tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3426800777521979578.post7781158619125471066..comments2024-02-20T19:58:27.733-06:00Comments on Jake's Wisconsin Funhouse: Wisconsin Economic Outlook shows a subpar past and a questionable futureUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3426800777521979578.post-27613855715252796522019-07-07T10:49:11.059-05:002019-07-07T10:49:11.059-05:00"Wisconsin is at full employment in no small ..."Wisconsin is at full employment in no small part because of stagnant population growth, and increasing age for those that are still here."<br />Among Wisconsinites aged 65 and over several disturbing trends have emerged:<br />1) In the past two years, excessive drinking increased 15% from 10.4% to 12.0% of adults aged 65+.<br />2) In the past two years, poverty increased 10% from 7.1% to 7.8% of adults aged 65+.<br />3) In the past four years, SNAP reach increased 19% from 72.3 to 85.7 participants per 100 adults aged 60+ in poverty.<br />4) In the past six years, hospice care use increased 68% from 34.5% to 57.9% of Medicare decedents aged 65+.<br />5) In the past six years, depression increased 29% from 10.7% to 13.8% of adults aged 65+.<br />Source: https://www.americashealthrankings.org/explore/senior/measure/overall_sr_2/state/WI<br />Does the Republican majority in both houses of the state legislature even read such data? Even if they bothered to digest these facts, would it relieve the symptoms of their chronic ideological constipation? Do older Wisconsinites who aren't fabulously wealthy and who vote Republican actually get anything substantive in return for said vote?<br />No.<br />Because if the ignorant idiots we call Republican "legislators" saw things the way they are, and had the integrity, intelligence and courage to acknowledge the regressive economic and social trends they enabled and accelerated, they'd see their delusional little fiefdom is falling apart before their myopic eyes and would start running around like chickens with their heads cut off, clucking about how the sky is falling and it must be Ever's fault, and the fault of the democratic minority for not just laying down and playing dead, or it's the fault of those two big cities full of people capable of coherent thought, or it's those damned immigrants, or those minorities who will soon be majorities...<br />The state RepubliKKKan "legislators" disserving their actual constituents are mere clots whose sole mission is enabling the state economy to enrich the already-rich.Maynard McKillenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06202870333077627636noreply@blogger.com