Americans For Prosperity: Out With A Whimper

Frankly,it was like listening to a child whine. And I am not talking just about the shrill sound. It is also the lack of content.

Americans for Prosperity (AFP) held their rally at the Wisconsin State Capital on Wednesday and proved once again that they have marginalized themselves into irrelevancy. The only ones still listening to them are the Wisconsin Assembly (and Senate) Republicans, and they will be dispersed and defeated in another year.

The challenge is for the Wisconsin business community. There is not one responsible entrepreneur who would run a company the way these folks from AFP tackle the complicated problems of governance.

Their world is limited to a primeval notion that spending less money is good and taxes are bad. Think about that. Imagine a business that thought that it could grow and compete by only looking at limiting its expenditures.

• M&I Bank would never invest in software to make it a leader in financial services.
• Wisconsin utilities would never invest in greater capacity to produce and transmit safe and efficient power so that their customers could prosper and they could make more money.
• The successful graphics industry in Wisconsin would not be expanding if it were not for entrepreneurs who committed to spending more money, even borrowing to invest in plants. And then they paid some higher than normal salaries to attract the best and the brightest so they could best the competition.
• The Milwaukee Brewers invested in young talent, who spent years in the minors producing no income for the team, and now they fill their ball park.
• Meantime, Wisconsin's roads, our police, firefighters, corrections officers and public health nurses who protect us, building inspectors who ensure we live and work in safe places, environmental officers who work to keep our most valuable assets, our natural resources safe, teachers who educate our children, all contribute to this prosperity.

Comments

[fred]

Could you be any more dense?

Tell me what exactly is being cut here?

Go on, I'll wait.

NOTHING

[germantown_kid]

There is not a tax increase that you do not like. Ben Franklin said the only two certainties in life are death and taxes. People like you want to expand that adage to: a painful death and increasing taxes.

Taxes increase annually. The Reps at least are trying to MINIMIZE the rate of increase. I would have liked to go to the AFP rally, but most of us have to work. That, apparently, marginalizes people like me.

If you are so sure the progressive democrats are going to take over in one year, perhaps no conservative republicans should bother to run for office.

To see what the country would become if the irresponsible secular progressives take over the country, just take a look at what goes on in San Francisco and Madison.

[FOM]

Which is why Madison (and sometimes our neighbors) rank very high as places to live. We have a very high quality of life here in Madison.