I havent seen a 49er run wild on the Packers like this since {REDACTED BY NFL} had Clay matthews chasing his tail a few years ago
— Trilly Shelby, OBE (@TylerIAm) January 20, 2020
We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly, I have never yet engaged in a direct-action movement that was "well timed" according to the timetable of those who have not suffered unduly from the disease of segregation. For years now I have heard the word "wait." It rings in the ear of every Negro with a piercing familiarity. This "wait" has almost always meant "never." It has been a tranquilizing thalidomide, relieving the emotional stress for a moment, only to give birth to an ill-formed infant of frustration. We must come to see with the distinguished jurist of yesterday that "justice too long delayed is justice denied." We have waited for more than three hundred and forty years for our God-given and constitutional rights. The nations of Asia and Africa are moving with jetlike speed toward the goal of political independence, and we still creep at horse-and-buggy pace toward the gaining of a cup of coffee at a lunch counter. I guess it is easy for those who have never felt the stinging darts of segregation to say "wait." But when you have seen vicious mobs lynch your mothers and fathers at will and drown your sisters and brothers at whim; when you have seen hate-filled policemen curse, kick, brutalize, and even kill your black brothers and sisters with impunity; when you see the vast majority of your twenty million Negro brothers smothering in an airtight cage of poverty in the midst of an affluent society; when you suddenly find your tongue twisted and your speech stammering as you seek to explain to your six-year-old daughter why she cannot go to the public amusement park that has just been advertised on television, and see tears welling up in her little eyes when she is told that Funtown is closed to colored children, and see the depressing clouds of inferiority begin to form in her little mental sky, and see her begin to distort her little personality by unconsciously developing a bitterness toward white people; when you have to concoct an answer for a five-year-old son asking in agonizing pathos, "Daddy, why do white people treat colored people so mean?"; when you take a cross-country drive and find it necessary to sleep night after night in the uncomfortable corners of your automobile because no motel will accept you; when you are humiliated day in and day out by nagging signs reading "white" and "colored"; when your first name becomes "nigger" and your middle name becomes "boy" (however old you are) and your last name becomes "John," and when your wife and mother are never given the respected title "Mrs."; when you are harried by day and haunted by night by the fact that you are a Negro, living constantly at tiptoe stance, never knowing what to expect next, and plagued with inner fears and outer resentments; when you are forever fighting a degenerating sense of "nobodyness" -- then you will understand why we find it difficult to wait. There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over and men are no longer willing to be plunged into an abyss of injustice where they experience the bleakness of corroding despair. I hope, sirs, you can understand our legitimate and unavoidable impatience...Those words are as relevant as ever in 2020. Actions are decided to be legal/illegal and enforced because people in charge decide to make a certain act legal/illegal and decide whether to enforce it. All of these things are choices, and it is up to the people to remove those who are choosing unwisely and/or destructively.
We can never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was "illegal." It was "illegal" to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitler's Germany. But I am sure that if I had lived in Germany during that time, I would have aided and comforted my Jewish brothers even though it was illegal. If I lived in a Communist country today where certain principles dear to the Christian faith are suppressed, I believe I would openly advocate disobeying these anti-religious laws.
I must make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers. First, I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councillor or the Ku Klux Klanner but the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says, "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can't agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically feels that he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by the myth of time; and who constantly advises the Negro to wait until a "more convenient season." Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.Settling will only get you so far, and is a sign of accepting defeat. I know it's easy for me to say as a white guy, but accepting defeat and inferior outcomes are not things I am into these days.
In your statement you asserted that our actions, even though peaceful, must be condemned because they precipitate violence. But can this assertion be logically made? Isn't this like condemning the robbed man because his possession of money precipitated the evil act of robbery? Isn't this like condemning Socrates because his unswerving commitment to truth and his philosophical delvings precipitated the misguided popular mind to make him drink the hemlock? Isn't this like condemning Jesus because His unique God-consciousness and never-ceasing devotion to His will precipitated the evil act of crucifixion? We must come to see, as federal courts have consistently affirmed, that it is immoral to urge an individual to withdraw his efforts to gain his basic constitutional rights because the quest precipitates violence. Society must protect the robbed and punish the robber.
I had also hoped that the white moderate would reject the myth of time. I received a letter this morning from a white brother in Texas which said, "All Christians know that the colored people will receive equal rights eventually, but is it possible that you are in too great of a religious hurry? It has taken Christianity almost 2000 years to accomplish what it has. The teachings of Christ take time to come to earth." All that is said here grows out of a tragic misconception of time. It is the strangely irrational notion that there is something in the very flow of time that will inevitably cure all ills. Actually, time is neutral. It can be used either destructively or constructively. I am coming to feel that the people of ill will have used time much more effectively than the people of good will. We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people. We must come to see that human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability. It comes through the tireless efforts and persistent work of men willing to be coworkers with God, and without this hard work time itself becomes an ally of the forces of social stagnation.
As noted, higher than expected entity-level tax payments and shifting of income from tax year 2017 to tax year 2018 in response to the TCJA contributed to higher than expected year-to-date collections. In addition, compared to the January forecast, IHS Markit's May forecast of 2019 growth in economic profits increased by 1.6 percentage points to 6.3%. For tax year 2019, S corporations and partnerships choosing to pay at the entity level are required to make quarterly payments, resulting in a one-time higher fiscal effect from S corporations remitting two estimated payments for tax year 2019 and full-year tax payments for tax year 2018. Previously, for tax purposes, such entities would have passed through their income to their owners, most of whom would have filed under the individual income tax. As a result, collections data suggest that a sizable amount of payments will now be made under the corporate income/franchise tax on a continuing basis.The LFB thought some of this effect will cool off in Fiscal Year 2020, resulting in a drop of corporate revenues of $170 million overall. However, the first 6 months of FY 2020 saw corporate tax revenues increase by nearly $300 million, so it seems likely we will end up significantly over the LFB projections for this Fiscal Year, which would allow for more money to be available.
The team, which included consultant Ehlers Inc., estimated Foxconn’s project and other developments in a Mount Pleasant tax incremental financing district would soon be worth $522 million. That’s about 37% of the $1.4 billion value the district is supposed to achieve by 2023.$522 million doesn't come close to the $913 million that Mount Pleasant has borrowed for the Foxconn Tax Incremental District, money that they are borrowing and paying back today, in the hope that Foxconn will be paying it back in taxes later due to higher land values.
The team's views on the project were included in a four-page outline released Friday by Racine County under the state’s open records law. The outline was produced for a September meeting on the project involving officials from the county, Mount Pleasant and the state Department of Administration.
Most of the estimated value in the tax incremental district — $400 million — would come from a huge plant Foxconn plans to build. The remaining $122 million in value would come from a server building, data center, substation and other developments....Oh, I'm sure the execs at Foxconn will just shrug and accept that inflated assessment.
The outline did not describe how the team reached that conclusion. The facility is expected to have a footprint of 1 million square feet, and an assessment of $400 million would give it a value of $400 per square foot.
It's possible the plant will ultimately have more than 1 million square feet because of mezzanines and office space that could be built, which would bring the value per square foot down. Still, the value appears to be far above that of other manufacturing facilities in Wisconsin, which are valued at well below $40 per square foot in most cases, according to people familiar with manufacturing assessments.
In such a situation, there would not be enough money available to pay for operating costs and some debt, according to the outline. The local governments would face a shortfall even if they deferred sewer projects and abandoned plans to build a new fire station.That seems to be light, as the "moral obligation clause" in the Fox-con package covers up to 40% of the debts that the local yokels have to take on. I assume they are figuring that their higher land value assessments will mean that Mount Pleasant is "only" $300 million in the hole. But what if the Village doesn't get that amount? Then I'd assume the price tag to the state would rise higher (if we choose to pay it).
If the project were to hit bumps in the road, state taxpayers could have to cover up to $120 million in debt for local governments, according to an agreement with the state.
State Disaster Assistance Program. The state disaster assistance program, created in 2005 Act 269,makes payments to local units of government and retail electric cooperatives for governmental costs, such as debris clearance, protective measures, and damage to roads and bridges,incurred as the result of a "major catastrophe." A major catastrophe is defined as a disaster, including a drought, flood, high wind, hurricane, landslide, mudslide, snowstorm, or tornado that resulted in the Governor requesting a presidential declaration of a major disaster under federal law. In 2018-19, for example, DMA provided assistance relating to a tornado in Northwestern Wisconsin, floods in Southeastern Wisconsin, and an ice storm in Iron County.President Trump has allowed for FEMA to help out Wisconsin with nearly $73 million in aid for damages resulting from floods in August and September 2018, and for the effects of a storm breakout in July 2019. But that only pays for 75% of those damages, and there have been several other events in the last 1 1/2 years that local governments are asking for help in cleaning up from.
Under administrative rule,local governmental units may be reimbursed if the following eligibility criteria are satisfied: (a) the local governmental unit has suffered a "major catastrophe"; (b) a disaster or emergency declaration was issued by the local governmental unit or the state during event; (c) the damages suffered and eligible costs incurred are the direct result of the event; (d) federal disaster assistance is not available because the Governor's request that the President declare the catastrophe a major disaster has been denied or no federal assistance is requested because the event does not meet the per capita impact indicator issued by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA); (e) at least one local governmental unit or a tribal governmental unit within the county has incurred public assistance costs that exceed the per capita impact indicator under the public assistance program guidelines issued by FEMA; and (f) the local governmental unit will contribute at least 30% of the total amount of eligible costs incurred from other funding sources.
Two appropriations authorize DMA to provide disaster assistance. A state disaster assistance GPR appropriation is funded at $0 annually during the 2019-21 biennium. Since its creation in Act 269, the Legislature has not used this appropriation to provide funds.Further, DMA has a SEG continuing state disaster assistance appropriation supported by [the Petroleum Inspection Fund]. As a continuing appropriation, any amounts appropriated do not lapse back to PIF at the end of a fiscal year, but remain in the DMA appropriation until expended. Table 1 below shows expenditure authority under the SEG disaster assistance fund appropriation since 2010-11.The problem is that $4.2 million had to be spent in the 2017-19 biennium to pay for disasters, which means the DMA is out of money to pay for what we have now, even with nearly 6 months left in this fiscal year.
The forestry emergency reserve was created in 2017 Wisconsin Act 59 to provide funds for emergency responses to significant fire, disease, infestation, or other natural disasters that could not otherwise be reimbursed by federal funds. Reserve funds also may only be transferred or expended upon approval of the Joint Committee on Finance. As a continuing appropriation, amounts are usable only for purposes specified and do not lapse to the forestry account balance to become available for other purposes. To date, no transfers have been made from this appropriation, and it continues to carry $5,000,000 SEG provided under Act 59.I remember those storms quite well - they hit on Friday night and the following Saturday afternoon, and as I drove back from Vilas County that Saturday, I saw this scene on I-39.
Beginning on July 18, 2019, significant portions of the state were affected by extreme weather events, including hailstorms, tornadoes, heavy winds, and thunderstorms. DNR reports that more than 285,000 acres of forestland in Barron, Polk, Langlade, Oconto, Oneida, Wood, and Portage Counties were damaged in the storms. On July 21, 2019, the Governor declared a state of emergency related to the storm damage.
The DNR request would transfer $1,166,900, including: (a) $677,800 to the Division of Forestry's general program operations appropriation under s. 20.370(2)(mv) of the statutes to reimburse staff expenses related to storm damage; and (b) $489,100 to the appropriation under s. Page 2 20.370(5)(az) of the statutes to fund grants provided to local communities for storm damage response, as shown in Table 1.
Steve Vavrus, senior scientist with the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Nelson Institute Center for Climatic Research, said climate change is driving Wisconsin’s record rainfall. Last year was the wettest in the state’s recorded state history, while 2018 was third-wettest, according to data from the Midwestern Regional Climate Center that dates back to 1895.And that requires more infrastructure to be built by local governments that barely have enough money available to staff police and fire departments or fix their roads. Which means more state funding may be needed to improve these sewer systems if we want to avoid increased flooding, sewer backups and other bad things that are resulting from the more extreme weather that is hitting in the 21st Century.
“There’s generally more moisture to tap when the weather systems are favorable for rainfall or snowfall,” said Vavrus. “When we do get rain or snow, it tends to be heavier than it used to.”
Excluding Milwaukee, Wisconsin communities in 2018 discharged 150 million gallons of sewage and stormwater during 388 overflow events. That was the highest volume since 2010, the fifth-wettest year on record.
As of October 2019, 359 million gallons overflowed from those communities’ systems, while Milwaukee discharged more than 500 million gallons into waterways. And that was in a year that the Milwaukee district captured and cleaned a record 85.6 billion gallons of water.
The White House has threatened to impose tariffs on $2.4 billion in French exports in response to a new digital tax France instituted, which the administration says is aimed at U.S. firms. In October, the Trump administration imposed new levies on $7.5 billion of EU exports, in retaliation for what the World Trade Organization agreed is unfair subsidies to Leiden, Netherlands-based aerospace company Airbus SE AIR, -0.64%, and it has still hasn’t revoked threats to impose tariffs on European auto parts and automobiles, which analysts have predicted would be a major problem for auto makers globally.And I agree that trade deals by themselves may mean little. Underlying demand, prices paid/received and profit situations will likely be the bigger drivers of the economy (as they usually are). And that means jobs, output and consumer spending.
Meanwhile, the trade deal only rolled back a fraction of the new tariffs imposed by the U.S. and China during the past two years, with the U.S. keeping tariffs of between 7.5% and 25% on $370 billion in Chinese exports and China maintaining retaliatory duties on $110 billion in U.S. exports. JPMorgan analyst Dubravko Lakos-Bujas estimated that these already-existing tariffs are imposing an annual cost of $600 per American household and $5 in per-share earnings for the S&P 500.
“Nothing in phase one will specifically add much to global [economic] growth,” wrote Tom Essaye, president of the Sevens Report in a Thursday note to clients. “All we need to do is look to Treasurys and market internals to see that.”….
Some strategists make the case that, despite major equity benchmarks marching to new highs, the fundamental case for current valuations is becoming weaker, given tepid earnings growth, and likely won’t be helped much by the effects of a trade truce.
The partisan makeup of the sample, including those who lean to a party, is 47 percent Republican, 43 percent Democratic and 9 percent independent. The partisan makeup of the sample, excluding those who lean to a party, is 28 percent Republican, 26 percent Democratic, and 44 percent independent.So R+4 (STOP LAUGHING!).
The partisan makeup of the sample, including those who lean to a party, is 45 percent Republican, 44 percent Democratic and 9 percent independent. The partisan makeup of the sample, excluding those who lean to a party, is 30 percent Republican, 29 percent Democratic, and 39 percent independent.OK, R+1.
Trump job performance: 48% approve of how he is doing as prez, 49% disapprove. In Dec, it was 47% approve, 50% disapprove. In Jan 2019, it was 44% approve, 52% disapprove. #mulawpoll
— MULawPoll (@MULawPoll) January 15, 2020
