The Mining Legislation…

…was never legislation for and on behalf of the people of Wisconsin, was it? It wasn’t even for the six or seven hundred people who might have got a job. It was always the company’s bill, wasn’t it? They even let the legislators help them write it. It contained the maximum amount of restrictions the company could profitably bear, and the minimum unprofitable wait between applying to dig and digging. So the company walked away when they couldn’t get the bill past the one Republican senator the Outlaw could not influence – at least not on this issue.

Never mind. Like the load on the back of the pick-up, the ore isn’t going anywhere. Maybe they ought to write a sound piece of legislation first, and then find a buyer for the ore. And the path to sound legislation, like the course of the Bad River, runs through Ojibwe country. Unless their consent to the plan for mining the Penokee Range is obtained beforehand, my guess is, the mine will never be dug. The trumps they hold as a sovereign nation, unlike their drums, the Ojibwe have yet to play.

It’s not math class, it’s…

…class math!

I think some of the same folks who found math hard to understand in high school find economics hard to understand in real life – but for different reasons. It’s difficult to explain this without offering up insults valid of the generality of these persons, but gratuitous to the others, who perhaps suffer guilt only by association.

It says in my very first post, and I’ll say it again, that persons who are not one of them, but who can be induced to vote in the interest of the Few, likely suffer from a degree of ignorance of their real interests, indeed of their own place in the economic and political life of the nation.

To those people:

These lessons in class math will emphasize how few of them there really are, how small the likelihood you will ever become one of them is, how much greater the likelihood you will become one of the working poor is, and in fine, how wrong it is to vote for their interests and against your own.