POP-UP GROUPS FIX OUR BROKEN POLITICS
Pop-up groups also known as grassroots groups are showing up in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Ohio and North Carolina. Women from the ages of 30 to 70 are saying Enough is Enough to current politics. They are organizing at the local level and running for political office.
The media outlets have just recently mentioned this new energy not in the rural or urban areas but in suburbs of Middle America. Since the election of Trump, women new to politics are forming groups. This is no leftist Tea Party or a repeat of Sanders versus Clinton. This is a new movement.
The women are ...
ONE PERSON, ONE VOTE
The year 2020 will mark the 100th anniversary of women having the right to vote in the United States… let us not squander it.
Years ago, I would take part in canvassing on behalf of various organizations, and I heard a lot of different things from a lot of different voters. One thing stood out as particularly troubling. Every now and then, I would happen upon a woman who would either say, “I just vote the way my husband tells me to vote,” or “I just vote the way my father tells me to vote.”
The first time I heard someone say this, it shocked me. I thought ...
FIXING OUR BROKEN ELECTIONS
“In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it.” Thucydides, Greek politician and historian, 460-395 BCE.
“When one with honeyed words but evil mind persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.” Euripides, ancient Greek playwright.
When Donald Trump thought he was losing, he ranted about the election being “rigged.” After the archaic Electoral College gave him the presidency, he falsely claimed voter fraud had given Hillary Clinton the popular vote ...
THE UNIVERSAL ECONOMY UNIT VI: WEALTH = (MATTER + ENERGY) X KNOWLEDGE
It is the laws of physics, and how well we understand and apply them, that determine the tangible, usable wealth of humanity. Money is but an aid or, at times, obstruction in the production and distribution of wealth. This is rarely understood by the world’s politicians who, all too often, are elected – and directed – by the self-serving interests of financial manipulators.
An expanded definition of wealth seems in order:
Wealth = (Matter + Energy) X Knowledge
We know there are iron, aluminum, nickel, copper and chromium ores and coal deposits on Earth. In ...
Retirement Security: Democratic Candidates Hold the Answers
A retirement crisis is unfolding in Wisconsin. Before long, four out of ten of residents will be in their "golden years." Many will have inadequate financial resources in retirement. According to AARP, 41% of Wisconsin's private sector employees (about 928,000 people) work for employers that do not offer any kind of retirement plan. This, along with decades of low-paying jobs, rising health care costs, and the inability of average workers to save on their own, has created this crisis.
POWRS (Protect Our Wisconsin Retirement Security) does not endorse any candidate, but ...
BUILDING TRUST…BEYOND THE HEADLINES
Building Trust: What is News & Whose Story is it?
Date: Wednesday, June 13, 2018
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: Northcentral Technical College Auditorium in the Health Science Center
Address: 1000 W. Campus Drive, Wausau Wisconsin
Details:
Building Trust: Law Enforcement, the Media & You is a series of events that bring the national discussion of law enforcement and media coverage home to Wausau.
ALL EVENTS ARE FREE!
Building Trust: What is News & Whose Story is it? is the second event in the series. This event will feature presenters Clayton ...
WHY PUBLIC SCHOOLS?
My granddaughter plays in her middle school orchestra. Last week I had the honor of attending her spring orchestra concert. The concert was a celebration of the students’ achievements as well as their wonderful teacher. The concert also celebrated the community coming together. All students have a chance at playing an instrument. Their proud parents and other family members and friends come together for this wonderful event.
Why public schools? Public schools include district charter and district virtual schools. To produce more special events such as concerts and ...
VOICES FROM THE MARCH FOR OUR LIVES IN WAUSAU, PART 2
Kristin Conway, the organizer for Moms Demand Action (MDA) in the Wausau area, reflected on the mass killings in recent years. A few months ago, MDA began with two people. Thirty-five people attended the meeting after the Parkland shooting.
Moms Demand Action provided a table inside the Wausau Mall with literature, voting information, and postcards. Participants wrote messages on the cards that were then sent to Congressman Duffy’s office.
Marchers solemnly marched to Congressman Duffy’s empty office.
“Now we ask for some silence and mindful thoughts or ...
THE UNIVERSAL ECONOMY UNIT V: GOVERNMENT “DEBT” IS NOT GOVERNMENT DEBT
Words matter. When a person opens a $5000 savings account at a bank it paints one picture. But if one states that the bank has borrowed $5000 from a person and now is in debt to that person for $5000 plus interest, it paints quite another. It is the same thing, but one statement creates a feeling of safety and wellbeing while the other creates a sense of doubt and fear of loss.
So it is with the misleading terms “deficit” and “debt” as applied to the U.S. federal budget. “Deficit” refers to the annual money created by the U.S. Treasury and Federal Reserve ...
NANCY MACLEAN’S DIRE WARNING
By Wisconsin Democracy Campaign
Our democracy is at a “historic turning point,” said Nancy MacLean, the author of “Democracy in Chains,” on May 3 in Madison, where she was the keynote speaker at the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign’s annual celebration.
The Duke University historian likened our current situation to two other perilous periods in U.S. history: the Civil War and the 1930s. In both those periods, she said, “the property supremacists” were trying to prevail over the advocates of democracy.
Today, the Koch Brothers and their big-donor network ...
