Friday, March 6, 2009

AFP: Hypocrites On Parade

UPDATE: Judging from what I've seen around the blogosphere this evening, once again I was correct.

This afternoon, with the warm weather of the last few days, I saw my first Asian Beetle and my first mosquito of the year. And just like those bugs, the Americans for Preposterousness is having their second Destroying the American Dream session.

AFP is supposed to be an anti-tax, anti-big-government, anti-letting-the-little-people-be-happy type of group. It only makes sense that this group is holding their shindig in downtown Milwaukee, which is supposed to the tax hell in a tax hell state.

And their line of speakers also shows they aren't about to practice what they preach.

They have Scott Walker, who wants Milwaukee County taxpayers to pay for the stimulus dollars, but not receive any benefits from them. Furthermore, he only keeps postponing the day of reckoning for when the bills caused by all of his neglect comes due. I guess they are not going to talk about personal responsibility either.

They also have Sheriff David "I like getting sued" Clarke. He can't run a jail, he can't run a correctional facility, he can't enforce the law. Who knows what he can do?

They also have Rose Fernandez, who doesn't have a clue about local politics, but thinks she can fix it. Not only that, but she wants to raise taxes. One of her proposals include the possibility of breaking MPS into five or six smaller districts. If she thinks one MPS is too expensive, how does she figure five or six MPS's, with all the added costs of separate administrations, separate school boards, separate pieces of equipment, etc, is cheaper than one. She is so bad that she and her supporters have to resort to red herrings and special interests (which visit this site daily to make sure I didn't write anything bad about her - hey, K12 and the rest of you guys - at least click on the ads while your here, or something, huh?)

Then they also have Joe the Plumber. Who's not really named Joe. And who's not really a plumber. He bombed out as a reporter too. He might not have a truthful bone in his body. He actually might just belong there, come to think of it.

There will also be Randy "Soft on Facts" Koschnick. To save me time, I'll just send you to Illy-T, who has been doing an absolutely fabulous job highlighting the foibles of a man who can't even rule on traffic tickets without messing things up.

In toto, it should be a grand waste of time. But on half of myself and the citizens of Milwaukee County, please do spend lots of money while you're here.

1 comment:

  1. "AFP is supposed to be an anti-tax, anti-big-government, anti-letting-the-little-people-be-happy type of group. It only makes sense that this group is holding their shindig in downtown Milwaukee, which is supposed to the tax hell in a tax hell state."
    LOL, but correct.

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