4/22/12 THEY WOULDN'T, AND THEY DON'T

HARD TO SAY ...

HERB GARDEN COMING TO LIFE,,,

...HYACINTHS ARE B LOOMING

Sunday, 8:00 AM.  37 degrees F, wind N, light.  The sky is overcast, the humidity high and the barometer trending down.  Hard to say what kind of a day it will be.
    I am sure you are anxious to know how I thwarted the evil conspiracy of the Tech Cartel to force me to purchase a new computer in order to continue writing my blog.  First, I searched around on the new Blogger Chrome interface and found ways to make aspects of it work despite the deficiencies of my old Mac OS X 10.3.9 system.  But the options I found were limiting .,.. I wasn’t able to upload photos, etc.  However, I poked around at it long enough that I found a chink in their armor, a weak link in their chain…a portal to the old blogger interface!  Did they really intend myself and other technically challenged old geezers with ancient computers to be able to keep computing?  I doubt that, since it was well  hidden and I stumbled upon it by accident.  It was probably a legal responsibility they tried to avoid as well as they could.  In any case I outwitted them once more, and on I blog, with my trusty old eMac!  So, please do not give me away, but rather let me stand as a beacon of hope to all who challenge the evil rulers of cyberspace!  Old farts of the computing world arise, you have nothing to lose but your technological chains!
    A recent article in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel detailed the dismal job creation statistics for the State of Wisconsin, which is vying for last place in the nation in that category.  Many  reasons, or excuses, were given, all plausible to a degree.  The Democrat Party/Big Labor campaign to recall Wisconsin Governor Scot Walker, was mentioned as one of the possible causes. I should certainly think so, as that raucous undertaking is just the tip of the anti-business, pro-socialist iceberg in Wisconsin.  First off, it is not just the recall movement, although that is bad enough.  What is really in play is the labor movement attempting to actually cripple the state government with sit-ins and takeovers and disruptions of governance in Madison.  The flight to Illinois last summer by Democratic Senators was meant to stop any and all legislation by denying the Senate a quorum to do  business.
    The “occupation” of the Capitol building by  union members, socialists and their allies disrupted normal business for the better part of a year and it still goes on sporadically.  And all the while they proudly point out that “only” $200,000 damage was done to the beautiful and historic building during the "occupation."
    The crux of the issue is union outrage that public employee unions have lost most of their bargaining rights under the Republican governor and legislature.  Wisconsin was the first state to grant such “rights,” which are in addition to its very liberal Civil Service laws and benefits, and the unions correctly sense that if they can loose these redundant and wasteful “rights”  in Wisconsin they can loose them anywhere.  So they hire protesters from the streets of Chicago and elsewhere and bus them to Madison to occupy the Capitol and to harass the governor wherever he goes, even at his home in Milwaukee or when traveling out of state.
    Wisconsin has been a hotbed of radical union activity, including violent strikes and anarchy, for more than a century.  Union work rules and harassment essentially forced much of traditional heavy industry, and most of the iconic breweries, from Milwaukee and other large Wisconsin cities years ago.  Historically, Milwaukee had a strong Socialist Party,  and even  Socialist mayors, the last being Frank Zeidler, who held office until 1960.
    Given our past left wing history and present turmoil, why would any major corporation wish to expand or return its operations here, or any industrial entrepreneur wishing to create a new venture, do it in Wisconsin?  They wouldn’t, and they don’t