While the financial world cast its eyes toward Greece and the rest of the European PIIGS (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, and Spain) over their insurmountable debt problems, cracks in government finances are starting to spread in this country. The federal government can plaster over debt problems with newly printed money until the whole house comes down. But state and local governments do not have that deception at their disposal.
We all know about the darkening budget problems in the bastions of socialism like the states of Illinois and California. Farther down the chain at the municipal level actual defaults on debt are occurring. Last week a judge gave the approval for Jefferson County, where Birmingham, Alabama is located, to go ahead with it bankruptcy plans The county is staring at $4 billion in debt.
This week the city of Harrisburg, the capitol of Pennsylvania, announced it will miss the interest payments on two general obligation bonds. Some, including yours truly, classify this delinquency as a technical default.
The landscape in this country is littered with governments on the brink of insolvency like we are witnessing in Europe. The only difference so far is the lack of rioting from government non-worker, workers.
On second thought we got a preview of that from the government union thugs in Wisconsin.
The Hudson School Board following the leash of the head bitch, Second Choice Two-Names, voted to take the taxpayers to referendum for the purchase of the dog track with a price tag of over $8,000,000. What a perfect place for a school where parents can gamble with their children’s education in the hands of government union thugs. Since the spot was a former place of gambling, let’s take a look at some numbers and odds.
7- The number of monkeys on the Hudson School Board that cannot muster a simple thought on their own.
1-The tracts of land already purchased for new schools. Is the mission of the school district real estate or education? Considering the first land deal I would say they are not good at either.
10 to 20- the number of dollars the school district claims the purchase will add to tax bills of a house valued at $200,000. My tax bill is loaded with about 300 of this $10 from the school district over the years.
2- the number of grade levels at the high school beneath the district’s capacity levels. The spin from Second Choice Two-Names was that all but two grade levels at 400 or more students. You only have four grade levels at the high school, which means half are fewer than 400.
0-the improvement in average ACT scores since the district began building new schools over ten years ago and claiming they need more space for learning.
100-the times we have heard how every graduating class will exceed 400 for infinity. Last year the class was under 400
2/18- the date Hudson government teachers walked out on their students in an illegal strike
7-the number of gutless school board members that did not fire one teacher for walking out
150 – the number of teachers that held a whole school district hostage.
17% or more- the guess on what percentage of students would leave the government schools if vouchers were offered to every family. Now you do not have a space problem.
23-the miles from Hudson to New Richmond. Take a drive through New Richmond and you will see how a school district bent on more space destroyed a whole town
1-the stooges writing in the local papers that cover school district news
????- what is the cost of the school yet to be built. Why vote to purchase land when you do not know what the cost of the building will be. The cost will be a lot more than 8 million dollars. What good is land if the voters won’t pay for the building? See the first land sitting vacant
100 to 1- odds of passing a referendum in this economy.
Once again the Hudson Star-Observer and the Hudson Patch failed to report on the real story contained within a news article. As reported by these two outlets for government propaganda, the Hudson School Board voted to abandon their long standing relationship with the WEAC insurance trust and contract with other carriers for district employee health and dental insurance. The cost savings to Hudson School District taxpayers is estimated to be one million dollars annually.
If Meg Heaton of the Star-Observer cared to peruse the paper’s archives, then she would have discovered letters to the editor by some that write for this blog detailing such a proposal almost a decade ago. The real story here is how the taxpayers of the district have been bilked out of tens of millions over the years.
The other part of the big story is how past and present members of the school board abdicated their fiduciary responsibilities to the taxpayers of the school district. None was more complacent in this rape and pillage than 18 year sitting member and union thug patsy Dan Tjornehoj. How can a person of any morals allow this theft to go on for so long and not utter one word of outrage? If Dan had one vertebra in his cowardly spine, then he would publicly apologize for his role in this grand theft and then resign never to be heard from again.
The other past and present members of the school board are also culpable in this heist. Perhaps one of them can ask forgiveness of their sins. Meg Heaton has demonstrated time after time her inability to reason or like others involved, she is a just a stupid stooge for the union thugs.
In the coming days make sure to give Dan Tjornehoj, past members of the school board, and Meg Heaton a call to thank them for allowing a bunch of thugs to rape you.
At the end of the movie Tora, Tora, Tora, Admiral Yamamoto reflects on the news that despite two separate waves of bombing on Pearl Harbor the Japanese assault failed to find and destroy the American carriers. The Japanese Admiral says “I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.”
This supposed quote from Yamamoto has resonated with me today after the government union thugs failed in the mission of their recall elections to wrestle control from the Republican majority in the state Senate. Beginning in January, we have witnessed all colors of government union non-worker, workers from government teachers to police to bureaucrats engage in tactics fitting for a warring hoarde. They tried their best to intimidate the taxpayers through extortion, threats of violence, destruction of property, and importing socialist goons to disrupt peaceful rallies.
What should now be clear is that these government union thugs are not your friends, or your neighbor, or the fabric of a community. Make no mistake, the government non-worker, workers with Shelly Moore as their commander declared war on us. It is time for the sleeping giants in Wisconsin to mete out their vengeance. Read More→
Take a look at this woman(?). She’s giving us the sign that her husband gave her last night when she got a little frisky….
So this is what civility is about? Remember when Shelly Moore rented the bandshell and announced her candidacy? Did you see teaparty people ranting and raving, being disrespectful and shouting obscenities?
Where were the Hudson police yesterday? Why didn’t they arrest these people for disorderly conduct, disturbing the peace or inciting violence? Maybe it’s because the police thugs are on the same team as the other government union thugs who showed up yesterday.
What a pathetic display from the Shelly Moore supporters. Sure can’t let anyone have their right to free speech now can we? Is this what Shelly teaches her children to do? And to think these are the same people teaching our children about “anti-bullying”. How ironic!
Remember earlier this year when the teacher unión thugs walked out of school to hole up in the state capitol to protest the Walker Budget Repair Bill. Their rationale for the illegal strike was for the kids, of course.
This week showed a completely different scene. Large protests were expected in Madison as the Legislature finalized the budget. An array of non-worker, workers and general bums erected a tent city near the Capitol. The protestors had planned to encircle the grounds of the statehouse with a giant human chain.
Several months ago the same location was littered with tens of thousands of non-worker, workers that could have formed several chains. A few days ago, however, the numbers had comparatively diminished so great that a chain could not be completed even while standing within close proximity to the Capitol building.
Remember also when throngs of non-worker, workers and their bussed in buddies from out of state congregated for group chanting in Hudson. Today, the Moore union thugs were to meet in town. The protestors’ numbers almost could not field a football team.
What happened to the masses that arrogantly walked out off the job for the kids? What changed over the last few months? Apparently teachers are only dedicated protestors when it is on the student’s time. After all it is summer vacation and protesting would mean sacrificing their personal leisure time. Now I call that dedication.
After reading Randy Hanson’s bumbling opinion in the Hudson Star-Observer this week, I have to wonder whether teacher union thugs and State Senate candidate Shelly Moore ghost wrote the piece or his brain is incapable of anything other than controlling bowel movements. No proper functioning brain could produce such illogical crap.
Hanson writes about the Budget Repair Bill:
The so-called budget repair bill currently being held up in a state court because it was rammed through the Legislature under dubious circumstances would only allow teachers to negotiate their salaries. And any raises would be limited to the rate of inflation, unless voters approved a bigger increase in a referendum.
The same rules would apply to municipal, county and state employees — except for police officers and firefighters.
That isn’t how a modern free-market economy is supposed to work. It isn’t enlightened capitalism.
You are right Shelly (Randy), it does not look like the free market or enlightened capitalism (sounds like educrap speak) because it is about government. A person employed in the free market cannot force a customer to pay. As far as passing the legislation under dubious circumstances, what did the duly elected legislature run across the border to shack up with a 37 year-old divorced union thug in a skirt? Read More→
If I was one of the non-worker, worker lemmings or other mindless stooge that marched in the cold while making a fool of myself plus having insults with more than a ring of truth hurled at me, then I would be one pissed off hombre over the person running against Shelia Harsdorf.
Do the socialist actually expect an uppity union thug to be the picture of a candidate that will defeat Shelia Harsdorf who did nothing wrong except to tell the government union thugs that they work for the people who have run out of money. This is what Ms. Moore said in a speech at WEAC convention in 2008:
‘We are WEAC and they WILL respect us, not just because we DEMAND it, but because we DESERVE it!’
Excuse me! You teachers and for that matter any government employee deserves what? The increased arrogance of the government non-worker, worker class does not even care to hide the fact that they are a group of self-entitled non-working , working government thugs. I realize my description is redundant.
So she will get the thug vote or about 25-30% of the total. The signatures on the petition are not necessarily a good guage since it includes students who have long forgotten about an election. Do you think an official of the Teachers’ Union Thug Association is going to appeal to the real middle class that is being sucked out their houses by the taxes to support the lifestyle of thugs. Don’t think so.
I wonder what Ms. Moore’s solution for the state is? Really don’t need to wonder. Tax everyone and give it to government employees, especially teachers.If you don’t like it, then leave!
And you moron goons froze your ass for this. You are truly dumber than you look!
As bad as the Republicans are pussy-footing around with some socialist judge in Dane County, it is nothing compared to the footsy-playing Republicans in Congress. At least the Wisconsin Republicans showed some real guts by going after the government union thugs and putting in place some real reform that at least tilts the playing field a little bit toward the producers.
The Republicans leaders in the House of Representatives are apparently ready to strike a deal with Democrats that will cut $33,000,000,000 from a $3,700,000,000,000 budget that has a $1,500,000,000,000 deficit, which further increases the national debt of $15,000,000,000,000. In the words of John McEnroe, “You Can’t Be Serious”!! They are working tirelessly to make sure the government does not stop operating.
Well, Shut ‘ER Down!
I made a list of things that I won’t miss if the federal or state governments shut down.
1.A slow morning commute. You ever notice on those holidays that only government employees take, like Columbus Day or Take Your Kid to Lunch Day, how thin the traffic is? You don’t notice a difference in the afternoon because government non-worker, workers clocks out by 3.
2.Standing in line at the Post Office for 10 minutes even when you are the only one in line.
3.Paying the extra 50 cents for a gallon of gasoline. Of course if we shut down the government that includes the DNR, Dept. of Energy, EPA, and the Dept. of Interior we would be drilling for oil and cut our oil prices by half.
4.Having some government educated kid with rings in their tongues, lips, nose, ears, belly-button and god knows where else miscounting my change.
5.Filling a mountain of tax forms and writing a check with a bunch of zeroes following some number higher than zero
6.Having a TSA goon feel my balls and my wife’s breast every time we want to fly.
7.Picking up the paper and seeing the picture of some government non-worker, worker who just retired at age 50 and never put one dime into their pension. Then read the story that talk about their great sacrifice.
8.Trying to find a light bulb that doesn’t look like a pig’s tail after the oinker had an all night sexathon at the trough.
9.Having Ranger Rick at the park spying on me to make sure my dog has proper crap etiquette.
10.Listening to the news filled with the voices of politicians
11.Taxing everything I own including my Toilet Paper.
In the spirit of audience participation, I will stop here and let you write in the things you won’t miss when they Shut ‘ER Down.
Yesterday, the doorbell rang awakening me out of an afternoon slumber. It was a damn good thing I wasn’t sitting on the pot. A rather straggling looking man and woman stood at the door. In his hand he held a petition to recall State Senator Shelia Harsdorf. Playing along for a moment, I asked to see their driver’s licenses. After refusing to show me any identification, I told them they had to the count of five to get off my property or my anti-socialist dog would be released from his cage.
By the time I got to three they were running like two bums after a beer truck. I decided for good measure to give them the what for as they walked around the block. From what I could tell, the two bums representing union thugs did not get one signature but a whole lot of grief. As many of us have seen over the last few weeks, the thugs have hired others to walk the streets of downtown Hudson to gather signatures.
I started to wonder where all the brave teacher union thugs had gone. Why didn’t Michael Yell or John Dornfeld come knocking at my door asking for a signature. Why don’t you see Roy Sjoberg or Scott Ellingson walking the streets of Hudson for their noble cause? These people are real brave when they are in a crowd of 300 other thugs. Michael Yell showed real bravery when he and few hundred of his goon friends charged over a snow bank on to private property to surround and bang on a car. Hey Michael, why didn’t you show up at my door?!
You know why, because like other bullies you are chicken-shits to face a person one on one that may swing back. You are afraid to hear what people really think of you. If your wish was to pick a fight, then let’s rumble.
You can’t hide behind Dan Tjornehoj’s skirt forever.
Hey Roy, what is with the red flags lining your front yard? You don’t need to advertise that your a socialist, we knew that a long time ago.
With the permission of the author, Ontheborderline will be providing snippets to a novel that unfortunately never found a publisher. The book market over the last several years has become almost impenetrable to new authors. The writer started the project in May 2007 with final manuscript editing completed at the end of December 2008.
Much of the story is happening now. According to the author, events may spin the country apart later this summer. As a weekly series, partial chapters will be released on Sunday evenings. With the protests by government union thugs and the passage of currency legislation in Utah this week, portions of two chapters are showcased later tonight.
Scott Ellingson, leader of the local teacher union thugs, rationalized pay raises for his troops as good for the economy since he would have more money to spend. Of course his increase in wages comes from taking money out of my pocket and others by force in the form of taxes. If his logic is economically sound, then robbery should be legal.
It only took a matter of hours after the earthquake and tsunami hit Japan for some buffoon to conclude that the disaster has an economic silver-lining. Larry Summers, former Harvard President and a member of Obama’s economic advisors, stated that the years of rebuilding in Japan will help spur a stagnant economy. One would expect such dribble from the likes of Scott Ellingson, but not a person holding a PH.D in economics. French philosopher Frederick Bastiat dispelled such nonsense in his “Fallacy of the Broken Window”; a must read for any class in economics.
The purpose of production and exchange is to make one better off by satisfying an infinite numbers of wants. Using scarce (limited) resources to replace broken items makes one no better off than before the item was destroyed. In ways the person is worse off since resources that could be used for the satisfaction of other wants now has to be used for an item already attained. If destruction truly spurs economic growth, the ability to satisfy an increasing number of wants, then why wait for a disaster to take place. To ensure economic activity, we should make vandalism legal. If we want to stimulate the economy then why not take a sledge hammer to cars in a parking lot (cash for clunkers) or bulldoze houses (some economist actually suggested this as a cure for slumping housing prices).
The “broken window” buffoon logic permeates the thinking found in our universities and economic central planners. No wonder the country and the world finds itself in a state of turmoil.
According to a story running on the Hudson Star-Observer, area churches may be in coordination with union thugs in an attempt to recall Shelia Harsdorf. The article mentions petitions being passed inside a church during a “prayer vigil”. One of the interested congregations is the United Methodist Church in Hudson.
This church has been for years rumored to harbor socialistic preaching. Long time members spanning generations have parted ways with the gospel teachings of the church. Twice in the last few weeks the Methodist name has surfaced in the course of public discussions. First, Roy Sjoberg mentioned the Methodist at the School Board meeting as an opponent of Budget Repair Bill, which had nothing to do with the topic of the teachers illegally walking out. And now this article with the church involved with union mobs and a recall effort.
It should come as no surprise that one of the influential elders at the church is none other than Roy Sjoberg, who just happens to be leading the recall effort against Senator Harsdorf. The same Roy Sjoberg spotted among the thugs protesting. He is the same Roy Sjoberg that heads the Joint Library Board.
I know one thing for sure that when a socialist speaks you will hear some of the dumbest things. This morning while I was getting ready for work, a State Senator from Ohio was yakking about the collective bargaining bill passing through the legislature. He said it was an attack against the people like police, firefighters, and teachers that helped build Ohio into a great state.
I got to thinking about this. The police work when something has been destroyed like all those windows in downtown Hudson a month or so ago. The police show up 99% of the time after the cars crash, the gun has been fired, or the jewelry has been stolen. The only thing they are good at preventing is the doughnuts from getting stale at the Freedom station. Instead of building things the police report and investigate destruction.
Firefighters go to work when something is burning. If they don’t get their fast enough, then the only thing being built is a fire pit. Even in the act of saving a building on fire, they pour water on everything. Firefighters do not build but act to prevent further destruction.
Teachers are suppose to help build minds that can think for themselves. However students in this country have fallen to the bottom of the academic pit compared to students from other countries. It looks like minds are being destroyed. Maybe it’s time for the firefighters to hose down the teachers.
As far as building the great state of Ohio, who is this guy kidding. Ohio has dropped to the bottom of a smelly pit with about two rolls of toilet paper floating on top of it. Read More→
Every once in a while a squirrel will find a nut! That’s what happened when Margaret Ontl penned her recent editorial about teacher union thugs. She said that out of six interviews with area merchants, that none of the 6 would go on record supporting Walker’s plan out of fear of retaliation.
Well, either the intimidation factor was too much for Ellies, or they just don’t give a damn about regualr patrons who are non-union thugs.
In the midst of all this debate about government unions and collective bargaining, Mary Bowen-Eggebraaten (aka Second Choice Two Names) has been busy behind the scenes creating a brand new curriculum for the Hudson School District.
Always one to strike while the iron is hot, Mary has decided to add Bullying to the ever expanding course selections. She has indicated that it is never too young to start the children in the right direction, so the initial course offerings will begin in kindergarten. Our precious five four year-olds will be instructed on how to color beautiful signs reading things like “Wuck Scott Falker” and “Protect Workers Rights”.
Entering middle school, the young brains full of mush will be taught how to march the proper way. This would include blocking of public roads and sidewalks as well as surrounding your opponent in the most intimidating fashion.
Once the children enter high school they are ready for a more sophisticated approach. This is where they will learn to stalk legislators as well as taunt innocent citizens. But beyond that, they will learn about trespassing on private property, beating on cars, flipping off drivers and hitting vehicles with their signs. In general they will be taught how to violate every law know to man and create chaos.
In honor of his participation in the local rallies and his leadership in being the most ruthless and disgusting thug imaginable, Michael Yell (middle school history teacher) has been chosen to head up this new curriculum. Mr. Yell has indicated that he will do his very best to indoctrinate the youth of Hudson into mindless robots and tools of the government union thugs.
Local attorney and prominent Hudsonite Roy Sjoberg (aka Playboy Roy) has decided to provide the district with initial funding. He is highly enthusiastic about this new course offering and believes this will make Hudson a better place for families to relocate. Playboy has participated with Mr. Yell at all of the protests and has a great working relationship with him.
Hats off to the Hudson School District! Look for this new curriculum to begin in the fall, but Saturday classes are currently being held throughout the county. Just look for a private gathering on private property by any republican organization to sign up. Look for Mr. Yell and Mr. Sjorberg as they will be participating in taunting, intimidating, disorderly conduct, trespassing and general unruly behavior.
Not too many years ago citizens of New Richmond elected school board members interested in protecting taxpayer’s interest. They took positions at odds with the teachers and administration. They also brought transparency to the process that used to be discussed behind closed doors.
The reaction of the union thugs then is much like the attempted bullying we witness today. Back at the time in New Richmond, teachers and supporters disrupted board meetings. School Board members were also targets of attacks against their private property that included slashed tires and malicious damage to homes.
All the while, the local newspaper kept silent about the thuggish behavior. The paper even put out a bounty against one of the Ontheborderline writers who shed light on the situation within the school district. It was all out war against those who dared to stand up to the teachers union. Read More→
