Robin Vos’s Title Loan Trip Troubles

By Wisconsin Democracy Campaign – Apr 16th, 2018 01:57 pm

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Via Brad G.
~Thank you greedy, ignorant and evil Republicans.~
At what point do you stop allowing yourselves to be manipulated and see that you are screwing us all?

Carrie Scherpelz: “Fellow Wisconsinites, you must read this to believe it. WIGOP governing malfeasance.

“Taxpayer-funded subsidies could run as much as $587,000 per Foxconn job. WI could have hired thousands of people to do more valuable work – like teaching, policing, nursing, etc. – and still saved money. Instead, Walker’s plan means WI won’t break even on its bailout for more than 25 years. And since Foxconn can close the plant in as little as 10 years, there’s a very real chance that taxpayers could be funding an empty factory for decades to come.

“But wait: It gets worse. None of this factors in the additional millions for pollution cleanup. Foxconn has been repeatedly accused of dumping toxic metals into waterways near its other plants. And before he resigned in disgrace, Trump’s EPA chief Scott Pruitt exempted the Wisconsin facility from federal limits on air emissions. On the day it opens, it’s expected to immediately become the state’s largest polluter.

“But the most glaring blunder was revealed last week. Wisconsin residents could end up bankrolling employees who don’t even work… in Wisconsin.

“That’s the recent finding of the Fiscal Bureau, a nonpartisan arm of the state legislature. It discovered that taxpayers would be on the hook for funding Foxconn employees in other states, as long as their paychecks are run through the Wisconsin plant.

“Republican lawmakers seem to sense they’ve created an exploding cigar in waiting. Earlier this month, before new Democratic Gov. Tony Evers takes office, they passed a bill ensuring that residents will be kept from knowing exactly where their money is going.”

And… If you want to really delve into how rilly, rilly baaaad the Fox Con is, please visit James Rowens’s Political Environment

compilation of 250+ posts about how bad it is with Foxconn.

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“When the test came years ago the university met it boldly where some other institutions faltered or failed. The declaration of freedom was made by the Board of Regents in 1894 when Dr. Richard T. Ely was tried for economic heresy:

” ‘ We cannot for a moment believe that knowledge has reached its final goal or that the present constitution of society is perfect…In all lines of investigation…the investigator should be absoluely free to follow the paths of truth wherever they may lead. Whever may be the limitations which trammel inquiry elsewhere, we believe the great State of Wisconsin should ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found.’

“This declaration of freedom was framed by Herbert W. Chnoweth, then a member of the board, now deceased, and it was incorporated as a plank in the last Republican state platform as a pledge of the party to sustain the academic freedom of the university. It has also been inscribed on a monument erected by a recent graduating class.

“In no state of the Union are the relationships between the university and the people of the state so intimate and so mutually helpful as in Wisconsin. We believe that the purpose of the university is to serve the people, and every effort is made through correspondence courses, special courses, housekeepers’ conferences, farmers’ institutes, experimental stations and the like to bring every resident of the state under the broadening and inspiring influence of a faculty of trained men. At the same time the highest standards of education in the arts and in the professions are maintained in the university itself.

“In other ways the influence of the university has been profound. When I was governor, I sought the constant advice and service of the trained men of the institution in meeting the difficult problems which confrronted the state. Many times when harassed by the conditions which confronted me, I have called in for conference President Van Hise, Dr. Ely, Professor Commons, Dr. Reinsch and others.

“I made it a further policy, in order to bring all the services of knowledge and inspiration of the university more fully to the service of the people, to appoint experts from the university whenever possible upon the important boards of the state–the civil service commission, the railroad commission and so on–a relationship which the unversity has always encouraged and by which the state has greatly profited. Many of the university staff are no in state service…

“…During the last session of the legislature a Saturday lunch club was organized, at which the governor, and some of the state officers and legislators regularly meet the university professors–Van Hise, Ross, Reinsch, Commons, Ely, Scott, Meyer, McCarthy and others–to discussion the problems of the state. Such meetings as these are a tremendous force in bringing about intelligent democratic government; they are very different from the old-time secret, back-room conferences of bosses which once controlled Wisconsin in the interest of private corporations. It is not, indeed, surprising that Dr. Eliot of Harvard, after an examination of the work done at Madison should have called Wisconsin “the leading State University,” for in every possible way it has endeavored to make itself a great democratic institution–a place of free thought, free investigation, free speech, and of consant and unremitting service to the people who give it life. ”
(pp. 32-33)

La Follette’s Autobigraphy: A personal narrative of political experiences.” Robert M. La Follette .Madison, WI: The Robert M. La Follette Co. 1911, 1913, pp. 29-33.

“It is difficult, indeed, to overestimate the part which the university has played in the Wisconsin revolution. For myself, I owe what I am and what I have done largely to the inspiration I received while there. It was not so much the actual course of study which I pursued; it was rather the spirit of the institution–a high spirit of earnest endeavor, a spirit of fresh interest in new things, and beyond all else a sense that somehow the state and the university were intimately related, and that they should be of mutual service.”

“The guiding spirit of my time, and the man to whom Wisconsin owes a debt greater than it can ever pay, was its President, John Bascom.

John Bascom, Pres. University of Wisconsin, 1874-1887

“I never saw Ralph Waldo Emerson, but I should say that John Bascom was a man of much his type, both in appearance and in character. He was the embodiment of moral force and moral enthusiasm; and he was in advance of his time in feeling the new social forces and in emphasizing the new social responsibilities…

“In those days we did not so much get correct political and economic views, for there was then less teaching of sociology or political economy worthy the name, but what we somehow did get, and largely from Bascom, was a proper attitude toward public affairs…” (p.28)

“In all my fights in Wisconsin, the university and the students have always stood firmly behind me. In a high sense the university has been the repository of progressive ideas; it has always enjoyed both free thought and free speech…” (p.29)

La Follette’s Autobigraphy: A personal narrative of political experiences.” Robert M. La Follette .Madison, WI: The Robert M. La Follette Co. 1911, 1913.