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		<title>Budget Chaos in Wisconsin</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Phil Anderson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2025 04:45:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Wisconsin Senator Chris Larson is concerned about the impact on Wisconsin&#8217;s state budget from Trump&#8217;s cuts to federal funding. The cuts being implemented at the federal level will create havoc with the Wisconsin state budget. Senator Larson has introduced emergency legislation – the Frozen Federal Funds Emergency Act – to help deal with this problem. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Gold Dome Bridge to Nowhere</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Krizek]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2025 04:45:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The “Star Wars Dome” Proposal Prioritizes Illusion Over Fiscal Reality While national defense is vital, the proposed continental missile shield—dubbed a “Star Wars Dome”—ignores practical and economic realities. Israel’s Iron Dome system protects a nation smaller than New Jersey (8,469 square miles), while scaling such technology to cover the continental U.S. (3.8 million square miles) [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A Budget for Real People</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Phil Anderson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2025 04:45:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“The most frustrating part for me as governor is that Republicans consistently reject basic, commonsense proposals that can help kids, families, farmers, seniors and Wisconsinites across our state&#8230;” Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers &#160; “Unfortunately, [Evers] sends us an executive budget that’s just piles full of stuff that doesn’t make sense and spends recklessly and raises [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Wisconsin&#8217;s  Budget</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Phil Anderson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2025 04:45:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers has released his proposed 2025-2027 budget. In what has become a legislative tradition, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos declared Evers’ proposal “dead on arrival.” The next step in the biennial battle is for the Republican controlled Joint Finance Committee to write their own budget ignoring most of Evers&#8217; work. &#160; Gov. Evers&#8217; [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Budget Chaos in Wisconsin</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Phil Anderson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2025 04:45:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Wisconsin Senator Chris Larson is concerned about the impact on Wisconsin&#8217;s state budget from Trump&#8217;s cuts to federal funding. The cuts being implemented at the federal level will create havoc with the Wisconsin state budget. Senator Larson has introduced emergency legislation – the Frozen Federal Funds Emergency Act – to help deal with this problem. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Wisconsin Budget Woes</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Phil Anderson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jul 2023 04:45:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“I see a gun constantly aimed at our feet, wondering when our next self-inflicted wound will occur&#8230;” Kirk Bangstad, small business owner and political activist. Mr. Bangstad was talking about education funding in the state budget but his comments apply to the rest of the budget and the budget process itself. Too often the important, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>JUST MONEY THREE</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dave Svetlik]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jun 2023 04:45:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[One of the most pernicious myths regarding US Federal Government monetary operations, is that our Federal government budget is like a household budget – it must get money before it can spend money. This leads to another deeply ingrained, and equally false belief – that our taxes pay for Federal Government spending. Let these two [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Madison Action Day</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nancy Tabaka-Stencil]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 May 2023 04:45:56 +0000</pubDate>
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	Many of us from the Wausau area attended Madison Action Day on April 27. We were in full force with many other WISDOM affiliates throughout the state. Thank you to Ron Alexander and NAOMI for providing bus transportation. We heard from many speakers, we watched a Drum Circle and a stellar performance from the Raging [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>SEEMS OBVIOUS – PART ONE</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dave Svetlik]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 May 2023 04:45:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We once again witness the “Parade, the Charade, of Charlatans” (the PCC). Another “Brilliant Batch of Politicians” (the BBP) threaten to shut the US Government down over the “debt ceiling.” “America has overspent! Something must be cut!” The next paragraph is technical. Try to stay awake. This has a huge impact on your life, whether [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Minocqua Joint Finance Committee Hearing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Apr 2023 04:45:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Minocqua Joint Finance Committee Hearing WHEN: Wednesday, April 26, 2023, 10:00 AM &#8211; 5:00 PM WHERE: Lakeland Union High School Theatre, 9573 State Highway 70, Minocqua, WI 54548   Governor Evers&#8217; state budget includes accepting the federal dollars to expand Badger Care, which would give more than 90,000 Wisconsinites access to healthcare. This is the perfect opportunity to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Social Security</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dave Svetlik]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2022 04:45:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Established in 1935 under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR), social security has kept millions of retired and disabled Americans out of abject poverty. But we hear a repeating refrain from politicians – currently Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson – that the program is “going broke” and needs “reform.” History says otherwise. Luther Gulick was an aid [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Surplus another ‘golden opportunity’  Republicans are determined to miss</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ruth Conniff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2022 06:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Originally published by the Wisconsin Examiner  on January 26, 2022 The announcement Tuesday that Wisconsin’s projected surplus is $2.9 billion higher than the already “unprecedented” June surplus projection was hailed by Republicans and Democrats alike. The state Democratic party credited Democratic Gov. Tony Evers, tying the news about the surplus to a record-breaking unemployment rate [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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