June 17, 2011
"Remember, you were young once and you had a heart and you loved everybody."
A young man's oration after the Budget Repair vote in the state senate last night, juxtaposed with a chant from the young, heart-full-of-love folks: "Tax, tax, tax the rich/Walker you fucking son of a bitch."
(These clips are contained within the longer edit posted late last night here.)
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So, of course, the conclusion to this statement must be:
If you're not some hard hearted son of a bitch, you would give public employees every penny they asked for, lifetime job security, gold plated benefits and retirement at 55.
Even if there is no money to pay for it. Even if the poor suckers working in the private sector have to pay higher taxes. Even if the public employees already make more money and enjoy better benefits than you do.
"Remember, you were young once and you had a heart and you loved everybody."
I can't think of a more unwittingly rendered comment that better dovetails with Winston Churchill's definition of liberals and conservatives;
“If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have no brain.”
I do not feel the love when they are reaching for my wallet.
These paid protestors should probably combine these chants for peak efficiency:
"Have a heart you fucking sons of bitches! You were young once. Fuck you! You had a heart you fucking assholes! We all have a fuck you heart! Make love, fuck you! Make love, fuck you!"
I have a piece of advice for these Wisconsin protestors: Put down Saul Alinsky's "Rules For Radicals" and pick up Dale Carnagie's "How To Win Friends and Influence People."
You don't win friends by calling them assholes and telling them to fuck off.
Scott beat me to it. Well played.
"I do not feel the love when they are reaching for my wallet."
They fucking stole your wallet a long time ago. They want your kid's wallet now.
Anybody still voluntarily paying their taxes needs their head examined.
You don't win friends by calling them assholes and telling them to fuck off.
Fuck off, asshole. I thought you were leaving anyway?
Fuck off, asshole. I thought you were leaving anyway?
garbage, you are the lowest pond scum I've seen in a long time.
Do you behave this way in your off line life?
First guy pleading for a heart:
crack bait
The young guy's plea reminded me of this
You don't win friends by calling them assholes and telling them to fuck off.
Fuck off, asshole. I thought you were leaving anyway?
And thus the battle lines are drawn.
I love the marketplace of ideas.
Fat, angry and bitter is no way to go through life son.
If you're not sick to death of seeing that Churchill quote at fifty, you have no Internet access.
"This blog is hardly professorial."
-the new dean.
"The young guy's plea reminded me of this"
"Cocaine is a helluva drug." - Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry
If you had a heart, you'd buy me a high-speed choo-choo. And maybe a bike path.
Is it love when they reach into my pocket to steal my money to redistribute my created wealth as union payoff to their stooges and I have no say so or is it rape when I find their hands in there without my permission and I tell them no and they still don't remove it?
"I thought you were leaving anyway?"
Punked you again, GarageBanal.
I have three more senior Democrat Congressmen queued up ready for the guillotine.
Not leaving just yet.
or is it rape when I find their hands in there without my permission and I tell them no and they still don't remove it?
"If it was rape, then it was good rape."
This was the greatest mistake the hippies ever made, losing perspective and convincing themselves that they alone knew what love is. They thought that their parents didn't love them, that The Man didn't love them. Tragically, it was *they* that failed to appreciate that *true* love demands no sacrifice.
nevadabob said...
"Cocaine is a helluva drug." - Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry
That was actually Rick James, but I get it. :D
I have three more senior Democrat Congressmen queued up ready for the guillotine.
If they were senators, you'd have my undivided attention. How much did you make off that Weiner proof, btw?
garage mahal said...
Fuck off, asshole. I thought you were leaving anyway?
Just because you say that to your mother doesn't mean you have to use it here, fatboy.
"Have a heart". He stole that line from Ed Gein. Is this kid from Plainfield?
Look, Angry Baby is up a little early today from her nap. Cute.
That young has so little to reflect on, in terms of minutes/hours/years...is what we olds "remember" from our more lengthy video of reflection. We're in a position to have seen how a few more things fully played out, rather than the heat of the moment.
We are the video...youth is the snapshot. Both have their place, strengths and weaknesses.
Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck...noun, verb, adjective, adverb, dangling participle currently overused by young and old. Common ground.
What the fuck is that about?
Looks like mostly college kids now. Possibly School of Human Ecology majors?
Because love means never having to pay your bills.
Looks like mostly college kids now. Possibly School of Human Ecology majors?
Judging from Walkerville, I would have guessed Outward Bound rejects.
Way back when, I remember Grace Slick explaining to her followers why she travelled by limo. She said it wasn't a plutocrat limo but a hippie limo. She was travelling by limo for all of us, to show the rich that they didn't own everything. We should rejoice in her wealth because it was a stinging rebuke to capitalism. They didn't call her Grace Slick for nothing. Right from the beginning the hippie thing was more an affectation than a movement.....It's remains a curious fact about American radicalism that the people most alienated from it, are the children of those who have most profited from it.
Dino Valenti was a mercurial messenger.
AllenS
How did the beers go with your teacher buddy? My mom said there are a blizzard of Holperin signs up north, and no Kim Simac signs. Maybe that "We have shit schools but great roads" isn't a winning message?
garage mahal said...
Look, Angry Baby is up a little early today from her nap. Cute.
I'm up at 6am daily to go to a private sector, non-union job/career that I'm passionate about, went to school for, and where I negotiated my salary on an upward trend for the last 25 years without a single iota of union representation to fuck it up. What's your excuse, you parasitic unionista?
Apparently, having a heart has the same definition for the Lefties as peace and bipartisanship, give us everything we want and act as if you're happy about it.
Maybe that "We have shit schools but great roads" isn't a winning message?
I'll bet that the average per student expenditure for public schools in Wisconsin exceeds $10,000 per annum.
How much more do you want, garbage?
And, I'll bet that that expenditure exceeds by at least 3 times to increase in the cost of living for the past 10 years.
garage,
He never showed up. I waited around the whole morning, and nothing. No email or phone call saying that he wouldn't be able to make it. Typical teacher? Yesterday, he sent me another email inviting me go on a bus trip to see the Brewers next weekend, the 25th and 26th. Ready Randy's, a local bar is holding a Brewers bus trip. I'm done with the large group sports trips. I've got enough money. If I want to go, I'll drive myself.
"Tax, tax, tax the rich/ Walker you fucking son of a bitch."
I'm persuaded!
I see the problem in Wisconsin. Note that the orator--the passionate one talking about having a heart--isn't stirring the attention of the babes. They're walking away from him in the video. Contrast that with the babes attracted to the beta-males in shorts chanting obscenities down at baser level on the rotunda.
It's so telling...and sad.
Re: political signs
I'm in a different legislative area. There are about an equal number of Harsdorf and Moore signs around here.
I'm up at 6am daily to go to a private sector, non-union job/career that I'm passionate about,
Didn't know playing with an Etch A Sketch was career?
Cato Institute:
Although public schools are usually the biggest item in state and local budgets, spending figures provided by public school officials and reported in the media often leave out major costs of education and thus understate what is actually spent.
To document the phenomenon, this paper reviews district budgets and state records for the nation's five largest metro areas and the District of Columbia. It reveals that, on average, per-pupil spending in these areas is 44 percent higher than officially reported.
Real spending per pupil ranges from a low of nearly $12,000 in the Phoenix area schools to a high of nearly $27,000 in the New York metro area. The gap between real and reported per-pupil spending ranges from a low of 23 percent in the Chicago area to a high of 90 percent in the Los Angeles metro region.....
monyize lololol
How much money does the United States spend on public elementary and secondary schools?
Response:
School districts had total expenditures of approximately $596.6 billion in 2007–08, including about $506.8 billion in current expenditures for public elementary and secondary education. Of the remaining expenditures, nearly $65.8 billion was spent on capital outlay, almost $15.7 billion on interest payments on debt, and $8.3 billion on other programs (including programs such as community services and adult education, which are not a part of public elementary and secondary education).
After adjustment for inflation, current expenditures per student in fall enrollment at public schools rose during the 1980s, remained stable during the first part of the 1990s, and rose again after 1992–93. There was an increase of 37 percent from 1980–81 to 1990–91; a change of less than 1 percent from 1990–91 to 1994–95 (which resulted from small decreases at the beginning of this period, followed by small increases after 1992–93); and an increase of 32 percent from 1994–95 to 2007–08. In 2007–08, current expenditures per student in fall enrollment were $10,297 in unadjusted dollars. In 2007–08, some 55 percent of students in public schools were transported at public expense at a cost of $854 per pupil transported, also in unadjusted dollars.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics. (2011). Digest of Education Statistics, 2010 (NCES 2011-015), Table 188 and Chapter 2 .
2007-08 10,297 10,441
# 1 Denmark: $6,713.00 per student
# 2 Switzerland: $6,470.00 per student
# 3 Austria: $6,065.00 per student
# 4 United States: $6,043.00 per student
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I can find an addition $700, but I don't think GM would like it.
There was a website "The Education Intelligence Agency which used to calculate spending by district by state.
The last update was for the 2007-08 school year.
Maybe GM should take a peek?
For Wisconsin 2009-2010, average cost was $12,624
All School Districts
FY 2009-2010 Comparative Cost per Member
If you go to that link, select "All School Districts" & then "Show Report".
Fred4Pres said...
I do not feel the love when they are reaching for my wallet.
Try moving your wallet to your front pocket.
"...Try moving your wallet to your front pocket..."
Good idea. That way you can get a reacharound.
"Way back when, I remember Grace Slick explaining to her followers why she travelled by limo."
That's not Grace Slick on that recording from the first Jefferson Airplane. That's Signe Toly Anderson, who left the band when her daughter was born in 1966. She was replaced by the lead singer of The Great Society, the model-turned-signer Grace Slick. The Great Society featured the lesser-known Slicks, Jerry Slick and Darby Slick.
"the first Jefferson Airplane..."
That's: the first Jefferson Airplane album.
I'm not redoing all those links to do an edit!
On the new blog site, there will not only be buttons for making links, but the ability to edit your comment.
(And by the way, it's been hell trying to export the huge archive.)
signer = singer
Those poor, suffering public employees. :)
That chant seems entirely inconsistent with the young man's oration, and vice versa.
I'm up at 6am daily to go to a private sector, non-union job/career that I'm passionate about,
Didn't know playing with an Etch A Sketch was career?
Uhh, I think these comments were meant for the "Macho" thread. Why don't you two just send each other pics of your private parts, see whose is bigger and settle this once and for all?
"The Great Society featured the lesser-known Slicks, Jerry Slick and Darby Slick."
As I read that, I thought you were trying to imitate Trooper York.
A Siamese Twin can share a heart. What's the point? Who wants to be born a Siamese twin?
Whatever happened to baseball?
Back in the 1950's. Before you could see a game on TV. You'd go to the ballpark. And, some shmuck, with a loud voice, would be up in the bleachers screaming at Leo Durocher. If you were nearby, it "could" ruin watching the game?
While baseball plays out really slowly. My dad took me to Ebbetts field. Being in his company was delightful. But as to watching baseball (then), I thought we were only watching grass grow.
No grass in the rotunda. But with crazy loons screaming from the rafters, it's not a place to bring busloads of children. Bad influence.
While, too bad the gal who U-bolt'ed herself to the railing isn't still there.
I'd have paid good money to travel to Madison. Just to see that.
"You gotta have heart." Wasn't that a Doris Day song, once? Didn't she sing it to Rock Hudson? Hey. Nobody says hollywood can't sell queers making believe they like women.
Okay. And, I notice. One screamer does not evolve into two.
I could'a told ya that ... from going to ballgames. One screamer didn't start an epidemic.
I assume that this is what Obama thinks of as "compassion," which really means it's just another union con.
The Great Society featured the lesser-known Slicks, Jerry Slick and Darby Slick.
They were even lesser-known by their Latin moniker:
lubricae minorae
garage mahal said...
I'm up at 6am daily to go to a private sector, non-union job/career that I'm passionate about,
Didn't know playing with an Etch A Sketch was career?
Still beats whatever parasitic public tit sucking you've endeavored to find yourself in. I actually produce something, while you leech.
Phil 3:14 said...
Uhh, I think these comments were meant for the "Macho" thread. Why don't you two just send each other pics of your private parts, see whose is bigger and settle this once and for all?
It wouldn't even be a contest anyway. I'd take out just enough to beat him.
I saw the original Airplane. Somewhere in the LA area. We sat on the floor. Looked like a basket ball court. Contact high to the max. Buffalo Springfield too, same setting as I remember. Hendrix in the LA Forum. High, high, high. I voted for Goldwater. I was having a good time but I never went crazy.
you loved everybody
Maybe on one of his acid trips. I don't remember loving everybody and I don't remember anyone else loving everybody. Hippies hated establishment types, the "pigs", Nixon, anyone over 30, etc.
If a man still thinks his government loves him, then he is retarded. The government holds a monopoly on the power to kill, to steal and to destroy...and it tries daily to carry out the latest threats against us unless we pay protection money. There is no love involved in governments.
The version of the song posted by Ann just seemed "wrong" to me. I wondered if it was not, in fact, the Airplane performing. Now I know that it is the Airplane, but that I never heard it before. My first Airplane album was their second, Surrealistic Pillow.
The version I was familiar with was by The Youngbloods. That version was first released, per Wikipedia, in 1967, after the Airplane version. It was then re-released in 1969 and went to #5 on the US Singles charts.
For my money, the Youngbloods version is superior and less choral than the Airplane's
When I first saw this clip, I thought of, "When you were young, and your heart was an open book . . ." Live and Let Die.
"Tax, tax, tax the rich/ Walker you fucking son of a bitch."
A Madison school teacher married with lots of seniority to a cop or fireman with lots of years on the job may well qualify as one of Obama's rich. So cut their salaries and benefits and call it a targeted tax hike. Maybe the moron in the video will give the governor a great idea and tax the hell out of the highly compensated public workers.
Remember, you were young once and you had a heart and you loved everybody.
I was never that kind of patsy.
Seeing Red:
"How much money does the United States spend on public elementary and secondary schools?"
I think the more pressing question is how much the U.S. pays its K-12 teachers in comparison to other countries? I'll bet Wisconsin teacher salaries look pretty damned good in comparison to Europe, especially when cost of living and tax rates are factored in.
Is it a question of not allocating enough money overall, or is it one of putting that money in the wrong places?
Heartless bastard. Not willing to take someone else's money and give it to the union folk. You dont tax the rich in Wisc? How odd. robert reich wants to raise the rates to 70%. Would that make them happy? Really rich people would still make more than you though. How about 90%. No chance of unexpected consequences, right? Just ask the people that USED to build yachts back during the Clinton administration.
The young fellow should be sent to his room till he's about 40, for his own protection.
I have no problem with paying teachers more, but I have a lot of problems with paying more and getting less.
There will be no education reform until the teachers unions are broken. That's not me saying that -- it's them!!!
Don't tell me that the unions are needed to protect the good teachers. I've saw what happened when an abnormally bad principal took over my son's high school. She had no trouble whatsoever forcing out the best teachers, though after many years of running the school into the ground she was finally fired after the SAT scores were so low that even a complacent school board was forced to act. To my knowledge the union never lifted a finger to protect the good teachers she was pushing out the door. But at my son's elementary school tbere was a teacher so bad that some children finished their year under her supervision needed psychiatric care (no, I'm not making this up or engaging in hyperbole in the least). The union was right there on the spot when one courageous parent documented the ways in which this teacher routinely violated county regulations and committed firing offenses.
Governor Walker's target is not the teachers; it is their union. And do not tell me that the unions protect good teachers or care one whit about the children, because you are lying if you say so.
For the sake of the next generation, the unions have to reform or be broken.
Regarding Holperin vs Simac: We just returned from a trip from Land O Lakes to Wausau. Holperin signs seem to be pretty much restricted to Rhinelander, Simac dominates the rest of the area.
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