Wisconsin - The Land of 14,000 Lakes!

Unfortunately, the great Badger/Packer/beer/cheesehead/cheese curd/ bratwurst state of Wisconsin sits next door to a larger state with a purple football team whose name (the state and the team) I refuse to utter. Babies born in Wisconsin don't say "mama" or "daddy" as their first word. We speak in nearly complete sentences and usually our first complete sentence is either "Go Packers" or "Does it come with cheese on it?" As a native born Wisconsin badger you are raised almost from the moment you can crawl to suspect and not like anything related to that unmentionable state to the west with its purple football team.

Bratwurst with kraut - one of the three main Wisconsin food groups (the other two are beer and cheese)
What was particularly galling to me as a kid growing up in Wisconsin was seeing the mass exodus of people from that purple state into the sanctity of our state each and every fishing season. You could tell they were from that state not only by the name on the license plate but also by the motto "Land of 10,000 Lakes" Its something that state has promoted for a long time as evidenced by this collection of car license plates (that would be car tags in the south, y'all).

People from that unmentionable state would regularly put down Wisconsin because they had 10,000 lakes meaning, I guess, that they were superior to the great badger state in many things including the number of lakes.

Today, however I learned an interesting tidbit that should be made prominent to the purple people to the west. According to this website from the National Park Service there are 14,000 lakes in Wisconsin http://www.nps.gov/iatr/planyourvisit/directions.htm fully 4,000 more than the state to the west that brags about lakes and football teams.

For the longest time I have advocated that we put up toll booths all along the western border of Wisconsin and also on the southern border where the FIB's come from and charge people from those two states $1000 per car for the privilege of driving in Wisconsin. Now that its known that we have 4,000 more lakes than that other state there will be an even greater push for them to come over and befoul our lakes. Maybe now the time is right?? I support whatever it takes to keep them away from the sacred land of more lakes, bratwurst, beer, cheese, and football teams that dress in green.