Tony Evers again calls on GOP lawmakers to provide $3.7 million for homeless

[TexasTowelie]

By Molly Beck


MADISON - Democratic Gov. Tony Evers made a rare move Monday by calling on Republican lawmakers to act on funding he wants to help people who live outdoors during Wisconsin's harsh winters.

But GOP leaders of the Legislature's finance committee rejected Evers' call made in a letter asking the committee to meet Thursday to act on $3.7 million the governor wants set aside annually to pay for housing grants, homeless shelters, services for the homeless and new staff to coordinate the efforts.

"Winter struck hard and early this year, including early and heavy snowfall for much of the state," Evers says in the letter. "The proposal was sent to the Joint Finance Committee in July, specifically to avoid the current situation. The Wisconsinites most vulnerable to the harsh winter are going without the services and assistance they desperately need during the coldest months of the year."

Sen. Alberta Darling of River Hills and Rep. John Nygren of Marinette in a letter to Evers said legitimate concerns over the funding still exist and that the committee won't be meeting. Darling and Nygren did not say what those concerns are.

Read more: https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2019/12/16/tony-evers-again-calls-gop-lawmakers-provide-3-7-m-homeless/2665999001/
(Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)

[CaptYossarian]

1. Evers is addressing the POD People--Party Of Death.

They want to eliminate Social Security/Disability, Medicare and Medicaid.

They want to steal health care from all working class Americans (who toil on minimum wage to make the rich even richer) and especially children.

They want to eliminate SNAP.

In Wisconsin, the Tavern League owns the legislature.

And we've gone from a "chicken in every pot" to a "gun in every crib".

These people have the balls to say they're pro-LIFE? I just don't see the POD People giving a damn about the homeless--many of whom became homeless after Reagan closed the insane asylums.

[marble falls]

2. And the GOP responded with the Bah Humbug Act of 2019 ...

“At this festive season of the year, Mr. GOP,” said the governor, taking up a pen, “it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the Poor and destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time. Many thousands are in want of common necessaries; hundreds of thousands are in want of common comforts, sir.”

“Are there no prisons?” asked the GOP.

“Plenty of prisons,” said the governor, laying down the pen again.

“And the Union workhouses?” demanded the GOP. “Are they still in operation?”

“They are. Still,” returned the governor, “I wish I could say they were not.”

“The Treadmill and the Poor Law are in full vigour, then?” said the GOP.

“Both very busy, sir.”

“Oh! I was afraid, from what you said at first, that something had occurred to stop them in their useful course,” said the GOP. “I’m very glad to hear it.”

“Under the impression that they scarcely furnish Christian cheer of mind or body to the multitude,” returned the governor, “a few of us are endeavouring to raise a fund to buy the Poor some meat and drink, and means of warmth. We choose this time, because it is a time, of all others, when Want is keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices. What shall I put you down for?”

“Nothing!” the GOP replied.

“You wish to be anonymous?”

“I wish to be left alone,” said the GOP. “Since you ask me what I wish, gentlemen, that is my answer. I don’t make merry myself at Christmas and I can’t afford to make idle people merry. I help to support the establishments I have mentioned: they cost enough: and those who are badly off must go there.”

“Many can’t go there; and many would rather die.”

“If they would rather die,” said the GOP, “they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.”


with apologies to Charles Dickens.