10. March 2026

Why Cure Ricketts?

There are people who, unaware of the consequences or alternatives, are perfectly content suffering year after year with a destructive and Nebraska-sapping case of Ricketts. Other folk are naive and feel there IS no cure for Ricketts, but gosh, there IS. We can deflect Ricketts. According to the Mayo Clinic, "Exposure to sunlight" is the best. Yes, too many Nebraskans have been in the dark about the ravages of this avoidable disease, but if we cast light on Ricketts, expose what's been kept in the dark, we can cure Ricketts.

Senator Pete Ricketts is the millionaire who after buying himself a primary election, skated into the Nebraska Governor's seat and used that position to enrich himself and his millionaire buddies and their henchtheys. Not satisfied with his take and approaching term limit cure, he bought a henchthey replacement and had the hench appoint him Senator. The voters had a little dose of Ricketts's work, and hoping/knowing the his Redcoat team was going to control the Senate and the Presidency, Ricketts would be well-connected.

Here's the (reasonable assumption but turned out to be a) delusion they had: Even though the Redcoat Plan looked uniformly brutal to prospects of those taxpayers who lived in the middle of the country who would be subsidizing the Coastal Elites the Big Budget Bill was designed to favor, they hoped his Redcoat allegiance would enable him to deflect the carnage. How would Ricketts do that? By skillfully negotiating with the Administration and his party's Senate leadership. Using a combo of diplomacy, threats, facts, horse-trading and pleas, insulate Nebraska from the worst of the Big Budget Bill. Alaska's Redcoat Senator did exactly this: got Alaska exempt from some of the wackiest cuts made to fund the billionaire and hedge-fund broker tax cuts, got some programs funded that were Abolished in the other 49 states, got funding for programs the state needed that had been acknowledged but never been funded. And didn't lose the respect of either the GOP or Alaska's taxpayers. Ours didn't bother to do this, gave away their vote for zero return.

He's Cosplaying being a Senator. But he's very knowledgeable about how to keep up with inflation by playing the market well.

Shining a Light on the Truth

We have fellow taxpayers and citizens who argue in doing nothing, sticking with the disorder is the best approach. These slackers have lost an essential part of their Americanness, their commitment to can-do, get-spit-done. Paying a little attention, looking at what the light exposes, discovering the truth and sharing that truth with others is the cure.

How Do You Know if You Have Ricketts?

If you live in Nebraska, you currently have Ricketts. Let's start the treatment; if you follow it and don't vote for Ricketts, you will be cured by early next year.