It’s April in Wisconsin, the spring election is over and the COWS are still running the City of Madison. Madison Mayor Dave Cieslewicz is an open adherent of the Head COW and his progressive social philosophy. Since it is Friday night, I don’t feel like going into great detail about anything but it is worth a quick review of COW thinking as manifest in the brief article entitled More Servants or a Better Society.
“There are other ways to make these jobs better — for example, by raising the federal minimum wage, passing local living-wage ordinances, and providing low-wage workers with more in the way of child care subsidies, tax credits, and other supports. Even in the absence of fundamental changes in industry structure, the adoption of these “high-road” strategies can help turn dead-end jobs into promising careers.”The COWS still believe that society can eliminate poverty by paying everyone according to government policy initiatives and give them credit for holding fast to another old adage: If at first you don’t succeed, try try again.
