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Paul Fanlund: ‘The Fall of Wisconsin’ aptly conveys the GOP’s impact

http://host.madison.com/ct/opinion/column/paul_fanlund/paul-fanlund-the-fall-of-wisconsin-aptly-conveys-the-gop/article_128592c4-7e4e-57a3-b1fb-10786715c2d2.html

One hot July day in 2005 I was among the 4,000 people jammed into the State Capitol to honor a Wisconsin hero, Gaylord Nelson. It was the largest Rotunda memorial service since the one for Robert M. “Fighting Bob” La Follette some 80 years before.

Speakers from both parties celebrated the former Democratic governor and U.S. senator for his early opposition to the Vietnam War, support for civil rights and the founding of Earth Day. I had met Nelson when he was a senator and later interviewed him again at The Wilderness Society in Washington, D.C., where he served on the board after leaving the Senate. For all his accomplishments and fame, he was a profoundly humble man...

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Michael Cohen threatened a journalist and said spousal rape isn’t real in 2015

https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/xwmab7/michael-cohen-threatened-a-journalist-and-said-spousal-rape-isnt-real-in-2015

“So I'm warning you, tread very fucking lightly because what I'm going to do to you is going to be fucking disgusting.”

That’s how Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, warned a Daily Beast reporter not to publish a story about his client in 2015, when Trump's presidential campaign was underway. Now, you can hear Cohen’s threats yourself: NPR published exclusive audio Thursday of Cohen’s threats to one of its own reporters, Tim Mak, when he worked for the Daily Beast. In it, Cohen financially threatens Mak and insults him multiple times. He also appears to not know that a man can, in fact, rape his wife...

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[UPDATE] ACTUAL U.S. UNEMPLOYMENT RATE 7.6%

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/U6RATE

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm

http://www.economicpopulist.org/content/never-ending-little-changed-unemployment-figures-january-2013

http://www.economicpopulist.org/content/april-unemployment-rate-lowest-may-2007-6106

UNEMPLOYMENT RATES IN PROGRESSIVE/SOCIAL DEMOCRACIES

ICELAND* 2.7%

NORWAY* 4.0%

DENMARK 5.6%

SWEDEN 6.7%

EUROPEAN UNION 7.4%

ICELAND AND NORWAY NOT E.U. MEMBERS

https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=z8o7pt6rd5uqa6_&ctype=l&strail=false&bcs=d&nselm=h&met_y=unemployment_rate&fdim_y=seasonality:sa&scale_y=lin&ind_y=false&rdim=country_group&idim=country_group:eu&idim=country:is:no:dk:se&ifdim=country_group&ind=false#!ctype=l&strail=false&bcs=d&nselm=h&met_y=unemployment_rate&fdim_y=seasonality:sa&scale_y=lin&ind_y=false&rdim=country_group&idim=country:no:is:se:dk&idim=country_group:eu&ifdim=country_group&tstart=1041742800000&tend=1504584000000&hl=en_US&dl=en_US&ind=false

CANADA 5.8%

http://www.tradingeconomics.com/canada/unemployment-rate

AUSTRALIA 5.6%

http://www.tradingeconomics.com/australia/unemployment-rate

HOW IT'S DONE - WHAT THESE COUNTRIES HAVE IN COMMON

Higher Minimum-Wage/Prevailing Wage Than U S

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minimum_wages_by_country

Green Economic And Social Policies (Environmental Performance Index)

https://epi.envirocenter.yale.edu/

https://epi.envirocenter.yale.edu/epi-topline

http://epi2016.yale.edu/country-rankings

Socialized Higher Education (Free Post-Secondary Education)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_education#List_of_countries_with_free_post-secondary_education

High Trade/Labor Union Participation

http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Labor/Trade-union-membership

High Government Transparency Ratings (Less Corruption)

https://www.transparency.org/news/feature/corruption_perceptions_index_2017

Equitable Distribution Of Income

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_equality

Universal Healthcare

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_health_coverage_by_country

http://www.quora.com/What-countries-offer-universal-health-care-and-free-college-education

Longevity

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancy

Universal Literacy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_literacy_rate

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2103.html

Lower Crime Rate

https://www.numbeo.com/crime/rankings_by_country.jsp

Lower Homicide Rate

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate

Farthest Right U S States VS Furthest Left U S States

https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=z1ebjpgk2654c1_#!ctype=l&strail=false&bcs=d&nselm=h&met_y=unemployment_rate&fdim_y=seasonality:S&scale_y=lin&ind_y=false&rdim=country&idim=state:ST5000000000000:ST4800000000000:ST4500000000000:ST2500000000000&ifdim=country&hl=en_US&dl=en_US&ind=false

https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=c8op9mhgodplq_&ctype=l&met_y=median_income_current#!ctype=l&strail=false&bcs=d&nselm=h&met_y=median_income_current&scale_y=lin&ind_y=false&rdim=country&idim=region:south:northeast&idim=country:US&ifdim=country&hl=en_US&dl=en_US&ind=false

https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=b1tlmra7lb7a9_#!ctype=l&strail=false&bcs=d&nselm=h&met_y=crime_rate&fdim_y=crime_type:violent&scale_y=lin&ind_y=false&rdim=country&idim=state:VT:TX:SC:MA&ifdim=country&hl=en_US&dl=en_US&ind=false

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_homicide_rate

SEE A PATTERN? FORWARD AND TO THE LEFT, PLEASE...

*JUST SO WE’RE CLEAR, I SPENT AN AFTERNOON WATCHING FAUX NEWS (SHUDDER) AND RECORDING ALL OF THE THINGS THAT REPUBLICANS SAY KILL JOBS, AND THEN DID THE RESEARCH TO SEE IF ANY OF THEIR CLAIMS HOLD UP IN THE REAL WORLD.

WHAT I FOUND WAS THAT THE OPPOSITE IS TRUE. IN FACT, THOSE COUNTRIES WHICH TOOK THESE POLICIES TO THE FURTHEST EXTREMES ALL SEEMED TO OUTPERFORM THE US WHEN IT COMES TO EMPLOYMENT.

SO I CREATED A SURVEY OF ONLY THOSE COUNTRIES, EXCLUDING ANY THAT DID NOT FIT ALL OF THE CRITERIA. FOR EXAMPLE, I EXCLUDED BELGIUM, GERMANY AND THE NETHERLANDS, BECAUSE, EVEN THOUGH THEY FIT MOST CRITERIA, THEIR ENVIRONMENTAL RECORD IS ACTUALLY WORSE THAN OURS, HOWEVER, IN CASE YOU WERE CURIOUS, THEIR UNEMPLOYMENT RATE WAS STILL LOWER.

I ALSO FOUND THAT THEY BEAT US WHEN IT CAME TO EVERY OTHER SOCIAL MEASURE I COULD THINK OF...?