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7/17/2009
Joe the Plumber's coming to Greenville
Joe the Plumber is Wisconsin’s guest Sunday the 19th, 3:00 to 5:00, Greenville Lions Park, Hwy 96 and Hwy 76. Bring a blanket and make it a picnic. Rain or shine, we’ll be there.
Join thousands of Fox Valley folks at a Tea Party Event staged by citizens – voters concerned about the directions Wisconsin and America are taking.
“Regular Joes, Powerful Voices”
Speakers include
- America’s “Joe the Plumber” aka Joe Wurzelbacher • Yuri Maltsev, former Soviet economist under President Gorbachev
- 17-year-old Melika Willoughby from Madison. A dynamite patriot
- Pastor David King, inner city Milwaukee optimist and inspirer extraordinaire
- Pat Snyder, WSAU Radio
- Jim Steineke, Vandenbroek, Tea Party organizer
- Linda Hansen, Wisconsin Prosperity Network
- Mark Block, Americans for Prosperity
…Sponsored by the Fox Valley Initiative and Americans for Prosperity.
A well-run event, facts, figures and lots of passion from folks. Not critical, but you can go to www.fightbackWisconsin.com and register for the event (it’s free!). A bus is available from the Wrightstown and Greenleaf areas – let me know as soon as possible if you’re interested and I’ll get you the details.
Ok, so why attend?
Because some politicians aren’t being straight with us.
Rep. Tom Nelson is smoking something. His budget pontifications, aired in The Post-Crescent recently, are misleading and actually, just plain wrong. Nelson knows better and his constituents should call him and his Democratic cohorts on it. Because amazingly!!!, the Congressional Budget Office determined the health reform bill being rushed through Congress this week.
… would increase rather than reduce public spending on health care, potentially worsening an already bleak budget outlook, the director of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said this morning.
Under questioning by members of the Senate Budget Committee, CBO director Douglas Elmendorf said bills crafted by House leaders and the Senate health committee do not propose "the sort of fundamental changes that would be necessary to reduce the trajectory of federal health spending by a significant amount."
"On the contrary," Elmendorf said, "the legislation significantly expands the federal responsibility for health-care costs." Phenomenal revelations. And still, the House pushes forward to pass this bill – this week? Unbelievable.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) expressed concern that the CBO is not giving lawmakers enough credit for measures that would bring down costs by increasing preventive care. If the health reform measure produces more savings than expected, she said, a proposed surtax of up to 5.4 percent on the wealthy could be lowered or the revenues could be devoted to bringing down the deficit. [Quotes are from initial WaPo story; sections of the current story at the same link have been rewritten. Read the article – it’s excellent.] What? The CBO’s research is very definitive about the costs skyrocketing. Read the article – it’s excellent. And Speaker Pelosi is in dreamland talking about the program generating more savings than expected – via preventive care? You have to be kidding me.
This kind of stuff. That’s why you'll want to hear Joe the Plumber – who actually tells it like it is. It’s so damned refreshing.
Jo Egelhoff, FoxPolitics.net.
COMMENTS
I read with great interest the comment to the Tea Party article in the online Post-Crescent. The writer made snide comments about Joe "The Plumber" Wurzelbach, implying that Joe was a nobody, dumb and unworthy to be heard.
If we leave all the public speaking to professionals, we'll never get a straight answer to anything regarding the government.
Joe, because he gave Barack Obama an answer he didn't like, had his background- job, and family affairs- checked out by a Democrat government worker to try and make him look suspicious and slightly seamy.
We need more Joe the Plumbers speaking up, not less. We've been talked, by glib, smooth-talking politicians, into the disaster in which we now find ourselves.
Has everyone forgotten the First Amendment? It doesn't only apply to the glib professionals. It applies to all of us ordinary Joes and Janes. It allows us to speak up, without fear of reprisal, against our government and its doings.
An overenthusastic Democrat decided to try to deprive Joe of this right. If conservative Republicans hadn't taken him up his job future would probably have been in the tank.
As for me, I'll be at the Tea Party on Sunday carrying the same sign I did at the April Tea Party. This time I'll hold it higher.
C.R. Stevenson (Fri Jul 17 11:49:16 2009)
Having heard Joe the Plumber in Tomah a couple weeks ago, let me second the first poster's response by saying that Joe may work with his hands, but he is anything but dumb and inarticulate.
I will try to be there, but I live half a state away, and have other obligations. Here is hoping for a successful turnout!!!
RECALL DOYLE!!
Ken Van Doren (Fri Jul 17 14:24:37 2009)
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