Join CYP on February 2, 2012 at 5:30 PM, for a special FREE event at the Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University. Enjoy access to the museum and hear from Brenda Campbell from Make a Difference-Wisconsin.

This non-profit agency teaches financial literacy to teens through volunteer programs in area schools focusing on budgeting and saving, understanding checking accounts, and understanding credit cards, credit history/scores, and credit reports.

Hear about the program and have the opportunity to volunteer and share your fiscal conservative values with Milwaukee area teens.

Light appetizers will be provided. Beer and wine will be available for purchase.

Parking Information>>

Saturday, January 7, 2012 

11:00am

Bar Louie on Water St. in Milwaukee

Have an idea for a CYP speaker or event?  Join us and help plan the HUGE 2012

Conservatives at Americans for Prosperity Foundation and the McIver Institute put together a new website and advertising campaign called “It’s Working”. The website is at http://www.itsworkingwisconsin.com/

I’ll summarize their argument: in the beginning of 2011, Wisconsin’s budget was in shambles. Governor Walker asked very reasonably that public employees must pay for their pensions and healthcare in a similar way that private employees pay for their retirement and health insurance. This successfully balanced the state budget. In fact, in places like Wauwatosa, it was very successful at making sure the City and school district did not have to raise taxes at a very difficult economic time for property taxpayers. Despite the cuts in net compensation for public employees, there has been very little effect–the sky is not falling.

On Thursday, after rescheduling from Wednesday, the President is going to talk about jobs and present a job plan.  At CYP, we’re going to be hosting Mike Jones, an executive at Miller Coors who, unlike Obama, might be able to tell you something about private sector employment.

This administration has got to go.  We are now three years into a pro-longed period of joblessness, and the President is just now presenting a jobs plan!

I think Obama will find that the young people in this country will be cool to his re-election (especially if the Republicans can put forth some credible ideas on this subject).  I did not lose my job, but I have friends who have had real problems with employment–because there is nothing out there.  It is not fun.  Ambitious, smart, able-body people who want to work and be productive, but who cannot because of the current state of the economy are upset and bitter.  It is not surprising that among the groups most thrown into turmoil with the economy, young professionals are among the hardest hit.

Young people who desperately want to get along with their lives (and careers and futures) cannot because of the recession.  What caused the recession is an interesting question (I don’t think anyone, on the right or left, thinks that Obama’s bank reforms fixed it).  But the most important question is, what has the President done about it?  This is a president who would rather pursue the dogmatic, ideological-driven policies instead of taking stock of what the country needs.

The country needs jobs.  It has needed jobs for three years.

Young people have reason to be upset with this President (and not just for the ideological reasons).  It’s because his priorities are wrong.  He chose to put healthcare in front of jobs.   I find it outrageous that while millions are out of work that the President has pushed any other priority, let alone a massive restructuring of an important sector of our economy (healthcare), an activity that can only create uncertainty.

And before that, he let Nancy Pelosi write the stimulus bill to make it more about Democratic party politics than about creating jobs.  Even according to his own numbers, the stimulus cost $278,000 per job. 

So, now, almost three years into his presidency, a presidency that was very clearly born out of economy uncertainty, Obama is now, just now, going to present a jobs plan.  I don’t care how crazy the MSM makes the Republicans look–you can’t get more nonsensical than that.

TAILGATE PARTY

SATURDAY, JULY 30th

3:00 pm

BLUEMOUND ROAD LOT

 Enter the Bluemound Lot and look for the yellow Gadsden (Don’t Tread on Me) Flag.

Traditional tailgate food will be available.

Suggested Donation: $10 per person

RSVP: cypmilwaukee@gmail.com

Ticket packages are not included.

CYPers are encouraged to stop by regardless

of game attendance.

Tickets can be ordered independently through various outlets.

Scheduled:

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Upcoming Recall Elections: Help Needed
The Recall Elections are scheduled August 9th and
Incumbent Republican senators need your help.

DATE: Tuesday, June 28th
TIME: 6-8pm, boat leaves at 6:00.
DEPARTING FROM: Port of Call Restaurant, 106 West Wells Street
MORE: Call 414 276 SHIP (414-276-7447) to make a reservation
www.edelweissboats.com
 
Call 414 276 7447 to make your reservation for the CYP Edelweiss cruise.  Free appetizers and a cash bar available on board. Heavily discounted tickets are $10 and can be purchased over the phone with a credit card or in person at the Port of Call Restaurant.  The vessel departs at 6pm sharp–there is nothing liberal about that!

Meet Our Special Guest:
State Senator Ted Kanavas

Former State Senator Ted Kanavas was a software executive before he served as Brookfield’s State Senator.  He currently serves the Walker Administration by helping to write and promote legislation to attract venture capital to Wisconsin.  He’ll talk about what it will take to spur economic growth in Wisconsin.
 
 
As a bonus:  High placed sources say that Senator Kanavas may run for U.S. Senate. Come and meet him and tell him to get into the race.

–  We’ve had a few snags with the boat event in June.  We’ll have information shortly.

–  On the Presidential primary:  I, like many others, am disappointed that Mitch Daniels isn’t running.  I think Mitch would have been a breath of fresh air.  He had the sense of maturity and experience that this country needs.  But I also know that at this point in the process, no candidate ever looks “perfect.”  Candidates are only perfect in hindsight, after we see them in action and they’ve won election.  It takes a long, grueling campaign to see who has the determination and stamina to potentially be a great leader.

–  I haven’t made up my mind for who to support for president (I don’t know too many people who have).  But my off-the cuff question to the fact that Mitt Romney has raised all that money is whether it gain him anything?  It seems to me it buys some organizational power, but as the caucuses and primaries start, there will be enough news attention, debates, and a small enough electorate that I don’t think money will make the difference.  The interaction between money and votes is far more complicated then the people who would steal your First Amendment rights in the name of “campaign finance reform” would ever suggest.  Many candidates can raise money because they have a winning message or are already popular (i.e., Scott Walker and Ron Johnson).  Donors are smart and they give to people who have strong messages who can win.   If another candidate shows himself to be good at connecting with voters in a principled way, then all of Romney’s money won’t matter.

–  I saw Newt in Milwaukee about a month and a half-ago.  I like Newt’s ideas.  But they all seem dated to me–like they were taken from the mid-1990′s.  I cannot see his candidacy going anywhere, but my predictions are always wrong.

–   Can the Kloppenburg campaign finally get this over with?  Justice Prosser won and that’s that.  There were a few miscounts (one or two votes difference) in many wards, but that doesn’t make it a scandal, that makes it normal.  The Kloppenburg campaign said, ”We do think there have been significant anomalies and irregularities uncovered.”  I think that’s overstating it, but then again, I think conservatives have been united for a long time in our call for cleaning up how elections are run.  Thankfully, we will soon have voter ID in this state, which should fix many of the potential problems.

–  Two events worth checking out in June:  Activist and candidate training on Saturday, June 11 in Oconomowoc. If you know of someone who is thinking about running for office in 2012, this would be a great opportunity for them to learn what it takes to be a candidate for state or local office.  This training offers three separate tracks:  1) Candidate Track - for those running or considering running for state or local office; 2) Campaign Manager Track - our brand new training geared for those who are interested in running campaigns; and 3) Activist Track

Go here to Register and for more information:  http://americanmajority.org/events/candidate-and-activist-training-oconomowoc-wi/. Registration is $25 in advance for Activists ($35 at the door); $35 for Campaign Managers ($45 at the door); and $50 for Candidates ($60 at the door).

Yesterday, the Legislature’s nonpartisan budget office released revised tax revenue estimates predicting that Wisconsin’s projected revenues will be higher than previously expected.  That’s great news.  It means that the Wisconsin’s businesses and individuals are doing better.

But now that there appears to be $636 million more to spend, there is a notion that things can go back to the way they were.  Unfortunately, that is not the case.  The structural deficit was estimated to be $2.5billion in the current budget year; $636 million begins but does not solve that problem.

Gov. Walker always had two problems:  first, in a rotten economy, income taxes (especially corporate income taxes) can fall dramatically.  It leaves the state with a huge hole.  WPRI has written about the need for a rainy-day fund repeatedly.  That’s the short-term problem.  Certainly, Governor Walker’s proposed budget solves these issues, because it balances the budget without raiding segregated funds. 

The second, longer range problem is that Wisconsin’s government can be much more efficient.  This is the longer range problem, and it is the one that is difficult to solve.  Unfortunately, its the one that has to be solved for the state to be competitive.  This is where the budget reforms that Walker is pushing come in:  limiting long-term entitlement spending, limiting work rules that make government inefficient, and getting public benefits and salaries in line with those in the private sector.  Because Gov. Walker has proposed (and passed) solutions to these problems, there is serious political upheaval.

That there is $636 million more to spend makes the first problem easier to solve.  It does very little to solve the second problem.  There are structural problems with the way our government works to make it more efficient.  Like changes in the private sector, these are painful.  But if Wisconsin is going to be competitive job-creator (we’re up big in category, by the way), we need these changes.

Tour Palermo’s Pizza Factory

Special Guest:

Giacomo Fallucca

President and CEO of Palermo’s Pizza

ARBALISTRERI@GMAIL.COM 

Space limited to 50 people, so please  

reserve your spot early!

Thursday, May 19

5:30 p.m.   

$5 for the Tour and Pizza

Pay at the door 

RSVP by May 12 to