of rants and raves the thoughts of the day…so here are a few in random order. I’m so disgusted by Washington, I’m incapable of writing on a single thought other than target practice….PULL!!

1) The Packers have NOT looked good over the last two games despite the scores. They had two additional pre-season games in Detroit and Cleveland. I see at best, an 8-8 finish. I hope I’m wrong. If they don’t beat Minnesota next week, it’s time to start over on the coaching and GM side. I could go on but I’m not that good a typist. See me at DR for more.

2) 0bamas health care plan will increase the national debt at a rate of at LEAST $800 million per year. Why isn’t the left screaming like they did when the GOP was running debts at a much lower rate? Well, we already know the answer to that.

3) Alzheimer’s is an insidious disease…I have yclept it “God’s Cosmic Joke”.

4) My cyberfriend, Dr. Bond, married a beautiful Russian girl and got her out of the shithole that is modern Russia.

5) Speaking of shitholes, why is 0bama deserting our men and women in Afghanistan? It doesn’t take that long to make a decison on troops dying, Barry. You’re still a shithead. Fuck you.

Support them as Gen. McChrystal has outlined or get ‘em out of harms way. BTW, our job there is to kill terrorists and those who support terrorists. Read books on Sherman and Patton if you have a problem. Of course, Barry, we know you won’t. You’re not capable of doing your own scutwork. Let me also say this to Gen. McChrystal….well done, SIR!!

To our men and women over there…..hang tough. You’re the best. America is with you.

Let’s See if UW Professors Have Integrity

The Wall Street Journal had an editorial piece today pointing out that Pol Pot Doyle has given the profs the right to organize. The question is, will they do it?

“f some professors at the University of Wisconsin at Madison get their way, the first thing a newly minted PhD will learn about is not research or teaching—but union dues. This summer Wisconsin’s Democratic Governor Jim Doyle gave the school’s professors the right to unionize. Not all want to, so this fall the faculty lounges are livelier than usual.

Organized labor has already wreaked havoc on the nation’s K-12 public-school system, and it’s often thought this could never happen to a higher education system that is the envy of the world. But over the past 10 years or so, unions have become an increasingly common presence at colleges and universities. More than 375,000 faculty and graduate students are members of a collective bargaining unit, according to the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions. That’s about a third of the total, and a 24% increase in the past decade.

Thanks to unionization provisions Gov. Doyle put into Wisconsin’s biennial budget, things are likely to get worse. There were three important elements in the initiative.” [...]

Go and read the whole thing if you’d like but it is comforting to know a few of the profs understand how devestating a union would be.

[...]“John Witte, an education scholar at the school, says he would quit if the faculty organize. He tells us it would be “demoralizing to see my hard work rewarded with the same pay as someone who doesn’t do hard work.” Unionization, he says, would be “devastating to the university.” Others worry that the campus’s pervasive atmosphere of political correctness will sway much of the faculty to vote for unionization.

In 2008, the American Federation of Teachers announced a joint campaign with the American Association of University Professors to unionize more public universities. “We don’t have a number in mind,” Sandra Schroeder, chairman of the AFT’s higher education council, said, but it’s “as many as we possibly can.” If UW Madison goes, expect more former free-thinkers to go over to the union mind set.”

Congratulations to Prof. Witte; he’s got it exactly right. Whatever a Sandra Schroeder is, she’s got it wrong and history proves it.

Wynn vs. Granholm on Fox News

Steve Wynn takes on Jenifer Granholm, the inept governor of Michigan. Never bet against the house. Granholm loses big.

Bloat

On Sunday, October 4, the MJS ran an editorial supporting MKE County Executive Scott Walker and his ideas about forming an office for business development in Milwaukee County. You can read the editorial here.

Now, this editorial was interesting on two fronts, the first being the MJS actually supported Scott Walker on something. But here’s something that was even more interesting.

“At first glance, there is reason to doubt whether Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker’s proposal for an office of business development makes much sense. After all, there are already several entities in the region working on economic development issues. Done wrong, Walker’s proposal could be duplicative of those efforts and confusing to outsiders.

There’s the Milwaukee 7 economic development consortium that covers all of southeastern Wisconsin, and, in Milwaukee County, the cities of Milwaukee, Wauwatosa and West Allis all have offices or departments dedicated to attracting businesses and growing the economy. The City of Milwaukee has roughly 200 people working on it, and they’re doing a good job in tough times.”[...]

200 people on the payroll at the Milwaukee business development office? Assuming the above isn’t a typo, that’s just moronic. What the hell could 200 people possibly have to do and justify a paycheck? It’s not like they’ve had any big wins in the last, I don’t know how many years.

Let’s assume the average salary is $40,000 with a benefits package of $35,000. That’s $75,000 x 200 or $15,000,000 in salary for what? Has this bloated group pulled in enough new businesses to expand the tax rolls by $15,000,000 per year? And that’s just to break even.

In the private sector, the above office would be staffed by 5, maybe 10 people who would have true accountability AND responsibility. Notice that Walker’s office, which encompasses all of Milwaukee County, has only FOUR people and a budget of $400,000.

I’m not against development offices. In fact, I think they’re necessary. But in order to truly succeed, the office and officers have to have ombudsman powers to pull together the various factions necessary for new business development. The way the City Milwaukee business development office is structured, you need an ombudsman just for that office alone. And we get to pay for it.