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Sunday, October 18, 2009
Feingold Town Hall Listening Session this AM
I went to the town hall listening session this morning at the Brooklyn Town Hall. It is always interesting to see your public officials in person. Feingold visits all 72 counties every year. It is also interesting to see who actually goes to this listening sessions. Joe Parise, Dan Priske and Sydney Rouse were all there. Joan Ballweg was also in the audience. One of the things I like the most with Wisconsinites is their innate sense of politeness. Even when they may disagree with certain positions they don't get into screaming matches like you see on TV in other states. They treat each other with respect. I like that. For those of you who have not ever shown up at one of these sessions you should. One of the interesting things he said was if he gets 30 phone calls or emails in one day on a subject that is a lot. He gets a log every day of the number of people who contacted his office as do all the congressional reps. He said he is always surprised by the low number of people who do contact their reps. I would bet more of you make your point of view known on this blog than actually contact you state or national representative with whatever concerns you might be having on a particular issue. Try contacting you elected officials once in a while and see what effect it has.
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I contact my reps when ever I feel there is a need to influence their decisions. I've emailed Russ a number of times and have emailed and spoken with my rep Tammy Baldwin often.
More people should contact their representatives. I have and it did me no good. I'm only one. There is strength in numbers. Exept the numbers are purposely not made public, so that people think they are alone, and are quickly made aware that alone does not good. No one wants to stand up for the rights in their neighborhood for fear of repercussion from their own neighborhood. Who wants to out of the neighborhood, to get lambasted statewide and get dubbed as some paranoid, lunatic, troublemaker? No one. And that is exactly what those trying to shut you up are counting on, while being able to blame you for your own complacency. Ever wonder why, when the "powers that be" want something, they will claim the many people who've requested the same thing they want? Ever wonder why, when one or two people are fighting against something, the media and the politicans will never mention the private emails/phone calls that were requesting the very same thing that the few are fighting about and for?
Try calling your reps. When you don't like the BS and placating that you can see right through, you'll naturally take your concerns to the next level and reach out to the community. You'll get called a troublemaker and have your character assassinated by those you're fighting against. All because you didn't take what they told you at face value and knew there were others out there who agreed with you. All because you cared enough to risk getting involved. Your neighbors will agree with you in private, but they'll avoid you like that "polite" plague because they don't want to get involved and get a bad reputation. So, I challenge each of you to do your research, contact your representatives or state agencies paid by your taxes to protect your rights...see where that gets you. See how protected you are and how little your intelligence means if your intelligence is telling you something is very, very wrong and you're willing to fight against it. Good luck.
BTW, Wisconsin is polite, and is politely getting the BS shoved right down its throat. But keep going to church so everyone thinks you're a "good guy". Appearance is everything, ya know.
GL people care enough to at least fight with each other to get to the truth and protect what it knows is great and has that its neighbors do not. Ripon doesn't give a crap what its leaders are doing so long as they can pretend it's all good. And its leaders don't give a crap about the people so long as the city can beg, borrow or steal the respect it thinks it deserves instead of being FDL county's red-headed stepchild.
I'm actually glad to see some dissension in GL. It means we still care.
I say the above post so that other GL residents can recognize what is happening in Ripon and make known that GL wants nothing to do with Ripon's bullying and ugly politics. Let's learn from our neighboring community's huge mistakes. Don't be an ignorant wanna-be. Ripon's applie pie don't smell so nice and we don't want its politics here. Past mayors have known this and have politely put up the gates against it.
Having a meeting on a Sunday morning makes it impossible to attend for a lot of people. We are in church. We do have priorities.
I agree, timing was very bad for this meeting.
"But keep going to church so everyone thinks you're a "good guy". Appearance is everything, ya know."
Can someone explain what this means?
Sorry the Senator didn't call for your schedule. My guess is you wouldn't have gone no matter what. It is just easier to bitch about things on this blog.
You are the one bitching on the blog, read what you said. All some of us are saying is that Sunday morning is not the best time for a town hall meeting. Why can't you just accept that?
Pay no attention. Probably just blog-dog with a self righteous smirk, thinking he's the only one that cares. Beat the people into complacency and then blame them for that complacency.
Morons. Self-indulgent morons.
How the hell would you know?
I agree, holding a public meeting on a Sunday morning is a STUPID idea. I realize long gone are the days of Sunday being truly a day of rest, but it's nice to reserve it for family or personal time. The Senator ought to do the same.
...and not just any Sunday morning, but one right before a Packer game. Remember that Feingold is a democrat, not very capable of making a good decision.
Quite possibly, scheduling such an important meeting on a Sunday was intentional. Who the hell schedules public meetings on a Sunday? He just didn't want to find himself in a position where he could easily get asked tough questions, where his non-answers were sure to make him look badly.
Isn't this guy is Jewish. He doesn't care about the voters. I don't think he represents the majority. Let's be real! I'm not afraid to bring this up. He is just a publicity hound. He does not represent me.
What the hell does being Jewish have to do with anything? That was one of the dumbest comments I've heard in a long time!
Hitler? Are you for real. Hitler's in hell and you can join him anytime, buddy!
I don't have a problem with Feingold being Jewish. I do have a problem with him being a liberal Democrat.
Pretty sad when someone on this blog points out that our elected Senator is Jewish, as an issue. ( If he even is, I have no idea.) It's a scary thought that even in this day and age, we have slimy people in our own community that still think like this.
I don't always agree with the Senator, but I first respect him as a human being and then as an official elected by our majority.
Hopefully the person who brought this up has no children, to lessen the possibility they will pass on their bias and ignorance to the next generation.
I've no problem with him being Jewish. I've no problem with him being a Democrat. I have a problem with him when he's a idiot. It's one thing to have an open mind, but to be so liberal that your mind is all over the place is...soft in the head, idiocy.
RE: Swine Flu
In August Obama administration officials promised 80 to 120 million H1N1 Swine flu doses would be ready by mid–October. Calling the plan an “aggressive response” designed to produce enough vaccine for every American who was feeling uneasy eating a strip of bacon.
Here it is mid–October and only 16.5 million doses have arrived. This is 14 percent of what was promised and is not even close enough for government work!
The new prediction is 150 million doses in December — just in time to protect “Winter Festival” Santas in shopping malls — and only two months after the “epidemic’s” peak.
Concerned that nine months of hype wasn’t producing the required level of frenzy, Obama went on the radio last Saturday and declared a national health emergency.
In Fairfax County, VA clinic lines started forming at 5:45 AM. In Maryland waits were up to 4.5 hours.
Who qualified for immunization was a moving target. On Saturday in Fairfax only pregnant women and children under three were eligible. Then the Flu Potentate ruled that 5–year–olds qualified and parents of children younger than 6 months.
In DC the rule was pregnant women and young people up to age 24. Parents older than 24 with infants were turned away. Then the collective mind changed and “caregivers” for children under 6 months and adults 25 – 64 with underlying conditions were added.
Finally in Maryland immunizations were limited to last names beginning with N thru Z who voted for Obama in both the primary AND general election.
So here you have it, a dry run for the Obama Administration’s performance on nationalized health care. All vast governmental forces were focused on a single disease rather than the entire gamut of America’s health care problems. There was no greedy, profit–riddled private sector in this fight, only the saintly public option. The program had universal coverage and no pre–existing condition exclusions.
The result? Missed deadlines, rationing, incompetence, blame–shifting, arbitrary decisions, random displays of authority and don’t forget: long lines.
There’s a word for this preview of socialized medicine under Obamacare.
Call it Flutrina.
Constitutional Questions are Serious Questions
When CNS News reporter asked Nancy Pelosi “Madam Speaker, where specifically does the Constitution grant Congress the authority to enact an individual health insurance mandate?,” her response was “Are you serious? Are you serious?”
Is Pelosi serious? Did the Speaker Pelosi really say that asking “is this Constitutional” is a trivial question? Could her statement be a gaffe?
Nope. It’s no gaffe. Pelosi’s press spokesman, Nadeam Elshami, clarified for the record that asking the speaker of the House to articulate the Constitutional authority for the health care mandate “is not a serious question.”
Frequent readers of the Foundry will recall that we have asked is the Individual Mandate Constitutional and is National Health Insurance Constitutional? We argued in August that the healthcare legislation is unconstitutional: specifically, neither the necessary and proper clause, the general welfare clause, nor the commerce clause of the Constitution give Congress the authority to mandate a national health care.
But Heritage is not alone in defending the Constitution against a massive increase in government’s power. Nor are we alone in taking the Constitution seriously. Many intelligent legal scholars have grappled with constitutional questions that the health care legislation provokes.
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