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.

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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.

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

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

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"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."

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"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."

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• 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."

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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.

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