My column for the Washington County Daily News is online and in print. Believe it or not, there are other things happening outside of Rona & Riots (incidentally, Rona & Riots was a small eclectic bar on Manhattan’s upper East Side.) Here’s a part:
What were Frostman’s priorities in this budget request? According to his agency’s request for $735 million over the biennium and 1,610 employees, updating technology was not a priority. What were the priorities?
“Full funding of continuing position salaries and fringe benefits.” “Overtime.” “Grants to the UW System, Wisconsin Technical College System (WTCS), and the Wisconsin Association of Independent Colleges and Universities.” And, of course, the positive things like worker training, economic development, and other normal operations were included. For the 2019-2021 Capital Budget agency request, the only mention of the DWD is as part of a $98.5 million new building and parking garage that would house the DWD and other agencies.
If the technology was known to be so old, why didn’t the DWD make it a priority to request money to update it? Why was the ability to support unemployed Wisconsinites not prioritized over the making sure that 1,610 bureaucrats got their full wages and fringe benefits? Why was money allocated to replace a 55-year old building and not to replace 50-year-old software? Budgets are a statement of priorities and it is clear where the priorities of Evers and his DWD lie — the comfort and financial security of government employees.
Nobody expects perfection from Governor Evers and state government, but at the very least, Wisconsinites deserve a basic level of competence.
But… but Walker!?!!?
But……but……..DOYLE!!??!!!
Face it. We have the most inbred, incompetent, and self-pleasuring administration in Wisconsin history.
It makes me sad that liberals like jjf, Le Roi and Pat are once again cheering for the destruction of the US economy, property and lives just as they cheered the Chinese virus and the deaths and economic destruction it caused.
Where’d you see that Mar? Just attracting attention to yourself?
No mar, I didn’t and haven’t done that, not once. Why must you lie about things so easily proven false?
Mar is like an old junk yard dog… Blind in one eye cataracts in the other, missing a hind leg lame in the others, barks at everything that moves but has no teeth to bite. Mange, ticks and flees are so bad they have driven him to near insanity. Runs into the fence over and over and over again but still it doesn’t register. Does MAR stand for Manic Arizona retiree?
Owen,
Why haven’t you banned Mar? He offers nothing of substance. He is a cyber bully! He calls people names, threatens, lies, insults and disrupts every rational debate. I can’t remember the old screen name Mar used but I believe you banned him in the past. If I remember correctly “Mar” was a retired school teacher who lived in Arizona. His posts were extremely insulting but we’re worse at night. You could see the drunkeness in his posts as cocktail hour approached and passed. Looks and sounds familiar. Just my opinion but if an liberal/Democrat acted in such a manner you would (and have) ban them. Do us all a favor and get rid of this drunken fool!!
Mar:
It makes me sad that liberals like jjf, Le Roi and Pat are once again cheering for the destruction of the US economy, property and lives just as they cheered the Chinese virus and the deaths and economic destruction it caused.
There was not a single post in this thread from jjf, Le Roi or Pat when you posted this. SMH.
The upside is the we get to live in mar’s cracked noggin rent free 24/7/365.
There you go again, cheering about living rent-free in Mar’s brain.
I miss Mar. When’s he coming home?
Randall: thank you for being the blog police and pointing out my mistake. I will now punish myself by flogging myself and eat a piece of poo.
Speaking of poo, NHolland weighs in with his usual dribble and insanity. He screams how I call people names and yet he does the same thing. Does his feeble mind even understand how stupid he is?
Its hilarious and you cannot make this stuff up.
Ahhh, he’s home. Did you have a good day skippy?
To Le Roi and jjf. It is fact that you two celebrate deaths, hospitalizations and economic destruction due to the China virus just to hurt President Trump. You of course deny it but your posts on the virus. That is fact.
And since the posts about the death of man in Minneapolis, not one 1 time did you guys condemn the thugs who are rioting.
Of course, jjf made snarky comments about guns and how Dad enjoys white privilege. Le Roi gets into an argument with Kevin and lies about Kevin and what he says.
But that is not surprising since you two never say a bad thing about a democrat or liberal. Never, even when they maliciously kill the elderly and disabled.
Thus, one can easily surmise that your silence means your support of Antifa, the rioters, those who attack cops and other thugs.
What a shame.
“It is fact that you two celebrate deaths, hospitalizations and economic destruction due to the China virus just to hurt President Trump”.
You must have a dramatically different definition of the word “fact” than the rest of the English speaking world. I have never said that, nor do I think that. You made that all up. In other words, you lied.
Right Le Roi. You still think the state should be shut down. You have no problems with democrat governors putting patients with the Chinese virus into nursing homes. You don’t anyone to take drugs that are not officially approved to fight the Chinese virus. You cheer that some studies, that are flawed, of the drug President Trump touts, showed the drug may not be effective in all cases, though there is ample evidence that the drug has helped some people.
Those are facts. Those are the views of a hater. And you lie.
I did, Lying Pat. I hope your day at Mendota was equally good.
Yep, he’s home early, Pat! And he’s well-oiled!