Shot in the Dark

The Dayton Dust Bowl: Dust Bowl Day Marathon!

Today is Labor Day – the day when Union members pat themselves on the back for another year of doing their jobs and getting paid for it, and when the rest of us hit the picnic grounds and ponder buying weatherstripping.

And this year, the time when the political season starts to reach out to people who aren’t wonks, party hacks and political junkies.

Tomorrow on Shot In The Dark, I plan on spending pretty much the entire day focusing on the Dayton Dustbowl.

How badly are Dayton’s budget cuts going to hamper business?

How many (private sector) jobs are they going to destroy?

How much otherwise-useful money are they going to take out of the economy?

How short will they fall at the goal of “closing the deficit?”

How far down will Dayton have to push the definition of “the rich” to actually accomplish his putative goal of “closing the deficit?”

What kind of a Hungarian Clusterhug is Dayton going to present to our next Legislature, if – heaven forfend – he’s elected to office?

Coming tomorrow on Shot In The Dark.

All.  Day.  Long.

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3 responses to “The Dayton Dust Bowl: Dust Bowl Day Marathon!”

  1. Kermit Avatar
    Kermit

    How short will they fall at the goal of “closing the deficit?”
    How deep is Lake Superior? No, scratch that. Make it the Marianas Trench (13,198 ft).

  2. Night Writer Avatar
    Night Writer

    Lake Superior is deep, but the 730 foot Edmund Fitzgerald is thought to still have had its stern out of the water as the shifting weight of the taconite cargo drove the bow into the rocky lake bottom. An apt association. The Dayton tax plan in this economy would be a tipping point of taconite come the gales of November.

  3. Bill C Avatar
    Bill C

    Hungarian Clusterhug! Now I don’t care who ya are, that’s some funny euphemizing right there.

    And Kermit, per Wiki: If Mount Everest, the highest mountain on Earth at 8,848 metres (29,029 ft), were set in the deepest part of the Mariana Trench, there would be 2,076 metres (6,811 ft) of water left above it.

    So it’s 35K+ feet deep and an even BETTER analogy 🙂

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