In This Issue:
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1. Health Care
Holocaust
2. Planning to Fail
3. Cap & Tax
4. Not Ready for Rail
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Health Care Holocaust
 At the same time Congress is pushing several costly health care plans, the Congressional Budget office is screaming at the top of their lungs, warning members of Congress and President Obama of the disastrous consequences:
Congress's chief budget analyst delivered a devastating assessment yesterday of the health-care proposals drafted by congressional Democrats, fueling an insurrection among fiscal conservatives in the House and pushing negotiators in the Senate to redouble efforts to draw up a new plan that more effectively restrains federal spending.
Under questioning by members of the Senate Budget Committee, Douglas Elmendorf, director of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, said bills crafted by House leaders and the Senate Health Committee do not propose "the sort of fundamental changes" necessary to rein in the skyrocketing cost of government health programs, particularly Medicare. On the contrary, Elmendorf said, the measures would pile on an expensive new program to cover the uninsured.
Even the Director of the Congressional Budget office has taken to his own blog to warn of the exploding spending under the various spending plans:
Under current law, the federal budget is on an unsustainable path, because federal debt will continue to grow much faster than the economy over the long run. Although great uncertainty surrounds long-term fiscal projections, rising costs for health care and the aging of the population will cause federal spending to increase rapidly under any plausible scenario for current law. Unless revenues increase just as rapidly, the rise in spending will produce growing budget deficits. Large budget deficits would reduce national saving, leading to more borrowing from abroad and less domestic investment, which in turn would depress economic growth in the United States. Over time, accumulating debt would cause substantial harm to the economy.
Leading the charge against these costly plans is Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan, who has made several appearances on national television to fight a federal take-over of our health care. In this video clip on CNBC's “Squawk Box,” Ryan explains how Democrats are lying when they tell people that they’ll be able to keep their own health care.
House Minority leader John Boehner's office has put together this handy chart to demonstrate how health care would work under the Democrats' plan:
It isn’t rocket surgery folks. Government-run health care will lead to an explosion in costs and a rationing of care. So the next time a politician like Governor Doyle trots out the mother of a sick child to advocate his health care policies, ask her to imagine waiting months for the next available doctor or procedure, wondering if government boards will allow promising new treatments for her child when the status quo costs less.
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Doyle Planning to Fail
 Last week was difficult for Governor Jim Doyle. As Doyle announced that his next trade mission to China and Japan would be in September, he was pummeled by the media for refusing to answer questions about his shoddy record keeping on previous trade missions. In addition, the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute released a report by business leaders Tom Hefty and John Torinus concluding that Doyle’s lack of leadership is one major reason for Wisconsin’s economic failure.
Doyle's press office said his upcoming trade mission will provide participants with opportunities to meet with distributors, potential customers, and key business and government officials. It may also provide Governor Doyle an opportunity to flee the state on the heels of next quarter’s lousy economic report. As with his previous trade missions, one thing is certain: Doyle’s all expense paid junket to Asia this fall won’t result in a single new state job.
As Dorothy discovered in the Wizard of Oz, you don't need to look beyond your own back yard to find happiness, or in Doyle's case, good paying jobs. In fact a brief trade mission to Sheboygan earlier this year might have saved 300 real jobs at Thomas Industries.
Still, if the Governor is determined to satisfy his wanderlust overseas, Wisconsin Club for Growth would like to provide a personalized day planner so the he can record the highlights of his trip and to keep track of his expenses.
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Cap & Tax
 Not content to destroy health care, the economy, and the auto industry, Congress is also ready to tax energy back into the stone age. And they're willing to play dirty to get it done.
Several weeks ago, the Environmental Protection Agency tried to kill an internal report that was skeptical of climate change. Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner has the details:
As Democrats in the House were working to ram through their “Cap-and-Tax” legislation before the Fourth of July Congressional Recess, all in the name of saving the environment, behind the scenes – at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) – they were busy covering up a study on climate change because the conclusions contradicted the findings they wanted to reach.
It frustrates me that the EPA let politics trump research. The repression of this important study casts doubts on EPA’s finding, and frankly, on other analysis EPA has conducted on climate issues. President Obama promised an ‘unprecedented’ level of transparency and accountability, yet, the EPA went out of its way to withhold new data to justify a political conclusion. As taxpayers will be paying higher taxes if the “Cap-and-Tax” legislation becomes law, they deserve to know all the facts, not have information filtered or censored because it’s in the Administration’s best interest.
Naturally, none of this will prevent Congress from imposing massive new job killing taxes here in the U.S. It's as if India and China are driving the effort, eager to loot us of our good-paying jobs.
Call Congressmen Dave Obey and Ron Kind. Tell them Wisconsin farmers and factory workers can’t afford their Cap and Tax plan.
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Not Ready for Rail
 After slashing Wisconsin’s economic jugular, Governor Doyle is offering to place a band aid on the gaping wound, an expensive designer band aid.
Last week Doyle put $47.5 million on the state credit card to purchase two luxury trains from Spain. The Governor said the expenditure will create 80 new Wisconsin jobs assembling the rail cars from materials manufactured in Spain. The Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism reports the initial purchase is just a start.:
Wisconsin to request up to $600 million in stimulus money for trains An investigation by the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism and University of Wisconsin-Madison journalism students found some gaps in one of the state’s biggest proposed stimulus projects: A proposed half-a-billion-dollar high-speed passenger rail line between Madison and Milwaukee.
State officials haven’t estimated how many people would ride the train, but say they’re confident people will. In some cases, the trains wouldn’t match current commuting and travel routes. Even though it’s billed as a high-speed service, officials say the train will run at an average of just 70 miles an hour, at least for the first few years. And even if Wisconsin wins federal funding for the project, state taxpayers will pay millions each year to operate the new 85-mile passenger rail line.
So while the Governor and his rail foaming sycophants celebrate their coup, creating 80 jobs at a cost of $593,795 each, Wisconsin continues to lose good paying manufacturing jobs from long time Wisconsin employers like Briggs and Stratton and Harley Davidson.
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