Profiling: Who we need to look for.

"PROFILING." If we want to be safe we need to look at all terror acts and all attempted acts then make a list of the nationalities, religion, and race. Then look for those who are most likely to be terrorists. That would not be profiling it would be common sense. We should also find out how many on the list had contacts with known terrorists in this country and also those abroad. I don't know why this should make us hate any ones religion or race. After WWII we made an error with the Japanese who live in this country so we need to be careful of what we do with our information but this cannot stop us from protecting our people and our country.

"We the people fought City Hall and Won

Have you ever been told you “can’t fight City Hall”? Alone I felt helpless, what could I do? Write to the local paper, call my representatives in Congress (they ignore those calls). Alone I could not “fight City Hall, then came the grassroots movement. I use the term grassroots because the term “Tea Party” explains why we did what we did, not who we are. I now realize that I am not one person I am part of “We the People” collective and together we have the power. However, we cannot rest on what we did in the past; we must listen to the Congress carefully, if we do not like what we hear we fight in the best tradition of this country with peaceful demonstrations and town hall meetings. Maybe pass a law forcing our representatives to meet with us at least a dozen times a year.

This brings me to Ron Kind and why I didn’t vote for him. At the town hall meeting in Tomah I saw hundreds of people plead and beg him not to sign Obamacare into law, I saw the helpless anger in those people as he told us to go to hell and voted for it anyway. Then ignorant people voted him back in office. Now we must watch and record his every vote, having his votes ready for the next election. We must educate those who voted for him about what he really stands for.

High Speed Train

How is the high speed rail going to help us in La Crosse County or any other county on this side of the state? Is it going to help our farmers? Will it help them buy new farm equipment? Will it raise the price of their milk and corn products, pay their exorbitant taxes? How about office workers, small business owners and those put out of work by the Federal Government etc. Will the high speed rail do anything for us at all? Why doesn’t the Federal Government just give the stimulus money to the State Governments and let them put the money where it is needed?

You do realize that the Federal Government’s insistence on the high speed railroad will mostly benefit the unions. What about me, what about you? Does every person in this state work for a union? Maybe I want my taxes to help me out (remember that we paid for the stimulus with our taxes).

The Federal Government is using your tax dollars to give union workers jobs and this might help the economy for a very short time but it will do nothing to bring down our state deficit. And in the long run what will it cost us to maintain this very costly enterprise? Call or write our Governor elect Scott Walker and our state representatives Dan Kapanke and Mike Huebsch (they will listen to us) and tell them to say no we don’t want this extra tax Burdon.

Dan Kapanke: He fought for us

There is an ad on T.V. claiming that Dan Kapanke was a wild unrestrained spender while he was Chairman of French Island. The truth is the people of French Island wanted to be incorporated as a Village. Dan fought hard along with Mike Huebsch to fulfill the will of the people. I was there at those meetings as the people begged Dan to help them become what we already where a self-sustained Village. Dan never spent money without the people voting for it. Dan put month’s even years of his time and his money doing what we wanted and this is what I want from a representative someone who will fight for the people they represent.

I was at the town hall meeting in Tomah where hundreds of people begged and pleaded with Ron Kind not to sign the Obamacare bill. Did Ron Kind care what the people wanted? No he signed it anyway. This is what the people of Wisconsin want? A man, who does as he pleases, ignores the will of the people and smiles and laughs as he does it? Think people, do not repeat the mistakes of the past just because he has a nice smile, behind that smile is a very willful man who will not do as the people want but will do as he darn well pleases.

Vote for Dan Kapanke, I know for a fact he will listen to us because he did it for years as Chairman of French Island.