Well, why not? Seriously, for a long time fans and other readers of tonypalmeri.com
have been bugging me to start a blog, if only so that it would be easier for people to post feedback about the site. Others have told me that since I get attacked quite often on other peoples' blogs and websites, I should allow a space for direct attacks. That makes sense, I think.
I teach a course in First Amendment law and am about as close to a free speech absolutist as you will find in northeast Wisconsin, but I'll have to delete posts that defame others.
I won't be blogging very much myself, except to direct readers to material appearing on Tonypalmeri.com.
Peace, -Tony
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Congratulations on the new blog Tony, I wanted to speak to you and the other bloggers on the poverty series that the local paper has FINALLY decided to cover. I find it interesting that this is the chic thing to do at this time of year. However I find it equally interesting that other blog sites are carrying the stories as well.why do find this interesting you ask? Well, many of these same people have been huge proponents of the recent crop of tax and spend candidates at both the local and state levels of government. This would certainly include our Northwestern that has endorsed them. They have called these policies and practices of tax and spend progressive, and those that oppose these practices negative or worse "cobblestoners, two-percenters, joe lunchbuckets" you get the idea. Now, however they have the nerve to expose the dirty secret they and other like them have kept for so many years in these community. That we have poor people, and we are not meeting their very basic needs. This is not new! All one needs to do is look, or better yet talk to your fellow citizens. While we have been spending millions on entertainment venues, there have and are people going without food, medicine and yes, heat. What are we going to do about it now that it has been exposed, will determine who and what we are as a people and community. Can we now get our priorities straight, without being viewed as anti-progessive. Better yet, those that want to continue to tax and spend should be exposed as those that simply don't get it, and called what they truly are out of touch,eliteous.
We need your help Tony, to track and expose them and all who choose to protect their damaging practices to the very fiber of these community and it's most vulnerable.
Thank you Tony,
Melanie Bloechl
We need Palmeri's help? If the Green Party ran things we would all be poor. This guy never met a corporation he liked. I don't know where he thinks jobs come from.
I don't have the exact figures or percentages at hand. However Corporate america isn't what has kept this country afloat. It has always been small business. The little guy or gal that strikes out on their own. As far as Tony is concerned he has always shown concern and has actually worked toward elevating the low to middle class citizens. Unlike many who by their deeds have made us damn near extinct. Thereby creating the very rich or the working poor. What is your claim to the quality of life other than your own?
Melanie Bloechl
"If the Green Party ran things we would all be poor."
Say what???
If the Green Party ran things, we would all be RICH. Instead of just the tiny percent of people that own all the land and all the money and call all the shots.
You are only as rich as the poorest among us, which makes us all pretty poor under the current system.
Corporate America AND small business have helped keep this country afloat, Mrs. Bloechl, not just small business. In times of crisis and strife, it is large corporations who make equally large donations. Surely you are not suggesting that we elevate small business at the sole sacrifice of corporate America, are you? If so why do you continue to shop at places like Wal-mart rather than going to some small, independent operation to spend your disposable income.
I agree with the person who said all business helps make our country great. It is not a question of small or large making the country strong. It is a cumulative effect and one that should not be overlooked by anyone. But on a different note, why did Melanie Bloechl have to right away make kind of a nasty comment to someone. Can't she just have a discussion with people without going after them or is that the only style she knows?
My style? Please I had asked and thanked Mr. Palmeri for his help in the past exposing issues. The bloggers after that made a point of using my statements of thanks, and turned them on Mr. Palemri. A personal attack, deserves and received a response that was as curt and questioning of this bloggers intent to do good, as he or she questioned Mr. Palmeri.
Only difference in my style and yours, I atleast sign on the dotted line with my comments. Hope that didn't offend you.
Melanie Bloechl
good grief!
Hey tony, glad to hear that you are blogging now, I have been for a while and it's just amazing how powerfull they can be!
Go tony!!!
There is another big difference between us and that is being able to recognise that corporate America, while abhored by many including you, has made significant contributions in this nation. They are not all bad but you seem to think of them as only evil. The simple truth of the matter Mrs. Bloechl is this country could not sustain with small business alone. The fact that you refuse to acknowledge that should be offensive to anyoen in corporate America.
"Corporate America" can kiss my black ass.
To the last anonymous: is that kind of language really necessary? I'm trying to avoid having to moderate the blog or delete messages. --Tony
While you're speaking about Corporate America, please check out the piece entitled "Season's Greed-ings" on the Eye on Oshkosh web site. (www.eyeonoshkosh.com). Seems Menards is displaying a rather questionable, to say the least, return policy that deserves more than just a passing glance by state consumer protection people.
Hey Tony,
That Anonymous with the black ass? That may not have been a racial comment at all. This being Wisconsin, we really should consider that it might have been a reference to a personal hygiene problem. Maybe we should give the guy the benefit of the doubt?
This time, yes, but that has not always been the case and you know it.
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