At Mickies Dairy Bar, We Asked Who the Economy Really Works For

I've been coming to Mickey's Dairy Bar since I was a kid.

My sister Ruth used to work here.

She used to make the milkshakes like this one.

Mickey's felt like the perfect place to do the series called This Is Wisconsin, where we'll be traveling the state talking to folks about what they love about Wisconsin.

This is a wonderful place.

We got a chocolate shake.

I had the banana cinnamon pancakes.

They were amazing.

And also, what is hard?

It's always a roller.

I would argue that this is a nationwide crisis, but it's something that is making the state that we love and the diners that we love more of a challenge to be able to afford on a daily basis.

This thing of beauty is called a scrambler.

A scramble now costs 13 bucks, which I would argue is an incredible value for the money.

But it used to be much, much cheaper.

In fact, if you look at the menu on the wall from the 1950s, you get a sense of how little things used to cost.

But these days, it feels like no matter how hard you work, there's a lot of stuff that's just not affordable.

And that is not a Mickey's thing.

That is a national economy that's been distorted and skewed by corruption, by union busting, and by a system that doesn't work for regular people, think.

So much of our politics is determined by a handful of the richest people who've ever lived, who are writing rules and making laws that benefit just themselves.

Instead of thinking about what the rest of us need, I don't think they should get to write the rules.

I think this should be a democracy where all of us have an evil voice.

And if that's gonna work, it starts with listening to each other.

Would you guys be up for talking to me on camera?