THE TROUBLE WITH LIBERALS

Sooner or later, they run out of other people’s money! 

No matter the subject, concern, forecast, and especially projections; you cannot believe them.  Take Reproductive Rights for example, their most recent forward cadence movement.  How can one envision any reproductive positive Right when they are readily encouraging abortion from conception to term and sometimes after birth has occurred?

How about the frequent labor and economy statistics loudly trumpeted with flare only to find weeks later, quietly late on a Friday, that they are substantially corrected downward.  How can anyone make accurate decisions based on false factors?

Then the omnipresent number claims for dollars, percentages, rates, and trends in growth or losses that are later found by research investigation to be arbitrary at best.  Made up to get attention and broadcast to the multitudes by the media-machers.

And sure-enough right now in Wisconsin, we have an issue that encompasses all the misleading and misinformation the liberals can generate with their well-lubed political machinery.  It was finally ordained by the Liberal State Supreme Court on 18 April, Good Friday afternoon.  Governor Empty Grey-Suit’s 400-year Educational Budget was found acceptable to them.  It is not acceptable: we’ll address that another day. 

It always frustrates me that liberal politicians cannot present their proposals like anyone in business or industry, with normal logic, case histories, and realistic expectations and measurements.  Finance uses actuarial tables for reasonable expectations for investments.  Architects use engineering economics to determine project future vales and costs.  Product engineers extensively determine duty-cycles, so vehicles and airliners don’t fatigue to death.

Below is my simple investigation into this 400-year educational funding stuff.  It was not difficult, unless you’re an MPS graduate in the last 30 years.  No trig, no difficult questions, not even a binomial.  Just addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division with some percentages.  Simple for readers to follow and make conclusions.

         RAW DATA TAKEN FROM BADGER INSTITUTE                                         CALACULATED DATE FROM REYNOLDS

It took several minutes to find useful state data on sequential K-12 funding years and at best got 2013 to 2023 from The Badger Institute, and they even provided all the years into 2022 dollars.  To start calculating from 2025, I had to interpolate for declining enrollment and projected funding.  All values are now relative to envision.

As you can readily see from the left bank columns, the educational costs increased $505,226,677 while reducing from 856,792 to 831,037 students.  This simply resulted in an annual $50,522,688 cost increase for the period.

The right bank columns indicate projections for the next 10-year period, beginning this fall at $16,500 + 325 (each year) per K-12 student ($16,825).  According to Gov. Gray-Suit’s restructured plan, that $325 is added every year to the previous year’s amount.  Thus, you can see the student cost grows $325 every year in the column.

Total cost for the $325 accelerator in 10 years is now $1,976,062,500…not that far from $2 Billion in 10 years.  The annual cost increase is just 10% from that and being $197,606,250.  Divide that by the previous 10-year period $50,522.688 cost and we get a whopping 391.12% increase in educational funding!  WHEN have you ever got a 400% increase in anything?  And… now we still have another 390 years to go!!!

400 years ago, 1625 era, all one could see and hear around here were Indian villages and drums along the local rivers.  200 years later, 1825, Milwaukee was an outpost for growing Chicago businesses.  Not even a stagecoach line to remote Madison town.  Now Gov. Gray-Suit is star-trekking expenditures so far forward without envisioning what the educational needs will be.  Unless he’s been advised by Devine Providence, the greedy charlatans are all conspiring en masse to an undefined goal.  And the worst part of this, he can do it again to any other department at any time, as ordained by our Liberal Supreme Court that has given the final word on the situation.

Every factor in this conspiracy, and it surely is because Gov. Gray-Suit isn’t smart enough to do this much on his own, is an arbitrary number pulled from the air with no conscious thought.  Take your pick; 400 years term, $325 per student per year accelerator, applied year after year, and so on…is any of these factors believable?

About now some cerebral headscratchers are connecting the dots into believing we’ve seen this movie before a couple times, and just never considered our purple state folding into the Dark Side as did long ago Illinois, then Minnesota, and Michigan.  The Great Lake States have become Bidenized.  The professed doctrine in providing unasked extremism for provisions without any sound logic, actuarial, and ethical inputs to become sustainably acceptable.  WHERE else could this possibly have come from?  California has been slightly doing this for years, yet nowhere near to this abys. 

NORM  REYNOLDS – CONTRARIAN

Also see the analysis at Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty (WILL) https://will-law.org/analysis-evers-400-year-veto/

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