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• How much health care? Ultimately, we die.

  —FoxPolitics.net: Blogs

  “Nothing is ever good enough. The standard of care is raised higher and higher – but death always wins.” So says medical ethicist Daniel Callahan. There is just not enough money in o... [...]

  Posted: December 16, 2009, 11:00pm EST
  

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• PPMS Gets Air Conditioning

  —Fairly Conservative

  From BrookfieldNow A new air-conditioning system at Pilgrim Park Middle School will allow Elmbrook’s summer school program to be consolidated there, ultimately saving the district money, officials said. … Moving summer school classes to Pilgrim Park from Dixon and Brookfield elementary schools – in line with the district’s long-range plan – would allow [...]

  Posted: December 15, 2009, 7:18pm EST
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• Joint Finance to hold hearing on stimulus job reporting

  —News and Opinion

  Joint Finance Committee co-chairs Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Madison) and Sen. Mark Miller (D-Monona) said today they will hold an informational hearing on oversight of federal stimulus money and the jobs it has created or saved at their committee meeting Thursday. The announcement comes more than a month after state Rep. Rich [...]

  Posted: December 15, 2009, 6:15pm EST
  

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• Politicians and money

  —Musings of a Thoughtful Conservative

  Most of us know that politicians, left, right and center like spending money, especially money that is not their own. But there’s another aspect of this that some of us might not realize: The Milwaukee School Board has spent 20 years ignoring a “fiscal time bomb” in the form of generous and [...]

  Posted: December 15, 2009, 3:22pm EST
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• As Usual, Little Barry Doesn’t Get It

  —The Asian Badger

  Little Barry gave a speech telling bankers to lend more money. Then he called a few of them in to Washington and gave them more grief about not lending money. Little Barry probably thinks banks operate like ACORN; just give away money to anyone who asks for it. The Wall [...]

  Posted: December 15, 2009, 2:23pm EST
  by The Asian Badger

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• Parties switch Medicare roles

  —Musings of a Thoughtful Conservative

  For decades, Republicans scraped and clawed to cut money from Medicare. But these days, they’re talking as if they created the popular health care program for seniors. And Democrats — seeking to trim more than $450 billion from the safety net for seniors over the next 10 years to help finance [...]

  Posted: December 15, 2009, 9:50am EST
  by thoughtfulconservative

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• $13 million to fight carp invasion

  —Apostle Islands Navigator

  TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) Federal officials say they’ll use $13 million in Great Lakes restoration funds to step up the fight against invasive Asian carp. Lisa Jackson, head of the Environmental Protection Agency, said Monday the money will be used for engineering projects to prevent the carp from slipping into Lake [...]

  Posted: December 15, 2009, 4:58am EST
  by The Admiral

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• Kohl Brings Home the Pork

  —Boots and Sabers

  Neat.

  The U.S. Senate has passed a spending bill totaling more than one trillion dollars and a lot of that money is flowing directly into western Wisconsin.

  The bill cleared the senate by a vote of 57 to 35 Sunday. The legislation includes about $650 billion in mandatory [...]

  Posted: December 14, 2009, 8:28pm EST
  by Owen

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• Annals of Creative Diplomacy

  —The Chief

  The Republic of Nauru is an island nation in the Pacific Ocean that covers approximately 8 square miles and has an estimated population of 14 thousand people. Nauru’s government is notorious for its atypical methods of obtaining income, including becoming a haven for illegal money laundering, selling passports to foreigners, [...]

  Posted: December 14, 2009, 5:07pm EST
  

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• Are these the folks you want determining your health care?

  —Musings of a Thoughtful Conservative

  The federal government’s latest extension of unemployment benefits passed in early November, but jobless people in Wisconsin have yet to see the money. State officials said Friday the delay was because of computer programming requirements that come with federal funds. They expect the first checks to be mailed Wednesday. via State’s computers [...]

  Posted: December 14, 2009, 11:12am EST
  by thoughtfulconservative

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• Need realistic plans to save economy

  —News and Opinion

  So President Barack Obama has this new plan to stimulate the economy by creating all these new jobs and new businesses that will in turn create new jobs. Those companies that have already been given stimulus money are sitting on the money and not expanding or adding new workers because [...]

  Posted: December 14, 2009, 10:13am EST
  

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• Need realistic plans to save economy

  —Across the Board

  So President Barack Obama has this new plan to stimulate the economy by creating all these new jobs and new businesses that will in turn create new jobs. Those companies that have already been given stimulus money are sitting on the money and not expanding or adding new workers because [...]

  Posted: December 14, 2009, 10:13am EST
  

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• How Green Is The County Board?

  —Cognitive Dissidence

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  I guess we'll find out this week. They will chose either money green or ecofriendly green.
  
  I think I already know the sad answer.' [...]

  Posted: December 13, 2009, 10:48pm EST
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• It's NOT Just the Money, John

  —Dad29

  John Torinus complains.
  

  Is it too much to ask that our policy-makers in Madison and Washington, D.C., give business people some straight talk about what their sweeping changes to the energy industry are going to cost?

  Legislation is supposed to have a fiscal note that outlines the tax and [...]

  Posted: December 13, 2009, 8:14pm EST
  

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• Stephen King Pays for Soldiers to Be Home for Christmas

  —Boots and Sabers

  That’s pretty cool.

  Author Stephen King and his wife are donating money so 150 soldiers from the Maine Army National Guard can come home for the holidays.

  King and his wife, Tabitha, who live in Bangor, are paying $13,000 toward the cost of two bus trips so [...]

  Posted: December 13, 2009, 5:52pm EST
  by Owen

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• Who Owns Electronic Rights Of E-Books For Backlist Titles?

  —CAFFEINATED POLITICS

  The other day I posted that new book releases from publishers would be delayed by several months for e-book readers in an attempt to stem the loss of money to authors and companies in the age of Kindle wireless readers.  But also noted in the article I posted was about money to be made from [...]

  Posted: December 13, 2009, 4:53pm EST
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• Steve Kagen: BIG SPENDER

  —FREEDOM EDEN

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  Hey, BIG SPENDER!
  
  Wisconsin's own U.S. Rep. Steve Kagen, DEMOCRAT, holds the title for being the biggest spender in Congress for office expenses.
  
  From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
  Rep. Steve Kagen is the biggest spender in the U.S. House when it comes to spending taxpayer money [...]

  Posted: December 13, 2009, 1:46pm EST
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• Radical organization of the week: USAction

  —Apostle Islands Navigator

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  1314 “G” Street N.W. Washington, DC 20005 Phone :202-624-1730 URL: Website “The nation’s largest progressive activist organization” Is the resurrected form of Citizen Action, an organization destroyed by its role in the Teamsters Union money-laundering scandal of the late 1990s USAction, which describes itself as “the nation’s largest progressive activist organization,” was created in 1999 as [...]

  Posted: December 13, 2009, 4:00am EST
  by The Admiral

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• A Duffy Moneybomb

  —The Underground Conservative

  Sean Duffy, the Ashland County DA and up-and-coming Republican star, is seeking a money bomb for December 16 in his efforts to take down Rep. David Obey, the king of pork and the leading advocate of the failed porkulus bill. You know, the one that, among other frauds and failures, [...]

  Posted: December 12, 2009, 11:55am EST
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• Leftist "Tolerance" On Display

  —Beer, Bicycles and the VRWC

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  H/T RDW
  
  Here is a nice display of Leftist "tolerance".
  
  
  
  The Left isn't interested in debating (alleged) Global Warming. This is about money, power and control. November 2010 is not far away. We should be unelecting Congress for their transgressions against the people of this' [...]

  Posted: December 12, 2009, 9:28am EST
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• The Week In Review: County Board, SEWRPC And The Messages They Send

  —The Political Environment

  There are a few words from me at OnMilwaukee.com, where I deal with both the County Board and SEWRPC in my weekly commentary.
  
  Spoiler alert: The topics are SEWRPC's regular dining on our tax money to the tune of $1,000 at the end of the year (recession be [...]

  Posted: December 11, 2009, 8:31pm EST
  

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• When you’re spending more money than you bring in…

  —From Where I Sit

  …the last thing you do is go get another credit card:

  House leader says government needs to borrow at least $1.8 trillion more.

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  Posted: December 11, 2009, 12:48pm EST
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• Chilly Morning Round Up

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  A few topics to chew on as you drink your coffee or tea, or hot cocoa and try to warm up . . . GOOD THING THE COUNCIL MEETING WAS CANCELLED Maybe the Worker's Compensation Fund might not get so much money. They had slated it to get extra money from the [...]

  Posted: December 11, 2009, 7:55am EST
  by Brenda Konkel

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• OK, Jeff, Show Us the Money

  —Dad29

  Jeff Immelt, CEO of General Electric (We Brought Rent-Seeking to Life!) is reported to have said that Big Biz guys are 'selfish' for taking big money.
  
  Alright, Jeff. We'll be happy to take a look at GE's 10-K and notice that you've cut your salary to $500K and limited [...]

  Posted: December 10, 2009, 5:04pm EST
  

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• Tiger let down Clintonville school?

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  The Clintonville Middle School band is planning to go to Disney World next spring to perform. Naturally, they needed to raise money for the trip. And so last weekend, a concert and auction were planned to raise more money. One of the big items that went up for auction was an autographed [...]

  Posted: December 10, 2009, 10:34am EST
  

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• The Single-Payer Goes Banko

  —Dad29

  P-Mac makes the only worthwhile point.
  
  Senate Democrats' leaders, looking to pass something, on Tuesday night dropped the notion of a government-run health plan. Too many of their less liberal members recognized a money pit when they saw one. Instead, the plan is to let more middle-aged people' [...]

  Posted: December 10, 2009, 8:32am EST
  

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• Jim Doyle's Muckety Profile Needs Work

  —Real Debate Wisconsin

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  I know he's on the way out, but couldn't someone add a few links to Governor Doyle's Muckety Map for posterity's sake? Seriously, he's missing important links to the teacher's union, the Native American tribes, and the vast web of big money donors that kept him in power. [...]

  Posted: December 09, 2009, 3:11pm EST
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• Why Are “Virtual Schools” Getting the Same Amount of Money as Other Schools?

  —Left on the Lake

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  A good question from Bruce Murphy of Milwaukee Magazine: why do “virtual schools” get the same amount of money per pupil that other “choice” schools get from the State? “Virtual schools” have no building to pay rent or a mortgage on and none of the normal expenses you’d expect from [...]

  Posted: December 09, 2009, 6:31am EST
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• InsurCorp Money Defeats Health Care Reform

  —Rock Netroots

  AP sources: Dems reach deal to drop gov't-run plan.' [...]

  Posted: December 09, 2009, 12:02am EST
  by Lou Kaye

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• The SEWRTA And Your Money

  —The Underground Conservative

  Fred had an interesting Guess The Number game over at RDW: 44 percent. No, it’s not Barack Hussein Obama’s sliding approval number. It’s the percentage of the revenue being collected from the Southeastern Wisconson Regional Transportation Authority from the $2 tax placed on each rental car transaction that’s being given to a [...]

  Posted: December 08, 2009, 3:20pm EST
  by The Underground Conservative

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