Some Wisconsinites may have noticed Jim Doyle’s support of an idea to increase spending and financial support in the healthcare industry by taxing hospitals. The basic idea reflects a backward idea that increasing hospital costs will allow the underprivileged to spend more in hospitals by giving them the hospital’s profits. While the next step in the logical process involving the loss to hospitals being made up somewhere else may seem obvious to most, Jim Doyle sees this as a way to stimulate Wisconsin’s economy because Medicaid recipients will have more money to spend on consumer products. I mean all that expendable income is why America created means-tested social welfare programs… right?

In retrospect of previous actions by current political leaders, many expect this ridiculous political action to be somehow connected to the unbelievable deficit that coincidentally is the fault of generally the same people. Wisconsin, previously known as one of the great laboratories of democracy in the United States, has lately become one of the great laboratories of Democratic mistakes as our citizens fall into debt that anyone who demonstrates knowledge about the second tallest capitol building in the country would be ashamed to hear. However, this strange apparent attempt to raise government revenues by regressively taxing the sick has no link to our current deficit. The ploy is above Doyle’s usual partisan pandering, like his refusal to recognize Ronald Reagan Day. Doyle actually is supporting a much more sinister objective along with Wisconsin’s entire Democratic Party.

In an effort to undermine the religious right, Wisconsin Democrats are assaulting the moral and religious base that many associate with modern Republicans. The increase on hospital taxes is being fiendishly coupled with a bill pushed by Democrats to allow breast-feeding to occur publicly all over Wisconsin. Then, when women begin their public displays of nudity while feeding their children, everyone will go crazy at the barrage of visual inappropriateness assaulting them in shopping malls, parks, perhaps even their bi-weekly political science class. Both ideas alone may only seem stupid, but in conjunction they are an evil ploy to destroy the Republican Party and create a totalitarian regime in the Badger state.

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This recent inauguration of our 44th President Barack Obama represented an historic moment for America. Not only does Obama represent hope and American freedoms as president, an unbelievably large amount of people actually watched the inauguration. Very few people have ever cared enough to watch what can usually be considered a C-SPAN-only quality telecast. This year the President stumbling through his Oath of Office held the nation’s attention better than wardrobe malfunctions at the Super Bowl. While some may believe that this may be the rekindling of hope, American government regaining Americans’ trust, or the re-establishment of dignity in America’s highest office, it is obvious that behind the scenes forces used the inaugural ceremony to try to move along a standing battle against one of America’s most hallowed and cherished establishments: nepotism.

Three notable casualties took place during the ceremony as Senators Kennedy and Byrd were mysteriously transported away from the inaugural luncheon and former Vice President Cheney was confined to a wheel chair before the Secret Service forced him into the back of a black Cadillac. These seemingly legitimate occurrences may have been explained away in the press, but considering the context of removing the last remaining Bush in office from a position of power and suddenly “Change we can believe in” takes on a more ominous tone. The Bush family and the Kennedys have long represented the standard of American nepotism, and it seems that now these patriarchies of privilege are being plagued with possible peril. These old guards and their associates, like Cheney, Byrd and almost every Kennedy that hasn’t died yet, are now seemingly under constant attack. In seemingly unrelated events, Caroline Kennedy was slighted for the New York Senate seat vacated by Clinton, creating a greater opportunity for turnover. No obvious old power replacement for Obama is forthcoming after Oprah shirked the possibility of taking over for the junior Illinois seat, in a state already reeling from an assault on old-boy politics as traditional gubernatorial bribery practices have come under assault.

This power vacuum cannot be explained easily, but can be explained theoretically. These groups so long entrenched in power are not actually being forced out, but duping the public into thinking so in an attempt to escape from harsher consequences when the truth is learned. As the world tries to recover from a global economic crisis, world leaders are losing elections all over, but on purpose. Iceland already forced their Prime Minister, Geir Haarde out of power, but he will not feel any real wrath. In fact if the people of Iceland knew that he was retiring to Portugal with his hush up money from the G-8 to cover up the greatest embezzlement scandal of all time the repercussions would be greater than simply losing office. This is why Bush “stayed the course” in all aspects despite such opposition and historically low approval ratings. It was all part of a plot; an insidious plot so that all of the families in the spotlight, the old guard, could retire on greater fortunes than they already had.

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It’s finally begun: the socialization of the American economy. However, unlike many pundits on Fox News worried, it is happening at the hands of our current lame-duck administration as it fumbles through its last few months in office. The new plan for the American economic bailout package has shifted its focus from buying out the bad debt from banks to simply buying pieces of the banks to encourage them to restart normal lending behavior. While students can appreciate that the government is trying to encourage specific types of lending, such as student loans, allowing the government to be in charge of the World’s largest financial institutions worries surprisingly few. In fact, many Wall Street experts believe that this intervention represents a more efficient move to fix the economy.

While experts begin to applaud the change in tactics, the wisdom of giving ridiculous amounts of taxpayer money to the same corporations that landed the American economy in this mess seems limited at best. A staunch economic conservative should not agree with buying off bad debt to help financial institutions for various reasons. If they could stomach that however, the idea of giving firms engaged in perverse market behavior money with minimum strings attached and the ability to continue running their business as usual has to induce suicidal behavior.

The Bush administration must have an ulterior motive that they are not disclosing. While various other moves seemed misguided in the past, there are clear undercurrents of insidiousness in these efforts to jumpstart the economy. The link that the White House hopes we will miss is the recent Supreme Court ruling to allow the Navy to continue using sonar in its sub-hunting tests in California. Justice Roberts’ decision that the lower federal courts over-stepped their bounds in protecting the brains of endangered whales reportedly harmed by the tests is an obvious order from his handlers in the Oval Office. The facts all point to Bush using the naval tests as part of the construction of a sub-sea storage facility to store all of the money that he is laundering through these heinously bad banks. When all of the money disappears in new economic disasters this January, don’t be surprised. It won’t be found again, but there will be a definite addition built on the Crawford, Texas, Bush Ranch. Unless of course the Taliban somehow got their hands on some nuclear powered submarines, because then all of this sub-hunting is really going to come in handy.

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