NOAA facts forum - part 4 - Mike Friis

This is Mike Friis, the Program Manager and Public Access Coordinator, Wetland Protection and Land Use Planning Coordinator, Wisconsin Coastal Management Program, Madison, WI He is very earnest and makes it sound as though he is representing the State of WI. He is working for what sounds like a state agency- right? He says he is accountable to the state government. However this press release from 2016 clearly states that the coastal management program is federally funded. Hmmmm. The press release is talking about a 2.3 million dollar grant. A grant from where? A grant from whom?.

"The Wisconsin Coastal Management Program balances natural resource protection and sustainable
economic development along Wisconsin's Great Lakes coasts. The program awards federal funds from the Office for Coastal Management in the U.S. Department of Commerce National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration to local governments and other entities for innovative coastal initiatives."(emphasis mine)

Efforts have been made by those who oppose the sanctuary to convince Governor Walker to oppose it as well. He has refused. On August 10 of this year, Governor Walker made this announcement:
"Governor Scott Walker announced today that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has awarded Wisconsin a three-year $840,000 Coastal Resilience Grant to help Lake Michigan communities and property owners in Southeastern Wisconsin reduce damages from coastal hazards and sustain the operation of their coastal economic assets. The grant entitled “Improving Economic Security in Coastal Wisconsin” will be awarded to the Wisconsin Department of Administration’s Wisconsin Coastal Management Program."

One can understand the Governor's wish to be fiscally responsible and to avoid burdening the taxpayers of the state but again, the pockets of the taxpayers are not bottomless and this nation is trillions of dollars in debt. Why should the people of the entire nation be on the hook for protecting our resources? And, if we cannot, and if these resources are so important to the nation as a whole then why should the state be required to relinquish any of our sovereignty to obtain federal funds? Are we not American citizens paying into those coffers as well as our own?
The question of whether or not this should even be a pressing need in a nation so far in debt should also be addressed at some point. Yes, this is a wonderful idea, but is it a responsible use of tax dollars?

 This blog has also posted video from a meeting held in March to organize some opposition to the proposed sanctuary. (Which was the first time this author had heard about it even though the process has apparently been going on for some years.) That video may be found here.

"No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon."~ Matt 6:24

Wisconsin's Budget

It has taken me a while to to come to the point where I can post on the passage of WI's budget without including language that I would prefer not to use.

I think those legislators who voted for this monstrosity have lost their focus on the people of WI and are using their positions to advance their own agendas to look good in the eyes of an increasingly politically correct MSM. I think they need to stop worrying about looking "nice" to the outside world and start thinking about their primary duties as legislators of the state of WI. Those duties are to the people of WI. NOT to illegal aliens, not to special interest groups such as trial lawyers or gay rights groups, but to the people of WI.

I'm not saying that those who choose a homosexual lifestyle or trial lawyers or illegal aliens are not people. I must, however point out that the legislators of our state should not be legislating to benefit a tiny portion of the state's population, in the case of those who choose a homosexual lifestyle and trial lawyers, at the expense of the overall population. As for illegal aliens, the duty of our legislators is to prosecute them and to protect the citizens of this state from them -just as it is for every other criminal. I am flabbergasted that not only were such policy items included in the state's budget, but they were allowed to remain. Have we taken leave of our senses? Is it the air in Madison? Or is it simply a departure from what used to be common sense?

As a citizen(for now) of WI, may I say to all of those legislators-I don't have any more money to feed to your politically correct machine. I cannot afford to be nice to any more of the people you think should get my money instead of me. I don't have any more money to give to the state if I want to be able to eat and keep a roof over my head. There are only so many pennies in a dollar and between the state of WI and the folks in D.C. precious few of those pennies belong to me anymore. There can be no more rationalizing that this will only cost each taxpayer 1 cent of every dollar they make. The reality is there are no more pennies. They have all been taken by you and Washington. You were elected to serve my interests. It is not in my interests to make a beggar out of my family or myself in order to benefit criminals and special interest groups. This budget is an affront to common sense and an insult to the people of the state of WI. You should be ashamed of yourselves.

"None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity."~Isaiah 59:4