One Wisconsin Now

Ron Johnson on how poor blacks, kids and seniors are ruining our country

2013-06-11T21:32:22Z

Johnson said people who value their local community need to get involved to help turn around what he called a "culture of entitlement" to benefits such as Medicare, Social Security, food stamps and other programs he said have led to:

The increase of the out-of-wedlock birth rate from 7.5 percent in the 1960s to more than 40 percent now.

The increase of the out-of-wedlock birth rate in African-American communities from more than 20 percent to more than 70 percent in the same timeframe.

More than 46 million Americans relying on food stamps.

"In this nation, it's the cultural tipping point that drives the financial one," Johnson said. "I believe we have developed in this national a culture of entitlement and dependency. I think it's undeniable."

So, in case you missed it, poor black people are responsible for the country's financial crisis, and unless we throw them to the wolves we are all in serious trouble.

Well, maybe not all of us. Johnson, a multi-millionaire, felt entitled to a $10-million payout from his company to reimburse himself for the cost of his Senate campaign. He's not suffering.

Ron Johnson threatened more one-man gridlock in Senate

2013-06-11T21:26:41Z

Johnson has accomplished nothing, voted against everything, even things most Republicans supported, and single-handedly brought the Senate to a halt last summer to make a point about the fact that a federal budget hadn't passed. He threatened to continue, but some of the GOP leadership must have slapped him around enough to get him to knock it off.

Ron Johnson's Advice To Women Who Can't Afford Contraception

2013-06-11T21:23:51Z

"Google 'What If I Can't Afford Birth Control?'"

Ron Johnson on opposing child abuse victim protections

2013-06-11T21:20:41Z

Check out the video here

Ron Johnson after being asked to explain exactly how the government should respond to the issue of homeless vets

2013-06-11T21:12:11Z

"I don't believe this election really is about details. It just isn't."

Ron Johnson on his thoughts regarding man-caused global warming.

2013-06-11T21:10:12Z

"Oh I totally disagree with it you know...it always does surprise me that the people think this is the sweet spot in, you know in global history in terms of this is where we should be climate-wise. You know we live in Wisconsin I'm glad there is global warming or we'd be standing on top a 200 foot thick glacier. So no I think it's absolutely not proven, and for us to be contemplating taxing ourselves to fix something that is not, uh, proven is absurd."

Ron Johnson defending the concept of rock-bottom minimum wage.

2013-06-11T21:05:02Z

See it here

Ron Johnson on his opposition to unemployment insurance and programs to help the poor

2013-06-11T21:02:14Z

"When you continue to extend unemployment benefits, people really don't have the incentive to go take other jobs. They'll just wait the system out until their benefits run out, then they'll go out and take, probably not as high paying jobs as they'd like to take, but that's really how you have to get back to work."

Ron Johnson claims that Obamacare is a greater threat than communism and terrorism

2013-06-11T20:56:36Z

AL HUNT: "...you wrote a column a few months ago that said, "the single greatest assault on freedom in my lifetime" - more than communism or terrorism - was the Obama health care plan.."
JOHNSON: "When government is going to decide what kind of care you can have, where you can get your care - and that is what we're..."
AL HUNT: "You think that's a bigger threat than communism?"
JOHNSON: "That's exactly what this thing is-"
AL HUNT: "You do?"
JOHNSON: "I wasn't threatened under communism. I'm saying, in my lifetime-"
AL HUNT: "You weren't threatened under terrorism?"
JOHNSON: "Listen, I'm talking about things that are imposed on me by this - by our government in America. It is the greatest single threat to my freedom, our freedom."

Ron Johnson claims sunspots are behind climate change

2013-06-11T20:53:28Z

A global warming skeptic, Johnson said extreme weather phenomena were better explained by sunspots than an overload of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, as many scientists believe.

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports:

"I absolutely do not believe in the science of man-caused climate change," Johnson said. "It's not proven by any stretch of the imagination."

Johnson, in an interview last month, described believers in manmade causes of climate change as "crazy" and the theory as "lunacy."

"It's far more likely that it's just sunspot activity or just something in the geologic eons of time," he said.

Excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere "gets sucked down by trees and helps the trees grow," said Johnson.

Average Earth temperatures were relatively warm during the Middle Ages, Johnson said, and "it's not like there were tons of cars on the road."

He said he disagreed with any government spending to try to address global warming. A strong economy is the best way to preserve a good environment, Johnson said.

Trying to fix global warming is "a fool's errand," Johnson said. "I don't think we can do anything about controlling what our climate is."

At least Johnson doesn't deny there is such a thing as global warming. He just thinks it's caused by sunspots, not human activity, and that we simply need to grow more trees. Or something like that.

Ron Johnson on moving jobs to China

2013-06-11T20:51:24Z

"I'd encourage people to go onto Youtube and type in Steve Wynn. He does about a five-minute piece where he's talking about- he's the fellow who does Wynn resorts in Las Vegas. He's also creating resorts in Macau in China, communist China. And his point is, the level of uncertainty, the climate for business investment is far more certain in communist China then it is in the U.S. here."

Ron Johnson on being a U.S. Senator

2013-06-11T20:49:42Z

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Ron Johnson on how being a rich guy in Wisconsin inspired him to public service.

2013-06-11T20:47:18Z

"I was watching FOX News and, uh, Dick Morris came on. He was talking about, uh, hey Russ Feingold is really, really vulnerable. Hey, if you're a rich guy in the state of Wisconsin maybe you ought to decide to run."

Ron Johnson on what he would say to the millions of women who cannot afford birth control.

2013-06-11T20:45:09Z

See it here

Ron Johnson on his alternative to helping our economy.

2013-06-11T20:43:40Z

"As someone that's been in business for 31 years, I recognize where jobs are created and that's the private sector...I'm not totally opposed to some deficit spending if it had been prioritized at real prioritized infrastructure projects and targeted tax cuts that would actually create demand for products and actually puts money in the pockets of business people..."