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I imagine that Ron Kind doesn't want to attract attention to the ethics violations of his colleagues and the corruption within his own Party but why is he also silent when a local employer has positive news?  Why wouldn't he want to brag up such good news about a company in his own back yard?

My reading habits have changed considerably in the past few years. No longer do I skim legislation passed by the United States House and Senate. I take the time to read it.
 
I'm in the process of reading HR 4173. As readers of Couleeconservatives.com are aware, HR 4173 is informally known as the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform bill that was penned to "champion reform" in the finanacial services sector of our economy. The Dodd-Frank bill is supposed to end the "too big to fail" conept, eliminate esoteric financial instruments, and rein in those Wall Street banks.
 
Really?
 

Necedah WI- Nationwide, state, federal and local governments are spending Billions of dollars in the name of economic development. Doubtless I could have chosen many locations to demonstrate the points I intend to make, but I chose one locality to demonstrate the possible foibles of economic development for 2 reasons: first, Necedah is close, only 15 miles from where I live; and second, you would probably have to search far and wide to find a smaller community with more examples of what is wrong with this mindset as can be demonstrated here.

The Oshkosh Northwestern recently summed up the last 17 months in Madison this way: “Politically, it could be described as the most underwhelming display of leadership from Democrats, who failed to capitalize on holding the governor’s office and majorities in both chambers of the legislature.”  It was the first time in 24 years that Democrats claimed complete control of state government and I, for one, expected an ambitious (and misguided) agenda.

I recently uncovered a series of troubling e-mails using Wisconsin's Open Records Law showing Governor Jim Doyle's Administration used taxpayer money to fly in a radical "environmental rights advocate" from California to promote a job-killing, tax-raising global warming bill.  A bill that is so extreme, that most Democrats are refusing to back it now.

It is outrageous that an environmental extremist was flown to Wisconsin, paid for by the taxpayers, to specifically refute General Motor’s effort to educate lawmakers and the public about the impact a “global warming bill” would have on our state’s manufacturing-dependent economy. This all took place before GM made the decision to shut down major Wisconsin operations.

On Tuesday afternoon, the co-chairs of the Assembly Special Committee on Clean Energy Jobs released a 150-page rewrite of Governor Doyle’s Global Warming Bill...to the media.  I and the other Republican committee members, Reps. Phil Montgomery (R-Ashwaubenon) and Scott Gunderson (R-Waterford), were forced to retrieve the amendment from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel website in order to read it.  On Wednesday, we learned that the committee would forgo a public hearing and take a vote the following day.  The bill was approved on a party-line vote of 6 to 3, with all three Republicans voting "no."

Wisconsin state government wants to help you save money on you energy bill.  All you need to do is pay the $700 million annual tab for state energy efficiency programs for the next 15 years.  Today, electric customers are taxed $90 million each year to fund rebates for EnergyStar appliances and high efficiency furnaces, cash-back rewards for small businesses that undertake energy efficiency projects and rebates and cash incentives for process improvements at manufacturing plants.  An 800% increase in this energy efficiency tax on electric bills gives new meaning to the notion that you have to spend money to save money.  If it becomes law, electric customers will spend at least $10.5 billion over the next 15 years.