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A FACT-DRIVEN VOICE FOR

MIDDLE WISCONSIN VIEWS

FROM THE MIDDLE OF THE STATE

FOR THE MIDDLE CLASS

De ce m b e r 2 0 1 2

Editors Note ........................1

The Farce of the Fiscal Cliff..... 1

Filthy Rich .............................3

Working Wisconsin ...............4

Voter ID Law .........................5

Paul Wellstone ......................6

Grover Norquist ....................7

Speak Up! .............................8

Bernie Sanders .....................9

Damned Fools ....................10

Anchoring Wealth ...............11

Challenging the Myth ..........12

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2/12

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The longer we

listen to one

another with

real attention

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commonality

we will ind

in all our lives.

Barbara Deming

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You stick

together

til its won.

Pete Seeger

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The Farce of the Fiscal Cliff Continued

Throughout our history, Americans have stood shoulder to

shoulder to ght through the worst. At this decisive moment,

the Budget for Allasks the most fortunate to contribute a

sensible share. We ask because we value a teacher as much

as a CEO, a grocer as much as a venture capitalist, working

moms as much as working dads, and our rough neighbor-

hoods as much as our safe suburbs. The CPC budget is a governing vision for all

Americans. It is a reecon of their priories and voices.

Americans believe in the covenant made between a government and its cizens.

We hear them, and honor the promises made by Social Security, Medicare, and

Medicaid. The CPC budget protects these basic guarantees: When you are old, you

will not live in poverty; when you are sick, you will have aordable health care; and

when youve fallen on tough mes, you will have support to get back on your feet.

Those promises are not up for negoaon or experimentaon.

The Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) Budget

The Budget for AllExcerpt
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3/12

I 10 Filthy-Rich, Tax-Dodging Hypocrites Pushing Disastrous Austerity on America

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dodging CEOs have been major contributors to the naonal debt they claim they

know how to x.

The Fix-the-Debt coalion proposes cuts to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid,

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To hear some

pundits tell it, the

Lame Duck budget

battle is about the

unsustainable

federal deicit,

or entitlement

reform, or even

tax rates. These char-

acterizations make it

sound like a contest

between two

competing sets of

policies and

programs. But under-

lying all of the policy-

speak, the Lame Duck

budget battle is

really about one ques-

tion. Will the 1% of

Americans who had

the party that caused

the deicit be asked to

pay the bill?

Robert CreamerPc Ogze

Pe Demccy Pe

Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/

robert-creamer/budget-battle_b_2189553.html


By Jeanne Larson Phillips

Filthy-Rich, Tax-Dodging

Hypocrites
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4/12

It happens every me whenever I hear someone say that this state or that state is a

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yg mehg ke: Oh, you really mean worker exploitaon laws, which are meant

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Pa g e

In our glorious

ght for civil rights,

we must guard

against being

fooled by false

slogans, such as

'right-to-work.' It

provides no 'rights'

and no 'work.' Its

purpose is to

destroy labor

unions and the

freedom of

collecve bargain-

ing... We demand

this fraud be

stopped.

Dr. Marn Luther

King, Jr.

The problem withunions today is thatthere aren't enough

of them.

Marn Johns2011


Working Wisconsin Labor News & Views

By John Spiegelhoff MerrillWorker Exploitation Laws


5/12

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The Voter ID Law Is It Necessary?

By Joyce Luedke Hayward

Nobody will ever

deprive the

American people of

the right to vote

except theAmerican people

themselves

and the only way

they could do

this is

by not voting.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Voter ID absolutely would have made a

dierence in the elecon outcomew W-

c Se Senator Alberta Darlings

(Repubc, 8h Dc, Rve F) e-

pe que bu Ac 23, he ve

ID w, whe ppeg Nvembe 10 he

TV hw UpFront with Mike Gousha. Abe

Dg eved c-ch f he Rmey/

Ry cmpg. She cued: Were look-

ing at all sorts of dierent precincts and all

sorts of same-day registraon.

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statements?

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people commied voter fraud W-

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people who registered on elecon day

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place, more than 200,000 would not

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6/12

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Pa g e

The future will

not belong to

those who sit onthe sidelines.

The future will

not belong to

the cynics.

The future

belongs to

those who

believe in thebeauty of their

dreams.

Paul Wellstone

Pgeve

Me Se


Remembering

Senator Paul Wellstone

By Virginia Kirsch Wausau

We all do beer when we all do beer.

Paul Wellstone
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7/12

Grover Norquist we he Taxpayer Protecon Pledge, whch h hed Cge

cpve, eug umeu U.S. c pbem gg uved. (Senator Ron

Johnson d Congressman Sean Duy hve ged h pedge.)

Nw vce f pp h pedge e beg hed. Me h 80 e

execuve f he USA ge cmpe hve ued he upp f gup

ced Fix the Debt.They e yg ud d ce h he Ued Se c

ve c pbem whu g xe he wehyg wh

wg he Bush Tax Cuts expe.

Nqu fuded he Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) 1985 he eque f

President Reagan. A he cu, he pedge hd bee ged by 218 Hue

membe, 39 U.S. Se, 13 gve, d ve 1,200 e eg. The

umbe e mewh educed, e he Nvembe 6 eec.

Nevehee, u elected ocials who signed the pledgeeem hd he yy h pedge bve he yy u U.S. Cu.

O pe e, Gve Nqu w b Mchue 1956. He gdu-

ed fm Hvd Bue Sch wh MBO. He h bee m-gveme,

w-x cv d h hed my p h ed:

Chef peech we f he U.S. Chmbe f Cmmece

S f he Repubc Pm Cmmee 1988, 1992, d 1996

C-uhed he Cc wh Amec (wh Newt Gingrich) 1994

Ced Pede Gege W. Buh Tx Cu

Acve he Te Py

T my upe, Nqu h eched u me, gzed upp f gy

d eb, upped he Hpc Ledehp Fud d he Id-Amec

Repubc Cucu. He upp bgg hme he p fm Afgh

becue wud ve huded f b f d. I 2004, Nqu med Sa-

mah Alrayyes, Ab-Amec wh Kuw . They dped w chde fm

bd d ve mde feye. Smh w he ew ecey c-ch f he

Ab-Amec f Rmey.

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Pa g e

It is true, as

indicated in the

last cited case, that

every exaction of

money for an act is

a discouragement to

the extent of the

payment required,

but that which in itsimmediacy is a

discouragement

may be part of an

encouragement

when seen in its

organic connection

with the whole.

Taxes are what we

pay for civilized

society.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Supeme Cu Juce

(qu fm

1927 cu ce)


Grover

Norquist

By Virginia Kirsch Wausau
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2012Middle Wisconsin

Speak Up!

By Joyce Luedke Hayward

Thoughtful

Americans

understand that

the highest

patriotism is nota blind acceptance

of oficial policy,

but a love of

ones country

deep enough to call

her to a higher

standard.

George McGovern

U.S. Se &U.S. Repeeve

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9/12

Idepede Senator Bernie Sanders

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Pa g e

"You have given

the wealthiest

[portion] of the

population a

break, and nowyou are coming

before the

American people

and saying,

'We don't have

enough money to

protect the sick

and the old.

Bernie Sanders

U.S. Se

Vem


By Jeanne Larson PhillipsBernie Sanders

. . . [T]he large decit that we are now experiencing was primarily causedduring the Bush years by two unpaid-for wars, huge tax breaks for the rich

and a prescripon drug program wrien by the insurance and drug com-

panies. Further, as a result of the greed, recklessness and illegal behavior

on Wall Street which drove us into this terrible recession, revenue at 15.2

percent of GDP is the lowest in 60 years.In order to cover the cost of the unpaid-for wars in Iraq and Afghanistan,

they want to make signicant cuts to Social Security that will aect not

only seniors but disabled veterans. They want to do this despite the fact

that Social Security is funded by the payroll tax, has not added a penny to

the decit and has a $2.7 trillion surplus.In order to cover the cost of tax breaks given to millionaires and billion-

aires, they want to increase the Medicare eligibility age from 65 to 67 and

throw millions of families with children o of Medicaid.At a me when the United States has the most unequal distribuon of

wealth and income of any major country and the gap between the very

rich and everyone else is growing wider, their decit-reducon plan calls

for lowering the top tax rates for the rich and large corporaons to 28

percent or even lower.
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10/12


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Reprinted from Wisconsin Democracy Campaign

Big Money Blog, November 28, 201

http://blog.wisdc.org/2012/11/there-are-damned-fool

and-then-there.htm

There Are Damned Fools, And Then There Are DemocratsBy Mike McCabe Madison
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Pa g e

Wealth & Money

2012 Middle Wisconsin

Community wealth

building aims at

improving the ability

of communities and

individuals to

increase asset

ownership, anchor

jobs locally, expand

the provision of public

services, and ensure

local economic

stability. Community

wealth strategies are

designed to draw

more dollars into the

community

by raising the

inancial assets ofindividuals, by

increasing the level of

common assets

within a community

that are locally

owned, and by

leveraging the use of

funds from

institutions that are

based in the

community for

community-beneiting

purposes.

Source:http:evergreencooperatives.

com/evergreen-toolkit/community-wealth-

building/

Anchoring Wealth

How Saving Money at a Big-Box Store

Impoverishes Us

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he c mke, ed ped ge pp f he cme c wge

d pcueme, whe ch e e me key dve eveue bd dmp fm bd. F ce, 2007 udy S Fcc fud h evey

$1 m pe c bke ceed $321,000 dd ecmc cvy

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$1 m pe ch bke geeed y $188,000 c ecmc

cvy, cudg $71,000 c wge. The udy fuhe fud h if residents

shied 10% of their spending from chains to local businesses that would generate

$192 million in addional economic acvity S Fcc d m 1,300

ew jb.

Source: hp://evegeecpeve.cm/bu/

Anchoring wealth is about the growing movement to prevent wealth from leaving

our communies. I bu keepg u weh c, he h g g

cp, gy vepd CEO, d he pedy geed f W See.

Anchoring wealth is about working as a community for the common good, about co-

operaves, about employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) for our local businesses

and corporaons. I bu eg h we c deped up hud we

be hed hge g ude meyed ee cee c vg -wge jb.

Achg weh bu hw we cmmuy eg c f u w ecm-c dey d bu pvdg f ppue f eveye.

I uge yu k he fwg webe h pvde emkbe exmpe f wh

beg de c Amec d ud he wd:

Community Wealth Building: hp:evegeecpeve.cm/evegee -k/

cmmuy-weh-budg/

Worker Cooperaves: hp://www.cmmdem.g/hede/2010/02/15 -7

Co-ops: hp://cmmuy-weh.g/ege/pe/cp/dex.hm

Sustainable economics: hp://www.w.g/

By Dave Svetlik Mosinee
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By Dave Svetlik Mosinee


Pa g e

And if all others accepted the lie which the party imposed

if all records told the same tale

then the lie passed into history and became the truth

George Orw

1984 (pubhed 194

CHALLENGING

THE MYTH...

The Myth of

Conservativesvs.Progressives

Polics Exam

1. The majority of which of the following constituencies favors raising taxes on the rich?A. Conservatives B. Progressives C. Both A and B

Answer __C__

2. The majority of which of the following constituencies is against any cuts to social security?A. Conservatives B. Progressives C. Both A and B

Answer __C__

3. The majority of which of the following constituencies is against any cuts to Medicare/Medicaid?A. Conservatives B. Progressives C. Both A and B

Answer __C__

4. The majority of which of the following constituencies favors more regulation of Wall Street?A. Conservatives B. Progressives C. Both A and B

Answer __C__

Theres class warfare, all right, but its my class,

the rich class, thats making war, and were winning.

Warren Bue

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beg wged Amec e bewee cevve d pgeve, bewee pubc d pve wke,

bewee y f he he pgehe we hve bee pced dvde u. We he Pepe d udemccy e ude u fm gchc/pucc pwe ee, d he e we uded h,

he e we c j gehe, ued cevve d pgeve, gh bck.
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